Boris Becker, 58, announces birth of daughter with wife Lilian de Carvalho Monteiro, 34
Former tennis player and professional commentator Boris Becker has welcomed a daughter with wife Lilian de Carvalho.
Sharing the news via Instagram today, the tennis ace posted a snap of himself and Lilian holding the newborn’s hand.
‘Welcome to the world…Zoë Vittoria Becker 21.11.2025,’ he wrote, also revealing the infant’s name.
Little Zoë was born on Friday – the day before Boris’s own 58th birthday.
Boris and Lilian tied the knot in 2020, before they announced news of Lilian’s pregnancy in June this year.
‘We follow the light… Enjoying the last rays of sunshine ☀️Happy Sunday!!!’ Boris said, as he shared a snap of Lilian with a blossoming baby bump.
Former champion tennis player Boris was only 17 when he won the gentlemen’s singles Wimbledon Championships title in 1985.
He went on to claim 64 titles during his prolific career, including six Grand Slam singles titles: three Wimbledon Championships, two Australian Opens and one US Open.
The birth of Zoë marks his fifth child, after first welcoming son Noah Gabriel with then-wife Barbara Feltus in 1993, and Elias Balthasar in 1999.
Boris later fathered daughter Anna in a one-night-stand which reportedly put paid to his marriage with Barbara.
In 2010, Boris welcomed his youngest son, Amadeus, to second wife Lilly Kerssenberg, before they separated in 2018.
He met future wife Lilian that same year, hitting it off after initially meeting through friends.
He told The Sunday Times: She is obviously a very attractive woman, but I felt that from the first day we had lunch together alone, we had this instant intellectual connection.
‘Even though she’s 20 years younger, I feel like she has an old soul, and I like to think my soul is a bit younger, so we met in the middle.’
The pair were subsequently married in a lavish ceremony in 2024, and announced her pregnancy less than a year later.
Lilian stood by Boris’ side when he was jailed for hiding £2.5 million worth of assets and loans to avoid paying debts.
At the time, he told The Times: ‘I was a little bit surprised that women still stay with you if you have nothing. I didn’t experience that much before.’
He was released early on 15 December 2022 after serving eight months, and deported to Germany by UK authorities.
Meanwhile, ex-wife Lilly revealed how Boris once hid horses from tax inspectors inside his £9million Majorca mansion.
‘The guy tries to go into the master bedroom, but Boris had hid the horses,’ Lily said in the ITVX documentary Becker: The Rise & Fall.
‘You have to pay taxes on them, and he hadn’t. You see the funny side of the story because you walk into the bedroom and there’s a horse.
‘I’m sorry, that’s funny,’ she added.
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