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