MUNICH - Three times Wimbledon champion Boris Becker has filed for divorce from his wife Barbara, a Munich court spokesman said yesterday.
Michael Haussner said Becker had filed for divorce on the same day as his wife applied for financial support and custody of their two sons in a Miami court.
Becker announced the break-up of his seven-year marriage this month to the aspiring actress and singer but said a divorce was out of the question.
In her petition in Miami, 33-year-old Barbara Becker asked for exclusive use of their US$3 million ($6.8 million)condo on Miami's Fisher Island for her and the couple's two children, Noah (six) and Elias (one). She did not request a divorce.
Becker, also 33, blamed the break-up on the pressure of being rich and famous.
Media reports have suggested that a family friend, hip-hop artist Sabrina Setlur, 26, was a possible reason for the split.
Becker and his wife, who is black, married in 1993 and were widely admired for choosing to live in Germany, where mixed-race marriages are rare, despite receiving repeated violent racist threats.
- REUTERS
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