Ion Tiriac

Hello dear readers! I thought since we talked some time ago about Ilie Nastase, now would be correct to have a few words about his colleague.

Ion Tiriac, born on 9 May 1939 in Braşov, is a former Romanian professional tennis player, hockey player and now an influential businessman in Germany and Romania.

Tiriac, who lost his father at the age of ten, he lived on the same street and worked in the same factory with Günther Bosch.

Between 1958 and 1964 he was a member of the ice hockey team of Romania, who attended the Innsbruck Winter Olympics and World Championships.

In 1970, together with Ilie Nastase won the tournament in Roland Garros. His talent on the field materialized especially in doubles, winning with Ilie Nastase, outside of Roland Garros, many other tournaments like Foro Italico, Philadelphia Indoor Open (1970) Monte Carlo Open, Sweden Open, Italian Open and Canadian Open ( 1972), Arymehr Cup (1977), with Guillermo Villas at Baltimore International and Nice International (1977), Volvo International (1979) and, along with Adriano PANATTA, World Championship Tennis, Sao Paolo (1974). Tiriac was a component of Romania's Davis Cup team between 1959 and 1978, disputing three finals, with the U.S. in 1969, 1970 and 1972, all three having as partner Ilie Nastase.

From 1984 to 1993 he was manager of Boris Becker, world-class tennis player.

Ion Tiriac is the owner license tennis tournament "BCR Open Romania" in 1996. The tenth edition of the tournament (held in September 2005) offered prizes worth 302,000 euros. Winner Trophy competition, Florent Serra received a check worth 44,100 euros.

Between 1998 - 2004 he held the position of President of the Romanian Olympic Committee.

Ion Tiriac is also one of the richest Romanians, the owner of a large number of companies in the banking, automotive and transport. It is the first novel that came into the Forbes list of world billionaires is ranked as having a personal fortune of around $ 1.1 billion in March 2007. In November 2007, Capital magazine estimated his fortune Ion Tiriac from 2.2 to 2.4 billion dollars.

Tiriac was married between 1963 and 1965 by Erika Braedt, handball player. Has children Mikette von Issenberg (model, mother of Ion Tiriac jr.) And Sophie Ayad (journalist, two children, Michael and John Natalia Karim).

Well this is it, in short.

God bless you!