Boris Becker biography
Boris Becker, in full Boris Franz Becker, (born November 22, 1967, Leimen, close to Heidelberg, West Germany [now Germany]), German tennis participant who, on July 7, 1985, at age 17, turned the youngest champion within the historical past of the boys’s singles at Wimbledon. At the identical time, he turned the one unseeded participant and the one German ever to win the title in addition to the youngest individual ever to win any Grand Slam title in males’s singles (a mark lowered by 4 months when Michael Chang received the French Open in 1989).
Becker’s father, an architect, constructed the hometown tennis membership (Blau-Weiss Tennisklub) the place Becker discovered to play as a baby. He began enjoying competitively at age 8 and started concentrating nearly wholly on tennis by age 12; he dropped out of college within the tenth grade (or kind) and as a substitute was schooled within the West German Tennis Federation, the place his principal coach was Günther Bosch, a Romanian-born German.
Becker burst onto the worldwide tennis scene at age 17 on the Wimbledon Championships in 1985. With highly effective serves and an attacking fashion, he overpowered his opponents, advancing to the finals, the place he defeated Kevin Curren in 4 units. Excelling on the quick grass floor, he received Wimbledon once more in 1986 and 1989 and was a finalist there in 1988, 1990, 1991, and 1995. He received the Australian Open twice (1991, 1996) and the U.S. Open (1989). In worldwide tennis, he was a member of West Germany’s after which Germany’s Davis Cup squads (1985–99), serving to the workforce to victories in 1988 and 1989; he served because the workforce’s supervisor in 1997. He additionally captured an Olympic gold medal in doubles in 1992 on the Barcelona Games.
Becker retired from aggressive tennis in 1999; throughout his profession he received 49 singles and 15 doubles titles. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2003. Following his retirement, he turned concerned in varied enterprise ventures. Becker additionally labored as a TV commentator, and from 2013 to 2016 he coached Novak Djokovic, who received six Grand Slam titles throughout that point. The autobiography Boris Becker: The Player (2004) particulars his skilled and private life, together with his high-profile marriage and divorce from mannequin Barbara Feltus and his alcohol and drug dependancy.