1936 Women's British Open Squash Championship Explained

British Open Squash Championships
Number:	15
Series:	Women's British Open Championships
Location:	London, England
Venue:	Queen's Club, West Kensington
Prevseason:	1935
Nextseason:	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

width=270	Player one	width=270	Player two	width=150	Score
	Mrs Colville	9-0 9-0 9-1
Miss E Green	Miss Carroll de Courcy-Hamilton	10-9 9-6 9-5
	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		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

width=170	Player one	width=170	Player two	width=150	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

width=170	Player one	width=170	Player two	width=150	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

width=170	Player one	width=170	Player two	width=150	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

width=170	Player one	width=170	Player two	width=150	Score
Lumb	Cooke	9-1 9-0 9-3
Lytton-M	McKechnie	0-9 9-3 9-6 4-9 9-0

Final

width=170	Player one	width=170	Player two	width=150	Score
Lumb	Lytton-Millbanke	9-5 9-5 9-4

Notes and References

Web site: Times Archives 1936 Open Championship. Oxfordshire Libraries.
Web site: Squash Rackets. The Times Archives. 20 June 2015. 18 January 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170118235618/http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/archive/. dead.