![]() We all love playing tennis, that’s what we’re here to do.” I truly apologise that the focus has shifted away from the sport. It makes me sad that the impact of such false accusations can have on the sport, on the outside world, on myself as well. That’s not just simply who I am as a person. That’s not who I am, that’s not how I was raised by my parents. After numerous questions in Paris, it was not until his pre-tournament press conference at the ATP Finals that he expanded on it in a statement read from a phone on his lap: “We had our ups and downs, but the way our relationship was described in the public is not how it was. ![]() ![]() In a statement shortly after her Instagram post, he called her comments “simply not true” and “unfounded”. Zverev has denied Sharypova’s accusations. Many who do so struggle with the traumatising legal process that follows. Even her stated decision to speak out on her terms was notable: less than half of non-fatal domestic abuse is reported to the police. She stressed the impact of the controlling, coercive behaviour she said Zverev imposed on her and she chronicled a cycle of abuse, which her childhood friend Vasil and his stepmother both admitted to reinforcing by pushing her back towards Zverev because they initially did not believe her. ![]() Much of what Sharypova described are common themes of abuse.
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