Boris Becker
Boris Becker comments on the appearance of Marton Fucsovics' fiancé live on the air. For this he reaps criticism again and again.
Tennis icon Boris Becker comments on the tennis hits from Wimbledon live for British television. A misplaced analysis turned into a boomerang on Wednesday.
During the BBC broadcast of the quarter-final match between Novak Djokovic and Marton Fucsovics (the “Djoker” won in three sets), the 53-year-old let himself be carried away to a superficial judgment of the Hungarian's fiancée. Anett Böszörményi was in the stands to support Fucsovics.
Becker about Böszörményi: “They say that you have the most beautiful women in Hungary. I don't know, but she is definitely very pretty.”
The “Women in Sport and Perception Agency” criticized Becker in a statement for the newspaper “Daily Mail” in the person of chairwoman Stephanie Hilborne: “When two men feel comfortable talking about women, and on live TV, that shows that much remains to be done. “
The BBC poses to its experts that he made a “lighthearted comment that shouldn't be offensive”. Becker did not offend the young woman. What bothers Hilborne and other critics is that the former world-class player reduces women to their looks. Her comment: “Shouldn't we encourage the next generation of girls to play sports instead of talking about what women look like?”
It's not the first time that Becker has hit the headlines for a thoughtless remark about a woman's appearance. Just last year he judged the referee Marijana Veljovic live on the air: “I have to say: the referee is extremely beautiful. The eye eats too.”
