New from @sz: The first interview with Brenda Patea about her relationship with her ex-boyfriend Alexander Zverev, which will soon be the subject of a domestic abuse trial in Berlin. "I don't want to be silenced." Read here (in German): sueddeutsche.de/projekte/artik…
'A mixture of shame, fear of Zverev's lawyers and concern for the child' says Brenda Patea in waiting for Alexander Zverev penalty order
ATPThursday, 02 November 2023 at 20:52
Alexander Zverev's ex Brenda Patea has given her first interview to German publication SZ amid the penalty order which has been handed to the World No.9 who has denied it and will now go to trial.
Zverev was charged 450,000 euros by the Berlin district court for allegedly physically injuring his ex partner in a dispute in May 2020. The court asked for a fine of 90 daily sentences of 5,000 euros each which accounts for the 450,000.
Presumed innocent until a final judgment is made, Patea spoke to the publication which was since summarised by journalist, Ben Rothenberg.
She told the publication that it was a 'mixture of shame, fear of Zverev's lawyers and concern for the child' that stopped her from asking for the order sooner before doing so earlier in the year but wanting to set an example for others proved to be the deciding factor.
Describing Zverev, Patea said in her lawyers' office that he was a jealous man. He searched her cell phone again and again, she says, and sometimes just one wrong like on Instagram was enough. His anger repeatedly turned into physical violence against her as per SZ.
The report said that allegedly the May 2020 incident took place in an Airbnb apartment where Patea said he pushed her up against a wall and choked her during an argument. She then had pain in the throat and neck area and difficulty swallowing. Court documents that were seen by SZ said that two of her friends were told about it shortly after and Zverev admitted that he touched his girlfriend by the neck. But a few days later he proposed to her.
Offered a contract in their break up, it demanded public silence about their relationship and child according to Patea with an offer of a one-off payment of 100,000 euros and required her to fly with the child abroad six times a year to see Zverev on tour. But it also forbids her from speaking to Olya Sharypova who did not press charges against Zverev but was the subject of the ATP's investigation which found no further action necessary.
She said translated from German that her public statements gave her belief and said 'I'm not alone' and 'I remained silent when I could have been loud'.
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