Ethel Marshall

Ethel Marshall

Ethel Marshall (born 1924) was an American badminton player noted for her mobility and shot-making prowess.

Career

She won the US Women's Singles title on all seven occasions that she contested it (1947-1953), defeating seventeen year old Judy Devlin (Hashman) in the last of these. She also won the US Women's Doubles title in 1952 and 1956 with Beatrice Massman. Ethel reached the final of US Women's Doubles on several other occasions, the last one in 1974 as she approached her fiftieth birthday.

Ethel was a member of the world team champion US Uber Cup squad in 1957 and coached the team in later years. She continued to compete into the 1980s and won dozens of national age division titles. In 1956 the Buffalo based Marshall was among the first class of inductees into the U.S. Badminton Hall of Fame, now called the Walk of Fame.

Major tournament victories

References


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