Boris Becker and wife Lilian: tennis legend tells of pregnancy

The new episode of the “Becker Petkovic” podcast is actually about Wimbledon. In the current edition of the legendary tennis tournament, most fans of the German tennis icons are likely to be less listening than with the wonderful news from Becker’s private life, which are also treated in the episode. After it was recently rumored that his wife Lilian de Carvalho Monteiro is probably pregnant: “Yes, my wife is pregnant.”

In the new episode “Holy lawn! The big Wimbledon preview”, Becker’s podcast partner Andrea Petković (37) comes directly to the beautiful news. “I thought: Wimbledon is just around the corner. This is the absolute major event and then I read yesterday: Boris, you become Papa! Congratulations from me and your magical wife Lilian.”

“Yes, thank you very much. It is also an honor for me to confirm this in our joint podcast: Yes, my wife is pregnant – in the fourth month,” says Becker. “It will be a Christmas present – or in mid -December and if God wants. You know that you always have to pray a bit and go to church that all of this stays.”

It was a challenge to “keep this secret in recent months because unfortunately – or fortunately, I am a public person”. Becker is “persecuted at every turn, but you have to wait for the first three months so that everything, I say, stays and is healthy and the woman is doing well.”

According to the circumstances, his wife is doing well again. The first few months, when you are pregnant for the first time, you always feel a bit, well, not perfect. But that’s normal. ” His partner is “healthy, she is cheerful and now, I say, hopefully the quieter part will continue”. The two were “incredibly looking forward to our first child together”.

Divided a meaningful contribution on Sunday. In a video, wife Lilian, whom he married last year, was to see with a clearly visible tummy. “A little miracle is on the way … The best thing is still ahead of us,” he wrote.

Boris Becker is already the father of four children. He has the sons Noah (31) and Elias (25) with his first wife Barbara Becker, with whom the Wimbledon winner was married from 1993 to 2001. Son Amadeus (15) comes from a marriage to Lilly Becker. Becker’s encounter with Angela Ermakova also comes his daughter Anna Ermakova (25).