On August 6, 2022 the German tennis player Alexander Zverev He publicly stated that he suffered from type 1 diabetes since he was a child for a very special reason. “Today the Alexander Zverev Foundation has officially come to life, supporting children with type 1 diabetes and helping people to avoid type 2 diabetes, to live a healthy and active life,” announced the statement from the new athlete-sponsored institution. .
At Roland Garros he had problems because of his illness, as revealed in Eurosport Germany. He pointed out that the lack of a clear protocol in professional tennis caused the Parisian Grand Slam to ban in a match that the insulin necessary for survival could be injected.
“In ATP tournaments I can do it on the bench, here they don’t make me work, they don’t make me work on the court and I have to run every time, then in the last game they told me that it counts as a bathroom break. Then I said: Guys, I might have to leave the field four or five times. Decide what you want me to do”, collects Eurosport.
In the fight against the American Frances Tiafoe paid for the ignorance of one of the supervisors of the event. “He didn’t know I was diabetic. I gave myself an injection and he panicked and said he had to call a doctor if I injected anything,” he recounted.
He was allowed to do this in the bathroom, but he complained that “if it’s about bathroom breaks, it means that some things that are necessary for my life are not allowed. It’s confusing: they say that I’m doing something strange when I -inject me. I just think : They are not very smart because I have diabetes since I was 3 years old. If I don’t inject, I put my life in danger. So I ask: How should I be doped in court? One this discussion is pointless.” .
The problem was solved in the next match, in the round of 16 against the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, but Zverev, a quarterfinalist against Argentine Tomás Etcheverry, fears that without fixed rules he risks another incident in Paris or another Grand Slam.
Source: La Verdad
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