1938 Women's British Open Squash Championship
Appearance
British Open Squash Championships | |
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17th Women's British Open Championships | |
Details | |
Location | London, England |
Venue | Queen's Club, West Kensington |
The 1938 Ladies Open Championships was held at the Queen's Club, West Kensington, in London from 2–7 February 1938.
Margot Lumb won her fourth consecutive title by defeating Mrs Sheila McKechnie in a repeat of the 1937 final. This fourth win set a new record, surpassing the three wins of Joyce Cave, Nancy Cave, Cecily Fenwick and Susan Noel.[1]
Seeds
[edit]Draw and results
[edit]First round
[edit]Player one | Player two | Score |
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Margot Lumb + | bye | |
Mrs Sheila McKechnie + | bye | |
Miss T King | bye | |
Miss S Wilson | bye | |
Mrs S M Green | bye | |
Miss Joyce Dudley-Cox | bye | |
Miss Olga Klingenberg | bye | |
Mrs H Langman | bye | |
Hon Miss Anne Lytton-Milbanke + | Mrs P Johnston | 9–2 9–4 9–1 |
Miss Betty Cooke + | Miss U N Harris | 9–1 9–0 9–5 |
Lady Katharine Cairns | Mrs Stella Blaxland-Levick | 9–4 9–1 9–1 |
Miss Elizabeth Knox | Mrs Violet St Clair Morford | 9–4 9–6 9–1 |
Mrs Margaret Dawnay | Miss M Grant | 9–4 9–4 9–3 |
Mrs Alice Teague | Miss C Douglas | 9–4 9–2 9–3 |
Miss I Leach | Mrs Phyllis Philcox | 6–9 6–9 9–3 10–8 9–6 |
Mrs E P Sewell | Sylvia Huntsman | 10–8 9–6 9–3 |
Mrs H J Stribling | Mrs E A Barker | 5–9 9–2 9–1 9–1 |
Miss M Riddell | Miss Ursula Foljambe | w/o |
Miss D C Wilcox | Mrs E G Chalmers | 9–5 9–1 9–3 |
Miss P L Hervey | Miss S Link | w/o |
Miss Berenice Lumb | Miss Joan Huntsman | 9–4 9–1 9–1 |
Mrs R W M Wetherell | Miss D F Cearns | 5–9 10–9 9–3 7–9 9–4 |
Mrs Penelope Durlac | Miss M H Palmer | 5–9 9–0 10–9 9–6 |
Mrs W D Porter | Mrs Pratt | 9–3 9–1 9–2 |
Miss N L Kelman | Miss E Brett | 9–6 9–6 10–8 |
Miss S P Brown | Mrs Fielding-Johnson | w/o |
Miss K Steele | Miss K B Jackson | 9–1 9–3 9–4 |
Mrs D M Sinclair | Miss A Manning | w/o |
Mrs A I Knox | Miss B J Blanks | 9–5 9–0 9–3 |
Miss Elizabeth Glascock | Miss E I Caldwell | 9–2 9–5 10–8 |
Mrs A Vickers | Miss S C Palmer | 9–1 9–3 3–9 9–5 |
Mrs L E Lefevre | Miss M Burnell | 9–6 9–6 9–2 |
+ denotes seed
Second round
[edit]Third round
[edit]Quarter-finals
[edit]Player one | Player two | Score |
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Lumb | Knox | 9–0 9–1 9–2 |
McKechnie | Teague | 9–4 6–9 9–6 9–3 |
Lytton-M | Dawnay | 9–0 9–3 9–5 |
Cooke | Cairns | 9–4 9–5– 9–0 |
Semi-finals
[edit]Player one | Player two | Score |
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Lumb | Cooke | 9–1 9–4 6–9 9–3 |
McKechnie | Lytton-M | 9–4 6–9 9–3 9–0 |
Final
[edit]Player one | Player two | Score |
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Lumb | McKechnie | 9–3 9–2 9–1 |
References
[edit]- ^ "Times Archives 1938 Open Championship". Oxfordshire Libraries.
- ^ "Squash Rackets". The Times Archives. Archived from the original on 18 January 2017. Retrieved 20 June 2015.