1936 Women's British Open Squash Championship

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

Player one	Player two	Score
Margot Lumb	Mrs Colville	9-0 9-0 9-1
Miss E Green	Miss Carroll de Courcy-Hamilton	10-9 9-6 9-5
Lady Catharine Cairns	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	Eleonora Sears	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

Player one	Player two	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

Player one	Player two	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

Player one	Player two	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

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

Final

Player one	Player two	Score
Lumb	Lytton-Millbanke	9-5 9-5 9-4

Preceded by 1935	British Open Squash Championships England (London) 1936	Succeeded by 1937

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