{"id":26260,"date":"2025-09-17T03:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T03:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/26260\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T03:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T03:31:08","slug":"from-153mph-serves-on-centre-court-to-cocaine-prison-and-christianity-the-crazy-life-of-roscoe-tanner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/26260\/","title":{"rendered":"From 153mph serves on Centre Court to cocaine, prison and Christianity \u2013 the crazy life of Roscoe Tanner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Former Wimbledon finalist, at peace with no longer being a pleaser, is on a good path after rediscovering Christianity\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bjorn Bjorg of Sweden and Roscoe Tanner of the United States before their Men's Singles Final match of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championship on 7 July 1979 at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, England. (Photo by Tony Duffy\/Getty Images)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/60175871-793a-4b7f-86e9-898c1f49c0eb.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Bjorn Bjorg of Sweden and Roscoe Tanner of the United States before their Men&#8217;s Singles Final match of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championship on 7 July 1979 at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, England. (Photo by Tony Duffy\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Remember that famous Rudyard Kipling line about treating triumph and disaster the same? The one that\u2019s written in foot-high lettering above the players\u2019 entrance to Wimbledon\u2019s Centre Court?<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Well, if there is one man whose life has faced the Kipling test, it is Roscoe Tanner, the 1979 Wimbledon finalist. A drama in several acts, Tanner\u2019s story feels like a movie script as it moves from early fame \u2013 and chronic irresponsibility \u2013 to a dramatic reversal of fortune when he is locked up in a German jail for evading his debts. As we will see, there are many striking parallels with fellow tennis champion and ex-convict Boris Becker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Wimbledon finalist, at peace with no longer being a pleaser, is on a good path after rediscovering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,898,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-26260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}