(Berlin) German justice announced on Friday the abandonment of the trial against tennis player Alexander Zverev, 4e world player competing for the semi-finals of Roland-Garros, after an amicable agreement with his ex-partner who accused him of domestic violence.
The player will, however, have to pay an amount of 200,000 euros ($300,000) within one month, announced judge Barbara Lüders on the third day of hearing in this case before a Berlin court.
Alexander Zverev and his ex-partner Brenda Patea “came to the conclusion that they wanted to resolve this conflict peacefully, also in the interests of their common child,” explained court spokesperson Inga Wahlen.
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Brenda Patea
The court validated this request, without revealing the content of the extrajudicial agreement between the two parties.
The 27-year-old German star, who will play the first semi-final of Roland-Garros on Friday afternoon against the Norwegian Casper Ruud, had contested a first instance judgment, which imposed a fine of 450,000 euros on him in October 2023 ( $670,000) for “assault and battery” against his former partner.
The court accused him of having, in May 2020 in Berlin, “physically mistreated” the complainant during an argument and “of having damaged her health”, according to the court.
The defense of Alexander Zverev, absent from the first hearings and whose presence was not required by the court, had contested any mistreatment, denouncing “unreliable and contradictory allegations”, according to the player’s lawyer Alfred Dierlamm.
The German has 22 titles on the professional circuit, including a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, the Masters twice (2018, 2021) as well as the Masters 1000 tournaments in Rome (2017 and 2024), Montreal (2017), Madrid (2018 and 2021) and Cincinnati (2021).