Biography of Boris Becker

Boom Boom

November 22, 1967 it was a tennis star, a prodigy of the racket but rarely nowadays Chronicles speak of him. It's a bit out of the picture, it is a bit tarnished, the star of "Boom Boom" (as he was nicknamed), as is natural in some respects for all samples that end his career. But, maybe, it was a little too forgotten, despite the morbid attention that was focused on him during his career. Unmistakable presence on the tennis courts, hair red and white of complexion, Boris Becker was born on November 22, 1967 in Leimen, a satellite village near Heidelberg (Germany). To become what I became, needless to say, Becker has sacrificed everything to tennis, breaking even the studies after secondary school (but with a special dispensation from the Ministry of education). Efforts paid off, you have to say. The "red" from his quickie at seventeen had more liquidity, in billions, many of his peers still bent in school books. The reason is simple: at that age had already triumphed by none other than at Wimbledon, winning the title of youngest winner in the history of the tournament. He turned professional in August 1984 is immediately elected tennis player of the year. The career of Boris Becker begins, however, in five years, when his father, former amateur tennis player and swimmer, the architect signs up for a course. He won his first tournament at age eight. Then little by little, the rise, alongside the former Romanian player Ion Tiriac and former German coach Guenther Bosch. At the beginning of 1984 in the world rankings of tennis players, was placed to this number only $ 720. The year after rising to 25th place but the rapid ascent sees him eighth after the resounding victory of Wimbledon. Needless to say, from that moment on, his is an unstoppable ascent, mined by all kinds of mishaps involving his private life. Repeating the success at Wimbledon in 1986 and again in 1989, but is plucked from the IRS is looking kindly on his move to Monaco: move in the odor of evasion (against him, in this regard, protest even the German Parliament). In addition, a paranoid fear of kidnapping. Boris Becker stipulates an insurance policy with Lloyd's of London for 14 billion lire against kidnapping. The fear is justified by "attention" treacherous gods destroy, identified and convicted many years later. The German Champion's private life was marked by the decision to live next to a nice colored girl one year older than him, Barbara Feltus, whom he married on December 17, 1993 while she was expecting their first child, Noah Gabriel Becker. To listen Boris the racist climate that they breathed around him was unbearable. A few months before the wedding, the tennis player had been at the center of controversy for expressing criticism of their country for issues like racism and had already spoken for the first time of its abandonment of Germany, partially come true with a few years spent in Florida. The champion who won 49 singles titles, seven of them Grand Slams, before retiring after the last loss in the fourth round of his beloved Wimbledon, knew a really sad decline. The straw that broke the camel's back was the search of the guardia di finanza in his villa at Monaco and sentencing for tax evasion that led even in prison. All events which further weakened Claude the fragile personality of "Boom Boom", different from the leathery shown on playgrounds. An impression is confirmed from his autobiography in which confesses to being addicted to pills and alcohol for at least five years during his career.
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