| Tony Mottram | |
| Fullname: | Anthony John Mottram |
| Birth Date: | 8 June 1920 |
| Birth Place: | Coventry, England |
| Frenchopenresult: | 4R (1947, 1948) |
| Wimbledonresult: | QF (1948) |
| Usopenresult: | 3R (1951) |
| Wimbledondoublesresult: | F (1947)[1] |
| Mixed: | yes |
| Wimbledonmixedresult: | QF (1946, 1948, 1949) |
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. 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. Mottram died on 6 October 2016 at the age of 96.
In 1949 he married Joy Gannon who was also a tennis player, as were their children Buster Mottram and Linda Mottram.[5] [6] In 1957 he published a book with his wife titled Modern Lawn Tennis.[7]