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.
