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Jun 08, 1920 Coventry, England, United Kingdom Died on 06 Oct 2016 (aged 96)
English tennis player
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About Tony Mottram
- Anthony John Mottram (8 June 1920 – 6 October 2016) was a British tennis player of the 1940s and 1950s.
- Mottram reached the quarterfinal of the 1948 Wimbledon Championships in which he lost to Gardnar Mulloy.
- He was the father of tennis players Buster Mottram and Linda Mottram.
- 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.
- He reached the French Open's fourth round in both 1947 and 1948, and the third round of the 1951 US Open.Mottram was born in Coventry, then Warwickshire (now West Midlands), England.
- He appeared as a "castaway" on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 14 June 1955.
- The All England Lawn Tennis Club elected him an Honorary Member in 1957.
- Mottram died on 6 October 2016 at the age of 96.
