Full name | Anthony John Mottram |
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Country (sports) | United Kingdom |
Born | Coventry, England | 8 June 1920
Died | 6 October 2016 | (aged 96)
Singles | |
Grand Slam singles results | |
French Open | 4R (1947, 1948) |
Wimbledon | QF (1948) |
US Open | 3R (1951) |
Doubles | |
Grand Slam doubles results | |
Wimbledon | F (1947)[1] |
Mixed doubles | |
Grand Slam mixed doubles results | |
Wimbledon | QF (1946, 1948, 1949)[1] |
Anthony John Mottram (8 June 1920 – 6 October 2016) was a British tennis player of the 1940s and 1950s.[2] Mottram reached the quarterfinal of the 1948 Wimbledon Championships in which he lost to Gardnar Mulloy.[1] In the doubles event he reached the final of the 1947 Wimbledon Championships with Bill Sidwell in which they were defeated by the first-seeded team of Jack Kramer and Bob Falkenburg.[1] He reached the French Open's fourth round in both 1947 and 1948, and the third round of the 1951 US Open.[3]
Mottram was born in Coventry, then Warwickshire (now West Midlands), England.[2] He appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 14 June 1955.[4] The All England Lawn Tennis Club elected him an Honorary Member in 1957.[3] Mottram died on 6 October 2016 at the age of 96.[3]