Many people all around the world have seen Boris Becker win at various major tennis events throughout his career. Being a talented player from West Germany who started playing tennis before turning into a teenager, Boris achieved incredible results throughout his career in this sport and is now recognized as an iconic and influential figure in modern tennis history.
Early rise
Starting to compete as a professional tennis player in 1984, he managed to impress opponents and spectators very quickly with his powerful, yet agile, reflexive play. Being a young man with lots of self-confidence, Becker attracted attention because of the energy that surrounded every match he played and was capable of playing well in all possible situations on different surfaces and courts against different types of opponents. His most memorable victory, which happened at Wimbledon in 1985, where he became champion when he was still just seventeen, proved his ability to perform outstandingly in difficult conditions under a great amount of pressure.
Major championships
Winning Wimbledon in 1986 and becoming a champion of that tennis tournament several more times, in 1989 and 1990, Becker proved to be one of the best grass-court players of that time. However, he also managed to win other major championships. Namely, he won the US Open in 1989 and the Australian Open in 1991 and 1996. All those victories gave him six singles titles of Grand Slam tournaments, which is one of the records in modern history and made Boris Becker one of the most influential male players of his era.
Being the icon of tennis for his generation, Becker not only managed to raise the popularity of this sport to the heights in his own native country but also played very memorable matches. His powerful game in combination with his aggressive court positioning and risky decisions that he sometimes used while playing made Boris Becker's play absolutely unique and easily recognizable by all fans of tennis.
Life after tennis
Even after retiring from active competitions, Becker stayed in the focus of people's attention because he started working as a commentator on TV, participating in different commercial media projects and later even became a tennis coach. Working with the famous and skilled player Novak Djokovic from 2013 to 2016, Becker shared his experience and skills to help a young promising man to secure his reputation of one of the greatest champions and tennis players of that time.
However, the part of Becker's biography that is usually discussed along with all these achievements are problems in his personal finances, which became known to the public and made many people surprised about this fact, despite Boris Becker's high profile and success in tennis. But the image that still comes to mind, hearing the name of Becker, is that of the brave and young champion winning Wimbledon, serving and volleying on Centre Court.