Sue Cogswell is a retired squash

Squash (sport)

Squash is a high-speed racquet sport played by two players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball...

 player from England

England

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. She was runner-up at the inaugural women's World Open championship in 1979, where she lost in the final to the Australia

Australia

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n player Heather McKay

Heather McKay

Heather Pamela McKay AM MBE is a retired Australian squash player, who is considered by many to be the greatest female player in the history of the game, and possibly also Australia's greatest-ever sportswoman...

 6–9, 9–3, 9–1, 9–4. Cogswell was also a three-time runner-up at the British Open

British Open Squash Championships

The British Open Squash Championships is the oldest and most established tournament in the game of squash. It is widely considered to be one of the two most prestigious tournaments in the game, alongside the World Open The British...

, losing in the final to McKay in 1974, to Barbara Wall

Barbara Wall

Barbara Wall is a former squash player from Australia.Wall turned professional in 1973, the first Australian woman to do so. She travelled overseas in 1976 and the following year, though unseeded, managed to make the final of the British Open, where she lost to Heather McKay...

 in 1979, and to Vicki Cardwell

Vicki Cardwell

Vicki Cardwell BEM is a former World No. 1 squash player from Australia. She was one of the leading players on the international squash circuit from the late-1970s through to the mid-1990s...

 in 1980. Cogswell won the British National Squash Championship

British National Squash Championships

The British National Squash Championships are the national squash championships for players from the United Kingdom & Ireland. They are held annually in early February and have been held at the National Squash Centre at Sportscity in Manchester since 2003....

title five times in 1975 and 1977-79.