Matthew Farhang Mohtadi

M. F. Mohtadi
Country (sports) Iran Iran
Born (1926-01-06) 6 January 1926
Singles
Grand Slam Singles results
Wimbledon 1R (1949, 1950, 1951,
1952, 1953, 1954, 1955)

Dr. Matthew Farhang Mohtadi (born 6 January 1926) is a Canadian academic and former sportsman, originally from Iran.

Sporting career

Mohtadi made the final of the 1944 Middle East Championships, for table tennis.[1] He was a member of the Iran national basketball team that competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.[2] He played in their match against France.[2]

Mohtadi also played tennis and competed in seven successive Wimbledon Championships from 1949 to 1955.[3] On each occasion he exited in the opening round, to Headley Baxter, Marcel Coen, Derek Bull, Bryan Woodroffe, Staffan Stockenberg, Edwin Tsai and Bob Perry.[3] His losses to Coen and Bull were in five set matches.[3] In 1954 he was runner-up at the North of England Hardcourts Championships in Scarborough, to Ignacy Tłoczyński of Poland.[4] He also played squash competing in the British Open Squash Championships.[5]

Academic and personal life

While in England, Mohtadi obtained a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Birmingham.[2] He ended up in Canada, teaching at the University of Calgary.[2] During his many years with the university, he served for a period of time as the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department Head and as Director of Public Relations in the Faculty of Engineering.[6] He is the father of Nick Mohtadi, an orthopaedic surgeon and former professional tennis player.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "History of U.S. Table Tennis Vol II"
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Sports Reference: Farhang Mohtadi
  3. 1 2 3 Tennis Archive: Matt F. Mohtadi
  4. ↑ The Argus, "Australian Loses Tennis Final", 22 April 1954, p.15
  5. ↑ "Squash Rackets". The Times Archives.
  6. ↑ Enginuity Newsletter, Volumes 7, Number 2, 'Spring 1997, University of Calgary
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