A fan was ejected from a U.S. Open tennis match early Tuesday morning after German player Alexander Zverev complained the man used language from Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime.

A fan was ejected from a U.S. Open tennis match early Tuesday morning after German player Alexander Zverev complained the man used language from Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime.

Zverev, the No. 12 seed, was serving at 2-2 in the fourth set of his match against No. 6 Jannik Sinner when he suddenly went to chair umpire James Keothavong and pointed toward the fan, who was sitting in a section behind the umpire.

“He just said the most famous Hitler phrase there is in this world,” Zverev told Keothavong. “It’s not acceptable.”

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“He started singing the anthem of Hitler that was back in the day. It was ‘Deutschland über alles’ and it was a bit too much,” Zverev said.

  • SpicaNucifera@lemm.eeEnglish
    1313·
    10 months ago

    Shoutout to Germans and their zero tolerance policy and these sorts of shenanigans.

      • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.ca
        61·
        10 months ago

        That’s a pretty xenophobic comment right there.

        People of different family lineages can be German citizens and culturally German. Imagine if we went “Yeah, Americans” at every Gonzalez in the United States.

        • uis@lemmy.world
          13·
          10 months ago

          That’s a pretty xenophobic comment right there.

          I’m not a German too, FYI.

          People of different family lineages can be German citizens and culturally German. Imagine if we went “Yeah, Americans” at every Gonzalez in the United States.

          You are missing the point. This sounds like “Yandex is company in Netherlands”.