Boris Becker may be coaching current world number one and U.S. Open winner Novak Djokovic, but many will always remember him as the youngest ever Wimbledon champ who went on to father a daughter under rather interesting circumstances.

We’ll start from the beginning for those unfamiliar with that back story, Boris’ recounting of events not painting the prettiest of pictures. It’s worth remembering before you get stuck into the account below that his wife at the time, Barbara, was pregnant and had just gone to hospital with contractions. This courtesy of The Guardian, the encounter taking place at Nobu restaurant in London in 1999 and chronicled in Becker’s autobiography:

It was then that Becker met Ms Ermakova. After five minutes of “small talk” he followed her into the “darkest corner” of the restaurant – which turned out to be the broom cupboard – and “got down to business”.

“What drove me out into the night again I don’t know,” Boris writes. Afterwards, “she went back to her friends”, and after another beer, Becker went back to his hotel.

“The following morning I drove to Barbara. We packed our 28 tennis bags and suitcases and left England.”

Becker, whose autobiography is published next week, claims that he thought nothing more of the encounter until a fax arrived eight months later at his office in Munich. The fax, from Ms Ermakova, bluntly announced that he was about to become a father.

“Naturally I remembered the evening. But for God’s sake this couldn’t be true!” he explains in his book…

With the DNA tests confirming that he was indeed the father Becker now shares joint custody of Anna Ermakova with mother Angela Ermakova. Over the weekend Anna stepped out at London’s premier Debutante’s Ball, the sixteen-year-old turning heads. Here are a few snaps from the Daily Mail:

Let’s have a look at Boris winning Wimbledon back in 1985 at age 17…

Yep, don’t think anyone will dispute the results of those DNA tests then. His broom closet romp proved to be an expensive one, Barbara separating from Boris in December 2000 and winning a $14,4 million settlement.

[sources:guardian&dailymail]