Brenda Patea, former partner of the current number 4 in the world ranking, “is no longer interested in pursuing the accusation,” said Inga Wahlen, deputy spokesperson for the Berlin criminal courts.
The complainant and the tennis player would have “peacefully resolved the conflict, also in the interest of their son,” he said.
Zverev agreed to pay 200,000 euros ($217,000) within that agreement, within a month. The court validated the extrajudicial agreement between the two parties, without revealing its content.
Zverev’s lawyers, who plays this Friday in the Roland Garros semifinals against the Norwegian Casper Ruud, said in a statement that the player “continues to consider himself innocent.”
The hearing for this case opened last week in Berlin, but in the absence of Zverev, who began at Roland Garros on Monday the 27th, beating the Spanish Rafa Nadal, fourteen-time champion on the Paris clay court, in the first round.
The German tennis player was fined 450,000 euros last October but had appealed that sentence. The player had been accused of “physically mistreating” the complainant in the context of a dispute and “having threatened his health,” according to the court.
Alexander Zverev’s defense denied any mistreatment and denounced “unreliable and contradictory accusations,” according to the player’s lawyer, Alfred Dierlamm.
Alexander Zverev accumulates 22 titles on the professional circuit. He mainly won the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, the season-ending Masters twice (2018, 2021) and six Masters 1000 (Rome 2017 and 2024, Montreal 2017, Madrid 2018 and 2021, Cincinnati 2021) .
