Three-time Wimbledon champion Boris Becker was fined by a German court today over his role in the financial collapse of a German sports website.
A Munich court ordered Becker to pay €5,700 - much less than the administrator of insolvent internet portal Sportgate was asking for.
The administrator said Becker, who was a majority stakeholder in the company, had promised to pay €1.5 million to cover the firm's losses.
Becker, who was not in court for the ruling, denied the charges.
The 36-year-old German has run into considerable trouble since retiring from tennis in 1999, including a costly divorce, an admission he fathered a child with a Russian model and a string of failed business ventures.
Last year he received a two-year suspended jail sentence and a hefty fine after being convicted of tax evasion for claiming residence in Monaco while actually staying in Munich between 1991 and 1993.