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Like five-time Wimbledon champion Bjorn Borg (R), Boris Becker too couldn't handle life without tennis. (Reuters)

Boris Becker & Bjorn Borg: Why the sharpest, calmest sporting minds do the stupidest of things?

September 27, 2025 7:27 pm

Borg's tell-all memoir and Boris Becker's third autobiography go well beyond the glamour or grit of tennis' two storied champions.

Former tennis player Boris Becker arrives at Southwark Crown Court for sentencing in London, Friday, April 29, 2022. (AP)

‘Prison rules’: When Boris Becker was threatened by inmate jailed for murder, who later fell to his knees and apologised

September 26, 2025 12:59 pm

Becker said that the prisoner had murdered two people for which he was sent to prison at the age of 18. Known as Zack, he had already spent 17 years in prison when the incident happened. "We ended up playing chess a couple of days later," Becker said.

Boris Becker and his wife Lilian de Carvalho Monteiro attend the "Bild100" event in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025. (dpa via AP)

When Boris Becker tried to escape bankruptcy proceedings by claiming diplomatic immunity using passport of an African nation

September 26, 2025 1:15 pm

Boris Becker is in the news these days since his autobiography is releasing, where he recounts his eight months behind the bars.

'Winning Wimbledon at 17 was too early, I was still a child': Tennis legend Boris Becker looks back at his chequered life

September 25, 2025 6:19 pm

Tennis legend Boris Becker, for one, now considers that winning Wimbledon at the raw age of 17 wasn't such a good thing after all, as it put him under intense spotlight and pressure at a stage when he was not even an adult.

Daniil Medvedev temper tantrum meltdown US Open

Boris Becker on Daniil Medvedev's meltdown after losing in US Open 1st round: 'I think he needs professional help?'

August 25, 2025 9:31 pm

Medvedev who was defeated 6-3, 7-5, 6-7 (5), 0-6, 6-4, was then seen sitting on the bench distraught before constantly smashing his racquet out of frustration, ultimately breaking it.

He’s a realist: Boris Becker on Novak Djokovic’s chase for elusive 25th Major title

July 18, 2025 8:19 pm

Former coach of Djokovic says given Sinner and Alcaraz form, it would be challenging for the Serbian to lay hands on another Grand Slam title

Rafael Nadal sends positive vibes in comeback match with straight-sets win over Dominic Thiem

January 03, 2024 8:22 am

The win marked Nadal's 1069th at the ATP tour, taking him over Ivan Lendl as the fourth highest on the all time tally.

Carlos Alcaraz is no Boris Becker and this is more significant than Federer beating Sampras

July 17, 2023 10:00 pm

This is not the end of an era but the beginning of a new one. Alcaraz vs Djokovic is a mouth-watering all-court rivalry for ages.

Boom Boom The World vs Boris Becker review: Epic Apple documentary offers sympathetic look at the rise and fall of a tennis great

April 07, 2023 8:02 am

Boom! Boom! The World vs Boris Becker review: The former tennis champion is literally treated like a child in director Alex Gibney's entertaining two-part documentary about his trials and tribulations.

Boris Becker’s wife terms the tennis great as ‘a devil’

February 20, 2023 10:15 am

The three-time Wimbledon champion spent more than seven months in a England prison after he was found guilty of tax frauds and is currently in Germany

BORIS BECKER VIDEOS

When Boris Becker won Wimbledon

June 22, 2020 6:23 pm

#OnThisDay in 1985, Boris Becker became the youngest player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17.