Former world number one Boris Becker has claimed that Wimbledon is partly to blame for his spending a lengthy spell in jail. The 57-year-old spent eight months in prison after being found guilty of hiding a whopping sum of £2.5 million in assets to avoid paying the debts.

Becker was initially handed 30 months in jail but was released after just eight months. He returned to Germany but was not allowed to come back to the United Kingdom until 2025. That was not the only setback that Becker faced after his conviction. He was recently snubbed by the BBC in the broadcast of Wimbledon, as well, even though he was free to work.

Becker, since then, has written a book about the experiences of his life, where he surprisingly blamed the 1985 Wimbledon triumph for his conviction of tax fraud. Becker

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