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10/25/10 3:18 PM | Johan Lindahl
While old-school former rival Thomas Muster tries his hand at the ATP again as an over-40 with a wild card into the Bank Austria Tennis Trophy event, Boris Becker will be settling in at the poker table across town in Vienna.
The Grand Slam winners will be pursuing entirely different objectives in the Austrian capital in an improbable crossing of schedules. 1995 French Open winner Muster has a wild card at age 43 into the tennis tournament while treble Wimbledon champion Becker will be chasing prize money of a different kind at the poker tournament.
The German is expected by European Poker Tour officials for the 500,000-euro event at the Kursalon Hübner palace in the center of the city.
While the drama on court is ever-present, it is unlikely to match the incident which occurred recently in Germany when armed robbers burst into a poker event and got away with tens of thousands of euros. Officials insist they will have high security for the Vienna tournament, something not really required at the more tranquil tennis venue.
Becker, 42, who flits between business, poker and tennis, is visiting Vienna for the second time since July after attending an HIV/AIDS gala. Becker and Muster last met on the ATP 15 years ago, with Muster winning their Monte Carlo final in five sets, 6-0 in the fifth.
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