‘He hasn’t killed anyone’: Germans react to Boris Becker’s imprisonment

Compatriots remember the tennis player's iconic moments

The imprisonment in a London jail of tennis legend Boris Becker for bankruptcy offences has triggered an outpouring of shock and disappointment in his native Germany, where he was once hailed as a national hero.

One former fan spoke for many when he said: He made mistakes for which he's rightly being punished. But maybe he'll get up again one day, just like Becker, the tennis player, so often did."