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Boris Becker gets a parking ticket on his Porsche outside his private members' club - days after being declared bankrupt

Boris Becker was given a parking ticket on his Porsche  - 134091-5
Boris Becker was given a parking ticket on his Porsche - 134091-5

Days after being declared bankrupt, Boris Becker has been given a parking ticket on his Porsche.

The tennis champion was going to a private members' club in South Kensington.

He received the parking ticket for parking in a resident bay. 

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.

His car being given a ticket - Credit: GoffPhotos.com 
His car was ticketed while he went to a private members' club in South Kensington Credit: GoffPhotos.com

Following the bankruptcy declaration Becker’s remaining assets and property will be disposed of to pay his creditors.

There is also the possibility they will seek any earnings he makes as a commentator at next month’s Wimbledon Championships to be used as payment towards his debts.

The Bankruptcy and Companies Court heard that Becker, who has a home in Wimbledon, had offered to remortgage his 6 million property (£5.2m) in Majorca as part of a deal to pay off the debt.

John Briggs, Becker’s advocate, told the bankruptcy judge, Christine Derrett, that it was expected the deal would be approved by a Spanish bank in around a month.

"I don't want to play around in court. It is clearly in the interests (of Arbuthnot Latham) for there to be refinancing,” said Mr Briggs.

Boris Becker attends the 2017 French Tennis Open  - Credit: Bertrand Rindoff Petroff/Getty Images
Boris Becker attends the 2017 French Tennis Open Credit: Bertrand Rindoff Petroff/Getty Images

Becker, who was the youngest player to win the men's singles championship and went on to win it again in 1986 and 1989, was once estimated to be worth upwards of £100 million.

But Mr Briggs conceded: "He is not a sophisticated individual when it comes to finances.”

In 2001 he was landed with divorce and paternity settlements totalling more than £20 million to his first wife, Barbara, and Angela Ermakova, the Russian model who had his baby following an encounter in the broom cupboard of a London restaurant.

The following year Becker received a two-year suspended sentence for tax evasion and was ordered to pay £2.5 million in back tax, fines, and costs after claiming Monaco as his main residence while spending much of his time in Munich.

Then in 2011 the Dubai property development to which he had lent his name, the Boris Becker Business Tower, went bust.

And in 2012 a Spanish court judge ordered a house Becker had built for him in Majorca should be auctioned to pay a debt of £225,000 he owed a local landscape gardening company.

In a separate civil court hearing, also in Palma, a judge ordered him to hand a further £345,000 to a local building firm that complained its bills for carpentry, electrical and plumbing jobs, and the laying of a basketball court, also went unpaid.