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1936 Women's British Open Squash Championship

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

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]

Draw and results

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First round

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

Second round

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

Third round

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

Quarter-finals

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

Semi-finals

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

Final

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Player one Player two Score
England Lumb England 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.