Boris Becker - "Today I know my account balance, unfortunately not before"
Boris Becker commented on the upcoming trial in London in the BILD newspaper. The hearing begins on March 21.
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Feb 06, 2022, 11:10 am
Boris Becker was once again omnipresent in German-speaking TV households during the Australian Open, which is what Eurosport is used to from the French Open and the US Open. And to complete the Grand Slam year, Becker also gives the experts for the English BBC during the two weeks of Wimbledon.
"I've been working non-stop for five years, have a good income and can afford my life. I'm not penniless," Becker explained in BILD. This will become important from March 21st. Because there is a criminal case for the three-time Wimbledon champion in which he is accused of lack of cooperation in his bankruptcy proceedings.
Something like that doesn't leave a man like Boris Becker cold either: "Do I have a lot of respect for it? Yes. Am I tense? Yes. Am I sometimes nervous too? Yes. But I'm not panicking. We, my lawyers and I, are well prepared. I will personally try to refute the allegations for each of the 24 charges.” In any case, he hopes for a fair verdict.
Becker - Didn't earn 100 million euros
According to the former world number one, there are too many wrong numbers circulating about Becker's actual assets. "I often read that I'm supposed to have earned 100 million euros," says Becker in BILD. "Complete nonsense. My prize money before taxes was 25 million US dollars (about 22 million euros today, note). My off-field sponsors paid me well, but by no means in the nine-figure range.”
For his first Wimbledon victory, when he defeated Kevin Curren in the 1985 final, he received £300,000 - today the winner collects £3m. "Today I know my account balance very well, unfortunately not before."