When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.

As part of the Team Becker played in major poker tournaments like the European Poker Tour. Becker won 4–6 15–13 8–10 6–2 6–2 (at that time there were no tiebreaks in the Davis Cup). He is a patron of the Elton John AIDS Foundation.

He also won five Masters 1000 series titles and eight Championship Series titles. Boris Franz Becker (born 22 November 1967) is a former World No.