Is A Unified Scoring System Looming?
International scoring to nine...American scoring to 15...to 11? For those unfamiliar with the term “American” with respect to scoring, that would be PAR—Point A...
Why You Should Use Three Referees: The Future is Here
By Rod Symington, WSF Referees and Rules Committee
Over the past 18 months the newly formulated Three Referee System has been employed all over the...
The Greatest Myth in Squash
By Rod Symington, WSF Referees and Rules Committee
That was the worst decision I have ever seen!” The speaker was a professional player in the Kolkata...
How to Simplify the Game of Squash A Radical Proposal
By Rod Symington, WSF Referees and Rules Committee
I attended the Men’s World Team Championships in Chennai in December 2007, and on Finals Day (England beat...
T-Rex Lives! The Player Who Goes to the T
By Rod Symington, WSF Referees and Rules Committee
I don’t usually like answering questions of the “What if…?” variety, because the scenario described by one...
When the Warm-Up Gets Hot
By Rod Symington, WSF Referees and Rules Committee
I am constantly astonished at the amount of correspondence I receive on the topic of the warm-up....
The Irish Bachelor—or Having It Both Ways
By Rod Symington, WSF Referees and Rules Committee
An Irish bachelor was once asked if he were married. He replied: “Unfortunately, not—thank God!”
Many squash players seem...
How I Spent My Summer Holidays A Caribbean Cruise
By Rod Symington, WSF Referees and Rules Committee
We all know that the biggest problems on the squash court result from interference: There are just too...
Double(s) Take Turning Rule Revisions—this time the right one
Through miscommunication, the “Changes to Turning Rule” published in the June 2007 Squash Magazine, the wrong version of the new “Turning Rule” was published....
Playing the Body, Not the Ball
By Rod Symington, WSF Referees and Rules Committee
I have a regular correspondent in India who sends me questions about the Rules, describing various scenarios...