Local Call: Prescription to Safety
Are you a squash player who wears prescription glasses while playing squash? Are prescription glasses your substitute for wearing protective eyewear? Please be aware that you should still be wearing ASTM-F803 approved eyewear over...
Hey Ref! An ‘Official’ Q & A
By Barry Faguy
HEY REF! I was getting out of trouble in the front left corner with a high lob right over myself. My opponent called ‘Let’ as the ball was fourteen or fifteen feet...
Local Call: Top Back Wall Out
With the continued introduction of glass back courts has come some confusion about the ‘out line’ across the top of the glass. In a step to clarify this ruling it can be confirmed that...
Rule 21: The Unwritten Rule of Squash
By Rod Symington, WSF Senior Referee Assessor
It has long been a mystery to me why so many players do not bother to read the Rules of Squash: there are only twenty of them and...
What is Fair View?
By Rod Symington, WSF Referees and Rules Committee
There is perhaps no other aspect of the Rules that is as misunderstood as the concept of “fair view.” Because it is so misunderstood, players rarely invoke...
Hey Ref! An ‘Official’ Q & A
By Barry Faguy
HEY REF! I made a good drop shot (admittedly not a winner) from the T because my opponent’s previous poor shot set me up there—and then my opponent came up against me...
Hey Ref! An ‘Official’ Q&A
By Barry Faguy
HEY REF! After I’d won a long rally, my opponent asked the Referee: “Were all balls good?” The ref hesitated for a moment and said that he wasn’t sure about one return early on that...
Local Call: Stay on Court!
Have you ever stepped off court to argue a call with the officials? Or decided that what you thought was your lucky racquet is no longer your lucky racquet—so you open the door to go grab a new one?
For those...
Hey Ref! An ‘Official’ Q&A
By Barry Faguy
HEY REF! I heard that there are new rules as of January 2014. Is that true—and will that cause any changes to the way we play?
It’s not so much new rules as it...
US Squash Revamps Rating Algorithm and Officiating Program
By Molly Davidson
US Squash started 2014 by introducing some major changes to both the rating and ranking system as well as the refereeing and officiating program. In early January a new ratings algorithm was implemented and age-targeted...