{"id":685051,"date":"2026-07-10T22:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/685051\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T22:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:46:14","slug":"wimbledon-2026-why-is-alexander-zverev-allowed-to-use-mobile-phone-during-matches-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/685051\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon 2026: Why is Alexander Zverev allowed to use mobile phone during matches?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many of you have been in touch to ask why Alexander Zverev has been seen using his phone multiple times during matches at this year’s Wimbledon – despite a ban on players doing so.<\/p>\n

The reason is because Zverev is type 1 diabetic, and therefore has a medical exemption from the rule in order to check his glucose levels.<\/p>\n

The All England Club has told BBC Sport that Grand Slam tournaments have a list of players that are diabetic, and those players are permitted to use their phones during matches in order to monitor their glucose and inject insulin if needed.<\/p>\n

Zverev, who has reached the men’s singles final,<\/a> told BBC Sport he has two phones, one of which contains no SIM card as it is solely used for monitoring his glucose while on court.<\/p>\n

It means he can simply read the levels that his glucose monitor is relaying to his phone screen, instead of doing constant finger-prick checks.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why the umpires allow me to check my phone, so I don\u2019t have to poke my finger every changeover,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

A malfunction with Zverev’s monitor during the Halle Open in June led to him injecting a much higher level of insulin than needed during his semi-final loss to Taylor Fritz.<\/p>\n

He said the mistake left him feeling “absolutely terrible” as he had to consume about 350g of sugar to counteract the high dose of insulin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many of you have been in touch to ask why Alexander Zverev has been seen using his phone…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-685051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}