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That strength will be the first to desert him as he grows up. It is in fact already a potential weakness. "A dicksch??del, " his coach Günther Bosch calls him, meaning he is, not to put too fine a point on it, pigheaded. That imparts to his game its never-say-die spirit, but may also interfere with improving it physically and tactically. Ion Tiriac, his other mentor, insists Becker is too slow afoot but has trouble imposing on him a corrective training regimen. "He's very stubborn. You have to convince him of everything." In fact, it took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Everyone's Wild over Bobele | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

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