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.
Shoutout to Germans and their zero tolerance policy and these sorts of shenanigans.
Alexander Zverev
Yeah, Germans
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.
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”.
I wish they’d identify the fan. Fuck that guy.
Nah they don’t deserve their name in the papers in any way
At least all over social media. Let his bosses and customers learn about it and ruin his life.
We should be able to make mistakes.
Ya don’t “whoopsie” Nazi ideals, friend. Non-nazi people do not think about that stuff.
I don’t know any of these people but I do remember being a kid and shouting stupid things from a crowd. People be spraining their ankles leaping to conclusions here.
As an edgelord child, I get it. But doing it, being reprimanded about it, and doing it again, ain’t no jumping to conclusions on this one. He was doing it on purpose.
That was an on purpose. Guy was warned about it, did it again. Fuck him.
The broadcast of the match showed security finding him and removing him.
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It’s not though.
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.
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?
https://www.dw.com/en/the-german-national-anthem-and-its-pitfalls/a-40102655
Very detailed explanation
Ah, that makes a lot of sense, thank you! Reminds me of my country’s anthem where we also forgo many parts and only sing the first and sixth instead of all 15.
https://www.dw.com/en/the-german-national-anthem-and-its-pitfalls/a-40102655
Your national anthem is the third verse of the original song.
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America First
Arbeit macht frei.
Over the gate of Auschwitz.
Build that wall?
German player Alexander Zverev
:)))))))
Very German.
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.
