{"id":302735,"date":"2025-11-23T03:33:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T03:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/302735\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T03:33:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T03:33:15","slug":"tennis-legend-boris-becker-celebrates-arrival-of-his-fifth-child-on-his-58th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/302735\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis legend Boris Becker celebrates arrival of his fifth child on his 58th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tennis<\/a> legend Boris Becker has celebrated the arrival of his fifth child, announcing the news on his own 58th birthday.<\/p>\n

The former world No.1 is less than three years removed from spending time in a notorious British prison before being deported to Germany upon his release.<\/p>\n

Becker was found guilty of illicitly transferring large amounts of money and hiding assets after he was declared bankrupt.<\/p>\n

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But he quickly moved on with life after returning home, almost immediately returning to work as a tennis commentator and later marrying partner Lilian de Carvalho Monteiro.<\/p>\n

Becker has now announced the couple, who are 24 years apart in age, welcomed a daughter on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWelcome to the world… Zo\u00eb Vittoria Becker,\u201d he wrote on Saturday, the day of his birthday.<\/p>\n

\"LilianLilian de Carvalho Monteiro and Boris Becker in 2024. Credit: Beatriz Velasco\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

The new addition is the latest twist in the life of a sporting superstar whose love life and financial problems have generated plenty of headlines since his retirement.<\/p>\n

Much of the fortune earned from his career disappeared as a result of his tax problems, while continuing to maintain a lavish lifestyle, some dubious investments and a multimillion-dollar divorce settlement with first wife Barbara in 2001.<\/p>\n

In 1999 he fathered a child with a Russian model Angela Ermakova after a brief sexual encounter in London\u2019s Nobu restaurant while Barbara was pregnant with their second child.<\/p>\n

In addition to those three children, Becker had another son with his second wife Lilly in 2010.<\/p>\n

In 2018 Becker claimed diplomatic immunity from his bankruptcy proceedings by saying he had been appointed sports envoy to the European Union for Central African Republic and had received a passport at an official ceremony.<\/p>\n

Becker had never visited the country, whose foreign minister later said the passport was a \u201cclumsy fake\u201d and launched an enquiry.<\/p>\n

In 2022 Lilly claimed she was \u201cvery much still\u201d Becker\u2019s wife despite reports they had split four years later and his new relationship with Lilian.<\/p>\n

\u201cEstranged wife as that may be, but we\u2019re still very much married and have been since we went our separate ways,\u201d Lilly said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was from the beginning intense and a complete, true love story. Everyone who knows us knows this.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not that I don\u2019t want to get a divorce. We should handle our business at the right time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Breaking from his work as a commentator, Becker coached Novak Djokovic to six grand slam triumphs and several more titles from 2013-16.<\/p>\n

\"BeckerBecker coached Djokovic to six grand slam titles. Credit: AAP<\/p>\n

After his release from Wandsworth Prison, Becker said the first time being locked in his cell was \u201cthe loneliest moment I\u2019ve ever had in life\u201d.<\/p>\n

In an autobiography released this year Becker detailed life in jail.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrying to shave with the stubby little razor they had given me, I ended up with nicks on my cheeks and stabby slashes under my chin and down my neck,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cSoon after, I was summoned to a medical with the doctor who asked if I was self-harming. Why would I? My mind was only focused on doing things to protect myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Becker added drugs were commonplace within the prison walls.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the days went by, I learned that you could get anything you wanted in prison. Alcohol was easy. People made it themselves with sugar, fruit and other things you could buy legitimately with your allowance from the canteen \u2026 then there were the drugs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWeed, pills, heroin. Sometimes they came in the prison version of internal mail. Up the back passage. Sometimes it was the wardens \u2013 someone taking a cut, someone with a weakness or a problem left vulnerable to a bribe.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also recalled the physical hardship of daily life in Wandsworth.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome days those showers would be icy cold. You never knew why. It was just another unpleasant fact in a day you don\u2019t control,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cDirt all over the floor, on the tiles. I was lent a pair of flip-flops. Boris, wear them, because we don\u2019t know who was there before. The first time in my life I ever showered in flip-flops.\u201d<\/p>\n

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