Boris Becker

It was the end of Wimbledon 1985.

Boris Becker had just become Wimbledon champion, age 17.

He's the youngest ever men's champion.

He's the first unseeded player to take the title, and he's the first German champion.

The record for a winner is 29.

Boris Becker and Gustavo Kuerten for a winner.

So if he wins in five, he'll equal those two gentlemen as most sets play to win.

The all-time record is held by our favorite on this podcast, the man who's 50% responsible for the intro of this podcast, Daniel Medvedev, 31 sets.

So it's a little bit of bluff and blunder of trying to figure it out and also looking for small things.

There's that great story with Andre Agassi and Boris Becker, and with Andre, he said, "I used to find, try to find anything, a movement, a habit" And he said, "Where the direction Boris moved his tongue, if he went to the left, the serve was going to the left.

If it was down the middle, it was going in the body.

If it was, uh, the other side, it was down the T." So he just looked for any sort of thing to get an advantage of some sort of habit or tweak to find a way to return it, and he never discussed that because of the fact that he didn't wanna give his tell away to Boris until he'd retired.

He's handling business properly.

Also, not only that is he making every semifinal of, of, of every Slam this year in 2020- this year in 2026, but also he's breaking Boris Becker's record of the most Slam wins.

He, like, 23 Slam wins so far of the season, and that's beating Boris Becker's record, so, uh, as a, as a German single season record of, of a Slam, Slam wins, which is impressive.

So I think going into this, um, semifinal, it's gonna be electric-

Yeah