During the TV broadcast of the Wimbledon tournament, tennis legend John McEnroe addressed his former rival with emotional words. Boris Becker, who is in prison, is loved and missed, says the 63-year-old. He wants to pay him a visit in prison.
Tennis legend John McEnroe sent an emotional message to Boris Becker in prison via TV at the start of the grass classic in Wimbledon. "Boris, we love you. We miss you, man," said the 63-year-old American as an expert during the BBC broadcast of the Grand Slam tournament. Moderator Sue Barker added: "We really do."
McEnroe had recently reported that he wanted to visit Becker in prison around Wimbledon. At the end of April, Becker was sentenced to two and a half years in prison at Southwark Crown Court in London, the second half of which is expected to be suspended. He had concealed assets worth millions from his insolvency administrators.
Becker is now in Huntercombe prison in Nuffield, around 70 kilometers west of his adopted home of London. The British TV broadcaster recently left open whether the 54-year-old will return to work as an expert alongside McEnroe at the BBC after his prison sentence has expired.
"No decision has been made about the future," said a spokeswoman for British public broadcaster ahead of the tournament. In the UK, Becker has been a valued TV pundit for the BBC, intermittently, during the Wimbledon weeks since 2002. During his playing days he had won the tournament three times.
