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When the stage lights go out: on the disturbing evidence against Sasha Zebrav
How can an athlete be so confident on the field and so unsettled off it?
The harsh accusations against Sasha Zebrav again mention the gap between the athlete's image and his true character, the fan's sense of helplessness and the opportunity that the affair provides
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Saturday, 07 November 2020, 12:00
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The testimonies of the former girlfriend of tennis player Alexander Zebrav are very disturbing.
You read them and shudder.
A famous, talented, promising athlete, a young and likable young man, a well-known and esteemed tennis player, whom you have watched for quite a few hours in your life - suddenly turns out to be a very unsettled figure.
A violent and terrifying man, who beats his partner and abuses her, turns her life into a nightmare.
The stories are difficult.
She said he would slap her on the floor, hit her, humiliate her, threaten her.
Not just violence and bullying.
abuse.
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Was a victim of physical violence and mental abuse.
Sharipova with Zebra (Photo: GettyImages)
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Olga Sharipova is her name.
A young girl, who knew Zebrav when the two were young tennis players aged 14. She failed to continue on the track and become a professional tennis player, he became a big star, and he is only in the beginning.
They became friends as teenagers, after a few years he contacted her, and a relationship developed.
She was by his side in several tournaments where he made his breakthrough, with commentators cheering, the crowd cheering, the world admiring his talent, and the hotel room behaving disgustingly.
This week she revealed that she was a victim of physical violence and mental abuse on the part of the German.
Zebrav vehemently denies the things, it is important to note.
He wrote on Instagram that things were not right.
Asked about it on the trip, he added that "it happened a long time ago," as if it mattered. But Sharipova, after first revealing the details, added in a lengthy interview more detailed stories that are terrifying, accompanied by evidence. She has pictures of her bruises on her hands. And in the neck, after holding her tightly and strangling her.Pictures of her clothes are thrown in the hotel corridor, after he threw her out of the room, after she fled barefoot into the street, crying and frightened.Correspondence with friends in which she tells how she took her passport, begging to be taken away Let them collect her, let her stay away from him.
The humiliated, disturbed, acted obsessively.
Sharipova (Photo: GettyImages)
She recounts how he would have humiliated her, telling her she was "just zero," behaving obsessively, harassing her in conversations every time she would go out alone, without him.
You can really feel the nightmare she went through, the fear, the despair, the horror, the desire to commit suicide.
The stressful environment, the confrontation with a strong and famous partner, how even those close to her did not believe, how the mother of her friend tried to reconcile them despite her stories, because after all, it's Sasha Zebrav.
So talented, with such a promising future, and he looks so nice.
Some of the stories took place during tournaments.
One of them was during the U.S. Championships. While Zebrav was preparing for big and important games, he faced seemingly disturbed off-the-field dramas. With violent fights, tough conversations, in which he humiliates his girlfriend, and then begs her to return to him. In the Labor Cup tournament In Geneva he had to turn to one of the tournament organizers to help him persuade her to open the door to their room, after locking herself inside following a violent quarrel, hours later he went on the field, as usual.
Who he is, what he is, what he is going through.
Zebra (Photo: Reuters)
It should be noted that even now, against the background of the evidence and the media storm, he is in excellent shape.
He won two tournaments in Germany.
He is in the semi-finals of the Masters Tournament in Paris.
It is flourishing under coach David Ferrer.
Anyone who watches it play can not imagine, for example, that just this week another Zebrav ex, model Andrea Pata, announced that she was pregnant with him, in the 20th week, and that she had no intention of having joint custody of the child with him.
"We had a crisis, and our relationship ended," she wrote, "we have a different outlook on life ... we no longer have a connection, and in fact, I do not intend to share it in raising the child."
An athlete gets on the field, and you have no ability to know who he is, what he is, what he is going through.
We do not know them, can not imagine what is going on in their minds, what they are dealing with and how they behave.
Ryan Giggs was also arrested this week by police on suspicion of beating his wife.
Andre Agassi once recounted how he reached the final of the French Championship when he kept thinking only of the wig on his head, what would happen if it fell, only in that he messed around a whole game.
The viewer watches, and can not imagine.
Zebrav's case is surprising precisely because he is perceived as mentally strong.
The gap is difficult to grasp.
It’s hard to understand how an athlete can be so confident on the field and so unsettled off it.
An affair that can serve as an example.
Zebra (Photo: Reuters)
Zebrab joins another tennis player accused of violence against his partner, Nicklos Basilishvili, who was arrested on suspicion of beating his ex-wife in front of their child (and also denied the allegations). The problem is that unlike the NBA or NFL, the World Tennis Association (ATP) does not have clear regulations regarding domestic violence. They do not deal with it. Basilishvili returned for a run. Sharipova said she did not intend to file a complaint against Zebrav, but that did not matter, because that too would not have prevented him from playing. According to the rules, "players are prohibited from acting contrary to the fairness of the tennis spirit." This is not enough to open an investigation.
Obviously this is an important affair, which can serve as an example, to promote the fight against domestic violence, to help other battered women who do not have the courage, to provide a declarative move by the World Tennis Association, to change norms (of course these days it is under attack by Zebra fans and slanderers). The question is what can we, as spectators, as fans, do. Maybe put pressure on the networks and demand that he be punished. Maybe demand that he apologize and get treatment. Maybe turn off the TV while he's playing. Maybe threaten his sponsors. Maybe go to his game, and wave signs. And perhaps come to terms with the helplessness, with the fact that we have no possibility of knowing the athletes, of understanding them, of knowing who they are or what they are. Just watch them play, enjoy the game, and pray, hope, that they come home and remain human.
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