The outburst of Boris Becker, one of the greatest tennis players in the world, on the time spent in prison

The German tennis player won the Wimbledon tournament for the first time at the age of 17 and has since achieved many more victories. But he recently spent eight months in prison.

German tennis player Boris Becker, 55, has won six Grand Slam tournaments in his professional life, as the world’s top tennis tournaments are called. But he has spent the last few months away from glory, in prison.

He served eight months of his two-and-a-half-year sentence for hiding £2.5m worth of properties and loans from UK tax authorities to avoid paying debts. He was released in December and then deported from the UK where he lived.

“I tend to be good in the fifth set. I won the first two sets, lost the other two and plan to win the fifth,” he said in a BBC interview, making an analogy to a tennis match.

The award-winning tennis player classified his time in prison as “brutal” and an experience “very different from what is shown in the movies”.

See the details of Becker’s time in prison.

‘Who says prison isn’t hard lies’

Becker was catapulted to fame in 1985 when he won Wimbledon aged just 17. In April last year he was convicted in the UK, where he resided, for failing to comply with the Insolvency Act.

The case focused on Becker’s bankruptcy in June 2017, stemming from an unpaid loan of more than £3 million (R$18.8 million) to buy his luxury property in Mallorca, Spain.

Speaking ahead of the release of a new TV documentary about his life and career, ‘Boom! I burst! The World vs Boris Becker’ (Boom! Bang! The world vs Boris Becker) Becker said: “I don’t think there was a written manual on how to behave, what to do and how to live your life when you win Wimbledon at 17.” .

“The fame, the fortune, it was all very new,” she said.

“Obviously I never studied business and finance and after my tennis career I made some decisions based on bad advice, but those were my decisions.”

Following his conviction, Becker spent his first few weeks in Wandsworth Prison in south-east London before spending the majority of his sentence in Huntercombe Prison in Oxfordshire, also in the United Kingdom.

“Anyone who says life in prison isn’t hard is lying,” said the three-time Wimbledon champion.

“I was surrounded by murderers, drug dealers, rapists, dangerous criminals.”

According to Becker, in prison “you fight every day to survive”. “You have to surround yourself with tough guys because you need protection.”

Becker said being a legendary tennis champion did him no favors in prison. “If you think you’re better than everyone else, you lose.”

“It didn’t matter in there that you were a tennis player. The only currency you have is your personality and your character, nothing else.”

“At first you don’t have any friends, you’re alone. And that’s the hard part. You really have to dig into yourself into your qualities and your strengths, but also your weaknesses.”

“I miss london”

After being released from prison, Becker was deported to Germany and will not be able to return to British soil until October 2024.

“I miss London a lot. I miss Wimbledon and I won’t be able to go (to the tournament) this year,” he said.

“When you’re down… And the last five, six years have been really hard for me… Find out who’s really into you and who’s not.”

When asked how he is treated by people after he gets out of prison, he said, “No one is perfect, including me. And I accepted that.”

“I got out of prison three and a half months ago and I’m thrilled with the welcome from the fans, the people on the street who have followed my story a bit.”

“I’m a Stronger and Better Man”

Becker says he learned valuable lessons from his time in prison. “I never thought at 17 that I would be arrested at 54,” he said.

“It certainly humbled me. Today I know that regardless of whether you are Boris Becker, if you break the law, you will be convicted and imprisoned and that goes for everyone.”

“I never expected good and I certainly never expected bad, but I’m a survivor, I’m a tough nut to crack, I’ve taken penalties, I’ve taken prison, but I’ve also taken glory, and in the end for the less made me a stronger and better man.With my decisions in the future, you will be able to see if I learned from this or not.

Source: Terra

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