Boris Becker

Boris Becker - tennis legend, still the youngest champion of Wimbledon, gold medalist of the 1992 Olympic Games, in the past - the first racket in the world. Unlike many athletes, he did not give up fame, always talked with the press with pleasure, did not hide his personal life (even its most scandalous moments). After completing his career, Boris Becker became a coach, and then became interested in poker.

Boris Franz Becker was born on November 22, 1967 in Leimen, German Democratic Republic (GDR). His parents Elvira and Karl-Heinz raised him as a Catholic.

As a child, Boris Becker dreamed of becoming an archaeologist: he was attracted by the opportunity to travel and explore places long forgotten by man. His mother wanted a future doctor for him, and his father supported any undertaking.

In 1974, according to the designs of Becker Sr., a tennis center was built in Leimen. The architect also invited his family to the opening. The demonstration performances so fascinated 7-year-old Boris Becker that he asked his parents to arrange him in the section. So the brilliant career of the first racket of the world began.

The personal life of Boris Becker is a continuous scandal: not a single tennis player's novel has escaped mention on the first pages of the world tabloids.

On December 17, 1993, the wife of Boris Becker was the model Barbara Feltus, a German by nationality, but dark-skinned, like most of the chosen tennis players. She was in the registry office with a clearly rounded belly. Just a month later, on January 18, 1994, the firstborn of the Bekkers, Noah Gabriel, was born, and on September 4, 1999, Elias Balthazar was born.

In his biography "Life is not a game" (2013) Boris Becker wrote that the marriage with Barbara Feltus broke up because of treason: the tennis player spent a crazy night with an unknown woman, which he did not fail to tell his wife about. The divorce proceedings, which ended on January 15, 2001, deprived Boris Becker of $ 14.4 million, a condominium on Fisher Island, Florida, and child custody.

No sooner had the news of the divorce been forgotten than Boris Becker was at the center of a new scandal: the media figured out his illegitimate daughter. Anna was born in 2000 after a fleeting "acquaintance" of a tennis player with a Russian woman Angela Ermakova.

At first, Boris Becker defended his innocence, and in February 2001 he adopted his daughter. Paternity was also confirmed by a DNA test. In November 2007, the tennis player achieved joint custody of Anna, because he did not like the methods of raising Angela Ermakova.

In 2008, Boris Becker proposed to Alessandra Meyer-Wölden, daughter of his manager Vater Axel Meyer-Wölden. The lovers broke up in November of the same year, never getting married.

On June 12, 2009, Lilly Kerssenberg, a model from Holland, became Lilly Becker. On February 10, 2010, she gave birth to the tennis player's son Amadeus Benedict Edley Louis Becker. In May 2018, the marriage broke up.

Since July 2019, Boris Becker has been in a relationship with Leila Powell, a model from the UK. The athlete himself has not yet made official statements about the novel.

Having started his professional career in 1984, Boris Becker tried to conquer several Grand Slam tournaments. As a result, the German tennis player left Wimbledon at the qualification stage, and reached the quarterfinals at the Australian Open.

In 1985, Boris Becker became the youngest Wimbledon champion: he was 17 years old and 227 days old at the time of winning the cup. Among the record holders of the Grand Slam tournaments under the German only Michael Chang, who won the Roland Garros at the age of 17 years and 110 days.

In 1986, Boris Becker successfully defended his Wimbledon title, beating Ivan Lendl in the final. By the way, this was the debut time when the first racket of the world conquered a tennis player. The German himself headed the rating of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) only in 1991, but before that he managed to win 19 times against rivals who have the status of the first racket of the world.

In 1988, Boris Becker became the first native of the German Democratic Republic to win the Davis Cup. The triumph was repeated the next season. And back in 1989, the tennis player managed to win at once both at Wimbledon and at the US Open. This is an unprecedented achievement: before and in the future, Boris Becker has conquered only one Grand Slam tournament per season.

After winning the Australian Open in 1991 and gaining the long-awaited status of the first racket in the world, Boris Becker's career came to a head. The most significant achievement of that period was gold at the 1992 Olympics, which the tennis player won in tandem with Michael Stich.

In 1996, Boris Becker partially interrupted a series of failures. He won the Australian Open, but lost at Wimbledon to strongest rival Pete Sampras. Later, a German tennis player said this about him:

Boris Becker retired on June 25, 1999. He has 49 individual victories (including 6 in Grand Slam tournaments) and 15 doubles.

Unable to stay away from the sport, in December 2013 Boris Becker became the coach of Novak Djokovic. Thanks to the advice of the former first racket of the world, the tennis player from Serbia managed to adapt to the game of Rafael Nadal, one of the best athletes of our time, according to Boris Becker, and won 6 Grand Slam tournaments. Boris Becker and Novak Djokovic broke up in December 2016.

After leaving professional tennis, Boris Becker became seriously interested in poker. In April 2008, he entered the PokerStars event for the first time and did well, earning $ 40,000 in prize money.

According to the Global Poker Index, in 5 years (up to the appointment of Novak Djokovic as a coach) Boris Becker earned more than $ 100,000 in tournaments.

The craving for gambling, noisy parties and luxury goods drove Boris Becker to bankruptcy in 2017. According to tabloids, the once richest tennis player owes more than $ 14 million to the private bank Arbuthnot Latham.

From paying such a large sum, Boris Becker tried to pay off with a diplomatic post - the Central African Republic (CAR) attaché for sports, humanitarian and cultural issues in the European Union. In June 2018, representatives of the Central African Republic stated that such a position did not exist, and the certificate presented by Boris Becker was a fake.

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The legal proceedings resulted in the sale of the property. In June 2019, Boris Becker auctioned off 82 items from his personal collection, including the 1989 US Open Cup. The auction brought the debtor about $ 860 thousand. Also, the bank Arbuthnot Latham took from Boris Becker a dacha in Mallorca, Spain.

Despite financial difficulties, Boris Becker continues to enjoy life, as reported on Instagram. Now he uploads his photos with children, friends, colleagues.

Boris Becker pays special attention to the heirs. So, on March 22, 2020, he congratulated his illegitimate daughter Anna on the 20th birthday, and at the end of February of the same year he boasted that he took Elias, his second son from Barbara Feltus, to a Chelsea match.

1985, 1986, 1989 - Wimbledon champion 1985, 1986, 1989, 1990 - winner of the "Sportsman of the Year" award in Germany 1988, 1989 - Davis Cup champion 1989 - US Open champion 1991, 1996 - Australian Open champion 1992 - Olympic champion doubles games (with Michael Shtih)

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Boris Becker Net Worth 2021

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Boris Becker Net Worth 2020

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Boris Becker Net Worth 2019

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Boris Becker Net Worth 2018

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Boris Becker Net Worth 2017

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Boris Becker Net Worth 2016

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Boris Becker Net Worth 2015

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