Boris Becker will be able to watch Wimbledon from his prison cell next week – 37 years after he first won the tournament aged 17.
The German, 54, is serving a two-and-a-half year sentence for hiding £2.5million of assets in a bankruptcy fraud case. But the three-time Wimbledon winner can watch his friends John McEnroe and Andrew Castle on the BBC from HMP Huntercombe in Oxfordshire.
Foreign nationals are held there ahead of deportation. A report on HMP Huntercombe this week revealed that all well-behaved prisoners have access to a television.
Inmates also have phones in cells and can video-call loved ones, though Becker split from second wife Lilly in 2018.
Convicts are treated fairly and humanely, the Independent Monitoring Board added.
BBC commentator McEnroe, 63, said this week: “Boris is a friend of mine, this is just horrible. I want to see him.”
The pair played each other 10 times as pros before becoming colleagues at the BBC.
Meanwhile, Becker's 12-year-old son Amadeus is struggling to come to terms with his dad being sent to jail, the tennis legend's ex-wife Lilly has explained.
Last month, she told Piers Morgan on Talk TV: "I completely broke down. I couldn't believe what I was hearing because I was convinced he was going to get off a little bit lighter. I had to keep it together, I do not know how I did it.
"I was prepared. I kept him [Amadeus] out of school. He was upstairs. I had to break it down to him. We as a family had purposely not spoken about the trial. I had no choice but to break his heart last Sunday. I don't wish this upon anybody.
"It was the hardest thing I have had to do. He couldn't grasp it and still can't. It breaks my heart."
