Just like their fathers once did, because Boris and Charly have known each other since they were young, as Steeb revealed to “Zeit Magazin” in 2017: “We first met when we were ten years old when we were sighted. He was number one in Baden, I in Württemberg, our paths crossed even more frequently in the years that followed.”
You can probably say that. In 1988, Charly Steeb initiated the German tennis team’s Davis Cup victory with his surprising victory over Mats Wilander, who went down in tennis history as “The Miracle of Gothenburg”. The next day, buddy Boris and Eric Jelen beat Swedish world-class doubles Anders Järryd and Stefan Edberg. The first German Davis Cup victory in history.
