Ion Tiriac is a Romanian businessman and former professional tennis and ice hockey player. Ion is the current president of the Romanian Tennis Federation.
A former single top 10 participants on the ATP TOur, he's the winner of one grand slam title. Țiriac was the first man to play towards a woman and defeat her in a single set in a sanctioned tennis tournament (towards Abigail Maynard, in 1975). The spotlight of his ice hockey profession was collaborating as a defenseman withinside the Romanian national team at the 1964 Winter Olympics.
After retirement, he has become active as a tennis coach, advisor and participant agent withinside the 1980s, taking under his wing llie Nastase, Asriano Panatta, Manuel Orantes, Guillermo Vilas, Henri Leconte and the young Boris Becker. Later, Țiriac advanced to the Mutua Madrid Open ATP Masters tennis tournament, which he owns. He has presently been handling French tennis participant Lucas Pouille since December 2016.
As a tennis player, he performed dramatic five-setters towards Rod Laver, Stan Smith, Jan Kodes. His singles report consists of wins over Arthur Ashe, Stan Smith, Roscoe Tanner, Manuel Orantes, Andres Gimeno, Adriano Panatta. He never won in opposition to compatriot llie Nastase in their six meetings. He performed in 3 Davis Cup finals.
According to Forbes magazine, he was ranked because of the third richest businessman from Romania.
After his retirement as an expert tennis player, Tiriac has become a businessman in (then West) Germany. In 1987, he seemed in a TV commercial for Miller Lite beer with Bob Uecker, who extols Tiriac's intended humorous qualities, laughing hysterically while Tiriac sits stone-faced.
Following the crumble of communism in Romania, he began out numerous businesses and investments back home. In 1990, he founded Banca Tiriac, the first personal bank in post-Communist Romania. Between that and numerous other enterprises, his fortune was expected at over US$900 million in 2005.
Țiriac is an avid car collector. The Tiriac Collection represents the exhibition of cars and bikes beneath neath his ownership. Reopened to the general public in May 2015, the collection consists of historical vehicles synthetic since 1899 and additionally modern exotics with approximately 350 cars and 165 vehicles at the full-time display on a rotation basis. Visitors will discover the only collection withinside the world with 2 Rolls-Royce Phantoms IV, as well as exhibits that formerly belonged to great names, including Sir Elton John, Sammy Davis Jr. or Bernie Ecclestone.
Ion Tiriac has become the first Romanian to enter Forbes' List of billionaires withinside the 2007 Forbes rankings, rating 840th withinside the world. His wealth was expected at $1.0 billion as of 2010, according to the magazine. In 2010, TOP 300 Capital declared Ion Tiriac the richest man in Romania with a wealth expected at €1.5–€1.6 billion ($2–$2.2 billion).
In 2018, Ion Tiriac ranked #1867 on the Forbes World's Billionaires list, with wealth indexed at US$1.2 billion.
