Less than 24 hours, the news has been circulating through the global media landscape that the cups and trophies won by German tennis legend Boris Becker during and after his active days are now actually being auctioned off after he was declared bankrupt by a London court in 2017.
The dismantling of a tennis legend
This kind of thing doesn't work at all! Debts or not. Boris Becker didn't buy the trophies somewhere with his money; the trophies are the sporting honors for his outstanding achievements as an athlete. You can't take something like that away from an athlete, then you might as well tear his clothes off. This is a pure public embarrassment and a demonstration of power by the state authorities. Boris Becker was right to plead for his dignity. But this world - and the trial against Boris Becker clearly shows this - is ruled by far too many cold-hearted, malicious people in the administration and judiciary, who have no heart and put the cause and money above people. That is the lived madness of the present.
And even the date seems almost politically chosen. On July 11, 2019, the auction will take place at Wyles Hardy & Co. in Hertfordshire, north of London, three days before the Wimbledon final. It's as if the most important tennis tournament of the year is trying to dismantle and degrade three-time Wimbledon winner Boris Becker before the eyes of the global public, along the lines of "Look Boris, we're taking away everything you once won." What kind of creatures are these and how does it probably look like in Boris Becker himself. This is disproportionate. From the point of view of the athlete, this is certainly unbearable, unreasonable. Once again, he won the trophies, not bought them. You can't auction off everything a person owns, otherwise you could cut out his organs and auction them off. I don't know if his lawyers pleaded his human rights and went to the European Court of Human Rights, but they certainly should have.
The auction was supposed to have taken place a year ago, but it was stopped by an injunction after Becker sued for the violation of his dignity. He also tried to obtain legal immunity, claiming he was working for the Central African Republic and therefore could not be legally prosecuted. As a result, the court extended the insolvency status indefinitely, which voided the temporary immunity.
Now only true friends and fans can help Boris Becker save his honors from disappearing into unknown hands. They can also participate in the auction and buy his personal belongings for him.
Image: Boris Becker's trophies to go under the hammer
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