{"id":7033,"date":"2022-05-03T12:58:28","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T12:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=7033"},"modified":"2022-05-03T12:58:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T12:58:28","slug":"boris-becker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=7033","title":{"rendered":"BORIS BECKER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Game, Set and Match!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> Boris Becker, a two time Wimbledon champion, will serve the next two and one half years as a guest of Her Majesty the Queen in Pentonville prison after being convicted of bankruptcy fraud for failure to disclose the totality of his assets.\u00a0 \u00a0He had been convicted of similar charges in Germany in 2002.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s a picture of the former tennis champ at Wimbledon that I snapped using legacy equipment from a front row seat in much happier times back in the day.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?attachment_id=7034\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7034\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7034\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/boris-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1998\" height=\"2107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/boris-1.jpg 1998w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/boris-1-284x300.jpg 284w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/boris-1-768x810.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/boris-1-971x1024.jpg 971w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1998px) 100vw, 1998px\" \/><\/a><strong>Boris disputes a call. A precursor of things to come???<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sad end to a great tennis career.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game, Set and Match! Boris Becker, a two time Wimbledon champion, will serve the next two and one half years as a guest of Her Majesty the Queen in Pentonville prison after being convicted of bankruptcy fraud for failure to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=7033\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-people","category-touring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7035,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7033\/revisions\/7035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}