Judy Devlin

Competing before the establishment of an official world championships for individual players and before badminton's entry into the Olympic Games, Devlin won 86 national and international titles. Among these are 31 titles in the USA, 8 titles in Germany, 7 titles in Canada, 4 titles in the Netherlands, 4 titles in Sweden, 3 titles in Ireland, 3 titles in Jamaica, 2 titles in Scotland, and a combined 19 titles in All England Open and English National competition. She played on U.S. Uber Cup teams that won three successive world championships (1957, 1960, 1963). In 1972 she won 2 titles (team and women's doubles) at the European Badminton Championships.

From 1954 to 1967 Devlin dominated the women's singles event at the U.S. Open, winning 12 titles in 14 years, including 8 consecutive championships from 1956 to 1963.

Judy Devlin is the third most successful player ever in the All England Badminton Championships, with 17 titles, 10 of them in women's singles and 7 in women's doubles.

She appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 21 March 1970,[2] and was inducted into the Badminton Hall of Fame in 1997, together with her father. She has also been inducted into the U. S. Badminton Hall of Fame and the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame.

In 2009, both Judy Devlin Hashman and Susan Devlin Peard were inducted into the Goucher College athletics Hall of Fame.

Judy Hashman settled in Oxfordshire, and ran a junior league for Badminton at St Helen's and St Katherine's School in Abingdon for over a decade.

She also created an excellent summer tennis course in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, which ran from 1972 until 2003.

• Goucher College Athletics Hall of Fame
• USA Badminton Walk of Fame Plaza: Judy Devlin Hashman
• Sports Biographies - Devlin, Judy (Mrs. Hashman)