Six-time Grand Slam winner Boris Becker said winning Wimbledon at age 17 was too much for him to handle and that unrealistic expectations affected the rest of his career and life after tennis. "I'm ...

Germany tennis great Boris Becker has blamed his early Wimbledon victory at the age of 17 for some of his later problems. "For my health, for my life, it would have been better if I had won Wimbledon ...

was born again on the grass courts of Wimbledon. “I call the seventh of July my second birthday,” Becker said of the day he won the 1985 Wimbledon final and, at 17, became the youngest man ever to win ...

It was the Wimbledon of 1985, and Boris Becker was in trouble. Down two sets to one against American Tim Mayotte in the fourth round, he rolled his ankle on the grass and went down hard. The ...