Boris Becker

International | Sports

Boris Becker’s Global Game, Set, and Match with Justice: A Cautionary Tale of Wealth Without Wisdom
ByDaveslocker 24 September 2025

**From Centre Court to Cell Block: Boris Becker’s Global Fall from Grace** The curious case of Boris Becker reads like a modern parable about hubris, tax havens, and the peculiar talent wealthy people possess for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Once the golden boy of German tennis who won Wimbledon at 17—an age…

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Current Events | International

From Centre Court to Cell Block C: Boris Becker’s Global Fall and the Passport Politics of Punishment
ByDaveslocker 23 September 2025

When Boris Becker—three-time Wimbledon champion, German national treasure, and walking advertisement for 1980s exuberance—was escorted to a Victorian-era cell in Wandsworth Prison last April, the planet performed a collective shrug. From Lagos to Lima, the verdict was filed under “rich-people problems,” somewhere between a crypto-founder’s tax evasion and a pop star’s yacht fire. Yet the…

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