Tennis legend Boris Becker is to marry a woman 16 years his junior. The German star, 40, proposed to Alessandra 'Sandy' Meyer-Wolden, 24, during a holiday in Sardinia over the weekend. Alessandra is a jewellery designer and the daughter of Becker's late manager, Axel Meyer-Wolden, who died in 1997. This will be the second marriage for Becker, who divorced wife Barbara Feltus seven years ago. The couple have two children. He also has a daughter by Angela Ermakova, the result of a well-publicised romp in the broom cupboard of London restaurant Nobu in 1999. Although he has known Alessandra since she was a child, their relationship only recently moved to a romantic footing.

While I would never say this around my own Darling Trophy Wife, a 40 year old marrying a 24 year old is not exactly out of the realm, particularly for a wealthy Eurotrash celebrity. But it takes a particularly high level of depravity to marry the daughter of your dead manager, whom you've know since birth. But for Becker, it's just another step in a career full of debauchery. For a guy who's knocked up a chick in a restaurant broom closet or split from his wife via text message, marrying a girl you who used to spill baby food on your kitchen floor is nothing. Becker is no different than that great philosopher Sylvester Stallone who once, when asked why he only likes young girls, said "For the same reason people like puppies."