Former tennis star Boris Becker has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison for his bankruptcy crimes.
That was decided by a court in London on Friday.
The fifty-four-year-old can appeal the verdict.
Gina Thomas
Features correspondent based in London.
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On April 8, a jury found Becker, who was declared bankrupt in June 2017, guilty on four out of twenty-four counts of willfully withholding assets from the bankruptcy authority.
The jury found that Becker siphoned off €437,000 from his account and concealed ownership of a property in his hometown of Leimen, as well as a €835,000 loan from a Liechtenstein bank and shares in a data company.
According to the bankruptcy law, he faces a maximum of seven years in prison.
In his plea for a reduced sentence, Boris Becker's defense attorney told the court that the former tennis star had lost everything.
Before delivering the sentence, Jonathan Laidlow warned the judge that his client had already paid a heavy price for his financial mismanagement and the crimes the jury found him guilty of three weeks ago.
Becker has nothing to show for the most glamorous of all sports careers.
Laidlow called it a tragedy.
Becker's career was destroyed, his reputation ruined.
Any prospect of earning an income is barred to him.
He will depend on charity.
Becker not only fell out of favor, but suffered public humiliation.
Laidlow argued that Becker had already received a degree of punishment
like no defaulter has ever suffered.
That would have been shown by the unsightly scenes in front of the south London court this morning.
On Friday, the defense's argument indicated that it could face up to two years in prison.
Laidlow pleaded for a suspended sentence given the mitigating circumstances.
Previously, criminal attorney Rebecca Chalkley had repeatedly accused Becker of deliberately defrauding his creditors.
She underpinned her recommendation for harsh punishment, among other things, by referring to Becker's conviction for tax evasion twenty years ago in Munich.
Chalkely argued that concealment of assets constitutes a breach of trust, which impairs the functioning of a free society and should be punishable by imprisonment to deter this type of conduct.
The prosecutor did not call for a sentence, but made it clear that
Becker sat bolt upright in the court's glass booth during the pros and cons of the attorneys.
Just before the trial began, the door was unlocked so that his son, Noah, could hand him a bag.
In the past few days, the British press has been hot on Becker's heels.
The paparazzi photographed every step he took, to upmarket department store Harrods, for example, where he bought a bag, and to a council flat in west London, where he is said to have seen a physiotherapist.