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FILTER RESULTS ►The Fifth Major
In my last conversation with Ion Tiriac, the man behind the blue clay at last year’s Madrid Open, he characteristically cut right to the chase while we were talking about the future of his tournament and said, “Where is it written that...Show More Summary
12 for '12: Stories of the Year
Peter Bodo concludes his year-end awards—12 in all, for 2012—with the Stories of the Year. You can see all of his prior selections at the end of this article.
Men’s: Blue Clay Brouhaha in Madrid
Ion Tiriac turned the clay courts of his...Show More Summary
Ion Tiriac and Rainer Schuettler to host a tournament in Dusseldorf – Tennis News
Ion Tiriac and Rainer Schuettler to host a tournament in Dusseldorf – Tennis News A new ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals) World Tour 250 Series event is scheduled to take place in Dusseldorf, Germany. The newly retired German...Show More Summary
The Racquet Scientist: Blue Clay Revisited
by Pete Bodo We're in the midst of another "this is tennis" moment thanks to Ion Tiriac and the blue clay in Madrid, and the players are once again proving that they love the idea of change a lot more...
Racquet Scientist: Blue Clay
by Pete Bodo 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...
trophy watch: untouchable nole
A notch for each win? How cool is the Ion Tiriac trophy at the Mutua Madrid Masters in Spain? Sure, the home crowd wanted their boy Rafael Nadal to pull through in this one, but Novak is hot right now. H-O-T hot. 32 straight matches? No prob. The world no. 2 now takes his unblemished 2011 [...]
Tiriac at 70
by Pete Bodo 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...
Cups Quarter Full
Mornin'. It's nice to see that I haven't been overly missed, which is a good thing because I'm still snowed under at the office and need to shovel my way through an Ion Tiriac piece today. So I won't have...
The Coachables
By Pete Bodo In the last installment of my on-again, off-again Coaching Series, I left y'all with a mention of Ion Tiriac. Most of you know that Tiriac owns the Madrid Masters tournament which begins next week. The event exists...
Uncle Toni
by Pete Bodo You hang around this game long enough and you come across an impressive array of coaching types. You have the controversial Svengalis, among whom the outstanding model is Ion Tiriac. Early in his young career, Guillermo Vilas...
Classic TW: The Chimeral Seminal
[In Pete's absence this week, we are repeating some TW Classic posts from the past. This one dates from October 2006; its subject matter is Ion Tiriac, which seems apt in light of the current antitrust case taking place in...
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