'It's too much' - Patrick Mouratoglou unhappy at 'everybody jumping' on Alexander Zverev over incident

Top tennis coach Patrick Mouratoglou has expressed his unhappiness with 'everybody jumping' on Alexander Zverev and said 'it was a bit too much'. The world No. 3 was handed the maximum fine by the ATP following his vicious reaction at the Mexican Open as he struck Alessandro Germani’s chair several times with his racquet after his doubles defeat alongside Marcelo Melo against Lloyd Glasspool and Harri Heliovaara.

Ad/> Zverev was thrown out of the tournament and fined $40,000 (£30,000), plus a full forfeit of his prize money and ATP ranking points. He had yelled while narrowly avoiding hitting the umpire: «You f****** destroyed the whole f****** match. The whole f****** match».

ATP Indian WellsIndian Wells takeaways: Nadal concerns, Swiatek class, Alcaraz shinesYESTERDAY AT 11:13 The 24-year-old apologised for his outburst and made a sudden U-turn to represent Germany against Brazil in the Davis Cup in Rio de Janeiro on March 4 and 5 — something he has not done since February 2019. «When I saw the images of Sascha in Acapulco shouting and hitting the chair umpire’s chair I thought ‘oof, he’s in trouble’,» he said on his YouTube channel. «I realise that he went too far.

It’s one thing to lose your temper, but you still need to have boundaries and he went too far. »In the tennis world, where everybody is supposed to be perfect all the time, I think it is bad for his image in the short term. In the long term, people forget.

«It is the responsibility of the ATP to take the sanctions that they feel are necessary. »I don’t like when someone makes a mistake and everybody jumps on that person and pulls him down. «I think it was a bit too much, what people said.