Grand slammer for Becker as he nets Wimbledon TV
Champ Boris to watch in jail
BORIS Becker will be able to watch Wimbledon from his prison cell next week – 37 years after he first won the tournament aged 17.
The German, 54, is serving a two-and-a-half year sentence for hiding £2.5million of assets in a bankruptcy fraud case. But the three-time Wimbledon winner can watch his friends John McEnroe and Andrew Castle on the BBC from HMP Huntercombe in Oxfordshire.
Foreign nationals are held there ahead of deportation. A report on HMP Huntercombe this week revealed that all well-behaved prisoners have access to a television.
Inmates also have phones in cells and can video-call loved ones, though Becker split from second wife Lilly in 2018.
Convicts are treated fairly and humanely, the Independent Monitoring Board added.
BBC commentator McEnroe, 63, said this week: “Boris is a friend of mine. This is just horrible. I want to see him.”
The pair played each other 10 times as pros before becoming colleagues at the BBC.