1939 Women's British Open Squash Championship Explained

British Open Squash Championships
Number:	18
Series:	Women's British Open Championships
Location:	London, England
Venue:	Queen's Club, West Kensington
Prevseason:	1938
Nextseason:	1947

The 1939 Ladies Open Championships was held at the Queen's Club, West Kensington in London from 28 February – 6 March 1939.
Margot Lumb won her fifth consecutive title by defeating Susan Noel in the final. Due to the outbreak of World War II, Margot Lumb was unable to defend her title and missed the opportunity to increase her number of victories over the next seven years.^[1]

Draw and results

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First round

width=270	Player One	width=270	Player Two	width=150	Score
Miss Margot Lumb +	Miss D C Wilcox	9–0 9–2 9–0
Miss F J Russell	Miss A Maclagan	w/o
Miss M Riddell	Miss N L Kelman	5–9 9–3 9–6 9–3
Miss M Johnson Taylor	Miss Berenice Lumb	9–7 0–9 4–9 9–3 9–7
Miss Helen Stone	Mrs E G Chalmers	9–0 9–2 9–0
Miss Valerie Dalton-White	Mrs D Whitehorn	9–3 9–1 9–6
Miss Barbara Williams +	Mrs I A Knox	9–4 7–9 9–0 9–4
Miss Elizabeth Pearson +	Miss M H Palmer	9–6 9–6 4–9 9–6
Miss F Berrill	Miss P L Hervey	4–9 1–9 9–7 9–3 9–6
Miss Elizabeth Knox	Mrs Violet St Clair Morford	9–0 9–5 9–1
Mrs W D Porter	Miss Ursula Foljambe	9–0 4–9 1–9 9–2 10–8
Miss E M Walker	Mrs E M Jarrett	6–9 9–5 9–4 9–3
Miss E B Sandercock	Mrs F M Traill	9–4 9–6 9–6
	Mrs Judith Backhouse	9–0 9–3 ret
Hon Miss Anne Lytton-Milbanke +	Mrs Olga MacInnes	9–0 9–0 9–1
Mrs A H Luttrell	Miss Betty Cooke +	w/o
Miss Margaret Bostwick	Mrs H Langman	9–4 9–5 9–4
Miss Elizabeth Glascock	Miss L Prest	w/o
Miss Joan Marquis	Miss S Toyne	9–4 9–0 9–4
Miss J Howard	Mrs D M Sinclair	10–8 9–4 9–7
Miss Frieda Scharman	Miss Marianne Toyne	9–4 10–8 9–2
Miss Anne Page +	Miss M Murdoch	9–0 9–5 9–0
Mrs A Vickers	Miss W Peile	9–5 9–1 4–9 9–4
Miss E M Browning	Miss B J Blanks	w/o
Mrs Margaret Dawnay	Miss A H Baker	9–4 9–2 9–0
Miss T King	Miss B E M Brett	9–4 9–7 7–9 9–7
Miss Eleonora Sears +	Miss Marjorie Raphael	9–5 8–10 7–9 9–5 9–5
Mrs E P Sewell	Mrs Penelope Durlac	9–2 10–8 9–4
Mrs R C Riseley	Miss I D Edwards	9–1 9–1 2–9 5–9 9–2
Miss R Berens	Miss S C Palmer	9–3 7–9 1–9 9–2 10–8
Miss Margaret Trehearne	Miss Elizabeth Manson Bahr	9–1 9–2 9–5
Miss Susan Noel +	Mrs H J Stribling	9–1 9–2 9–3

+ denotes seed

Second round

width=170	Player One	width=170	Player Two	width=150	Score
Lumb	Russell	9–4 9–5 9–2
Dalton-White	B Williams	9–1 7–9 9–3 9–0
Pearson	Berrill	9–5 9–1 9–2
Lytton-M	Cairns	9–1 9–5 3–9 2–9 9–6
Page	King	7–9 9–5 9–2 9–7
Vickers	Sears	9–7 7–9 9–1 5–9 9–1
Noel	Trehearne	9–1 9–7 6–9 9–6
Knox	Porter	9–1 9–4 9–5
Walker	Sandercock	9–4 9–2 5–9 9–0
Berens	Riseley	9–5 9–2 9–4
Sewell	Browning	9–2 9–2 9–0
Howard	Scharman	9–7 9–4 9–2
Glascock	Marquis	9–5 9–1 9–3
Bostwick	Luttrell	9–7 9–1 9–0
Dawnay	Riddell	9–0 9–4 9–1
Johnson–Taylor	Stone	9–3 9–7 7–9 9–4

Third round

width=170	Player One	width=170	Player Two	width=150	Score
Lumb	Dawnay	9–3 9–4 9–1
Dalton–White	Johnson-Taylor	6–9 9–4 6–9 9–0 9–3
Knox	Pearson	9–4 4–9 9–6 9–5
Lytton-M	Walker	9–0 9–3 9–1
Glascock	Bostwick	9–3 4–9 9–5 9–4
Page	Howard	9–1 9–3 9–5
Sewell	Vickers	10–8 10–9 4–9 9–4
Noel	Berrens	9–0 9–3 9–3

Quarter-finals

width=170	Player One	width=170	Player Two	width=150	Score
Lumb	Dalton-White	9–6 9–5 9–0
Lytton–M	Knox	4–9 5–9 9–2 9–6 9–0
Page	Glascock	10–9 9–3 4–9 9–6
Noel	Sewell	9–0 9–0 9–3

Semi-finals

width=170	Player One	width=170	Player Two	width=150	Score
Lumb	Lytton-M	9–6 5–9 9–5 9–2
Noel	Page	9–0 9–4 9–2

Final

width=170	Player One	width=170	Player Two	width=150	Score
Lumb	Noel	9–6 9–1 9–7

Notes and References

Web site: Times Archives 1939 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.