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READ MORE:Ukrainian tennis beauty dated England cricket ace after meeting in London gymHe continued: "‘I don't know - 300, 400? I never added them up - it didn't feel right."How could I remember? Anyway, what does it matter - 2,500 or 500, they're not going to give me a medal, are they? And there were a lot of misses."I didn't score. Sometimes I'm very tired because I have to play tennis.

tennis player has a net worth more than Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo's combined, yet you've probably never even heard of him.Romanian Ion Tiriac, who hung up his racket in 1979, only made around £200,000 during his career.He won the French Open Doubles title in 1970 and reached the semi-final of Wimbledon that same year before fading into relative obscurity.Following his retirement from the game, the Romanian embarked on a coaching career and worked with the likes of compatriot Ilie Nastase and even a young Boris Becker.In the decades since, he's proved himself a savvy businessman and made a string of good investment decisions which saw him turn that cash into a fortune believed to be around £1.5 billion.In comparison, his wealth dwarves the combined net worth of Messi (£440 million) and Ronaldo (£368 million) who are two of the richest active sports stars on the planet.Towards the end of the Cold War, Tiriac took advantage of fading communism in his native Romania to become the first to open a privately-owned bank, and the Tiriac Bank has been a huge financial success.Under the company Tiriac Holdings Ltd, he has since branched out into retail, insurance and airline businesses and by 2007 had been named by Forbes as Romania's first billionaire.According to data compiled by Forbes, he's the third wealthiest man in sport, behind WWE owner Vince McMahon and NBA legend Michael Jordan.What's the first thing you'd buy if you had Ion Tiriac's fortune and why? Tell us in the comments section below...Want to be on the ball with all of the latest football news?Well then sign up for the brilliant Daily Star football email newsletter!From the latest transfer news to the agenda-setting stories, get it all in your email inbox -

Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!If you were to guess who the wealthiest former tennis player is, Ion Tiriac is not likely to be a name which comes to you straight away.But the 82-year-old holds a fortune more than four times bigger than that of 20-time Grand Slam winner Roger Federer.The Romanian only won around £200,000 during his playing days, the highlight of which was a doubles success at the 1970 French Open alongside Ilie Nastase.But he proved himself a savvy businessman and made a string of good investment decisions which saw him turn that cash into a fortune believed to be around £1.5bn.His first steps after retiring were to begin a coaching career, working with Nastase and Boris Becker in his youth, among

Former Wimbledon champion Ilie Nastase has tied the knot for a fifth time with his latest bride some 30 years younger than him.The 73-year-old Romanian tennis ace wed Ioana Simion, 43, during a "simple and beautiful" ceremony at the Mamaia resort in the seaside city of Constanta, Romania.It is believed that Nastase and Simion have been civilly married since April last year but wanted to wait on for a church ceremony.Nastase is a former world No. 1 singles tennis player who won the French and US Open, as well as multiple doubles titles, including Wimbledon.And his 62 singles title wins puts him at No.