Becker's successful coach is dead

The ATP players' association announced this on Tuesday. With Brett at his side, Becker won Wimbledon and the US Open in 1989 and climbed to the top of the world rankings with victory at the Australian Open in 1991. Brett always “treated him like an adult,” Becker wrote in his 2004 autobiography “Just a moment, stay a while.” He told him: “I expect willingness, discipline, will, punctuality. Three hours of training in the morning, three hours in the afternoon, I don’t care what you do after that.” “He was very good at implementing what I told him,” Brett said in 2008 about working with Becker: “His understanding of opponents was also very good, and I encouraged him to work hard but also to value rest.” Brett earned an excellent reputation on the tour with his decades of commitment and also worked with Germany's former number one Nicolas Kiefer and the Grand Slam winners Johan Kriek (South Africa), Goran Ivanisevic and Marin Cilic (both Croatia). “He was unique, had a very clear line and clear ideas,” Kiefer told the SID. The 43-year-old mourns the loss of a “real friend” who stood by him as an advisor until the end, as Kiefer wrote on social media: “Bob, I will miss you very much.”

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Becker's successful coach is dead

He made Boris Becker number one in the world, and now Australian tennis coach Bob Brett has died of cancer at the age of 67.

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