# 1938 Women's British Open Squash Championship

The 1938 Ladies Open Championships was held at the Queen's Club, West Kensington, in London from 2–7 February 1938. Margot Lumb won her fourth consecutive title by defeating Mrs Sheila McKechnie in a repeat of the 1937 final. This fourth win set a new record, surpassing the three wins of Joyce Cave, Nancy Cave, Cecily Fenwick and Susan Noel.

## Seeds

* Margot Lumb
* Hon Miss Anne Lytton-Milbanke
* Sheila McKechnie
* Betty Cooke

## Draw and results
### First round

| Player one | Player two | Score |
| Margot Lumb + | | bye |
| Mrs Sheila McKechnie + | | bye |
| Miss T King | | bye |
| Miss S Wilson | | bye |
| Mrs S M Green | | bye |
| Miss Joyce Dudley-Cox | | bye |
| Miss Olga Klingenberg | | bye |
| Mrs H Langman | | bye |
| Hon Miss Anne Lytton-Milbanke + | Mrs P Johnston | 9–2 9–4 9–1 |
| Miss Betty Cooke + | Miss U N Harris | 9–1 9–0 9–5 |
| Lady Katharine Cairns | Mrs Stella Blaxland-Levick | 9–4 9–1 9–1 |
| Miss Elizabeth Knox | Mrs Violet St Clair Morford | 9–4 9–6 9–1 |
| Mrs Margaret Dawnay | Miss M Grant | 9–4 9–4 9–3 |
| Mrs Alice Teague | Miss C Douglas | 9–4 9–2 9–3 |
| Miss I Leach | Mrs Phyllis Philcox | 6–9 6–9 9–3 10–8 9–6 |
| Mrs E P Sewell | Sylvia Huntsman | 10–8 9–6 9–3 |
| Mrs H J Stribling | Mrs E A Barker | 5–9 9–2 9–1 9–1 |
| Miss M Riddell | Miss Ursula Foljambe | w/o |
| Miss D C Wilcox | Mrs E G Chalmers | 9–5 9–1 9–3 |
| Miss P L Hervey | Miss S Link | w/o |
| Miss Berenice Lumb | Miss Joan Huntsman | 9–4 9–1 9–1 |
| Mrs R W M Wetherell | Miss D F Cearns | 5–9 10–9 9–3 7–9 9–4 |
| Mrs Penelope Durlac | Miss M H Palmer | 5–9 9–0 10–9 9–6 |
| Mrs W D Porter | Mrs Pratt | 9–3 9–1 9–2 |
| Miss N L Kelman | Miss E Brett | 9–6 9–6 10–8 |
| Miss S P Brown | Mrs Fielding-Johnson | w/o |
| Miss K Steele | Miss K B Jackson | 9–1 9–3 9–4 |
| Mrs D M Sinclair | Miss A Manning | w/o |
| Mrs A I Knox | Miss B J Blanks | 9–5 9–0 9–3 |
| Miss Elizabeth Glascock | Miss E I Caldwell | 9–2 9–5 10–8 |
| Mrs A Vickers | Miss S C Palmer | 9–1 9–3 3–9 9–5 |
| Mrs L E Lefevre | Miss M Burnell | 9–6 9–6 9–2 |
+ denotes seed

### Second round

| Player one | Player two | Score |
| Lumb M | Wilson | 9–0 9–0 9–2 |
| Lytton-M | Lumb B | 9–0 9–3 9–0 |
| McKechnie | Klingenberg | 9–0 9–1 9–0 |
| Cooke | Wetherell | 9–1 9–5 9–7 |
| Cairns | Durlac | 10–9 9–3 9–4 |
| Knox E | Porter | 9–4 9–3 9–0 |
| Dawnay | Kelman | 9–5 9–7 9–5 |
| Teague | Brown | 9–1 9–3 9–4 |
| King | Langman | 9–1 9–4 9–0 |
| Leach | Steele | 9–5 9–5 10–8 |
| Sewell | Sinclair | w/o |
| Stribling | Knox A | 9–1 9–4 9–5 |
| Riddell | Glascock | 6–9 9–5 9–1 9–4 |
| Wilcox | Vickers | 9–6 9–5 9–7 |
| Hervey | Lefevre | 9–0 5–9 9–5 6–9 9–5 |
| Green | Dudley-Cox | 9–3 9–1 9–0 |

### Third round

| Player one | Player two | Score |
| Lumb | Green | 9–6 9–2 9–0 |
| McKechnie | King | 9–3 9–2 9–3 |
| Lytton-M | Stribling | 9–2 9–1 9–1 |
| Cooke | Riddell | 9–5 9–1 9–6 |
| Knox | Hervey | 9–1 9–4 9–0 |
| Teague | Leach | 9–5 9–0 9–0 |
| Dawnay | Sewell | 9–5 9–7 9–4 |
| Cairns | Wilcox | 9–6 9–7 9–1 |

### Quarter-finals

| Player one | Player two | Score |
| Lumb | Knox | 9–0 9–1 9–2 |
| McKechnie | Teague | 9–4 6–9 9–6 9–3 |
| Lytton-M | Dawnay | 9–0 9–3 9–5 |
| Cooke | Cairns | 9–4 9–5– 9–0 |

### Semi-finals

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

### Final

| Player one | Player two | Score |
| Lumb | McKechnie | 9–3 9–2 9–1 |
| Preceded by1937 | British Open Squash Championships England (London) 1938 | Succeeded by1939 |