It’s the face. When they talk about Ion Tiriac, they always talk about the face. He first entered tennis at the dawn of the Open Era, a Romanian former ice hockey player blowing into the sport ...

The previous Paralympic logo incorporated the Tae-Geuk, which is a traditional Korean decorative motif. According to oriental philosophy, Tae-Geuk refers to the ultimate reality from which all things ...

Madrid, as most of you know, was the brainchild of Ion Tiriac. That he was able to turn his vision into reality ought to give you a pretty good idea of the degree of the clout and expertise ...

Ion Tiriac has a habit of making traditionalists want to hurl. It goes all the way back to the late 1960s and 70s, when his glowering visage (in a brilliant line, a writer once observed that the ...

Serena Williams has responded to comments made by Madrid owner Ion Tiriac. The 78-year-old was discussing the state of women's tennis in Sport Bid, a German publication. “With all due respect ...

Mike Bird contributed to an earlier version of this post. Romania's Ion Tiriac — NET WORTH: £804,000 ($1 billion) Romania's richest man is known as the "Brasov Bulldozer." A retired ...

A friend emailed me after I wrote my “Clay-Court Curmudgeon” post a few days ago to let me know that in some quarters, the Caja Mágica—the site of the ongoing Madrid Open—is commonly ...

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Madrid Open organizer and former tennis player Ion Tiriac says the WTA should apologize to friend Ilie Nastase for criticizing his presence at the tournament's trophy ...

The year was 1975 and Ion Tiriac had just been notified that he would be spending his summer in something called the Hoosier State, where he would play for the Indiana Loves of World Team Tennis.

Finally, we see Vilas, at the urging his imperious coach Ion Tiriac, leave all of his other interests behind and turn himself into a muscle-bound tennis machine, one who wins 145 matches ...

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