Boris Becker to coach Holger Rune

Boris Becker (right with mother) (Sven Mandel, Wikimedia Commons)

According to Eurosport on Thursday, Boris Becker of Leimen, Germany, is back coaching. The six-time grand slam tennis champion is set to coach Holger Rune of Denmark, the current sixth ranked player in the world, for the rest of the 2023 tennis season.

Becker has been involved in an immense out of controversy in recent years. A year ago he spent eight months in prison for tax evasion in England, and was deported from England to his native Germany.

From 2014 to 2016, Becker coached current world number one Novak Djokovic of Serbia. In that period of time, Djokovic won five majors. He won the 2015 and 2016 Australian Open, the  2015 Wimbledon and United States Open, and 2016 French Open. Three of those grand slam singles titles came over Andy Murray of Great Britain, and the other two came over Roger Federer of Switzerland.

Rune has won four ATP titles to date. He has won the 2022 Bavarian Open in Munich (beat Botic van de Zandschulp of the Netherlands when van de Zandschulp retired in the final), the 2022 Stockholm Open (beat Stefanos Tsistsipas of Greece in the final, 6-4, 6-4), the 2022 Paris Masters (beat Djokovic 3-6, 6-3, 7-5), and the 2023 Bavarian Open (beat van de Zandschulp 6-4, 1-6, 7-6).

Rune’s most notable prior coach was Patrick Mouratoglou of France. Mouratoglou is best known for coaching Serena Williams of the United States from 2012 to 2022.

Becker was one of the best tennis players in the 1980s. His six grand slam tennis championships came at Wimbledon (1985, 1986, and 1989), the United States Open (1989), and the Australian Open (1991 and 1996). When Becker won Wimbledon in 1985, he was only 17 years old, and became the youngest Wimbledon male singles champion ever.

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