WIMBLEDON, EnglandAt times, it really does seem as if it’s been 10 years since Boris Becker burst onto the tennis scene, running and diving all over the grass courts to become the first unseeded player to win Wimbledon, at the tender age of 17.
July 6, 1995
Becker, 27, is the oldest of the four men left in the tournament. And while Goran Ivanisevic, Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi, Becker’s opponent Friday, have all played in the finals before, Becker is the only one to have appeared there during the 1980s. All of a sudden he seems like part of another era. His first championship came at the expense of Kevin Curren, his second, in 1986 came against Ivan Lendl and he beat Stefan Edberg in 1989 for his third.
Becker is only 20 months younger than Stefan Edberg, whom he met in the Wimbledon final for three straight years beginning in 1988. Yet Edberg has gone by the wayside in the second round the last two years and even he sounded doubtful that he can ever put together another Grand Slam run. Becker
see BECKER, page 11
Advertisement
Advertisement
