Tennis legend Boris Becker, 55, was spotted on tuesday on the island of Ibiza with his girlfriend Lilian de Carvalho Monteiro, 32, according to the DailyMail.

The couple was photographed getting out of a modest Dacia Lodgy, apparently a rental car, in the parking lot of a restaurant on the island.

The legendary German tennis player winner of six Grand Slam tournaments, was convicted of a british court to two years and six months imprisonment for four financial offenses related to his financial failure in 2017. He was released from prison in December 2022 after serving an eight-month sentence in a UK correctional facility.

The jury found proven that the former world number one concealed assets and loans worth some £2.5 million (about three million euros) in order to avoid paying his debts, which amount to some 50 million pounds (60 million euros).

A “hard lesson”

The winner of six Grand Slam titles (Wimbledon in 1985, 86 and 89; Austria in 1991 and 1996, and the U.S. in 1989) claimed a few months ago to have learned a “hard lesson” after his time in prison, in the first interview he gave after being deprived of his freedom for eight months.

“I have learned a hard lesson. Expensive. Very painful. But above all this has taught me something important and good. And some things happen for a good reason,” he said in an interview with German broadcaster Sat 1. “I think I have rediscovered in me the person I once was“, stressed the 55-year-old tennis legend marked by controversy.

Referring to the 232 days that the tennis star spent in prison – first in London’s Wandsworth and then in Huntercombe, in Oxfordshire – Becker was explicit: “You’re just a number. Mine was A2923EV. Nobody called me Boris, it was a number. And they don’t give a shit who you are“, he assured.

Becker was released after serving just eight months in prison from a two-and-a-half-year sentence imposed last April for concealing assets and loans worth £2.5 million (€2.9 million) to avoid paying his debts.

Vista De Su Mansión En ArtàView of his mansion in Artà

Insolvent in 2017

The former world number 1 filed for insolvency on June 21, 2017, with a debt that nearly reached £50 million (about €58 million) related to an unpaid loan of more than £3 million (€3.4 million) for a property he owned in Mallorca, in son Coll, in the municipality of Artà.