1976 Women's British Open Squash Championship Explained

British Open Squash Championships
Number:	48
Series:	Women's British Open Championships
Location:	London, England
Venue:	Wembley
Prevseason:	1975
Nextseason:	1977

The 1976 Women's British Open Squash Championships was held at Wembley in London from 27 February - 4 March 1976. Heather McKay (née Blundell) won her fifteenth consecutive title defeating Sue Newman in the final.^{[1] [2]}

Draw and results

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First round

width=270	Player one	width=270	Player two	width=150	Score
Sue Cogswell	M Robinson	9-0 9-0 9-1
Angela Smith	Deanna Murray	9-0 9-0 9-1
Teresa Lawes	J Sheasby	9-5 9-2 9-2
Irene Hewitt	Alix Bostock	9-2 9-6 9-4
Jane Courtney	E Gubbay	9-1 9-0 9-0
Karen Gardner	Ruth Turner	9-4 9-3 9-0
	Miss Pam Haig	9-1 9-4 9-4
Tessa Lawrence	Soraya Haye	9-1 9-2 9-2
Barbara Diggens	Ann Price	9-2 9-0 9-7
Mrs Sue Paton	Barbara Sanderson	9-2 9-3 9-6
Theo Johnson	J Francis	9-7 9-2 10-8
Carol Machin	J Griffith	9-1 9-1 9-4
Fran Marshall	Janet Ledger	9-0 9-2 9-2
Miss D Prosser	J Flood	9-0 9-2 9-1
Lesley Moore	S Findlay	9-5 9-0 9-0
Jane Poynder	Bobs Whitehead	9-3 9-5 9-7
Patricia Millman	Lynn Crosbie	10-9 9-0 6-9 9-2
J Graydon	Joyce Tuomey	7-9 9-2 9-3 9-3
P H Campbell	C Wood	9-2 10-8 9-3
Dianne Corbett	Clair Richards	9-2 9-2 9-4
Deborah Holland	G Jafier	9-3 9-0 9-2
Jane Ashton	P Lenehan	9-1 9-3 9-4
Faith Sinclair	Jean Reynolds (née McFarlane)	10-8 9-0 9-6
Dorothy Armstrong	C Sullivan	9-3 9-4 9-5
Vivian Grisogono	S Dunford	9-3 9-7 9-4
Joyce Maycock		bye
Heather McKay		bye
Sue Newman		bye
A F Morris		bye
Claire Chapman		bye
J Macey		bye

Second round

width=170	Player one	width=170	Player two	width=150	Score
Newman	Moore	9-1 9-2 9-1
Cogswell	Poynder	9-3 9-2 9-1
Smith	Millman	9-2 9-1 9-0
Lawes	Morris	9-1 9-2 9-6
Hewitt	Graydon	9-0 9-1 9-2
Courtney	Campbell	9-0 9-0 9-0
Gardner	Corbett	9-4 9-3 9-2
Cowie	Holland	9-10 10-8 9-6 1-9 8-10
Diggens	Macey	8-10 9-2 9-2 9-4
Paton	Ashton	7-9 9-7 9-3 10-8
Johnson	Sinclair	9-3 9-6 9-2
Machin	Lawrence	9-4 9-5 9-7
Chapman	Armstrong	9-7 9-3 5-9 9-4
Marshall	Grisogono	9-6 9-2 9-7
Maycock	Prosser	10-9 9-1 9-0

Third round

width=170	Player one	width=170	Player two	width=150	Score
McKay	Paton	9-2 9-2 9-1
Newman	Johnson	9-5 9-5 9-2
Cogswell	Machin	9-5 9-0 9-?
Lawes	Chapman	9-7 9-1 9-1
Gardner	Holland	9-4 9-5 9-0
Diggens	Courtney	9-10 10-9 9-3 9-4
Smith	Maycock	2-9 9-2 10-8 9-?
Hewitt	Marshall	9-1 9-2 5-9 10-8

Quarter-finals

width=170	Player one	width=170	Player two	width=150	Score
McKay	Gardner	9-0 9-0 9-0
Newman	Diggens	9-1 9-2 9-4
Lawes	Smith	9-5 9-3 7-9 5-9 10-8
Cogswell	Hewitt	10-8 0 10-8

Semi-finals

width=170	Player one	width=170	Player two	width=150	Score
McKay	Lawes	9-2 9-1 9-1
Newman	Cogswell	9-0 9-10 9-6 4-9 9-6

Final

width=170	Player one	width=170	Player two	width=150	Score
McKay	Newman	9-2 9-4 9-2

Notes and References

1. Web site: Times Archives 1976 Open Championship. Oxfordshire Libraries.
2. Web site: Heather's title. Trove.
3. Web site: Squash Rackets. The Times Archives. 5 August 2015. 18 January 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170118235618/http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/archive/. dead.