1936 Women's British Open Squash Championship

The 1936 Ladies Open Championships was held at the Queen's Club, West Kensington in London from 2–7 March 1936.
Margot Lumb won her second consecutive title defeating the Honourable Miss Anne Lytton-Milbanke in a repeat of the 1935 final. Eighty-six competitors entered resulting in the need for the Women's SRA to select fifty-six with the remaining twenty-nine taking part in eliminating events to find the final eight.[1]

British Open Squash Championships
15th Women's British Open Championships
Details
LocationLondon, England
VenueQueen's Club, West Kensington
← 1935
1937 →

Draw and results

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First round

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Player one Player two Score
  Margot Lumb   Mrs Colville 9-0 9-0 9-1
  Miss E Green   Miss Carroll de Courcy-Hamilton 10-9 9-6 9-5
  Lady Katharine Cairns   Miss Edith Drury 9-1 9-0 9-0
  Miss Agnes Lamme   Miss Phyllis Tew 10-8 9-7 9-1
  Miss Betty Cooke   Miss Valerie Dalton-White 9-3 9-7 9-1
  Miss Elizabeth Knox  Eleonora Sears 10-9 9-3 9-4
  Miss Josephine Ley   Miss Marianne Toyne w/o
  Miss Cecile Bowes   Miss D C Wilcock 9-4 9-0 9-4
  Mrs Sheila McKechnie   Miss A Alexander 9-6 9-6 9-2
  Mrs Margaret Dawnay   Miss T King 8-10 9-4 4-9 9-3 9-3
  Miss Phyllis Blake   Mrs Rogers-Dunn 9-6 10-9 9-1
  Hon Miss Anne Lytton-Milbanke   Mrs A E Spreckley w/o
  Miss N L Kelman   Mrs L Shaw 9-0 9-4 9-6
  Miss V Marshall   Miss Olga Klingenberg w/o
  Miss Anne Page   Miss Joan Huntsman 9-5 9-2 9-0
  Miss Mary McLintock   Mrs D M Sinclair 9-0 9-2 9-0
  Mrs Phyllis Philcox   Mrs Madeline Chichester 9-7 8-10 10-9 4-9 9-5
  Miss S Holroyd   Mrs Viola Jeannerat 9-0 9-6 9-2
  Miss E Fordham   Miss K Kennedy 9-0 9-2 10-8
  Mrs Violet St Clair Morford   Miss B Melville 4-9 9-3 9-2 9-2
  Mrs J Higman   Mrs S Knight 9-1 9-4 9-7
  Miss A Connell   Miss Wendy St John Maule 9-3 9-7 9-5
  Miss U Harris   Mrs Diana Petitpierre 9-6 9-7 9-0
  Miss G Lawrence   Miss M King 4-9 9-7 9-2 5-9 9-5
  Miss Kathleen Tew   Miss Ursula Foljambe 9-1 9-0 9-0
  Mrs Judith Backhouse   Miss Peggy Runge 9-4 9-1 9-2
  Miss E M Bain   Miss C Vickers 9-5 9-1 8-10 4-9 9-6
  Miss R Sykes   Miss Elizabeth Glascock 9-6 9-1 9-5
  Mrs M G Robertson   Miss Elizabeth Woolsey w/o
  Mrs A Knight   Miss M Grant 9-7 7-9 9-6 9-3
  Mrs H J Stribling   Miss F N Fryer 10-9 9-2 9-7
  Miss Peggy Phelps   Mrs Fielding-Johnson 9-0 9-1 9-5

Second round

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Player one Player two Score
  Lumb   Philcox 9-0 9-0 9-0
  Green   Holroyd 9-2 9-5 9-7
  Cairns   Fordham 9-2 9-6 9-0
  Lamme   Morford 9-4 9-0 9-2
  Cooke   Higman 9-4 10-8 9-4
  Knox   Connell 9-2 9-0 9-1
  Ley   Harris 9-6 9-10 9-3 9-2
  Bowes   Lawrence 9-2 9-0 9-1
  McKechnie   Tew 9-0 9-3 9-5
  Dawnay   Backhouse 7-9 4-9 9-2 9-7 9-6
  Blake   Bain 9-6 2-9 9-5 9-7
  Lytton-M   Sykes 9-5 7-9 9-3 9-3
  Kelman   Robertson w/o
  Marshall   Knight 7-9 9-5 10-8 9-5
  Page   Stribling 9-0 9-7 9-2
  McLintock   Phelps 1-9 6-9 9-5 9-4 9-4

Third round

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Player one Player two Score
  Lumb   Green 9-0 9-0 9-0
  Cairns   Lamme 5-9 9-1 9-3 9-1
  Cooke   Knox 9-10 3-9 9-0 9-6 9-1
  Bowes   Ley 9-4 9-2 9-2
  McKechnie   McLintock 4-9 9-3 9-3 9-0
  Dawnay   Blake 9-5 9-1 9-2
  Lytton-M   Kelman 9-1 5-9 9-0 9-4
  Page   Marshall 7-9 9-5 9-4 9-4

Quarter-finals

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Player one Player two Score
  Lumb   Cairns 9-2 9-0 9-0
  Lytton-M   Page 6-9 9-0 7-9 9-5 9-6
  Cooke   Bowes 9-6 9-4 9-2
  McKechnie   Dawnay 9-0 9-6 9-1

Semi-finals

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Player one Player two Score
  Lumb   Cooke 9-1 9-0 9-3
  Lytton-M   McKechnie 0-9 9-3 9-6 4-9 9-0

Final

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Player one Player two Score
  Lumb   Lytton-Millbanke 9-5 9-5 9-4
Preceded by British Open Squash Championships
England (London)

1936
Succeeded by

References

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  1. ^ "Times Archives 1936 Open Championship". Oxfordshire Libraries.
  2. ^ "Squash Rackets". The Times Archives. Archived from the original on 18 January 2017. Retrieved 20 June 2015.