Tennis player Boris Becker: biography, personal life, and family photos

One of the most famous tennis players in the world Boris Becker in the 80s and 90s shone on the world courts, has won many awards. But an even greater glory Becker was due to his explosive temperament and love affairs. In 1999 the whole world was discussing the birth of his daughter from a casual connection, the subsequent divorce and details of this controversial history. Some called him a genius athlete, the other - a loser in life, he was haunted by the defeat, both in career and in his personal life.

Biography

Tennis player Boris Becker was born on November 22, 1967 in Leimen at Heidelberg, Germany. The family evacuated here from Estonia at the beginning of the Second World War. Family dreaming that his son will be a doctor, but his father kept sportsmanship. In the section of tennis Boris was sent to 3 years.

The boy shy of his appearance, his bright red hair is constantly ridiculed classmates and other teens. But everyone had to cover their mouths when in 1983 Boris Becker, studying in grade 9, became the German champion among juniors. Prior to that, he lost the tournament, and no one paid much attention to the athlete. He began to train hard, and the following season won the doubles competition.

Success in sports inspired young man, he almost stopped going to school, because of what was soon expelled. Teachers he replaced coach, correctly guessing the young talent of the future genius of tennis.

Sports career

Enthusiasm for one thing influenced the education of a young man, he was ill-prepared for the real world, all his efforts and abilities were linked to court. But here it was not equal, as early as 1985, Boris Becker won Wimbledon Cup, becoming the youngest holder of this title. And before that, he won in the oldest tournament in England "Queens Club". At the time of his first triumph, he was 17 years, 7 months later, his record broken by Michael Chang, who took the title of best in the "Roland Garros" in 1989.

The following year, 1986, the year he repeated the success, and became the most famous German athlete in the world. Fame and money have fallen suddenly, Boris to believe in their exclusivity, became periodically "score" on the training and treatment. And helped by a whirlwind romance with a girl from Monaco. Becker began to play one tournament after another.

Successes and failures of

The coach and the manager tried to reason with 20-year-old boy, but he only got angry and fired them both. For the mind, Boris decided to only take in 1987, when he not only lost the Australian championship, but also received a penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct on the court. The young man realized that he could lose everything again and began intensively to train. Two years later, he became the champion of Wimbledon again.

Boris Becker in tennis has become a legend, especially for Germany. In subsequent years, along with Michael Stich, he won the Olympic Games and the Australian Open Championship. But the career of an active tennis player coming to an end. It helped not only the age, but also injuries, constant stress. Athlete hooked on pills with alcohol.

Interesting facts of life

In the life of Boris Becker was a lot of funny and sad cases that are not really known to the public:

It is known that he was very superstitious. Each time, planning to go to court at Wimbledon, he grows stubble of 8 mm, it is this local lawn height. In hotels it always stayed on the 5th floor, and in the marital bed slept only on the left.
The proposal to his future wife, Boris did in a cheap diner, and, put the ring in the champagne, and she nearly choked. The whole reason for a natural shyness tennis.
After the birth of her son Becker offered exclusive photos of the baby with the German newspaper for 1 million marks. This condition is so angered fans, who do not like dark-skinned woman athlete, they pelted the house of Boris debris and firebombs. The house burned down, and the family moved to another city.

Because of the many unpleasant accidents in the life of Boris, many call it unlucky. Along with the talent from him constantly unpleasant things happened.

Life

Becoming a millionaire Boris Becker remained modest, shy boy. Sudden fame was a test, he rarely attended social events, preferring to train hard. In this he was supported by a mentor and tennis, who thought that the stormy personal life will only hurt beginners. He inspired the young man that women want only his money and fame. Such education is strongly influenced by Boris self-esteem. As it turned out, the coach fears were not in vain. Taking the top prize at Wimbledon two years in a row, Boris said to zazvedilsya. At this time he had the first love, the daughter of the police chief of Monaco Benedict Courtin. Young athlete so carried away by the girl that was missing a workout, lazy, did not observe the regime, so I did play one after the other matches.

Photo Boris Becker increasingly began to appear not only in the sports section, but also in the columns of scandalous news. He wound up countless romances with actresses, models and heirs of wealthy families, but these relationships were temporary.

Scandal

Personal life Boris Becker has always been in the public domain. Therefore, to hide a regular affair, and most importantly, its consequences could not, found out about it the whole world. In addition to alcohol, tennis loved only one thing - "a good mechanical sex."

It is this passion has led to the athlete to scandals in his life. In 1999, he lost to Wimbledon. Becker felt that his career is over, and grief went to get drunk in a bar. There Boris pretty drunk, had a fight with his pregnant wife (Barbara Feltus) and decided to set off to the winds.

This is such a drunken peasant in one of the bars picked up a dark-skinned, half-Russian model Angela Ermakova. They had a fleeting sex, according to rumors, even oral, but be that as it may, the nine months Angela gave birth to a girl Anna, and soon the "happy" Pope received notification of the acknowledgment of paternity and child support.

The relationship with the daughter of Russian

Becker initially incredibly upset because of this scandal. His wife left him, took the two children, he decried the whole of society, and had to pay a lot of money after DNA proved his paternity. In an interview with Boris mentioned even the Russian mafia, which is digging under it.

Becker has become a laughing stock, the press literally hounded tennis. Fuel to the fire poured Ermakova, who constantly appeared on a talk show and a five-second thumb topic of sex with a famous athlete.

But over time, Becker met with her daughter, and even loved her. Tennis player even sued to obtain joint custody of the girl, because he did not like the education that gave her mother Ermakova. Today, Boris Becker and his daughter close, a lot of talking, the girl lives with her mother and father. Recently, she began working as a model.