April 2022 marked a seismic jolt in the tennis world when former Wimbledon champion Boris Becker was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for concealing £2.5 million in assets and loans to evade debts. The man who once electrified the world at 17, becoming Wimbledon’s youngest men’s singles champion in 1985, confessed, “It was a very brutal … a very, very different experience to what you see in the movies, what you’ve heard from stories.” Now, as the dust settles, the German icon recalls one steadfast ally through it all: Novak Djokovic .

Boris Becker’s voice carried the weight of both pain and gratitude when he recently appeared on the High Performance podcast. The question was simple: what role did Novak Djokovic play when Becker was behind bars? But the German legend

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