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{{short description|English squash player}}
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'''Nancy Frances Cave''' (2 March 1896 – 1989)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/nancy-frances-cave-24-1w2s34|title=Nancy Frances Cave 1896-1991 - Ancestry®|website=www.ancestry.com}}</ref> was an [[England|English]] [[squash (sport)|squash]] player who won the [[British Open Squash Championships|British Open]] three times, in 1924, 1929 and 1930.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Reuthe |first=Sean |date=2024-05-28 |title=Tournament History |url=https://britishopensquash.info/tournament-history/ |access-date=2024-10-26 |website=British Open Squash |language=en-GB}}</ref> She was also the runner-up in the championship six times, in 1922 (losing to her younger sister [[Joyce Cave]]), 1923, 1925 (losing to Joyce Cave), 1926, 1927 and 1931.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://squashtalk.com/html/history/britishopen.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100116212049/http://squashtalk.com/html/history/britishopen.htm |url-status=unfit |title=SquashTalk - History - British Open Records|archive-date=January 16, 2010|website=SquashTalk}}</ref> She was one of three sisters that participated in the [[British Open Squash Championships|British Open]], her sister Joyce Cave also won the title on three occasions and her older sister Margorie Maude Cave competed the inaugural British Open in 1922. All three sisters were taught by their father Harold Watkin Cave who was a rackets player during the 1880s.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/archive/|title=Squash Rackets|work=The Times Archives}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081222104531/http://www.britishopensquash.com/ Official British Open Squash Championships website]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100116212049/http://squashtalk.com/html/history/britishopen.htm British Open historical data at Squashtalk.com]

{{British Open squash women's singles champions}}

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[[Category:English female squash players]]
[[Category:1896 births]]
[[Category:1989 deaths]]
[[Category:20th-century English sportswomen]]

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Nancy Cave - Revision history

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