Fan ejected from US Open match after German player said the man used language from Hitler's regime

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Fan ejected from US Open match after German player said the man used language from Hitler's regime
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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.

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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".