Weekend Edition: Boris Becker - from Wimbledon glory to serving time - The Sports Agents
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🗓️ 3 October 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Three-time Wimbledon champion Boris Becker joins Gabby and Mark on The Sports Agents to talk about his time in prison.
The former world number one was sentenced to over two years in jail after going bankrupt. So how did he go from tennis glory to prison? What was it like living with murderers and drug dealers? And how did he feel watching Wimbledon from a jail cell?
Plus, we look back at the best bits from this week's shows about England winning the Rugby World Cup, Europe storming to Ryder Cup glory and the fight to become one of football's top managers.
Boris Becker's memoir, “Inside: Winning, Losing & Starting Again” is out now .
If you have been affected by any of the issues raised in this podcast help is available at Samaritans (call 116 123 or visit www.samaritans.org), Prison Reform Trust (https://prisonreformtrust.org.uk) and other charities.
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| 0:00.0 | You are a leaf drifting along on a warm evening breeze. |
| 0:08.0 | The other leaves like Giuseppe or Carol from work, |
| 0:16.0 | look at you and think, |
| 0:19.0 | Mama Mia, |
| 0:24.0 | I wish I was that guy. |
| 0:29.4 | As the sun dips into the horizon, |
| 0:33.9 | you settle upon the surface of a sparkling mountain stream. |
| 0:40.0 | A fluffy hotel towel shaped like a swan drifts past, |
| 0:43.1 | followed by an actual swan. |
| 0:51.6 | And that is what drinking water filtered by Laika is Laika. |
| 0:54.9 | Ciao to the good stuff. |
| 0:56.9 | Alvadirici to the rest. |
| 1:06.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 1:09.0 | Boris Becker won Wimbledon at 17. |
| 1:12.9 | At 54, a bankrupt Becker went to prison. |
| 1:16.6 | The former World Number One joins us today on the sports agents. |
| 1:28.6 | The former tennis star Boris Becker is behind bars this morning after being jailed for two and a half years for hiding hundreds of thousands of pounds in assets to avoid paying his debts. From Grand Slams to the |
| 1:35.3 | slamer tennis champion Boris Becker is behind bars tonight. We've got some breaking news. Three-time |
| 1:40.9 | Women's and Champion Boris Becker, a sentence has been handed down. |
| 1:46.2 | I was scared shitless, okay? They put me in a really small cell, those first 24 hours, |
| 1:52.0 | 22 hours inside the cell. Everybody's screaming at night because they're scared or they |
| 1:57.7 | have themselves or they want to get some attention. So, yes, I was |
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