BERLIN, Feb 19 (Reuters) - The career of Boris Beecker, whose thunderous delivery earned him the nickname "Boom Boom" as a young tennis player, took him from the greatest heights of sporting ...
In the Alex Gibney documentary “Boom! Boom: The World vs. Boris Becker,” the then-active tennis player recalls a 1980s conversation with a tabloid newspaper editor who told him that only three ...
Taking its name from tennis legend Boris Becker’s nickname, this new Apple TV+ documentary covers the playing style, controversies, and life outside of tennis of the German player. Premiering at the ...
Boris Becker has accumulated quite a resume over his 55 years: three Wimbledon singles titles, including his first at 17; bankruptcy; 49 overall singles titles; failed marriages; a successful ...
Boris Becker in action in Indian Wells, Calif., Feb. 18, 1987 Photo by Andy Hayt /Sports Illustrated via Getty Images When tennis champion Boris Becker entered the room for a press conference in ...
When I came back to the U.S. after my first trip to Wimbledon two decades ago, an office-mate of mine asked me what, if anything, had surprised me about the world’s most famous tennis tournament.
More than a decade ago, Alex Gibney was preparing a documentary on Lance Armstrong when the plot changed. Armstrong was revealed, incontrovertibly, not just as a mendacious, pugnacious cheater, but ...
The documentarian tracks the tennis legend's rise and fall in a two-part Apple TV+ docuseries premiering at the Berlin Film Festival. By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television Critic Gibney’s new two-part ...
Tennis great Boris Becker says he’s grateful just to be alive as he reflected on spending time in prison in an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. Becker was released from Huntercombe prison in ...