“August 6 is a very special day for my family and me. Today, the Alexander Zverev Foundation was officially founded to help children suffering from type 1 diabetes and people to prevent possible type 2 diabetes by wearing a healthy and active life,” the tennis player wrote on his Instagram account on Saturday.
That same day, Zverev, 25, declared in an interview on RTL/ntv that he had decided to launch this foundation, based in Hamburg, his hometown, with his brother Mischa, “to show the world that limits should not be set for this disease“.
The reigning Olympic champion, diagnosed with diabetes at the age of three and a halfexplained this Monday in a long interview with L’Equipe how he is dealing with this condition.
“I have the reader in my racket bag. The ATP authorizes me to use it (…) I control myself at each change of side. I don’t have an insulin pump, I inject myself. I always have my insulin pen with me”, confessed to the French sports newspaper.
Zverev, who seriously injured his right ankle in the semifinals at Roland Garros against Spaniard Rafael Nada on June 4, told RTL/ntv that it is still early to decide whether he will play the US Open, which will start on June 29. of August.
“It’s still too early for that,” said the tennis player, who He has just returned to training in Monte Carlo, Where he lives. In addition, he stressed that he wants to be one hundred percent in the Davis Cup in mid-September.
Zverev, who posted a video Sunday on Instagram where he is seen playing, He says he is happy to return to training. “Very happy” and “surprised, firstly by the way I played and not having felt any pain,” she remarked.