The three-time All-England champion is set to return to the ATP tour as Holger Rune’s new coach, less than a year after he was deported from the UK.
Boris Becker says he is returning to the tennis tour as the coach of spiky young Danish player Holger Rune, but he will be unable to attend next year’s Wimbledon because of his conviction for tax evasion.
It is not clear how long it will be before Becker is allowed to return to the UK, but post-conviction travel bans can last for a decade and it is understood that Becker’s deportation order would last for 10 years, because his sentence was fewer than four, unless revoked for ‘exceptional circumstances’. Certainly, Rune would not be able to bring Becker with him for next summer’s grasscourt tournaments at Queen’s Club or Wimbledon.
As with Mouratoglou and Rune, this wasn’t a nuts-and-bolts technical role. Becker offered broad-spectrum guidance while – for most of their time together – Slovakia’s Marian Vajda led the on-court sessions.“I met Holger when he was 15, 16 years old,” said Becker, of the world No.8. “That was at the ATP Finals, when I was still coaching Novak Djokovic. Holger was our training partner. That’s how long I’ve known him and his mother. We have always stayed in conversation.
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