He raises his voice – not only in these days. But it just especially: Boris Becker. Just over a week ago, he has mixed in London, those who cry out in the fight against racism. Not far away from that place, he is almost on the exact day 35 years ago, for the first Time, the Wimbledon Champion became – at the age of just 17 years.
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The present struggle is for him to be at least as important, because he meets him in person. As more and more people criticized after the Anti-racism Demonstration via Twitter and Instagram, and insulted, as Becker went into attack mode – Serve and Volley – and pointed out that the Experience of racism to his personal family belong to history. It would sure proof, he added to his Tweet the names of his children: “#Noah #Elias #Anna #Amadeus”.
Becker is no longer BummBumm-Boris, he is our Bobbele, not a tabloid clown more, or someone who always ends again misguided. Becker has not found to itself, even if the way was quite simple. Has helped him, of all things, what he had almost lost: Tennis. His early successes created a sense that his victories were our victories.
they have, however, never showed up then, in time, as the low started to lay – not on the court, but in a broom closet, with alleged diplomatic passports or insolvency proceedings. Becker was columns to a name in the gossip, and he complained about that to him in this country, too little respect would be brought.
his world ended, never to the country’s borders. Abroad, especially in Britain, to admire it in people. Anyone who has been listening to him for ever as he speaks at Eurosport or the BBC about Tennis, the feel, how he can dissect this game as he dives into the heads of the players. As a coach of Novak Djokovic, he has returned to the spotlight, as the “Head of Men’s Tennis” of the German Tennis Federation, he proves how much passion still in him. In the Taunus hills, a 20-million-Euro tennis Academy, which will bear his name is currently being built. Becker, it seems, is the age of 52, in the Form of his life.
