When boy became king
However the freedom of anonymity he enjoyed during that week in west London was to be brief. After blasting his way past Pat Cash, Paul McNamee and Johan Kriek to win his first ATP tour title, Becker arrived at Wimbledon.
A fortnight later Becker climaxed a breathtaking rise to prominence by beating Kevin Curren 6-3, 6-7, 7-6, 6-4 in three hours 18 minutes of history-making drama.
Curren could only applaud his prodigious conqueror.
"I should have had the advantage. Being older...being on Centre Court...Maybe he was too young to know about all that stuff," he said afterwards.
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