To a generation of tennis fans he will always be ‘Boom Boom’ Becker, the explosive young German who won the men’s singles title at Wimbledon three times - the first in 1985 as a mere 17-year-old.

But after a sparkling tennis career, followed by one as a TV pundit for the sport, he has now added a rather less than glorious chapter to his CV, that of bankrupt.

Becker, now 49, was declared bankrupt on Wednesday over undisclosed sums of money he has owed to the London-based private bankers Arbuthnot Latham & Co, since October 2015.

And it must have come as little comfort to him that the judge who handed down the ruling reminisced over seeing him in action on Wimbledon’s Centre Court.