{"id":48472,"date":"2025-07-08T10:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T10:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/48472\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T10:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T10:45:09","slug":"becker-says-authentic-siegemund-has-made-history-at-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/48472\/","title":{"rendered":"Becker says authentic Siegemund &#8216;has made history&#8217; at Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German tennis icon Boris Becker has praised compatriot Laura Siegemund in glowing terms for reaching the Wimbledon quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She has made history. What I particularly like is her authentic manner,&#8221; the 57-year-old said on his joint podcast with fellow former player Andrea Petkovic.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is nothing fake about her; she doesn\u2019t overdo it with her personality. She is just the way she is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Siegemund, the last German in the singles draw, faces world number one Aryna Sabalenka from Belarus later on Tuesday at the grass-court classic.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old has never reached the singles semi-finals of a grand slam and entered her first Wimbledon quarter-final as the oldest female player in history to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Becker added: &#8220;She knows how to play on grass, which is a lost art. There are not many men or women who can play grass-court tennis anymore, but Laura can. She knows how to move on grass, how much slice and how much aggression she needs to show.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"German tennis icon Boris Becker has praised compatriot Laura Siegemund in glowing terms for reaching the Wimbledon quarter-finals.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":48473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[7936,37080,8648,37079,62,1464,67,132,68,2071],"class_list":{"0":"post-48472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-boris-becker","9":"tag-german-tennis-player","10":"tag-laura-siegemund","11":"tag-rothenbaum-tennis-stadium","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-wimbledon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114817212274771121","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}