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1977 Women's British Open Squash Championship

April 12, 2024

The 1977 Women's British Open Squash Championships was held at Wembley in London from 25 February - 3 March 1977. Heather McKay (née Blundell) won her sixteenth consecutive title defeating Barbara Wall in the final. The 1977 final saw the first ever all professional final and the first unseeded player (Wall) in a final. Sue Cogswell became the first woman to take a game from Heather McKay since Marion Jackman in 1972 and the first in the British Open since 1964. .[1][2]

British Open Squash Championships
49th Women's British Open Championships
Details
LocationLondon, England
VenueWembley
← 1976
1978 →

Seeds edit

  1.  Heather McKay (née Blundell)
  2.  Margaret Zachariah
  3.  Angela Smith
  4.  Sue Cogswell
  5.  Karen Gardner
  6.  Teresa Lawes
  7.  Irene Hewitt
  8.  Rhonda Shapland

Draw and results edit

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First round edit

Player one Player two Score
 Heather McKay  Pat Green 9-0 9-0 9-0
 Margaret Zachariah
 Angela Smith  J Francis 9-0 9-3 9-1
 Sue Cogswell  Sandra Wrench 9-1 9-0 9-1
 Karen Gardner  Felicity Hargreaves 9-1 9-2 9-0
 Teresa Lawes  E Elgood 9-3 9-7 9-2
 Irene Hewitt
 Rhonda Shapland  Ruth Turner 9-3 9-2 9-1
 Dorothy Armstrong  M Robinson 9-4 9-0 9-2
 Theo Johnson  P H Campbell 9-1 7-9 9-3 3-9 9-2
 Soraya Haye
 Barbara Wall
 Carol Machin  Joyce Tuomey 9-1 9-2 9-4
 Lesley Moore
 Vivian Grisogono  F R Corbett 4-9 10-8 6-9 9-1 9-5
 Jane Ashton  Alison Cumings 9-3 9-2 9-1
 Ruth Strauss  J Griffith 9-2 9-0 9-0
 A F Morris
 Patricia Millman
  Dr Barbara Sanderson  Rukshana Rashid 5-9 10-8 9-2 9-10 9-2
 C Shapman  C O'Neill 9-7 9-5 9-3
 Dorothy Sharp
 J Jones
 L McLoughlin  E O'Gorman 9-1 9-0 9-1
 S Findlay  J Flood 9-4 9-3 9-4
  Dr Geraldine Barniville  H Simpson 9-3 6-9 9-4 9-4
 Fran Marshall  Ann Jee 9-4 9-4 3-9 9-2
 Deanna Murray  C Tricker 9-4 9-1 9-2
 Claire Chapman
 Ann Price  Katerina Due-Boje 5-9 9-2 9-4 9-6
 B Bucknall  J Tosier 5-9 9-2 4-9 9-5 9-2
 C Sullivan

Second round edit

Player one Player two Score
  McKay   Strauss 9-0 9-0 9-0
  Smith   Morris 9-0 9-0 9-5
  Cogswell   Millman 9-0 9-1 9-0
  Lawes   Sanderson 9-2 9-0 10-8
  Hewitt   Shapman
  Armstrong   Sharp 1-9 9-4 9-3 9-4
  Zachariah   Jones 9-0 9-2 9-2
  Johnson   McLoughlin 9-1 9-2 9-4
  Haye   Findlay 9-7 9-7 9-2
  Shapland   Barniville 9-7 9-6 8-10 9-6
  Wall   Marshall 9-5 9-1 9-3
  Gardner   Murray 5-9 8-10 9-4 9-1 9-7
  Machin   Chapman 9-6 9-5 9-3
  Moore   Price 9-2 9-0 9-2
  Grisogono   Bucknall 9-5 9-6 10-8
  Ashton   Sullivan 9-5 9-0 9-1

Third round edit

Player one Player two Score
  McKay   Grisogono 9-1 9-1 9-0
  Smith   Hayes
  Cogswell   Ashton 9-6 10-8 9-1
  Wall   Hewitt 9-3 9-4 9-6
  Shapland   Armstrong 8-10 9-7 9-6 9-7
  Gardner   Johnson 9-2 9-1 9-4
  Lawes   Machin 9-3 9-2 9-2
  Zachariah   Moore 9-0 9-0 9-2

Quarter-finals edit

Player one Player two Score
  McKay   Shapland 9-1 9-1 9-0
  Cogswell   Gardner 9-0 9-3 9-1
  Smith   Lawes 9-4 9-0 9-1
  Wall   Zachariah 3-9 5 10-8 9-7

Semi-finals edit

Player one Player two Score
  McKay   Cogswell 9-5 9-7 5-9 9-0
  Wall   Smith 9-4 6-9 4-9 9-3 9-6

Final edit

Player one Player two Score
  McKay   Wall 9-3 9-1 9-2
Preceded by British Open Squash Championships
England (London)
1977 		Succeeded by

References edit

  1. ^ "Times Archives 1977 Open Championship". Oxfordshire Libraries.
  2. ^ "Mrs McKay wins 16th title". Trove.
  3. ^ . The Times Archives. Archived from the original on 18 January 2017. Retrieved 5 August 2015.

April 12, 2024
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