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Cad

What on earth ist a cad??? 81.154.4.105

A "cad" (AKA "bounder" AKA "scoundrel" AKA "rogue") is a "man whose behavior is unprincipled or dishonorable". [1]

See James Hewitt.

chocolateboy 18:05, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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Cad

What on earth ist a cad??? 81.154.4.105

A "cad" (AKA "bounder" AKA "scoundrel" AKA "rogue") is a "man whose behavior is unprincipled or dishonorable". [2]

See James Hewitt.

chocolateboy 18:05, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

When a lawyer offends somebody in a case, he has to be punished for that, pubicly retire his words, apologize and pay indemnation, when demanded.

The text about this item in this article will be made more encyclopedic.VKing 12:17, 16 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Career Prize Money

How precisely is the Career Prize Money defined? The amount was changed in a recent edit, and the BBC sport entry referenced at the bottom of the article has yet another figure. Is there an official prize money count?--GrafZahl 16:17, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nicknames

I remember him as "Bonking Boris" not "Boom Boom" or "Baron von Slam". Not sure if this is derogatory though.Pgr94 09:40, 12 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Relation with Sabrina Setlur

This is not mentioned in the article, but Sabrina's article mentions Boris Becker. Can someone familiar with their relation add some information here?

Was there one?

The article mentionedonly says that there were rumours in (a certain kind of) press about that. VKing 06:05, 2 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Weak?

"As a youngster, he was often the weakest of the boys in the area's tennis program and therefore, often ended-up playing the strongest of the girls in the program –- another future star, Steffi Graf –- in training matches."

Are their any official prooves of this? It's rather unbelievable, that a player, who at seventeen wins Wimbledon mainly thanks to his canon-like service, not long before was the weakest of the boys. VKing 17:27, 23 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Taken this part away for a great deal. Now the doubt remains, whether it is true at all. If this article would content information about a fan-club or such, it could be asked indirectly or directly to the ex-player himself. VKing 17:21, 30 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Think this can better be removed completely, untill reliable sources are mentioned. VKing 02:40, 6 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Agreement

If there is infomation available about that, it would be interesting, to ad in the text, the reason(s)(if there were any) why the prenuptual agreement was ignored, and a pay-off, about 8,9,or 10 times as high was sentenced. VKing 06:18, 2 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Garagist

Planning to add something about ownership of three Mercedes-garages in former Eastern-Germ., but not shure, whether this is still the case. Apart from that planning to add: "During a great deal of his carreer, he was living in Monaco" . (But exact years?). VKing 02:34, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Stockholm 1994

Stockholm 1994 was one of his most remarkable tournaments. He managed to defeat world's ranking#1,#2, and #3 in that same tournament;Goran Ivanisevic, Pete Sampras, and Andre Agassi. An event that is unique in tennis history. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mikerolli (talk • contribs) 09:12, 31 August 2007 (UTC) mikerolli 09:30, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Pokerstars

He has something to do with pokerstars.com now, why or how, I have no idea? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.95.171.31 (talk) 03:14, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It is mentioned in the article. 2005 (talk) 03:44, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Notoriously ineffective on clay?

Whilst was undoubtably his worst service, is this phrase fair? Is three semi-finals in five years at Roland Garros notoriously ineffective? --MartMatt (talk) 23:14, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fair or not, the "notoriously" adverb is uncited and, therefore, POV. Tennis expert (talk) 23:43, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Request for wider input on discussion at WikiProject Tennis

There is a long, ongoing discussion at WP:Tennis about the tournament tables found in tennis articles on English-language Wikipedia (e.g., this type of table). The discussion is about whether the "official sponsored name" of a tournament - such as Pacific Life Open - or another tournament name without the sponsor - such as Indian Wells Masters - must be used in those articles. Please join the discussion here. Thanks. Tennis expert (talk) 09:19, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Engagment

I disagree that a brief note of his highest personal news of note is unwarranted in the intro. I've shortened it to A) reflect a more subservient role to the tennis in the opening paragragh, and B)to reduce duplication of expansion of the story furtehr down. Alonsornunez (talk) 04:51, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

POV-section

Please neutralise, at least, the following:

"...Becker took the sports world by storm..."
"Becker unexpectedly lost..."
"1989 was possibly the pinnacle of Becker's career."
"comparing up the raw, passionate Becker to the level-headed, suave Stich"
"Becker delivered one of the most humorous victory speeches in recent tennis history..."

The Rambling Man (talk) 11:39, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Is this something you can't do? Yeah, it needs to be done, but by the time you posted this "please do the following", I believe you could've just solved the problem. Tennis expert (talk) 11:44, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm leaving it to those who have expertise in the subject matter in case I make errors. The Rambling Man (talk) 11:50, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Longest match?

As I know the longest match was the Santoro-Clement with 6:33. Becker- McEnroe was officially 6:22. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/tennis/french/2004-05-25-santoro-clement_x.htm http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/5059822/ http://www.varioustopics.com/tennis/996922-santoro-clement-longest-match-ever-3.html