About three months after his release from prison, Boris Becker hopes that his private bankruptcy will end soon. "It's a new beginning. I'm in good negotiations with my insolvency administrator. I hope to find a good and fair solution quickly," said the German tennis icon when presenting a commercial with him as the main actor for an online window dispatch on Friday in Berlin.
"I have to earn money for that, otherwise I don't want to say much more about it," Becker commented on his situation. The cooperation with the company is his first advertising deal after returning from England shortly before Christmas. In mid-December, Becker was released after 231 days behind bars because of a special regulation for foreign prisoners. Becker has to cede part of his income to the insolvency administrator. Becker was sentenced to two and a half years in prison in London at the end of April 2022 because he had concealed assets worth millions from his insolvency administrators.
Becker vehemently rejected reports about his current financial situation. "The insolvency administrator knows the situation, I know the situation," said the three-time Wimbledon winner. "Everything else that was rumored" was untrue.
In the TV and online commercial, Becker throws money out of the window in an ironic way to draw attention to the savings potential of online window mailing. This scene is of course a reference to his own life. "It's a big responsibility in my new life, in new freedom," said Becker. "I hope you get the joke and the self-mockery," he added.
