Alexander Zverev has been involved in a fair share of controversies during his short tennis career so far. However, the domestic abuse allegations by his ex-girlfriend, Olya Sharypova was the biggest controversy he has found himself in. The German tennis player dated Olya Sharypova for a year till 2019, when the pair split up after the unfortunate sequence of events at US Open 2019.
The duo also dated for a while back in their teenage years, when both of them were a part of the junior tennis tour. In 2020, Olya Sharypova shocked the tennis world by giving an explosive interview to RacquetMag. The Russian had accused Alexander Zverev of domestic abuse at the US Open 2019.
In a shocking sequence of allegations, Olya Sharypova revealed that Alexander Zverev tried to strangle her with a pillow during the US Open 2019. Olya revealed that she had already suffered a lot mentally and emotionally at the hands of the German during their one-year relationship, but things took a turn for the worse during the 2019 US Open.
