Tennis legend Boris Becker tied the knot today with Dutch model Lilly Kerssenberg in the Swiss mountain resort Saint Moritz. An estimated 200 guests attended the ceremony at the 5-star Badrutt’s Palace Hotel.

A close group of friends and family witnessed the ceremony at the civil registry office, as the sun shone on the 41-year Becker and his 32-year-old bride in her bright white dress.

The guests,  including athletes like race car driver Mika Häkkinen and soccer legend Franz Beckenbauer, watched the couple tie the knot in the Bergkappelle, or mountain chapel, there, 6,562 feet above sea level.

The ceremony was performed by Brent Fisher, 69, a Lutheran priest and native New Yorker who lives in St. Moritz.

Kerssenberg, 32, was walked down the aisle by her 80-year-old grandmother, Esseline Kerssenberg-Bradley. Becker's best man was his friend Luis Garcia Fanjul, a Mexican businessman.

Becker and Kerssenberg rekindled their relationship after he separated from his former fiancee Alessandra Meyer-Woelden, the 26-year-old daughter of his late manager, just seven months ago.

Becker sold the broadcasting rights for his second wedding to German RTL television network.

Becker made news earlier this year when he bought a multi-million-dollar house in Britain just yards from the famous Wimbledon Centre Court where he won three men's singles titles.

Boris can see the Wimbledon training hall from his new back garden but revealed the real reason for his move is to be closer to his nine-year-old daughter Anna, he told German tabloid  Bild.

The tennis star fathered the child during a romp in a broom cupboard in trendy London restaurant Nobu in 1999 with model Angela Ermakowa.

Anna and her mum now also live in Wimbledon and Boris explained: "Because we want to see each other a lot, it is important that I live nearby."

In Europe there is still huge interest in Becker, who has had a series of very public mishaps and is now a professional poker player with his own website showing podcasts of his day-to-day life.

"Most of my projects have flopped and I have often been out of luck with money and women ... but with Boris Becker TV, I am allowing everybody to take a peek into my life," he said when the channel was launched last month.

The will-he, won't-he moment was followed live by some 9.7 million Germans when it was aired on public television ZDF in February.

"Oh no, not again," the program's host, Thomas Gottschalk, cried when he heard the news.

Split up earlier

It was a nail-biter, especially since the couple had split up 18 months earlier, shortly before the ex-tennis ace's 40th birthday, and Becker had only recently broken up with another fiancee.

Becker, nicknamed "Boom-Boom" in his playing days for his larger than normal heart which powered his game, has been assiduously courting the limelight and cash since officially retiring a decade ago.

Those years brought a tax evasion trial, failed businesses and a pricey divorce from his first wife Barbara after he fathered a child with a stranger during a brief encounter in the broom closet of a London restaurant.

Now he charges up to 60,000 euros (85,000 dollars) as a promotional fee to attend events and has also lent his name and face to a range of products from luxury brands to beer.

The gigantic wedding ring is reportedly made of white gold and topped with 131 diamonds, which Kerssenberg is to match with a spectacular necklace and earrings Friday.

Agencies/germerica