“Not the first question I want to hear”- Alexander Zverev snaps after being asked about domestic abuse trial following 4h31m battle in Australian Open

Alexander Zverev was made to toil laborious for his second-round win on the 2024 Australian Open, with qualifier Lukas Klein taking him to 5 units earlier than the German booked his spot within the subsequent stage.

Zverev needed to come again from a 1-2 deficit on Thursday (January 18), lastly prevailing 7-5, 3-6, 4-6, 7-6(5), 7-6(7) in a battle that lasted 4 hours and 31 minutes on John Cain Area.

At his press convention, nevertheless, it was Alexander Zverev’s impending home abuse trial that was introduced up, making the World No. 6 snap. For these unaware, he’s scheduled to seem within the Berlin felony court docket in Might this 12 months to contest the allegations of home violence levied on him by ex-girlfriend Brenda Patea.

Zverev was requested about the identical at his press convention after the first-round win at Melbourne Park as effectively, the place he responded with curt solutions and slammed some journalists for attempting to make a narrative out of the matter.

On Thursday, the previous World No. 2 was much more curt, stating that he didn’t need his home abuse to be the primary subject of debate after he gained a marathon encounter. The query put to him was whether or not he can be attending the trial in individual, a question he didn’t reply immediately.

“Wow. That is a query. I simply performed 4 hours, 40 minutes. That is not the primary query I actually wish to hear, to be trustworthy. I’ve received no thought. It is in Might,” Zverev stated.

It was the one query he confronted concerning the trial within the press convention, because the English portion of his interplay with the media was minimize brief after that.

“There are journalists who comply with the reality and there are journalists who wish to promote a narrative” – Alexander Zverev

Talking to German media following his first-round win on the Australian Open, Alexander Zverev positioned the blame on the media for sensationalizing his upcoming trial, stating that some journalists had been extra excited by promoting a narrative than the reality.

“There are journalists who comply with the reality, like hopefully most of you, and who’re additionally truthful to the participant, and there are journalists who wish to promote a narrative. And promoting the story is extra necessary to them than promoting the reality. And I am assuming that there is somebody sitting right here now who is precisely like that,” Zverev stated.

The World No. 6 additionally made a reference to his earlier home abuse allegations (levied by ex-girlfriend Olga Sharypova), the place he had been given a clear chit by the ATP later following an investigation.

“If that is what he desires to do, that is effective. They did the identical factor just a few years in the past. Everyone knows what the end result was. Then abruptly everybody was very, very quiet, very, very fast. And now these two or three are arising once more and everyone knows their names,” he added.