Judy Devlin Hashman, Record-Holding Badminton Champion, Dies at 88

Sports|Judy Devlin Hashman, Record-Holding Badminton Champion, Dies astatine 88

Judy Devlin Hashman, who won the all-England badminton singles championships 10 times, much than immoderate different player, antheral oregon woman, died connected Monday. She was 88.

She died successful crab hospice attraction successful Oxford, England, her lad Geoff said.

Before badminton established a satellite title oregon joined the Olympics, the All England Open Badminton Championships was the sport’s pinnacle. Hashman won the women’s singles rubric successful that lawsuit for the archetypal clip successful 1954 astatine property 18. Then she added 9 more, the past successful 1967.

Her 10 singles titles are the most for immoderate player. She besides won 7 women’s doubles titles, six of them with her sister Susan Devlin, aboriginal known arsenic Susan Peard.

Judy Devlin was calved connected Oct. 22, 1935, successful Winnipeg, Canada, the girl of J. Frank Devlin, aa badminton manager who excelled astatine respective sports, and Grace (Steed) Devlin, a idiosyncratic who was a bully capable tennis subordinate to play doubles astatine Wimbledon. The household moved to Maryland when she was a child.

Her 17 full titles astatine the all-England championships is tied for 3rd down Sir George Thomas and her father, who some played successful the 1920s.

She besides played tract hockey, lacrosse and tennis, but made badminton her No. 1 priority. “I started badminton astatine property 7, astatine my choice,” she told the Badminton World Federation successful 2020. Her begetter had suggested tennis, but she “didn’t privation that.”