| Capital: | € 1.1 billion |
|---|---|
| Age: | 80 |
| Born: | May 9, 1939 |
| Country of origin: | Romania |
| Source of wealth: | Entrepreneurs |
| Last updated: | 2022 |
Brief introduction
Ion Tiriac Romania is a successful hockey and tennis player and is a manager and entrepreneur who is as successful as success. In Germany he is famous as the manager of Boris Becker, who he managed from 1984 to 1993. He also guarded many other tennis stars as managers. He was also involved in various entrepreneurial activities that made him a billionaire.
Youth
His life was formed by sports from an early age. Born in Transylvania, he first appeared when he became a table tennis master in his age group as a child. He then started playing ice hockey. For his home country, Romania, he even took part in the 1964 Winter Olympics. At the same time, he also played tennis, which he made his profession shortly after participating in the Olympics.
Career
Especially in the Tiriac ion doubles celebrating his success as a professional tennis player. Ilie Nastase is his colleague for a long time, then Guillerma Vilas all this time. In 1970 he won the Grand Slam tournament, the French Open in the doubles. He was also very successful in representing the Romanian state in the Davis Cup. Three times, in 1969, 1971 and 1972, he managed to reach the final without being able to win the competition.
In total, the Tiriac ion won 22 double tournaments in his career as a double specialist. In the single he only won one professional tournament, also one in Munich in 1970. Some other success as one player also exists in Vita, but has a lower ranking.
While he is only known by real tennis lovers during this time, because doubles are generally lacking in the focus of attention, he gets international fame through his work as a tennis player manager. He began with this task in 1983 and quickly had many players under the contract. The most prominent is Boris Becker, the wonders of German children’s tennis. He managed Leimener from 1984, before his first victory in Wimbledon, until 1993.
Other leading tennis players who maintain Tiriac ions as managers are Anke Huber, Henri Leconte and Goran Ivanisevic. From 1998 to 2004 he was the President of Nok of Romania.
Tiriac ions do not stop managing tennis professionals. He made a lot of business investment and other activities that had made him the rhestructure and the richest billionaire for years.
Its activities that are bundled in tiriac holding include diverse industries such as bank formation, health insurance, leasing companies for cars, licenses as importers for cars from Mercedes-Benz and, in addition to travel companies, their own airlines.
Unlike many other entrepreneurs, he never suffered from shipwreck or large losses. Conversely, his wealth grew steadily, so he had become the rhestine Romanian citizen for some time.
Personally, he has several marriages, from which a total of three children appeared.
The hobby of the Tiriac ion is a collection of cars, which is now open to the public. It has more than 350 different high quality vehicles from all era. 165 of them are presented rolling in the Tinic collection, which also includes motorbikes. Many vehicles are also marked by having a leading owner before. This includes vehicles from Elton John, Sammy Davis Jr. Or Bernie Ecclestone.
Career spotlight
From a sporting point of view, the biggest success of Tiriac’s ion was to win the 1970 French Open in the doubles. As an entrepreneur, his success is almost countless. This is how a Romanian who grows simple who knows his famine is one of the richest people in the world. The Forbes list placed him as a Romanian in the list of the richest people in the world in rank 1,818 (in 2019).
Famous quote
“Germany like the cat you thrown from the 20th floor. He fell standing. “
“I always look at the rearview mirror to avoid making every mistake twice.”
“It’s better for the character to feel hungry once in a lifetime.”
“In my opinion, human relations between two business partners offer far more guarantees for successful business relationships than around 150 pages of written contracts.”
Amazing facts
In 2013 he was chosen to be a Tennis Hall of Fame, but not in his role as a player but as a manager.
In 1987, he appeared in American advertisements for beer types.
Before winning the title in 1970, he had reached the final at the French Open doubles in 1966, which he later lost to Ilie Nastase.
His nickname is, based on his place of birth, “Buldoser Brasov”.
Two stamps issued in Romania showed it as an active tennis player.
In 2006, he was ranked 777 of the “100 Roman Citizens’ Greatest Time”.
When women are allowed to take part in the men’s tennis tournament for the first time, Tiriac ions who played the first match against a woman. He won 6-0, 6-0 against Abigail Maynard.