In our exclusive first extract of Boris Becker’s unflinching account of his life in prison, serialised in the Daily Mail yesterday, the tennis star revealed his fears of being set upon by his inmates. And in today’s instalment, those inmates turn out to be a people smuggler, a cocaine kingpin and a killer from Albania…
There was a way of behaving in the locker rooms when I was playing tennis. Whenever another player was in there, you had to show your masculine side, put on a front, show no weakness. In my early days, John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors led the way. They were convinced this was their locker room and nobody else’s. I saw something in them that I recognised within myself and I let it free.
