1977 Women's British Open Squash Championship

British Open Squash Championships
49th Women's British Open Championships
Details
Location	London, England
Venue	Wembley
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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]

Seeds

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

Draw & Results

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First Round

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

Second Round

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

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

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

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

Player One	Player Two	Score
McKay	Wall	9-3 9-1 9-2

References

1. "Times Archives 1977 Open Championship". Oxfordshire Libraries.
2. "Mrs McKay wins 16th title". Trove.
3. "Squash Rackets". The Times Archives.