It’s the face. When they talk about Ion Tiriac, they always talk about the face. He first entered tennis at the dawn of the Open Era, a Romanian former ice hockey player blowing into the sport like a searing, malevolent wind out of the mysterious and threatening Communist east.
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Published May 03, 2016

The Face of Ion Tiriac
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The Face of Ion Tiriac