BERLIN : 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.'It's very difficult to win Wimbledon at 17
BERLIN : 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.
"You expect world champions in a sport to be like everyone else but we aren't," he told a news conference."To have that mindset … in real life that's a problem." "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.
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