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 achievement aged 17 to prison at 54, and he is unsure if it could have gone any other way.
Alex Gibney's "Boom! Boom! The World vs. Boris Becker" is the work of an unashamed fan, blending court highlights with interviews with a stellar cast of tennis greats, including current number one Novak Djokovic, Ion Tiriac, the Romanian who discovered him, and rivals John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg.
"What I liked about Boris is that unlike many athletes he is a great storyteller," Gibney said. To convey that sense of drama he envisioned the film as a "docu-western", he said, setting match points to the music of Ennio Morricone.last April for concealing assets from his bankruptcy proceedings. "I didn't know what the rest of my life would look like," said Becker, who served eight months of a two-year term.
Becker, a self-described film fan with a weakness for bad-boy actors such as Sean Penn, Jack Nicholson and Marlon Brando, could hardly hide his glee at moonlighting as a film star but confessed he could no longer hit the ball as he once could. "I played it very physically and had many injuries. I can't say how many parts of my body have been replaced," said the erstwhile king of the powerful serve. "Life as a tennis-winning machine is a lot harder than it looks."Thomson Reuters
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