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Cups cover with jessie gibb and iris rogers
Iris Rogers is a former English badminton player. Born Iris Cooley she came to prominence in the early fifties when playing doubles. Partnering June Timperley née White the pair broke the stranglehold of the Danish pairs during the era of Danish domination by claiming three All England women's doubles titles. She also claimed an All England mixed doubles titles with John Best. Although mainly concentrating on doubles Rogers was also a very good singles player reaching the final of the All England in 1954 before losing out to Judy Devlin. Other successes included nine Irish open titles, nine Scottish open titles, three Dutch opens, one Swedish open and one Danish open title. She won a Silver medal with Angela M. Bairstow at the Commonwealth Games of 1966 in Kingston.