Player Spotlight: Mostafa Baladi

Mostafa Baladi

•  3.5 Level
• Economist

Gladiator Highlights

• 14 seasons played
• 27 career wins  
• 2493 wildcard points earned 
• playoff qualifier every year since 2007
• 16 epic matches decided by a 3rd set tiebreaker
  

Gladiator Tennis launched in 2007 with only 34 players in the first season.  Mostafa was one of these players who founded the league, and he has played in every single season we have been in existence.  Mostafa discovered the league at the Naperville YMCA, where he saw our neon yellow flyer.

Tennis has always been Mostafa's favorite sport, and he played in a USTA league for 15 years while living in Madison, Wisconsin.  Mostafa moved from Madison to the Chicago suburbs, and dropped out of tennis for a year while searching for other people to play.  Gladiator offered the competition and flexible scheduling he was looking for, and he credits it as an excellent way to get back in the game, keep active, and stay in shape.  Tennis runs in the family, and Mostafa's son plays in the league at the 5.0 level.