2023-11-01 15:02:02
BERLIN (AP) — A German court has issued a sanction order once morest tennis player Alexander Zverev over an accusation that he caused bodily injury to a woman. Zverev denied the accusation and is challenging the sanction order.
The court in Berlin issued the order on October 2, including a requirement that Zverev pay fines amounting to $475,000 (450,000 euros), according to a judicial service statement published on Tuesday. He is accused of physically abusing and damaging the health of a woman during an argument in Berlin in May 2020, the statement added.
The statement said Zverev has challenged the order and that the case might go to trial in Berlin’s Tiergarten district court following the court has heard more from the parties involved.
Penalty orders are used in Germany as measures to resolve some criminal cases without having to go to trial, if the suspect does not challenge the order.
Zverev, 26, was a finalist at the US Open in 2020, won the singles gold medal at the Olympics in 2021 and is ninth in the world rankings.
Schertz Bergmann, a law firm representing Zverev, issued a statement Tuesday saying it rejects the allegations. He alleged there were procedural irregularities in the case once morest him and said he had expert medical evidence in favor of Zverev.
Zverev denied the allegation in a statement at a tennis tournament in July following prosecutors filed the sanction order application.
In January, an investigation by the men’s tennis circuit found “insufficient evidence” to substantiate separate allegations of domestic abuse by Zverev. The ATP had commissioned the investigation in October 2021 following Zverev’s ex-girlfriend Olya Sharypova accused him of abuse.
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