Mahmoud Alam

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**Mahmoud Alam**

Country	Pakistan
Residence	Pakistan
Date of birth
Place of birth	British India
Height
Weight
Turned pro
Plays
Career prize money
Singles
Career record:	1–5
Career titles:	0
Highest ranking:
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	-
French Open	-
Wimbledon	2nd (1948)
US Open	-
Doubles
Career record:	0–2
Career titles:	0
Highest ranking:
Infobox last updated on: January 7, 2007.

Mahmoud Alam (born in British India) is a fomer tennis player from Pakistan, who represented the country in the Davis Cup and also played at Wimbledon.

1 Wimbledon
2 Davis Cup
3 Background and Family Life
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Wimbledon

He is the first Pakistani to reach the second round in 1948 at Wimbledon during the pre-open era. He was one of two Pakistani’s at the tournament.

Scores

1st round: defeated Bela Peto of Hungary, 6–3 5–7 6–4 6–3.^[1]
2nd round: lost to Egyptian Marcel Coen 7–9 4–6 7–5 3–6.^[2]

[edit] Davis Cup

Alam represented Pakistan in 2 ties in 1948 against Switzerland and in 1950 against Philippines.^[3] He overall record was 0–6.^[4]

Singles: 0–4
Doubles: 0–2

[edit] Background and Family Life

His father, Mehboob Alam, was a captain of Aligarh's hockey team from 1914 - 1918.^[5] His daughter, Sheherezade Alam is a celebrated ceramist and son-in-law, Zahoor ul Akhlaq was a painter. He also has two sons, Asad and Shaban.