There is a really good atmosphere in the Olympic Village among the German tennis men. And each of the six men has his own task.
by SID/ed.
last edited: 31.07.2024, 13:35
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Alexander Zverev still has his problems with the iron, but in the Olympic tennis shared flat everyone helps each other. “Tim Pütz is the one who knows the most about the iron. I don’t know how to use it,” said Zverev when asked how the federal eagle got on his headband – and laughed. There’s no doubt about it: a good mood is guaranteed in the small space in the Olympic Village.
Jan-Lennard Struff, for example, recently simply taped Zverev’s door shut. “He found that incredibly funny – Sascha not so much. There are still remains on the door,” said Pütz on Eurosport. He still has to find out who took the precious water that he had hidden so well and not refilled it.
Air conditioning as the only bone of contention
The six German men in the village have split up into three double rooms: Zverev with Maximilian Marterer, Pütz with Struff and Kevin Krawietz with Dominik Koepfer. “It’s amazing with the guys. We’re usually always apart, but now we like to watch other sports and play cards in the evenings,” revealed Struff.
The 36-year-old Pütz is “the adult” in the shared apartment, said Zverev. The German number one, on the other hand, “always has to be looked after a little bit. Carrying things after him and so on,” said Köpfer. Above all, however, is the feeling of togetherness. “It’s cozy,” said Pütz: “You have a team feeling, it’s fun.”
The only thing that isn’t working properly yet is the room temperature. Because there is a lot of coming and going in the shared flat, the rule is that the last person to leave turns on the air conditioning. When Pütz recently set off back to the village after a heat battle, he simply said: “Let’s see if anyone made it today.”
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Zverev Alexander
Marterer Maxi
Struff Jan-Lennard
Koepfer Domink
