He's fast becoming the most famous German men's tennis player since Boris Becker, but there aren't many similarities between Dustin Brown and the countryman whose footsteps he's hoping to follow.
Aside from the tongue piercing, his huge chest tattoo and those long, flowing dreadlocks, Brown had to wait until he was 30 before causing a splash at Wimbledon, whereas Becker burst onto the scene at the age of just 17.
But the shock caused when Brown knocked out two-time winner Rafael Nadal in the second round yesterday was not unlike the stir 'Der Bomber' Boris caused when he first arrived in the 1980s.
He played in Jamaica during his teens, before his parents sent him to Europe due to a perceived lack of support for young tennis stars in the Caribbean
For Brown, the win yesterday was the culmination of years spent learning tennis the hard way, traipsing around tournaments in a camper van and playing as many games as possible as he struggled for money for petrol and food.
Brown was born in the German town of Celle to a Jamaican father, Leroy, and a German mother, Inge, and had a British grandmother, making him technically eligible to play for Great Britain in the Davis Cup.
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