Zverev's ex-girlfriend tried to commit suicide two years ago, was the scandal covered up by Federer's people?
Alexander Zverev's ex-girlfriend, Olga Sharipova, tried to commit suicide after entering into a verbal and physical conflict with the tennis player from whom she was physically abused.
But all this was covered up when the management team "Team 8" founded by Roger Federer intervened.
Sharipova has repeatedly made accusations in public over the past few months at the expense of Alexander Zverev, saying that he had beaten her and that he had threatened to kill her.
However, her words did not provoke a major reaction in the tennis world, nor was Zverev attacked by the media.
No tennis organization took Sharipova's accusations seriously, and the Laver Cup was involved. at which Zverev will perform this year. The Laver Cup was formed by the marketing agency Team 8, which is owned by Roger Federer.
In an interview with Raket magazine, Sharipova said that at the Lailer Cup held in 2019 in Geneva, she told an official at the tournament that she had tried to commit suicide.
- It was the biggest quarrel until then and then it hit me in the face for the first time. He used to push me, throw me on the floor, drown me. But this was the first time it had hit me. When he left the room, I was dying emotionally, I did not understand why this was happening. I knew he would not leave me alone. I took the insulin from his room, I knew that if you were healthy and took insulin you could die. I injected insulin into myself and I was not afraid. I just wanted to leave all of this in a way because I could not stand it anymore. He returned to the room, I locked myself in the toilet and when he realized what I had done he begged me to open the door - speaks Olga Sharipova.
The top story on my latest Reddit email was about Laver Cup blocking tweeters who shared a link to my Slate article.
Looks like it happened to dozens of tweeters who they are trying to silence. Seems to have had the opposite effect… pic.twitter.com/9gJDx3PrBE
- Ben Rothenberg (@BenRothenberg) September 19, 2021
She then reveals that Zverev then brought a Laver Cup official to talk to her.
"The official whose name Sharipova told us refused to speak when we contacted him about the needs of this text, stating that it is a professional obligation that incidents involving tennis players should remain private," wrote the author of the text, renowned tennis journalist Ben Rothenberg. .
The whole story remained hidden for two years, and Laver Cup officials did not react to Sharipova's accusations.
