Friday November 9, 2007
Becker to contest custody of daughter
BERLIN: Former world number one Boris Becker has revealed he will launch a legal bid to obtain custody of his seven-year-old daughter Anna, according to a report in the German press yesterday.
Becker had a short liason with the girl's mother Angela Ermakova in 1999, both mother and daughter regularly appear in glossy magazines in Germany, while the retired tennis star has two sons from a previous marriage.
“I have a custody order for my two boys, but not unfortunately for my daughter. Believe me, I will fight for the right,” Becker told German weekly magazine Stern.
“It is not something I am doing for publicity, it is something I want to do for the Becker family.
“My daughter deserves to see her brothers and her father regularly,” said the 39-year-old.
The three-time Wimbledon winner was confirmed as Anna's father in 2001 after he contested paternity following a brief, but now infamous, liaison with Ermakova in the cupboard of a London restaurant in 1999. – AFP
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