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Boris Becker will have to rely on the charity of others after his release from a two-and-a-half year jail sentence for hiding £2.5m worth of assets and loans to avoid paying his debts, his lawyer says.
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The 54-year-old former world number one tennis player was declared bankrupt in June 2017, owing creditors almost £50million over an unpaid loan of more than £3million on his estate in Mallorca.
Christian Schommers, who wrote a biography on tennis legend Boris Becker, said: 'Will he survive mentally, being in prison for a year and three months? It's really, really bad!'
Judge Deborah Taylor will sentence six-time Grand Slam champion Becker at Southwark Crown Court.