The former tennis number one Boris Becker is in the ring for the third time. He married his lovely partner Lilian de Carvalho Monteiro over the weekend. After three days of wedding celebrations, the couple said ‘I do’ on Saturday during a ceremony in Italy where they invited 150 guests.
The fifty-six-year-old German tennis player, who is separated from his new wife by 23 years, thus threw himself into marriage for the third time, so let’s keep our fingers crossed, hopefully it will be a good third time. His previous relationships with Barbara Becker and Lilly Kerssenberg did not work out. While he married the first mentioned in 1993 and the marriage lasted eight years, the second one lasted a year longer.
He and Lilian, who is from the central African island of São Tomé and Príncipe, which has a population of a quarter of a million, were married in celebrity-favourite Portofino. For example, Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker or Rod Stewart and Penny Lancaster got married in the same place.
At the same time, their relationship already went through a difficult test in the beginning, which they endured together. The three-time Wimbledon winner was supposed to serve two and a half years in 2022 for obstructing insolvency proceedings. The tennis player hid his assets and illegally transferred hundreds of thousands of euros in order to avoid paying debts after declaring bankruptcy. He served his sentence in prison in Great Britain, where he lived for a long time. He was finally released after eight months.
