"During the presentation his tone wavers between that of an untouchable sporting god ("I have no limits") and a poor wretch cramped in a prison alongside hardened criminals ("we are all equal"). But one central message stands out; Becker doesn't see himself as an intentional perpetrator, but above all as a victim of a harsh British justice system, of a conspiracy he doesn't explain in detail, and of his sporting success."
"That first Wimbledon title Becker repeatedly references tennis. The distant screaming of prisoners is an "endless rally between opponents who cannot see each other yet still want to destroy each other." The tennis court, he writes, is the same everywhere and offers "certainty in the form of straight lines and white-painted right angles." In prison, however, such certainties do not exist."
Boris Becker arrived at the Delphi Filmpalast with his pregnant wife Lilian, son Noah, sister Sabine and her daughters and was mobbed by fans and photographers. His presentation alternated between declarations of invincibility and expressions of vulnerability, framing himself as both a sporting god and a cramped prisoner. Becker insists he was not an intentional perpetrator but a victim of a harsh British justice system, an unexplained conspiracy, and the fallout of sporting success. Prison life is described as frightening and alien, devoid of the certainties found on a tennis court. Becker traces his rise and later troubles back to winning Wimbledon at age 17 and emphasizes the disorienting contrast between the ordered world of tennis and the chaos of incarceration.
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