John McEnroe said he wants to visit Boris Becker in prison duringWimbledon .- Becker was sentenced to 2.5 years in jail in April for hiding assets and loans to avoid paying debts.
John McEnroe revealed he plans on visiting the disgraced
Becker, 54, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail in April after being found guilty of hiding $3.1 million worth of assets and loans to avoid paying debts.
Prior to his sentencing, he had worked as a pundit for BBC alongside McEnroe, where the two had become close friends. McEnroe is part of the BBC's Wimbledon 2022 lineup.
"Boris is a friend of mine, this is just horrible, I don't know where he is, I think they moved him somewhere, I want to see him if I possibly can, if he's willing to see people or can," McEnroe told reporters on Tuesday, according to The Telegraph.
Becker is currently residing in HMP Huntercombe in Oxfordshire, a prison for foreign nationals. He is expected to serve half his sentence then be deported, The Guardian reported.
"I just feel terrible," McEnroe added, according to The Times of England. "He's one of the great players that ever played the game, and I know it meant a lot to Boris.
"He's been going through a lot for a long time. He kept telling me it's going to be OK, it's under control. That's Boris. He was just a very confident player on the court. But sometimes you're not necessarily a great investor, you don't take care of your money off the court as well."
McEnroe and Becker are widely regarded as two of the greatest men's tennis players of all time, having won 13 Grand Slam titles between them — McEnroe, 7, and Becker, 6.
They faced off on court 10 times from 1985 to 1992, with Becker coming out on top on eight occasions.
In 2002, just three years after retiring, Becker was handed a two-year suspended prison sentence for tax evasion in his native Germany, according to The Guardian.
In 2017, he was then declared bankrupt by the Bankruptcy and Companies Court in London, owing creditors almost $60 million resulting from an unpaid loan of more than $3.5 million on his luxury estate in Mallorca, Spain, according to the BBC.
Becker was legally obliged to disclose all of his assets so that his trustee could distribute available funds to his creditors, but in March, he was legally charged with failing to hand over his trophies to debt collectors.
He went on trial at Southwark Crown Court in April, and jurors found him guilty of removal of property, two counts of failing to disclose estate, and concealing debt, according to the BBC.