Ion Tiriac Proposed 5th Grand Slam, Wins Moustache Award
Former tennis player and coach of Boris Becker, Ion Tiriac is pushing to make Madrid the location of a 5th Grand Slam tournament. The Romanian is the most powerful businessman in world tennis, and he already has another goal - to make a fifth Grand Slam in Madrid. For all of history, there have been four Grand Slam tournaments, and they are played in London, Paris, New York and Melbourne. Why Madrid? Tiriac say because the city incarnates this "new sport," the city that can go beyond the limits of Paris and London.
"Madrid has a very great future, and it is going to have facilities like no other tournament. There is no other which can close three courts in five minutes and keep playing despite the rain," Tiriac stresses.
He notes he has ruled out the Asian option that he contemplated a couple of years ago.
"I do not need to move Madrid. It is likely that in Shanghai I could have made money, a lot of it. But I am lucky enough not to be about to starve to death," he says.
Really, I don't want a 5th Grand Slam, nor do I believe there needs to be one. However, I would like to change the focus of this Tirac story to focus on his mustache. Over the year, this baby is really something to behold.
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Posted by Bob Wallace at October 18, 2007 9:00 PM
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