Olympic tennis champion Alexander Zverev will stand trial for alleged assault in Berlin in late Could however won’t have to look in court docket in individual, German information company dpa reported Monday.
The 26-year-old Zverev, who’s competing on the Australian Open this week, is accused of assaulting a lady throughout an argument in Berlin in Could 2020. Zverev has denied the accusation.
A court docket in Berlin issued a penalty order in October ordering Zverev to pay fines amounting to 450,000 euros ($493,000), however the participant contested the ruling which meant the case went to trial as a substitute. Penalty orders are utilized in Germany as a method of resolving some prison circumstances with out going to trial, if the suspect doesn’t contest the order.
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The dpa information company stated Zverev’s trial will begin on Could 31, which is throughout this 12 months’s French Open. Nevertheless, dpa cited a court docket spokesperson who stated he won’t must make a private look and may be represented by a lawyer.
The lads’s tennis tour dominated final January that Zverev wouldn’t face disciplinary motion after its personal investigation into home abuse allegations towards him discovered “inadequate proof” to substantiate the claims.
Zverev was a finalist on the U.S. Open in 2020, received the boys’s singles Olympic gold medal in 2021 and is sixth within the rankings. He’ll face fellow German Dominik Koepfer within the first spherical of the Australian Open on Tuesday.