Above the players’ entrance at Wimbledon’s Centre Court read the words of Rudyard Kipling: “If you can meet triumph and disaster and treat those two imposters just the same”.
At Wimbledon, Boris Becker has experienced both. It is the place, he says, he was ‘born’ in winning the title for the first time as a wide-eyed 17-year-old, and one where he cannot return this summer after being deported following his release from prison in December.
