Boris Becker shows true feelings about Wimbledon win 40 years on

Boris Becker marked the 40th anniversary of his first Wimbledon win by posting a series of pictures on holiday in Portofino. The three-times Wimbledon winner, 57, posted the message: " Celebrating my 40th Wimbledon anniversary in Portofino #1985 Grateful. All is well in Italy."

He posted a picture of himself as a 17-year-old boy holding aloft the Wimbledon trophy after beating Kevin Curren 6-3, 6-7, 7-6, 6-4 on July 7, 1985.

He went on to win the title again in 1986 and 1989 and reached the final four other times.

Becker looked happy as he posed on his Italian holiday with his wife Lilian, 35. The pair were shown heading out for dinner and having a dip in the swimming pool.

The couple are expecting their first child together and Boris's fifth. They confirmed their happy news last week with Boris declaring 'the best is yet to come' in an Instagram post that showed Lilian sweetly cradling her baby bump.

Boris, who currently lives in Milan with Lilian, has been married twice before and has four children in total.

He welcomed his firstborn, a son named Noah Gabriel, now 30, in 1994 with his wife Barbara Feltus. Their second child, Elias Balthasar, was born in 1999.

The ex-couple separated after Boris had a one-night stand with Russian model Angela Ermakova during an encounter at London restaurant Nobu the same year.

Eight months after their encounter, he received a fax from Angela saying she was pregnant.

Boris initially denied paternity, but DNA tests proved that the child Anna (who had inherited his red hair) was his, and he made a financial settlement with her mother, while also funding an expensive divorce from Barbara.

Boris and Barbara's divorce was finalised in 2001 after agreeing a £10million settlement.

His second marriage to Dutch former model Lily Kerssenberg also ended acrimoniously when the pair split after nine years in 2018.

Boris has since found love again with his now-wife Lilian and they tied the knot in front of 150 guests during a lavish, three-day wedding in Portofino last September - but his kids Anna and Amadeus skipped the celebration.

While Noah, 30, and Elias, 25, attended the festivities in Portofino as Boris's best men, both Anna and Amadeus were missing from the wedding party.

After his 2024 wedding, Boris said Lilian - who works as a political risk manager - was the reason he 'survived' a jail sentence after he was convicted of insolvency crimes.

The former world number one spent eight months of a 30-month sentence for tax evasion in Wandsworth prison, before being released in 2022.

Describing Lilian, who remained by Boris's side through the trial, Boris told Stern magazine their relationship is 'perhaps the first partnership on equal terms' while reflecting on his chequered past and tumultuous personal life.

"No one is more important than the other,' he said. 'I need Lilian, and I hope she needs me too."

He was reportedly snubbed for this summer's Wimbledon coverage by the BBC. The tennis star was previously a regular on the BBC's coverage, but has not worked for them since he was jailed in April 2022.