His trademark is the baseball cap, which it upside down on his head bears. He says it himself, at least, one speaks it depends on what for him was striking. Actually, it is something else that people who are with him come into contact, immediately falls into the eye.

The young man from whom the speech is called Benjamin Becker and is also still active tennis professional. Currently even a good, one of the top 50 of his profession worldwide. The position 44 in the rankings, the 26jährige Saar countries currently. This alone, however, it would hardly make it special. It is the surname, one involuntarily to his namesake Boris recalls, the best and most popular German tennis player of all time. “Meanwhile, I expect already that I am at tournaments to be addressed Boris,” said Benjamin Becker recently at a tournament. That he has developed, and finally he succeeded the late breakthrough.

In autumn last year, played the hitherto unknown student of the Economic and Financial Sciences in Germany’s national headlines when he was at the U.S. Open in the third round to Andre Agassi met. The Americans had previously announced that this is his last tournament on the tour will be. Since the match against Agassi Becker lost henceforth dominated headlines such as’ B. Becker’s career ended Agassis “the first page of the newspapers. That the husband of Steffi Graf in poor physical condition was even ready to be injected, interested under the weight of this headline no more.

Overnight Benjamin Becker was known, created a homepage. His articles have been tennis at online stores offered to autograph cards were hot cakes. Were it not for the surname, perhaps the incident would not have been so perceived. However, so she was possibly the starting gun to a great career but still in the light of the public.