He developed the Madrid Open, which he nonetheless owns, having made it a mixed males’s and girls’s occasion with £6.2m in prize cash whereas the event winner receives a trophy with Titriac’s identify.

He has all the time credited tennis for making a pathway for the rest of his enterprise successes. "With luck I touched a tennis racket five days before I was 15 years old,” Tiriac previously said. "It was the second that modified my life. I began enjoying tennis, I used to be an excellent sportsman, however missing expertise. So I labored like a canine, as I did for the remainder of my life."

While away from tennis, he is an avid car collector and The Tiriac Collection was opened to the public as an exhibition to showcase the historical and exotic cars and motorcycles he owns due to his vast wealth, which dwarfs the other icons that tennis has produced such as Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.