Alexander Zverev has expressed his frustration at the seemingly unclear rules at the French Open around injecting insulin on court for his diabetes.
Zverev, who reached the quarter-finals of the French Open with a straight-sets victory over Grigor Dimitrov, was diagnosed with type-1 diabetes at the age of three.
Ad He needs to take insulin regularly to maintain his blood sugar levels and it is administered with an insulin pen. Roland-GarrosFrench Open order of play, Day 10 — Alcaraz, Sabalenka, Djokovic in quarter-final action11 HOURS AGO At the French Open he has apparently been told by an official that he could not take insulin on court and was required to take a bathroom break instead. «On the ATP Tour I do it on the court, here they don't allow me to do it,” he told Eurosport Germany. “I'm not allowed to do it on the court and I have to run out every time. “Then at the last match I was told that it counts as a toilet break.
That's when I said, 'guys, I might have to walk off the court four or five times. Decide what you want me to do’.” Zverev said that in his previous match against Frances Tiafoe there was a „supervisor who didn't know that I was diabetic“, adding: „I then gave myself an injection and he panicked and said I had to call a doctor if I gave myself anything.“ He also said he told the umpire during the last two matches: „Just decide what you want from me, and then I'll do it like this.