When boy became king
Never had an unseeded player won the most coveted title in tennis. Never had a boy so young triumphed on the sport's most revered stage.
"With the passion of a Friedrich Nietzsche or Ludwig van Beethoven," wrote Time magazine, "this unseeded boy from Leimen turned the tennis establishment of Wimbledon on its head."
The British press were less wordy but no less impressed by the incredible achievement.
"King Boris the First," the tabloid press gasped. "Boy King".
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