Boris Becker is the new coach of the young (20 year old) Danish player Holger Rune, announced the German, former world No. 1 and six-time Grand Slam winner, this Thursday, October 19 on the channel Eurosport Germany. “I’m Holger Rune’s trainer,” said “Boom Boom” Becker, 55, who described his new foal as “a diamond in the rough that needs to be polished.”
Former world number 1 in the 1980s, Boris Becker was the best player of his time. Winner in 1985 at the age of 17, he remains to this day the youngest winner at Wimbledon. He triumphed there again in 1986 and 1989. He also won the Australian Open (1989) and the US Open twice (1991, 1996) for a total of 49 victories on the ATP circuit, two successes in Davis Cup (1988, 1989) and an Olympic gold medal in doubles in 1992.
Eight months in prison
At the peak of the sport, his fall is all the more brutal. In April 2022, a London court found him guilty of removal of assets, non-disclosure of estate and concealment of debt. Declared personal bankruptcy in June 2017, Becker was accused of not having respected his obligations to disclose information, particularly banking information, which he contested. This did not prevent him from spending behind bars between April and December 2022. He served eight months of a thirty-month prison sentence in Great Britain for contravening bankruptcy rules by concealing bank assets. order of 3.1 million dollars (3 million euros) to avoid having to pay his debts, before being extradited to Germany in December
Current world number 6 after rising to fourth last summer, Holger Rune (20 years old) does not yet have a Grand Slam tournament under his belt. Difficult to manage based on his reputation, winner of the Rolex Paris Masters a year ago, he reached the quarter-finals twice in 2022 and 2023 at Roland-Garros. Ditto this year at Wimbledon without going any further. Boris Becker, who was the coach of current world No. 1 Novak Djokovic from 2013 to 2016, is committed to getting him through this glass ceiling in major tournaments. He will accompany Rune to Basel (October 21-October 29) then to the Rolex Paris Masters at the Accor Arena from October 28 to November 5.
