When boy became king
Becker was just 17 years and 227 days old when he became the first German to win the Wimbledon men's singles crown.
He was too young to legally drive in his homeland, he cut his own mop of ginger hair and his mother used to send him toothpaste because she was worried about his teeth.
When the boy from the small rural town of Leimen walked through the gates of London's Queen's Club to take part in the traditional Wimbledon warm-up event in early June, he was just another young hopeful who a week earlier had lost in the second round of the French Open to Mats Wilander.
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