Boris Becker From A Boy In Leimen To A Star In Wimbledon
These are words from his autobiography ‘The Player’, and the boy in context is the German three-time Wimbledon champion Boris Franz Becker. Ever since that young boy won Wimbledon in 1985 as a 17-year-old defeating Kevin Curren in four sets, his life has changed forever. Back then, the US television station CBS declared in their news program 60 minutes that Becker was the first German national hero since the defeat of the German army in the Second World War....