A fan was ejected from the US Open on Monday after Germany’s Alexander Zverev protested a few “Hitler phrase” being shouted from the stands.
Zverev was serving within the fourth set of his final 16 battle with Italy’s Jannik Sinner on the Arthur Ashe Stadium when the drama unfolded.
The Twelfth-seeded Zverev approached chair umpire James Keothavong to complain concerning the alleged catcall.
“He just said the most famous Hitler phrase there is in this world,” Zverev instructed the umpire. “This is unbelievable.”
Keothavong consulted with safety officers in an try and establish the perpetrator.
Eventually a person sporting a blue baseball cap was singled out and ordered to depart the sector.
The late-night US Open crowds on the 23,000-capacity Arthur Ashe Stadium are famously boisterous however have been criticised through the event.
Former Australian skilled Rennae Stubbs stated shortly after the Zverev incident on Monday that there have been followers at night time periods that had been “not good.”
“I love the fans but at this point there are some bad characters,” Stubbs wrote on X, the social media website previously referred to as Twitter.
“I had a drink thrown on me last night by a drunk fan who was fighting with her boyfriend. Now we got someone yelling Hitler slurs! Wtf? Come on peeps.”
German participant Laura Siegemund additionally vented on the Arthur Ashe crowd after her first spherical defeat to Coco Gauff final week.
“They had no respect for me, no respect for the way I played, no respect for the player that I am, they had no respect for good tennis,” a tearful Siegemund stated.
Source: www.news.com.au
