Boris Becker says he was ‘a nobody’ in prison as he breaks silence after release

Tennis star Boris Becker has said he was a “nobody” at the London prison where he served eight months of his sentence for bankruptcy-related crimes before being deported back to his native Germany last week.

In his first interview since his release, Becker told German broadcaster Sat.1 that he wasn’t known by his first name in prison but instead was “just a number”, adding: “They don’t give a s*** who you are.”

The sportsman suggested that it had been a “very expensive” lesson, in which he claimed to have “rediscovered the person [he] used to be”.