{"id":86564,"date":"2025-05-09T05:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T05:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/86564\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T05:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T05:40:10","slug":"boris-becker-pinpoints-the-area-of-rafael-nadals-game-that-is-better-than-any-other-athlete-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/86564\/","title":{"rendered":"Boris Becker pinpoints the area of Rafael Nadal’s game that is better than ‘any other athlete in history"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Boris Becker has seen some truly spectacular tennis players in his lifetime.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The German is one of the game\u2019s greatest players himself, but he also played with some of the all-time greats while witnessing those that came both before and after him.<\/p>\n

Becker has seen the game from multiple angles such as a player, coach and commentator, and his opinion carries plenty of weight in the tennis world.<\/p>\n

Therefore, it is no surprise that his recent words about 22-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal<\/a> have resonated with fans all around the world.<\/p>\n

\"PhotoPhoto by Ian Walton\/Getty Images for LaureusBoris Becker says there is an area of Rafael Nadal\u2019s game that is better than any other player<\/strong><\/p>\n

Boris Becker<\/a> has watched the last two decades of professional tennis very closely.<\/p>\n

During this time the 57-year-old made his name as a commentator and he also spent three years coaching Novak Djokovic<\/a>, who won six Grand Slam titles and 14 Masters 1000 titles under his tutelage.<\/p>\n

But it was one of the Serbian\u2019s biggest rivals in Nadal that Becker praised, by saying he something possessed something that was greater than anyone else in the game.<\/p>\n

During an interview with Spanish outlet El Mundo<\/a>, Becker said of Nadal: \u201cCarlos has more natural talent, but Rafa\u2019s heart hasn\u2019t been [matched], nor will any other athlete in history have [it].<\/p>\n

\u201cCarlos is fantastic, Novak and Roger are legends, but Rafa was on a different level of competitiveness. If you saw yourself crossing paths with Nadal in a tournament. Good luck, my friend.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"PhotoPhoto by Steve Powell\/Allsport\/Getty ImagesBoris Becker says he would change one thing about his own tennis career<\/strong><\/p>\n

Becker enjoyed an excellent career in which he was regarded as one of the entertaining players who possessed a charismatic personality that fans loved to watch.<\/p>\n

He became a multi-time Grand Slam champion and is one of the 29 players who reached the ATP<\/a> World number one ranking.<\/p>\n

Becker\u2019s most famous moment on court is perhaps when he made history by becoming the youngest Wimbledon<\/a> winner aged just 17 in 1985.<\/p>\n

This is something fans of all generations know, but in an interview with Sports Illustrated, Becker surprisingly said he would change this aspect of his career if he could.<\/p>\n

\u201cWimbledon was always like Christmas for me, the best time of the year,\u201d Becker said. \u201cIf I have a home as a sportsman, then it\u2019s Wimbledon.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut for my health, for my life, it would have been better if I had won Wimbledon later, at 21 or 22, and not at 17 and 18. Because then I wouldn\u2019t have been the child prodigy that people still see me as.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boris Becker has seen some truly spectacular tennis players in his lifetime. The German is one of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[41535,4296,79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-86564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-boris-becker","9":"tag-rafael-nadal","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114476274589404062","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}