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.
Draw and results
First round Player onePlayer twoScore 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 Katharine 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 onePlayer twoScore 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 onePlayer twoScore 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 onePlayer twoScore 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 onePlayer twoScore Lumb Cooke 9-1 9-0 9-3 Lytton-M McKechnie 0-9 9-3 9-6 4-9 9-0
Final Player onePlayer twoScore Lumb Lytton-Millbanke 9-5 9-5 9-4
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