Tennis star set to join celebrity residents in West Cork
Throughout his drugs charges ordeal he has been quietly negotiating the €1.5 million purchase of Reendesert House, right, on 20 acres of wild gardens with up to 500 yards sea frontage near Bantry and Ballylickey a sort of West Cork celebrity Golden Mile.
Among the rich and famous in situ west of the city are TV celebrity Carol Vorderman in Glandore, former BBC DG Greg Dyke, actor Jeremy Irons and director David Putnam, all near Skibbereen, while comic TV personality Graham Norton is still finalising his purchase of a Georgian home in Ahakista.
Greg Rusedski, aged 30, and his wife, BBC commentator Lucy Connor, have been celebrating this past month his being cleared of nandrolone use: an away-from-it-all base in West Cork could be just the thing to put the doping woes, which threatened his tennis career, behind him.
Rusedski has not ruled out suing the tennis body the ATP, whose training supplements are being linked to several male tennis players testing positive for unwitting steroid use.
The Rusedskis were frequently sighted around the Bantry area since Christmas and have stayed in local accommodation, as the tennis star bid on Reendesert House which went up for sale last summer with a e1.5 million price guide.
They have viewed a number of waterside and lakeside properties in both east and west Cork since last summer, according to property sources.
The website of appointed selling agent Michael H Daniels recently recorded that Reendesert House was 'Sale Agreed', but last night Mr Daniels declined to confirm or deny if a deal was done on the house with Mr Rusedski.
Reendesert House has been in the same family's hands for over 20 years, and has 20 acres of woodland grounds, lots of shore frontage and its own boat mooring but no tennis court as yet.
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