TENNIS PLAYER

Boris Becker

1967 - Today

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Boris Franz Becker (German pronunciation: [ˈboːʁɪs ˈbɛkɐ] ; born 22 November 1967) is a German former world No. 1 tennis player. Becker is the youngest-ever winner of the gentleman's singles Wimbledon Championships title, a feat he accomplished aged 17 in 1985. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Boris Becker has received more than 7,137,278 page views. His biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 68 in 2019). Boris Becker is the 10th most popular tennis player (up from 26th in 2019), the 809th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,391st in 2019) and the most popular German Tennis Player.

Boris Becker is a former tennis player from Germany. He won three out of six Wimbledon titles and one out of two US Open titles. He is most famous for being the youngest player to win the Wimbledon title at the age of 17.

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  • 7.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 71

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, Boris Becker ranks 10 out of 1,569. Before him are René Lacoste, Margaret Court, Billie Jean King, Ilie Năstase, Fred Perry, and Jimmy Connors. After him are Roger Federer, Martina Navratilova, Suzanne Lenglen, Steffi Graf, Arthur Ashe, and Ivan Lendl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Boris Becker ranks 16. Before him are Sung Jae-gi, Kane, Mikheil Saakashvili, Pamela Anderson, Mark Rutte, and Carla Bruni. After him are Kazuyoshi Miura, Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, Michael Jai White, Akshay Kumar, Benicio del Toro, and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Boris Becker ranks 809 out of 7,253. Before him are Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1629), Christina of Holstein-Gottorp (1573), Frank Wedekind (1864), Herschel Grynszpan (1921), Hugo Sperrle (1885), and Agnes of Merania (1175). After him are Sabine Bergmann-Pohl (1946), Ernest, Elector of Saxony (1441), Michael Praetorius (1571), Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse (1504), Walter Hallstein (1901), and Albert of Brandenburg (1490).

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS In Germany

Among tennis players born in Germany, Boris Becker ranks 1. After him are Steffi Graf (1969), John McEnroe (1959), Gottfried von Cramm (1909), Michael Stich (1968), Cilly Aussem (1909), Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling (1908), Alexander Zverev (1997), Angelique Kerber (1988), Oscar Kreuzer (1887), Helga Niessen Masthoff (1941), and Heinrich Schomburgk (1885).

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