Help! I can't see the ball on red clay ESPN (blog) After a solid career mostly as a doubles player (he won the French Open partnered with that genius Ilie Nastase), Tiriac went on to coach and/or manage a range of spectacularly successful players starting with Nastase and including Guillermo Vilas, ...
Hall of Fame rings presented to Nastase, Durr, Pietrangeli, and Clerici in Monaco Bob Larson Tennis News 1, Ilie Nastase of Romania; France's beloved player Françoise "Frankie" Durr; the man heralded as the greatest Italian player of all time, Nicola Pietrangeli; and Italian tennis journalist Gianni Clerici. All four tennis legends have already been ...
Sabre-esque trophy may rattle some award purists' cages The National The Ion Tiriac Trophy is the gift to tennis of, well, Ion Tiriac, the former doubles partner of Ilie Nastase. The Romanian, now a quirky billionaire, is president of the Madrid tournament, and blue-clay playing surfaces as well as fashion models as ...
Colorado Classics: Female sportswriter Dorothy Mauk redefined "out of bounds" Denver Post Tennis pros Stan Smith and Ilie Nastase felt the bite of Mauk's pen when they refused to be interviewed. "I wrote in the story that if Stan Smith didn't improve his second serve, he wasn't going to win the tournament," Mauk recalled.
Tennis birthdays ? May 9, 2012 Montreal Gazette (blog) He won the French Open and Italian Open titles with partner-in-crime and countryman Ilie Nastase, and played Davis Cup for Romania from 1959 through the mid-70s nearly without interruption. Officially, he has just two career ATP Tour titles, ...
Nadal Is No Fan of the New Blue Clay Courts in Madrid New York Times That would be the formidable Ion Tiriac, the mustachioed Romanian who was once Ilie Nastase's doubles partner but is now a successful solo act: a billionaire with a portfolio in which tennis plays an increasingly minor role.
The Top 8 French Open Champions of the Open Era Bleacher Report The following year in 1971, Kodes defeated Ilie Nastase in a hard-fought final 8-6, 6-2, 2-6, 7-5. Kodes reached his highest tour ranking of world No. 4 in September 1973. During his career he won a total of eight top-level singles titles and 17 ...
NBA regular season should be shortened for good San Francisco Chronicle With just a year left (at San Jose's SAP Open) before the men's pro tennis calendar runs dry in Northern California, here's a toast to Barry MacKay, whose promotional skills brought John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg, Jimmy Connors, Ilie Nastase, Arthur Ashe and ...
Nadal wins 8th straight Monte Carlo title FOXSports.com Ilie Nastase, who was here this week, won three straight titles between 1971-73 but otherwise one needs to go way back in the history books, to the very beginning of this tournament which was dominated for its first 10 years by British brothers Reg and ... Daily Tennis News Briefs 24Apr12Bob Larson Tennis News
The Lothario League: Tony Blackburn boasts he's slept with 500 women. So how ... Daily Mail 2500 - Ilie Nastase. The Romanian tennis star claimed his high score in his 2004 autobiography, Mr Nasty. His technique involved pretending to be shy, but claimed: 'My problem starts if she says "yes". I don't know what to do. I get nervous.
A monumental service to tennis by the Original Nine The National The male winner, Ilie Nastase, won $3500. Perhaps a women's tennis tour was inevitable. But perhaps it would not have started when it did if not for King and the eight others who signed $1 contracts with World Tennis Magazine to promote women's ...
Cum a ajuns Ilie N?stase s? se trag? de ?ireturi cu Prin?ul Felipe ... Libertatea Fie c? se afl? la Madrid, la Paris, la Monte Carlo, Washington sau Londra, Ilie N?stase, fosta mare glorie a tenisului mondial are deschise u?ile marilor cabinete politice, fiind bun amic sau chiar prieten cu o parte dintre cei care conduc o parte ...
O sarboiaca este favorita la ITF Arad Aradon Scris de Dan Lazar - Sârboaica Jovana Jaksic, locul 410 în ierarhia mondial?, este principala favorit? a Trofeului ?Ilie N?stase? la tenis, turneu cu premii în valoare de 10.000 de dolari, care va avea loc între 26 mai ?i 3 iunie la baza ?Riviera ...