So, Bankrupt Becker's Not an African Diplomat, After All

This battle's going on longer than his tennis career.

Tennis legend Boris Becker was really good on the court, which means he made lotsa dosh.

Seems like dude was even better at spending more dosh than he had.

So he's been in another court ever since, trying to avoid the game-set-match thing.

 

To absolutely no one's surprise, the British authorities are leaving him with no rational way outta his predicament.

Give Becker full marks, then, for thinking outside the box.

Dude claimed he had diplomatic immunity because he was a cultural attaché for the Central African Republic.

 

Clever? Not.

There's more to being recognized as a nation's diplomatic agent than the nation in question saying something to that effect.

This is a discussion that very few sports fans would want to have, and thanks to how Becker went about becoming a diplomat, no one has to have it.

 

Seems like the German partymeister has a fake Central African Republic passport. What's more, the CAR's president claims he never made any such appointment.

When asked, Becker claimed a CAR ambassador gave the passport to him.

 

Boris needs to find that Lord Mayor.

Before anyone else -- on two continents now -- finds him.