Günther Bosch: Boris Becker’s Wimbledon coach does not want to visit him in prison

As a coach, Günther Bosch (85) led Boris Becker (54), who was only 17 at the time, to his greatest success in 1985: winning Wimbledon. A year later they successfully defended their title. Bosch once described his former relationship with Becker in an RTL interview: “I wasn’t just the father, I was also the friend, I was also the teacher.”

Although the coach and protégé parted ways in 1987, Bosch always had a good word for Becker. And so the verdict against his former student hit him hard. “It was a real shock for me. I would never have believed that Boris would end up in prison,” he told “Bild am Sonntag”.

But he doesn’t want to visit Becker there. He would have thought about it, but admits: “I could not (…) bear to see him in prison.”

In the video above you can find out more about Boris Becker’s sentence.

Boris Becker’s discoverer Günther Bosch: “I really hope he can do it”

What Bosch used to admire about the tennis player Becker, namely that he “was still able to win games that he thought he had lost”, the private individual Becker did not manage to do. “He didn’t manage that in this game,” says the former national coach of the DTB. And adds: “He should have given in a bit, then the punishment might not have been so drastic.”

Bosch sees the reason for Becker’s intransigence in the environment of the former tennis star. There would be no one there who would oppose him. Tell him that not everything he does is right.

From Bosch’s point of view, could Becker learn anything during his two-and-a-half-year sentence? “I would wish for him to be a new Boris afterwards, who is as successful as before. Not as an active player, of course, but as a tennis consultant. (…) I really hope that he can do it,” he says “Picture on Sunday” further.