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
    1063·
    1 year ago

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

      • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.ca
        61·
        1 year 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
          14·
          1 year 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”.

    • lud@lemm.ee
      11·
      1 year ago

      He was born in Germany and is a German citizen, so yes.

      His parents are of Russian origin though and probably German citizens by now.

  • johnnyb@discuss.tchncs.de
    1440·
    1 year ago

    “Deutschland über alles” is still more or less part of our current anthem, so that’s kinda ridiculous…

    • Akrenion@programming.dev
      13·
      1 year ago

      It’s part of the poem the anthem is based on. The meaning has been perverted from one of cultural reach to one of conquest.

    • dvdv@feddit.nl
      3·
      1 year ago

      I was about to say. I’m not German and I could be wrong but isn’t it the first line in your current anthem? Would love for a German to put it into context other than just ‘Hitler bad’ why is that specific first line of the anthem associated with him?