Girls had never been important. I'd had a girlfriend or two and had liked them a lot but it wasn't love, because my first love was tennis.

As part of the Team Becker played in major poker tournaments like the European Poker Tour. Becker won 4–6 15–13 8–10 6–2 6–2 (at that time there were no tiebreaks in the Davis Cup). He is a patron of the Elton John AIDS Foundation.

He also won five Masters 1000 series titles and eight Championship Series titles. Boris Franz Becker (born 22 November 1967) is a former World No.