The three-time Wimbledon winner, Boris Becker, will be deported from the U.K after being released from prison. Check out why he was in jail.

Boris Becker : Released from Jail | why was in jail

Boris Becker was born in Leimen, a town in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, the son of Elvira and Karl-Heinz Becker.

Boris Becker : Released from Jail | why was in jail

Named after the Russian poet and novelist Boris Pasternak, young Becker was raised Catholic.

His father Karl-Heinz, an architect, founded a tennis centre in Leimen, where Becker learned to play tennis. He received his secondary education at Helmholtz-Gymnasium in Heidelberg.

His mother Elvira Becker, née Pisch was from the Moravian village of Kunewald (Kunín).

In 1974, Becker joined TC Blau-Weiß Leimen tennis club and began training under Boris Breskvar. By 1977, he was a member of the junior team of the Baden Tennis Association.

Released from Jail 

British news agency Press Association reports that German tennis legend Boris Becker has been freed from prison after serving eight months of his sentence and now faces deportation from the UK.

The 55-year-old German, who has lived in Britain since 2012, was released on Thursday morning ahead of his deportation, PA reported, without citing sources.

Boris Becker : Released from Jail | why was in jail

The three-time Wimbledon champion was jailed for 30 months in April for hiding 2.5 million pounds ($3.1 million) of assets and loans to avoid paying his debts.

Becker “has served his sentence and is not subject to any penal restrictions in Germany,” his lawyer, Christian-Oliver Moser, said in a statement.

Moser did not provide any further details about Becker’s location in Germany and said that any requests for interviews “will not be answered.”

Becker was released from a UK prison after serving just eight months of his sentence and had been due to be deported from the UK, PA Media reported on Thursday.

“Any foreign national who is convicted of a crime and given a prison sentence is considered for deportation at the earliest opportunity,” the Home Office said in a statement, according to Reuters, while declining to comment directly on Becker’s case.

Boris Becker, originally from Germany, has lived in London since 2012 but does not have British citizenship.

Why Boris Becker was in jail 

Former Wimbledon champion Boris Becker has been jailed for two and a half years for hiding £2.5m worth of assets and loans to avoid paying debts.

Also the 54-year-old six-time Grand Slam champion was found guilty of four charges under the Insolvency Act.

Boris Becker : Released from Jail | why was in jail

The case centred on Becker’s bankruptcy in June 2017 resulting from an unpaid loan of more than £3m on his luxury estate in Mallorca, Spain.

Referring to Becker’s previous conviction for tax evasion in Germany in 2002, she told the former world number one: “You did not heed the warning you were given and the chance you were given by the suspended sentence and that is a significant aggravating factor…

“You have… sought to distance yourself from your offending and your bankruptcy.

“While I accept your humiliation as part of the proceedings, there has been no humility.”

By Rishabh

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