1935 Women's British Open Squash Championship Explained
The 1935 Ladies Open Championships was held at the Queen's Club, West Kensington in London from 3–8 December 1934.
Margot Lumb won her first title defeating the Honourable Miss Anne Lytton-Milbanke in the final. Three times champion Miss Susan Noel decided not to defend her title. Seeds were inaugurated and the slower ball used in men's competitions was also introduced. The event took place in December 1934 which formed part of the 1934-1935 season.[1]
Draw and results
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First round
| width=270 | Player one | width=270 | Player two | width=150 | Score |
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| Margot Lumb + | Miss C Vickers | 9-0 9-0 9-2 |
| Hon Miss Anne Lytton-Milbanke + | Mrs C Pinckney | 9-0 9-3 9-1 |
| Mrs Elsie Pittman + | Miss G Lawrence | 9-1 9-1 9-1 |
| Mrs Sheila McKechnie + | Miss Betty Cooke | 9-0 10-9 9-2 |
| Miss Kathleen Tew | Miss S Keane | w/o |
| Miss R Sykes | Miss Joan Huntsman | 9-4 9-4 9-7 |
| Miss N L Kelman | Miss E Windsor-Aubrey | 9-7 9-4 9-2 |
| Mrs Edith Strawson | Miss Alexandra McOstrich | 7-9 9-5 9-10 9-2 9-4 |
| Mrs Judith Backhouse | Miss J Pearson | 9-6 9-2 9-4 |
| Miss G Babington-Smith | 9-7 9-0 9-5 |
| Miss Mary McLintock | Mrs Waymouth | 9-0 9-6 9-0 |
| Miss J E Cunningham | Miss E Fordham | 0-9 4-9 9-3 9-1 9-4 |
| Miss M Fraser | Mrs M Gill | 9-2 7-9 9-3 9-5 |
| Miss E M Bain | Miss T Rowland | 9-1 9-2 9-0 |
| Miss J Porter | Miss I W Leach | 9-0 9-2 9-0 |
| Mrs E C M Sewell | Miss K M Roberts | 9-7 9-0 9-1 |
| Miss M E L Haynes | Mrs Dorothy Crouch | 9-6 9-6 9-3 |
| Miss Marjorie Raphael | Miss K Steele | 0-9 9-6 9-2 10-8 |
| Miss Phyllis Tew | Mrs Madeline Chichester | 9-6 9-2 9-0 |
| Mrs Angela Frisby | Miss D Winterbotham | 9-0 9-3 9-3 |
| Miss P Phelps | Mrs H M Jones | 9-6 9-7 9-0 |
| Miss Diana Lamplough | Miss M E Hayes | 9-6 9-5 9-6 |
| Mrs V S Daniell | Miss A Connell | 9-4 9-0 9-2 |
| Mrs Barbara Shakerley | Mrs E Jordan | w/o |
| Mrs Phyllis Philcox | Miss Margery Alabaster | 9-0 9-0 9-5 |
| Miss Josephine Ley | Mrs S Fisk | 9-5 10-8 9-6 |
| Miss W E Murphy | Mrs D R Hicks | 7-9 9-4 9-5 9-4 |
| Mrs G Craig Lucy | Miss W M H Wild | 9-3 9-3 9-3 |
| Mrs Violet St Clair Morford | Miss J Mardon | 9-1 9-0 9-4 |
| Mrs Margaret Dawnay | Mrs D Page | 10-8 9-6 9-1 |
| Miss C Mellor | Miss Elizabeth Manson Bahr | 10-8 7-9 9-7 3-9 9-5 |
| Miss M G Roberston | Miss E Dewhurst | 9-0 9-1 10-8 | |
+ denotes seed
Second round
| width=170 | Player one | width=170 | Player two | width=150 | Score |
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| Lumb | Haynes | 9-0 9-0 9-1 |
| Lytton-M | Raphael | 9-4 9-4 9-1 |
| Pittman | Tew | 9-5 9-3 9-2 |
| McKechnie | Frisby | 9-2 9-0 9-0 |
| Tew | Phelps | 9-5 9-2 9-0 |
| Sykes | Lamplough | 9-6 9-2 9-3 |
| Kelman | Daniell | 9-4 9-5 9-3 |
| Strawson | Shakerley | 9-7 9-3 9-5 |
| Backhouse | Philcox | 9-3 9-0 9-3 |
| Huntsman | Ley | 10-8 9-0 9-0 |
| McLintock | Murphy | 9-5 9-2 9-0 |
| Cunningham | Lucy | 9-2 9-1 9-1 |
| Fraser | St Clair Morford | 9-3 9-3 9-6 |
| Bain | Dawnay | 9-5 9-6 9-3 |
| Porter | Mellor | 9-2 9-2 9-6 |
| Sewell | Roberston | 9-3 9-7 9-2 | |
Third round
| width=170 | Player one | width=170 | Player two | width=150 | Score |
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| Lumb | Fraser | 9-2 9-2 9-6 |
| Lytton-M | Backhouse | 9-0 9-2 9-3 |
| Pittman | McLintock | 9-7 5-9 3-9 9-6 9-3 |
| McKechnie | Bain | 9-3 9-0 9-0 |
| Tew | Cunningham | 5-9 9-3 9-6 5-9 9-7 |
| Sykes | Huntsman | 2-9 1-9 9-3 9-6 9-0 |
| Kelman | Sewell | 8-10 9-6 10-8 9-7 |
| Strawson | Porter | 9-7 9-4 9-1 | |
Quarter-finals
| width=170 | Player one | width=170 | Player two | width=150 | Score |
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| Lumb | Tew | 9-1 9-4 9-0 |
| Lytton-M | Sykes | 9-2 9-1 9-4 |
| Pittman | Kelman | 2-9 9-3 9-3 7-9 9-4 |
| McKechnie | Strawson | 9-4 9-1 9-4 | |
Semi-finals
| width=170 | Player one | width=170 | Player two | width=150 | Score |
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| Lytton-M | McKechnie | 9-4 5-9 10-8 9-5 |
| Lumb | Pittman | 9-2 9-0 9-2 | |
Final
| width=170 | Player one | width=170 | Player two | width=150 | Score |
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| Lumb | Lytton-Millbanke | 9-4 9-0 9-1 | |
Notes and References
- Web site: Times Archives 1934 Open Championship. Oxfordshire Libraries.
- Web site: Squash Rackets. The Times Archives. 19 June 2015. 18 January 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170118235618/http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/archive/. dead.
