The downfall of a tennis icon: Boris Becker jailed after hiding £2.5 million worth of assets and loans
The following year, Becker won Wimbledon again and had a third success in 1989.
During his 16-year professional tennis career, Becker was a six-time Grand Slam champion and collected 49 singles titles out of 77 finals.Becker married Barbara Feltus in 1993 and the couple had two children - a son, Noah, who was born in 1994, and a daughter, Elias, born in 1999.A year later, Becker was forced to concede that he was the father of Russian model Angela Ermakova's daughter Anna following a High Court battle.
"This defendant has lost literally everything and he has already paid an extremely heavy price both for the mismanagement of his financial affairs, which of course he has nobody to blame but himself, but also for his offending," he said. "His fall is not simply a fall from grace but amounts to the most public humiliation for this man," he said.
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