Tennis Ace Boris Becker Recalls Prison Loneliness, Friends

Former tennis player Boris Becker arrives at Southwark Crown Court in London on April 29, 2022. (Frank Augstein/AP Photo) Fresh out of prison for bankruptcy offenses, tennis great Boris Becker is heading for the limelight again. German broadcaster SAT.1 was due Tuesday to air the first interview with Becker since his release, quoting the 55-year-old saying his jail time had taught him “a hard lesson, a very expensive one, a very painful one.”

BERLIN—Tennis great Boris Becker tearfully recounted the moment the door of his single-occupancy cell at Britain’s notorious Wandsworth prison closed for the first time, speaking publicly after serving eight months for bankruptcy offenses.