Accustomed to success and ambitious, tennis ace and Olympic champion Alexander Sverev (24) suffered a TV defeat on Saturday evening.
Silvio Heinevetter (left) and Alexander Sverev let moderator Elton (center) explain the game to themPhoto: ddp / Pro7 / Wili Weber
After more than five hours of broadcasting time and 13 of a possible 15 games, Zverev lost the “Schlag den Star” duel against his opponent, handball star Silvio Heinevetter (36).
Bitter: He even had to throw in the towel at a game.
Alexander Zverev at the Grand Slam in New York in early September Photo: Seth Wenig / dpa
Zverev and the handbrake
Game 8: Heinevetter and Zverev were supposed to transport various objects from one side to the other in a car. Problem: Alexander Zverev couldn’t move the car. He’d forgotten to release the handbrake and stalled the car.
Frustrated, he got out of the car and stopped the game. And of course the malicious comments from the audience were not long in coming.
A viewer writes on Twitter, for example, that Ferraris probably don’t have a handbrake.
And indeed – Alexander Zverev explained his mistake exactly like this:
“In my private life I mostly drive a bit sportier cars. There are no such antique hand brakes anymore, ”Zverev told BILD.
The tennis pro continues: “In the excitement of the live broadcast, I just forgot about it. Very annoying for me, of course I wanted to win the show – and I’m definitely available for rematch. Something like that won’t happen to me again. “
He lost the game, but of course not the ambition.