title: 1976 Women's British Open Squash Championship
text: # 1976 Women's British Open Squash Championship
  
  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.
  
  ## Seeds
  
  * Heather McKay (née Blundell)
  * Sue Newman
  * Sue Cogswell
  * Angela Smith
  * Teresa Lawes
  * Irene Hewitt
  * Jane Courtney
  * Karen Gardner
  
  ## Draw and results
  
  ### First round
  
  | Player one | Player two | 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 |
  | Alex Cowie | 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
  
  | Player one | Player two | 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
  
  | Player one | Player two | 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
  
  | Player one | Player two | 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
  
  | Player one | Player two | Score |
  | - | - | - |
  | McKay | Lawes | 9-2 9-1 9-1 |
  | Newman | Cogswell | 9-0 9-10 9-6 4-9 9-6 |
  
  ### Final
  
  | Player one | Player two | Score |
  | - | - | - |
  | McKay | Newman | 9-2 9-4 9-2 |
  | Preceded by1975 | British Open Squash Championships England (London) 1976 | Succeeded by1977 |
  