{"id":604266,"date":"2026-09-03T04:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T04:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/604266\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T04:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T04:00:15","slug":"meet-sophia-thomalla-tv-star-and-girlfriend-of-us-open-hopeful-alexander-zverev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/604266\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Sophia Thomalla, TV star and girlfriend of US Open hopeful Alexander Zverev"},"content":{"rendered":"

German tennis star Alexander Zverev just pulled off an epic first-round win at the 2026 US Open<\/a>. The top seed beat Italy\u2019s Lorenzo Sonego 6-4, 3-6, 6-7 (7), 7-5, 6-4 in a match that lasted four hours and 53 minutes, finishing at 1:55 am on Wednesday in New York.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just happy I won,\u201d the French Open title holder said in a post-match interview with the ATP Tour. \u201cIncredible battle. A lot of ups and downs. Nearly five hours for a first round. I think this is the longest first-round match I\u2019ve ever played in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AlexanderAlexander Zverev speaks during a press conference ahead of the US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on August 28. Photo: Getty Images\/AFP<\/p>\n

Zverev, who reached the Wimbledon final in July, came close to winning his first US Open men\u2019s singles title in 2020, but ultimately lost to Dominic Thiem. \u201cI still feel like I should have won in 2020, that doesn\u2019t change,\u201d he said at a press conference last week. \u201cI feel like I\u2019m one of the 128 players that are favourites in the draw,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\"AlexanderAlexander Zverev reacts at the Cincinnati Open on August 19. Photo: Getty Images\/AFP<\/p>\n

Through his ups and downs, the 29-year-old star athlete has had one familiar face in his player\u2019s box: his girlfriend of over five years, Sophia Thomalla.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s everything you need to know about her.<\/p>\n

What is Sophia Thomalla\u2019s background?\"SophiaSophia Thomalla is the founder and owner of Hardkorn Spirits. Photo: @sophiathomalla\/Instagram<\/p>\n

Sophia Thomalla was born in East Berlin on October 6, 1989, to actor parents Simone Thomalla and Andr\u00e9 Vetters, who separated in 1995. She spent her early childhood in Berlin before relocating to Cologne and Kleinmachnow with her mother. Known for her striking body art, Thomalla began getting tattooed at a young age \u2013 with one statement piece featuring the name and birth date of actor Sven Martinek, who dated her mother in the late 1990s, per German tabloid Klatsch-Tratsch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"German tennis star Alexander Zverev just pulled off an epic first-round win at the 2026 US Open. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[18036,273109,273115,202802,273111,179022,97434,273112,273110,2226,163780,170,83637,273114,273113,85,46,105],"class_list":["post-604266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-alexander-zverev","tag-andy-laplegua","tag-are-you-the-one","tag-atp-tour","tag-brenda-patea","tag-bush","tag-cologne","tag-dominic-thiem","tag-east-berlin","tag-france","tag-gavin-rossdale","tag-germany","tag-hamburg","tag-hardkorn-spirits","tag-icon-of-coil","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}