Margaret Osborne (table tennis)


Lucy 'Margaret' Osborne,, is a former female international table tennis and tennis player from England.

Table tennis career

She won five World Table Tennis Championship medals; In the 1935 World Table Tennis Championships she won a mixed doubles bronze medal with Adrian Haydon and two years later she won another bronze with Wendy Woodhead in the women's doubles at the 1937 World Table Tennis Championships.
Two more medals were won during the 1938 World Table Tennis Championships in the singles and in the doubles with Dora Emdin. A gold medal was finally won when she was a member of the winning team in the 1947 World Table Tennis Championships. She also won eight English Open titles.

Tennis career

She played at The Championships, Wimbledon listed as Mrs BW Knott from 1949 to 1952.

Personal life

She married Basil W. Knott on 25 January 1947 in Birmingham and played under the name Knott afterwards.