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Susan Devlin

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| name = Susan Devlin Peard

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| birth_name = Susan Devlin

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1931}}

| birth_place = Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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| handedness = Left{{cite web |editor-last=Scheele |editor-first=H. A. E. |title=Letters to the editor |url=https://worldbadminton.com/museum/publications/WorldBadminton/documents/n26_197608.pdf |work=World Badminton |edition=26 |date=August 1976 |page=19 |access-date=4 January 2025}}

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| country = United States
Ireland

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{{MedalSport | Women's badminton }}

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{{MedalGold | 1957 Lancashire | Women's team }}

{{MedalGold | 1960 Philadelphia | Women's team }}

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Susan Devlin Peard (born 1931) is an American-Irish former badminton player who represented both the US and Ireland in international competition. She is the daughter of J. Frank Devlin, an Irish badminton great, who moved his family to the United States in the late 1930s. She is the older sister of Judy Devlin Hashman, with whom she won numerous international women's doubles championships, including six titles at the prestigious All-England Championships (1954, 1956, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1966).Pat Davis, The Guinness Book of Badminton (Enfield, Middlesex, England: Guinness, Superlatives Ltd., 1983) 108.

Career

The Devlin sisters won a record ten United States women's doubles titles between 1953 and 1966.Herbert Scheele ed., The International Badminton Federation Handbook for 1971 (Canterbury, Kent, England: J. A. Jennings Ltd., 1971) 313. They also formed a doubles pairing that won all of its individual matches for the world champion U.S. Uber Cup (women's international) teams of 1957 and 1960.Herbert Scheele ed., The International Badminton Federation Handbook for 1967 (Canterbury, Kent, England: J. A. Jennings Ltd. 1967) 97-101. In 1960 Susan Devlin married Irish badminton player Frank Peard and thereafter resided in Ireland. She won two Irish national women's doubles titles and played Uber Cup for Ireland in the '62-'63 and '65-'66 campaigns.Herbert Scheele ed., The International Badminton Federation Handbook for 1967 (Canterbury, Kent, England: J. A. Jennings Ltd., 1967) 102-106. In 1976 she was inducted into the U.S. Badminton Hall of Fame, now known as the Walk of Fame. In 2009, both Susan and Judy were inducted into the Goucher College athletics Hall of Fame.

Achievements

= International tournaments (22 titles, 8 runners-up) =

Women's singles

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!Year

!Tournament

!Opponent

!Score

!Result

align="center" | 1959

| align="left" | Canada Open

| align="left" | {{flagicon|USA}} Judy Devlin

| align="left" | 1–11, 10–12

| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{silver2}} Runner-up

Women's doubles

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!Year

!Tournament

!Partner

!Opponent

!Score

!Result

align="center" | 1954

| align="left" | All England Open

| align="left" | {{flagicon|USA}} Judy Devlin

| align="left" | {{flagicon|ENG}} Iris Rogers
{{flagicon|ENG}} June White

| align="left" | 15–7, 12–15, 15–8

| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{gold1}} Winner

align="center" | 1954

| align="left" | U.S. Open

| align="left" | {{flagicon|USA}} Judy Devlin

| align="left" | {{flagicon|USA}} Ethel Marshall
{{flagicon|USA}} Bea Massman

| align="left" | 10–15, 15–10, 15–13

| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{gold1}} Winner

align="center" | 1955

| align="left" | All England Open

| align="left" | {{flagicon|USA}} Judy Devlin

| align="left" | {{flagicon|ENG}} Iris Rogers
{{flagicon|ENG}} June White

| align="left" | 15–18, 15–10, 9–15

| style="text-align:left; background: white" | {{silver2}} Runner-up

align="center" | 1955

| align="left" | U.S. Open

| align="left" | {{flagicon|USA}} Judy Devlin

| align="left" | {{flagicon|USA}} Janet Wright
{{flagicon|USA}} Thelma Welcome

| align="left" | 15–10, 15–9

| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{gold1}} Winner

align="center" | 1956

| align="left" | All England Open

| align="left" | {{flagicon|USA}} Judy Devlin

| align="left" | {{flagicon|ENG}} Iris Rogers
{{flagicon|ENG}} June Timperley

| align="left" | 17–18, 15–12, 15–12

| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{gold1}} Winner

align="center" | 1956

| align="left" | U.S. Open

| align="left" | {{flagicon|USA}} Judy Devlin

| align="left" | {{flagicon|USA}} Ethel Marshall
{{flagicon|USA}} Bea Massman

| align="left" | 15–10, 7–15, 10–15

| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{silver2}} Runner-up

align="center" | 1957

| align="left" | Canada Open

| align="left" | {{flagicon|USA}} Judy Devlin

| align="left" | {{flagicon|USA}} Ethel Marshall
{{flagicon|USA}} Bea Massman

| align="left" | 15–5, 10–15, 15–3

| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{gold1}} Winner

align="center" | 1957

| align="left" | U.S. Open

| align="left" | {{flagicon|USA}} Judy Devlin

| align="left" | {{flagicon|USA}} Dorothy O'Neil
{{flagicon|USA}} Margaret Varner

| align="left" | 7–15, 15–7, 15–5

| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{gold1}} Winner

align="center" | 1958

| align="left" | U.S. Open

| align="left" | {{flagicon|USA}} Judy Devlin

| align="left" | {{flagicon|USA}} Ethel Marshall
{{flagicon|USA}} Bea Massman

| align="left" | 15–10, 15–7

| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{gold1}} Winner

align="center" | 1959

| align="left" | All England Open

| align="left" | {{flagicon|USA}} Judy Devlin

| align="left" | {{flagicon|ENG}} Iris Rogers
{{flagicon|ENG}} June Timperley

| align="left" | 15–11, 10–15, 11–15

| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{silver2}} Runner-up

align="center" | 1959

| align="left" | Canada Open

| align="left" | {{flagicon|USA}} Judy Devlin

| align="left" | {{flagicon|CAN|1957}} Joan Hennessy
{{flagicon|CAN|1957}} Marjory Shedd

| align="left" | 15–3, 15–1

| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{gold1}} Winner

align="center" | 1959

| align="left" | U.S. Open

| align="left" | {{flagicon|USA}} Judy Devlin

| align="left" | {{flagicon|USA}} Ethel Marshall
{{flagicon|USA}} Bea Massman

| align="left" | 15–8, 15–8

| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{gold1}} Winner

align="center" | 1960

| align="left" | All England Open

| align="left" | {{flagicon|USA}} Judy Hashman

| align="left" | {{flagicon|DEN}} Kirsten Granlund
{{flagicon|DEN}} Inge Birgit Hansen

| align="left" | 15–3, 15–6

| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{gold1}} Winner

align="center" | 1960

| align="left" | U.S. Open

| align="left" | {{flagicon|USA}} Judy Hashman

| align="left" | {{flagicon|USA}} Dorothy O'Neil
{{flagicon|USA}} Margaret Varner

| align="left" | 7–15, 15–7, 15–5

| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{gold1}} Winner

align="center" | 1961

| align="left" | All England Open

| align="left" | {{flagicon|USA}} Judy Hashman

| align="left" | {{flagicon|SCO}} Catherine Dunglison
{{flagicon|SCO}} Wilma Tyre

| align="left" | 15–5, 15–4

| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{gold1}} Winner

align="center" | 1961

| align="left" | Irish Open

| align="left" | {{flagicon|IRL}} Lena Rea

| align="left" | {{flagicon|ENG}} Jenny Pritchard
{{flagicon|ENG}} Ursula Smith

| align="left" | 15–12, 12–15, 15–7

| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{gold1}} Winner

align="center" | 1961

| align="left" | U.S. Open

| align="left" | {{flagicon|USA}} Judy Hashman

| align="left" | {{flagicon|USA}} Lois Alston
{{flagicon|USA}} Helen Tibbetts

| align="left" | 15–11, 15–3

| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{gold1}} Winner

align="center" | 1963

| align="left" | German Open

| align="left" | {{flagicon|USA}} Judy Hashman

| align="left" | {{flagicon|DEN}} Karin Jørgensen
{{flagicon|DEN}} Ulla Rasmussen

| align="left" | 8–15, 10–15

| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{silver2}} Runner-up

align="center" | 1963

| align="left" | All England Open

| align="left" | {{flagicon|USA}} Judy Hashman

| align="left" | {{flagicon|DEN}} Karin Jørgensen
{{flagicon|DEN}} Ulla Rasmussen

| align="left" | 15–6, 15–9

| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{gold1}} Winner

align="center" | 1963

| align="left" | U.S. Open

| align="left" | {{flagicon|USA}} Judy Hashman

| align="left" | {{flagicon|ENG}} Margaret Barrand
{{flagicon|ENG}} Ursula Smith

| align="left" | 15–6, 15–7

| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{gold1}} Winner

align="center" | 1964

| align="left" | All England Open

| align="left" | {{flagicon|USA}} Judy Hashman

| align="left" | {{flagicon|DEN}} Karin Jørgensen
{{flagicon|DEN}} Ulla Rasmussen

| align="left" | 11–15, 15–6, 10–15

| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{silver2}} Runner-up

align="center" | 1964

| align="left" | Irish Open

| align="left" | {{flagicon|USA}} Judy Hashman

| align="left" | {{flagicon|IRL}} Lena Rea
{{flagicon|IRL}} Mary O'Sullivan

| align="left" | 15–8, 15–7

| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{gold1}} Winner

align="center" | 1965

| align="left" | U.S. Open

| align="left" | {{flagicon|USA}} Judy Hashman

| align="left" | {{flagicon|ENG}} Margaret Barrand
{{flagicon|ENG}} Jenny Pritchard

| align="left" | 7–15, 15–13, 11–15

| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{silver2}} Runner-up

align="center" | 1966

| align="left" | German Open

| align="left" | {{flagicon|USA}} Judy Hashman

| align="left" | {{flagicon|DEN}} Karin Jørgensen
{{flagicon|DEN}} Ulla Strand

| align="left" | 15–7, 15–3

| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{gold1}} Winner

align="center" | 1966

| align="left" | All England Open

| align="left" | {{flagicon|USA}} Judy Hashman

| align="left" | {{flagicon|DEN}} Karin Jørgensen
{{flagicon|DEN}} Ulla Strand

| align="left" | 15–5, 14–17, 15–12

| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{gold1}} Winner

align="center" | 1966

| align="left" | Irish Open

| align="left" | {{flagicon|IRL}} Lena Rea

| align="left" | {{flagicon|IRL}} Yvonne Kelly
{{flagicon|IRL}} Mary O'Sullivan

| align="left" | 2–15, 10–15

| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{silver2}} Runner-up

align="center" | 1966

| align="left" | Canada Open

| align="left" | {{flagicon|USA}} Judy Hashman

| align="left" | {{flagicon|USA}} Tyna Barinaga
{{flagicon|USA}} Caroline Jensen

| align="left" | 15–8, 14–17, 15–12

| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{gold1}} Winner

align="center" | 1966

| align="left" | U.S. Open

| align="left" | {{flagicon|USA}} Judy Hashman

| align="left" | {{flagicon|ENG}} Ursula Smith
{{flagicon|DEN}} Ulla Strand

| align="left" | 15–5, 15–5

| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{gold1}} Winner

align="center" | 1970

| align="left" | Irish Open

| align="left" | {{flagicon|IRL}} Yvonne Kelly

| align="left" | {{flagicon|IRL}} Lena Rea
{{flagicon|IRL}} Joan McCloy

| align="left" | 15–3, 11–15, 15–8

| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{gold1}} Winner

References

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External links

  • [http://athletics.goucher.edu/information/HOF/2010Inductees Goucher College Athletics Hall of Fame]

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