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!

Ilie Nastase

And now a brief from the world of sports!

Ilie Nastase (born July 19, 1946, Bucharest) is a former professional tennis player and one of the leading tennis players of the 1970s, the world number one twice, in 1972 and 1973.

Among the 57 titles in singles, which Ilie Nastase has won over his career include the U.S. Open in 1972, respectivRoland Garros in 1973. Won the doubles tournament at Wimbledon in 1973, 1970 Roland Garros and the U.S. Open in 1975. He also won four times Champions Tour in 1971, 1972, 1973 and 1975. For Romania Davis Cup team has played for 18 years a total of 146 singles and doubles matches, winning 109. Along with Ion Tiriac was finalist of the Davis Cup three times, in 1969, 1971 and 1972.

He was second in singles competition at Wimbledon twice, in 1972, playing the final against Stan Smith in 1976 against Björn Borg. Nastase was known for his jokes arena, but also a reputation for using aggressive tactics, many of them successful, so he earned the nickname Nasty ("mischievous") after several incidents.

He wrote several novels in French in 1980, then entered politics in 1990, standing as a candidate in 1996 for mayor of Bucharest. In 1994 he was captain unplayable Romania Davis Cup Team.

In 2005 "TENNIS Magazine" ranked 28th on the list of "40 greatest tennis players of the past 40 years." He was nominated four times "Best Romanian athlete of the year" (in 1969, 1972, 1973 and 1974). On 12 February 2008, after almost 11 years to lead the Romanian Tennis Federation, resigned as president of the Federation declaring himself "defeated by justice and the press in Romania".

Through a presidential decree of 1 December 2008, Ilie Nastase was filed in the level of Major General (2 stars) retired at the Ministry of Defense.

Ready for the day! God bless you!