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Tennis player Becker complains about prison conditions, suffering from small portions of food and noise

Former tennis player Boris Becker has to get used to difficult prison conditions. The 54-year-old three-time Wimbledon winner was sentenced last week to two and a half years for obstructing insolvency proceedings. According to Becker, small portions of food and constant noise cause problems.

Boris Becker was placed in prison in Wandsworth, located a short distance from the Wimbledon courts, where Becker celebrated three grand slam titles. However, according to The Daily Mail, there is no honey behind bars.

The German tennis player allegedly has a problem with small portions of food and thus uses his weekly prison pocket money of 10 pounds (approximately 300 CZK) to replenish supplies with biscuits, bananas and other food from the canteen.

In addition, Becker also suffers from sleeping in a small cell, where there is a constant noise. However, the convicted Grand Slam winner is expected to be transferred to a prison in the near future, where conditions are better.

It’s hard and the worst of all is the food. He can’t believe how bad it is and how small the portions are. One of his first meals was beef, which wasn’t good. He is also shocked by the lack of hygiene in the prison, which is so crowded“stands in a statement from an unnamed source obtained by The Sun.

Boris Becker, a six-time Grand Slam winner and former world number one, was sentenced last week to two and a half years. He was guilty of hiding the transfer of 427 thousand euros (10.4 million crowns) to the accounts of nine beneficiaries after his bankruptcy in 2017. A tennis player can appeal against the verdict because he is invalid. “Of course, Boris Becker may challenge this verdict, but it will take several months for the proceedings to take place. But if he keeps playing the innocent, he has no chance. Only with remorse, with guilt, has a chance of parole. He has to say he made mistakes. Because it hasn’t happened yet“Burkhard Benecken, a lawyer, told Bild.

It is said that his girlfriend Lilian, who was by his side during the trial, also arrived at the prison to see Boris Becker:

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