BBC:
Boris Becker jailed: Tennis champion sentenced over bankruptcy
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-61276378
'Judge Deborah Taylor said he had shown no remorse or acceptance of guilt.
Referring to Becker's previous conviction for tax evasion in Germany in 2002, she told the former world number one: "You did not heed the warning you were given and the chance you were given by the suspended sentence and that is a significant aggravating factor..."'
Boris Becker jailed and could be deported afterwards
J. White:
How ‘Boris the Bomber’ crashed and burned after a life of ducking and diving
"Despite his insistent bravado, the highest position Becker ever registered was 40th. He may have fancied himself as a hotshot, but the hard truth was, at poker, he was an also-ran.
And that, according to those who know him best, is typical of Becker.
“I can describe Boris very quickly,” his former coach Nick Bollettieri once said. “He knew a lot. What he didn’t know, he thought he knew, and he would intimidate people into thinking that he knew it.”
Being not quite as clever as he thinks himself to be is part of the reason Becker, 54, found himself ... heading to prison to begin a two-and-a-half year sentence, after being found guilty on April 8 at Southwark Crown Court of four charges under the Insolvency Act.
...
How had it come to this? How had the man who accrued more than £38 million in prize money and sponsorship on the tennis tour, then enjoyed a lucrative second career as television pundit and hugely successful coach, ended up in such a financial mess? What on earth possessed him to think he could get away with it?
The answer was there for anyone who has watched Becker play poker. He believed he could bluff his way through it. The trouble is, when it comes to bluffing, Boris Becker is no champion. As his ex-wife Barbara’s lawyer Samuel Burstyn put it during their protracted divorce case: “If Boris had more than just charm and balls, he’d really be dangerous.”
...
Becker would often stay there after the divorce to visit his children, still on friendly terms with his ex.
“Nobody falls out with Boris for long,” says one of his many old friends. “You can’t help forgiving him.”
...
His second marriage, with Lilly Kerssenberg, the mother of his son Amadeus, collapsed amid accusations of infidelity. As one of his many friends puts it: “Boris doesn’t like to play by the rules.”
...
He lived by different rules. Now finally his bluff has been called."
(Telegraph, London)
How ‘Boris the Bomber’ crashed and burned after a life of ducking and diving
"Despite his insistent bravado, the highest position Becker ever registered was 40th. He may have fancied himself as a hotshot, but the hard truth was, at poker, he was an also-ran.
And that, according to those who know him best, is typical of Becker.
“I can describe Boris very quickly,” his former coach Nick Bollettieri once said. “He knew a lot. What he didn’t know, he thought he knew, and he would intimidate people into thinking that he knew it.”
Being not quite as clever as he thinks himself to be is part of the reason Becker, 54, found himself ... heading to prison to begin a two-and-a-half year sentence, after being found guilty on April 8 at Southwark Crown Court of four charges under the Insolvency Act.
...
How had it come to this? How had the man who accrued more than £38 million in prize money and sponsorship on the tennis tour, then enjoyed a lucrative second career as television pundit and hugely successful coach, ended up in such a financial mess? What on earth possessed him to think he could get away with it?
The answer was there for anyone who has watched Becker play poker. He believed he could bluff his way through it. The trouble is, when it comes to bluffing, Boris Becker is no champion. As his ex-wife Barbara’s lawyer Samuel Burstyn put it during their protracted divorce case: “If Boris had more than just charm and balls, he’d really be dangerous.”
...
Becker would often stay there after the divorce to visit his children, still on friendly terms with his ex.
“Nobody falls out with Boris for long,” says one of his many old friends. “You can’t help forgiving him.”
...
His second marriage, with Lilly Kerssenberg, the mother of his son Amadeus, collapsed amid accusations of infidelity. As one of his many friends puts it: “Boris doesn’t like to play by the rules.”
...
He lived by different rules. Now finally his bluff has been called."
(Telegraph, London)
Boris Becker facing deportation in prison for foreign criminals
"Disgraced tennis champion Boris Becker faces deportation from the UK as early as next year after being transferred to a prison used to lock up foreign criminals.
The three-time Wimbledon winner was reportedly moved to the lower security HMP Huntercombe in the Oxfordshire countryside from Wandsworth prison, which was two miles away from Centre Court where he burst onto the tennis scene winning the tournament aged just 17."
(Evening Standard)
"Disgraced tennis champion Boris Becker faces deportation from the UK as early as next year after being transferred to a prison used to lock up foreign criminals.
The three-time Wimbledon winner was reportedly moved to the lower security HMP Huntercombe in the Oxfordshire countryside from Wandsworth prison, which was two miles away from Centre Court where he burst onto the tennis scene winning the tournament aged just 17."
(Evening Standard)
Boris Becker: Former Wimbledon champion released after serving eight months of prison sentence
15 December 2022
https://www.bbc.com/sport/tennis/63987543
'The 55-year-old German was jailed for two and a half years in April after being found guilty of four charges under the Insolvency Act.
He was released from prison on Thursday morning and has flown to Germany.
The BBC understands Becker has been deported from the United Kingdom.
...
A Home Office spokesperson told BBC Sport: "Any foreign national who is convicted of a crime and given a prison sentence is considered for deportation at the earliest opportunity."
Becker qualifies for automatic deportation as a foreign national who does not have British citizenship and received a custodial sentence of more than 12 months.'
15 December 2022
https://www.bbc.com/sport/tennis/63987543
'The 55-year-old German was jailed for two and a half years in April after being found guilty of four charges under the Insolvency Act.
He was released from prison on Thursday morning and has flown to Germany.
The BBC understands Becker has been deported from the United Kingdom.
...
A Home Office spokesperson told BBC Sport: "Any foreign national who is convicted of a crime and given a prison sentence is considered for deportation at the earliest opportunity."
Becker qualifies for automatic deportation as a foreign national who does not have British citizenship and received a custodial sentence of more than 12 months.'
Two-time major champ Angel Cabrera (US Open 2007, Masters 2009) is still in jail:
'Initially imprisoned for assaulting, threatening and harassing a former partner between 2016 and 2018, local agencies reported he was sentenced to an additional two years and four months jail time late last year for assaulting another former girlfriend.
Cabrera has admitted he struggled with alcoholism in the years after his Masters duel with Scott, a far cry from his seemingly genial nature on the course, which included asking his son to be his caddie in the 2013 Masters.
Even still, he has told friends his intention is to resume his golf career once he’s released.'
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/golf/from- ... 5cwku.html
'"Many say prison is bad, but it's not the case, prison has done me good," Cabrera said during the trial, according to local press.'
https://www.golfchannel.com/news/angel- ... onths-jail
'Initially imprisoned for assaulting, threatening and harassing a former partner between 2016 and 2018, local agencies reported he was sentenced to an additional two years and four months jail time late last year for assaulting another former girlfriend.
Cabrera has admitted he struggled with alcoholism in the years after his Masters duel with Scott, a far cry from his seemingly genial nature on the course, which included asking his son to be his caddie in the 2013 Masters.
Even still, he has told friends his intention is to resume his golf career once he’s released.'
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/golf/from- ... 5cwku.html
'"Many say prison is bad, but it's not the case, prison has done me good," Cabrera said during the trial, according to local press.'
https://www.golfchannel.com/news/angel- ... onths-jail
