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Racquet sport

Squash

Glass courtroom under the Naves of the Open International de Squash de Nantes in 2017
Highest governing body	World Squash Federation (WSF)
First played	19th century, England, U.k.
Characteristics
Contact	No
Team members	Singles or doubles
Mixed-sex	Dissever competitions (mixed sometimes in leagues)
Type	Racket sport
Equipment	Squash ball, squash racket, goggles, not-mark gum soled shoes
Venue	Indoor or outdoor (with drinking glass courtroom)
Presence
Olympic	No
Paralympic	No
World Games	1997, 2005–present

Squash is a racket and ball sport played by two players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball. The players alternating in hitting the ball with their rackets onto the playable surfaces of the four walls of the court. The objective of the game is to hit the ball in such a manner that the opponent is not able to play a valid return. There are well-nigh 20 1000000 people who play squash regularly globe-wide in over 185 countries.^[ane] The governing body of Squash, the Globe Squash Federation (WSF), is recognized by the International Olympic Commission (IOC), but the sport is non part of the Olympic Games, despite a number of applications. Supporters go along to entrance hall for its incorporation in a future Olympic program. The Professional Squash Association (PSA) organizes the pro bout. The sport is infrequently called "squash rackets", to distinguish itself from the related sport of rackets (too chosen "hard rackets").

Squash Played at the Pyramids of Egypt.

History [edit]

Squash has its origins in the older game of rackets which was played in London'south prisons in the 19th century. Subsequently, around 1830, boys at Harrow School noticed that a punctured ball, which "squashed" on affect with the wall, offered more variety to the game. The game spread to other schools. The first courts built at Harrow were dangerous because they were almost water pipes, buttresses, chimneys, and ledges. Natural safety was the preferred material for the ball. Students modified their rackets to have a smaller reach and meliorate their ability to play in these cramped conditions.^[2] In 1864, the school built 4 outside courts.^[3]

In the 20th century the game increased in popularity with various schools, clubs and private individuals building squash courts, but with no set dimensions. The first squash court in Due north America was at St. Paul's School in Concur, New Hampshire in 1884. In 1904 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the earliest national association of squash in the earth, the United States Squash Racquets Clan, at present known as U.South. Squash, was formed. In April 1907, the Tennis, Rackets & Fives Association of Queens, New York, which regulated those three sports (fives beingness a similar sport using easily instead of a noise), established a subcommittee to prepare standards for squash. In 1912, the association published rules for squash,^{[2] : 38} combining aspects of these three sports. In 1912, the RMS Titanic had a squash courtroom in first course, available for 50 cents. The 1st-Class Squash Court was situated on Thou-Deck. The Spectators Viewing Gallery was one level higher, on F-Deck. Passengers could use the court for i hour unless others were waiting. In 1923, the Royal Automobile Club hosted a coming together to farther talk over the rules and regulations. V years later, the Squash Rackets Association, now known as England Squash, was formed to set standards for the game in Great Great britain and internationally.^[2] The rackets were fabricated from one piece English ash, with a suede leather grip and natural gut. ... The 1980s witnessed a menstruum of re-structuring and consolidation. The Cambridge rackets factory was forced to shut in face of the move to graphite rackets, and production was moved to the Far East." to lighter materials (such as aluminum and graphite) with small additions of components similar Kevlar, boron and titanium. Natural "gut" strings were too replaced with synthetic strings.^[iv] Customization of squash rackets has grown over the years as well. At that place are custom variations on racket head shape, noise residue, and racket weight. The most common racket variation for international singles squash is a teardrop (airtight pharynx) head shape, even balance, and noise weight of 130g. For hardball doubles, the nearly common variation is an open throat head shape, even balance, and noise weight of 140g.

There are several variations of squash played across the globe, although the international version of the sport has become the dominant form. In the Us, a variant of squash known equally hardball was traditionally played with a harder ball and different sized courts. Hardball squash has lost much of its popularity in North America (in favor of the international version). There is doubles squash a variant played past four players. In that location is as well a tennis-similar variation of squash known as squash tennis. Finally, racketball, a similar sport, is also played in the United States.

Equipment [edit]

Racket [edit]

Old and new manner squash rackets

Squash rackets take maximum dimensions of 686 mm (27.0 in) long and 215 mm (eight.5 in) wide, with a maximum strung area of 500 square centimeters (77.5 sq in). The permitted maximum weight is 255 grams (9.0 oz), simply most have a weight between 90 and 150 grams (3–5.3 oz.). The strings of the racket usually take a tension of 25-30.

Ball [edit]

Squash balls are betwixt 39.5 and 40.v mm in diameter, and weigh 23 to 25 grams.^[5] They are fabricated with two pieces of prophylactic compound, glued together to form a hollow sphere and buffed to a matte cease. Dissimilar balls are provided for varying temperature and atmospheric conditions and standards of play: more experienced players apply dull balls that have less bounciness than those used by less experienced players (slower balls tend to "die" in court corners, rather than "continuing upward" to allow easier shots). Squash balls must exist hitting dozens of times to warm them up at the showtime of a session; cold squash assurance have very piffling bounciness. Small-scale colored dots on the ball indicate its dynamic level (bounce). The "double-xanthous dot" ball, introduced in 2000, is the competition standard, replacing the before "yellow-dot" ball. At that place is too an "orange dot" ball for apply at high altitudes. The recognized colors are:

Color	Speed (of Play)	Bounce	Player Level
Orange	Extremely Slow	Super low	Only recommended for high altitude play
Double yellow	Extra Dull	Very low	Experienced
Yellow	Wearisome	Low	Advanced
Greenish	Medium	Average	Intermediate/Advanced
Red	Medium	High	Medium
Blue	Fast	Very high	Beginner/Inferior

Some brawl manufacturers such as Dunlop apply a different method of grading balls based on feel. They yet have the equivalent dot rating, only are named to help choose a brawl that is appropriate for ane's skill level. The four different ball types are Intro (Blue dot, 140% of Pro bounce), Progress (Ruby-red dot, 120% of Pro bounce), Competition (unmarried xanthous dot, 110% of Pro bounciness) and Pro (double yellow dot).

Many squash venues mandate the utilise of shoes with non marking tread and heart protection. Some associations require that all juniors and doubles players must article of clothing eye protection. The National Institutes of Health recommends wearing goggles with polycarbonate lenses.^[6]

Court [edit]

The squash court is a playing surface surrounded by 4 walls. The courtroom surface contains a front line separating the front and back of the court and a half court line, separating the left and right sides of the back portion of the courtroom, creating iii 'boxes': the front half, the back left quarter and the dorsum right quarter. Both the back two boxes contain smaller service boxes.

The courtroom'southward four walls are divided into a front end wall, 2 side walls, and a back wall. An 'out line' runs along the top of the front end wall, descending forth the side walls to the back wall. The bottom line of the forepart wall marks the top of the 'tin', a one-half meter-loftier metallic surface area. The eye line of the front wall is the service line. The dimensions of the courtroom are:^[7]

Dimensions	Altitude	+/-
Length	9750mm	10mm
Width	6400mm	10mm
Tiptop	5640mm
Diagonals	11665mm	25mm

North American hardball doubles courts are larger than international singles courts because of a difficult ball that has a much faster stride. With double the number of players, the doubles court needs to exist significantly bigger than a singles courtroom. The doubles court should mensurate 25 feet wide by 45 feet long and have a ceiling acme of at least 24 anxiety just preferably 26.^[viii]

Manner of play [edit]

Service [edit]

The players spin a noise to decide who serves first. This player starts the starting time rally by electing to serve from either the left or correct service box. For a legal serve, one of the server's feet must be in the service box, not touching any role of the service box lines, equally the player strikes the ball. Subsequently being struck by the dissonance, the ball must strike the front end wall above the service line and below the out line and land in the opposite dorsum quarter courtroom. The receiving player tin can cull to volley a serve after it has striking the forepart wall. If the server wins the indicate, the ii players switch sides for the following point. If the server loses the point, the opponent then serves, and can serve from either box.

Play [edit]

Afterward the serve, the players take turns striking the ball confronting the front wall, in a higher place the can and below the out line. The ball may strike the side or dorsum walls at any time, as long every bit it hits beneath the out line. It must not hit the flooring after hitting the racket and before hitting the forepart wall. A ball landing on either the out line or the line along the top of the tin is considered to be out. After the ball hits the front wall, information technology is allowed to bounce once on the floor (and whatsoever number of times against the side or back walls) before a player must return it. Players may move anywhere around the court merely accidental or deliberate obstruction of the other player's movements is forbidden and could consequence in a let or a stroke. Players typically return to the heart of the courtroom after making a shot, as information technology is the optimal position in the court to receive the opponents shot. The centre of the court is typically referred to as "the T", named later the shape of the flooring lines.

Strategy and tactics [edit]

A central strategy in squash is known every bit "dominating the T" (the intersection of the ruddy lines about the centre of the courtroom, shaped similar the letter "T", where the player is in the all-time position to retrieve the opponent's next shot). Skilled players will render a shot, and and then move back toward the "T" before playing the next shot. From this position, the player tin can quickly access any part of the court to recollect the opponent'south side by side shot with a minimum of movement and possibly maximising the movement required by the opponent to respond the returned shot.

A common tactic is to hitting the ball straight up the side walls to the back corners; this is the basic squash shot, referred to every bit a "rails," straight drive, wall, or "length". After hitting this shot, the histrion will then motion to the centre of the court almost the "T" to exist well placed to retrieve the opponent's return. Attacking with soft or "curt" shots to the front end corners (referred to equally "drib shots") causes the opponent to embrace more of the court and may result in an outright winner. Boasts or angle shots are deliberately struck off one of the side walls before the ball reaches the front. They are used for deception and over again to cause the opponent to cover more of the court. Rear wall shots float to the front end either directly or diagonally cartoon the opponent to the front. Advantageous tactical shots are available in response to a weak return by the opponent if stretched, the bulk of the court being free to the striker.

Rallies between experienced players may involve xxx or more than shots and therefore a very loftier premium is placed on fitness, both aerobic and anaerobic. As players become more than skilled and, in particular, better able to retrieve shots, points often become a war of attrition. At college levels of the game, the fitter role player has a major advantage.

The ability to alter the management of the ball at the final instant is also a tactic used to unbalance the opponent. Good players tin conceptualize the opponent's shot a few tenths of a second before the boilerplate histrion, giving them a run a risk to react sooner.^[9]

Depending on the mode of play, it is common to refer to squash players^{[12] [13]} as

• Power players: powerful shots to accept fourth dimension away from their opponent. For case, John White, Omar Mosaad, Mohamed El Shorbagy
• Shotmakers: accurate shots to take time away from their opponent. For example, Jonathon Ability, Ramy Ashour, Amr Shabana, James Willstrop.
• Retrievers: excellent retrieval to counter power and accurateness and to return shots more quickly to take time away from their opponent. For example, Peter Nicol, Grégory Gaultier, Nicol David.
• Attritional players: a consistently high-paced game both from shot speed and running speed to wear their opponent down over time. For instance, David Palmer, Nick Matthew, Jansher Khan, Jahangir Khan.

Interference and obstacle [edit]

Interference and obstruction are an inevitable aspect of squash, since two players are confined within a shared space. Generally, the rules entitle players to a directly straight line access to the ball, room for a reasonable swing and an unobstructed shot to any part of the front wall. When interference occurs, a actor may entreatment for a "allow" and the referee (or the players themselves if at that place is no official) then interprets the extent of the interference. The referee may allow a let and the players so replay the betoken, or award a "stroke" to the appealing player (pregnant that he is alleged the winner of that point) depending on the degree of interference, whether the interfering player fabricated an adequate effort to avoid interfering, and whether the thespian interfered with was likely to take hitting a winning shot had the interference not occurred. An exception occurs when the interfering player is direct in the path of the other role player's swing, effectively preventing the swing, in which case a stroke is e'er awarded.

When information technology is deemed that there has been little or no interference, the rules provide that no let is to be immune in the interests of continuity of play and the discouraging of spurious appeals for lets. Because of the subjectivity in interpreting the nature and magnitude of interference, awarding (or withholding) of lets and strokes is oftentimes controversial.

Interference also occurs when a actor's shot hits their opponent prior to hitting the front end wall. If the ball was travelling towards the side wall when it striking the opponent, or if it had already hitting the side wall and was travelling directly to the front wall, it is usually a let. However, it is a stroke to the actor who hit the brawl if the ball was travelling directly to the front wall when the brawl hit the opponent, without having first striking the side wall. Mostly later on a player has been hitting by the ball, both players stand yet; if the struck thespian is standing straight in front of the player who hitting the ball he loses the stroke; if he is not straight in front, a let is played. If it is deemed that the player who is striking the ball is deliberately trying to hit his opponent, they will lose the stroke. An exception occurs when the player hitting the ball has "turned", i.e., letting the ball pass them on 1 side, only then hitting it on the other side every bit it came off the dorsum wall. In these cases, the stroke goes to the player who was hit by the ball.

Referee [edit]

The referee is usually a certified position issued by the club or assigned squash league. Any conflict or interference is dealt with past the referee. The referee may also take away points or games due to improper etiquette regarding conduct or rules. The referee is besides unremarkably responsible for the scoring of games. 3 referees are usually used in professional tournaments. The Fundamental referee has responsibility to call the score and make decisions with the 2 side referees.

Scoring system [edit]

Point-a-Rally to 11 [edit]

Games are played according to indicate-a-rally scoring (PARS) to xi points. PARS is almost universally preferred past the game's tiptop professionals, and is the current official scoring organization for all levels of professional squash tournaments. In PARS, the winner of a rally receives a point, regardless of whether they were the server or returner. Games are played to eleven and must exist won by ii points. That is, if the score reaches 10–10, play continues until one player wins past two points. Competition matches are commonly played to "best-of-5" games (i.east. the get-go actor to win three games).

Squash can also be played with different scoring systems such as PARS to 15, traditional English language or Hand-In-Paw-Out (HiHo) scoring to 9, or RAM scoring (see below). Players often feel PARS and How-do-you-do-Ho every bit requiring unlike tactics and thespian attributes.

Other scoring systems [edit]

Point-a-Rally to 15 [edit]

Point-a-rally scoring to 15 was used for the World Championships between 1989 and 2003. PARS to 15, with the tiebreak existence two clear points (as per standard PARS) from 14-fourteen, was used in many amateur leagues because PARS to 11 was considered too brusk.^[14] This system fell out of favor in 2004 when the Professional Squash Association (PSA) decided to switch to PARS to 11. Games were considered to final likewise long and the winner would normally exist the fitter player, non necessarily the better player.^[15]

English/Mitt-In-Hand-Out to 9 [edit]

Known as English or hand-in-hand-out scoring, nether this system, if the server wins a rally, they receive a indicate, while if the returner wins rally, just the service changes (i.e., the ball goes "manus-out") and no indicate is given. The first role player to reach nine points wins the game. However, if the score reaches 8–viii, the player who was offset to reach viii decides whether the game will be played to nine, as earlier (chosen "set up one"), or to x (called "ready two"). This scoring system was formerly preferred in Great britain, and too amidst countries with traditional British ties, such as Australia, Canada, Pakistan, S Africa, Bharat and Sri Lanka.

RAM [edit]

The RAM scoring system is a proposed new scoring organization created past former World Champion, Ramy Ashour and co-founded by Osama Khalifa. This consists of playing a best of five games. Each game is 3 minutes long; however, this only refers to the iii minutes in play. The 'reanimation' in between the end of a rally and a serve is not counted. In one case the fourth dimension is upward, the clock stops, and the leading thespian needs to win a terminal point. If the player who is behind wins the point the game continues until the abaft actor catches up and wins ane more than point than the initially leading player.

For example, Actor one is leading 5–three and the clock stops. Player two wins the side by side two points and the score is 5–v. Whoever wins the next point wins the game. This is called sudden death. If the score is 0–0 when the clock stops the clock is reset and the game restarts. For Let Calls the clock reverts to the start time of that bespeak. Further rules include that in that location must be a referee and a time keeper to make this match official. Players have two minutes of balance betwixt games, and all other standard PSA and WSF rules apply.^[16]

Transition from English/HiHo to PARS xi [edit]

In 2004, the Professional person Squash Association (PSA) decided to switch to PARS to 11. This decision was ratified in 2009 when the Earth Squash Federation confirmed the switch to the PARS 11 scoring system.^[17] Since that time, almost all professional person and league games take been played according to PARS to 11. 1 of the reasons for switching to PARS was that long, taxing matches became less frequent and promoters could more easily predict match and session length. Gawain Briars, who served equally the Executive Managing director of the Professional Squash Association when the trunk decided to switch to PARS in 2004 hoped that PARS would make the "professional game more exciting to sentinel, [and] so more people will become involved in the game and our chances of Olympic entry may be enhanced."^[18]

1 of the bug with English language or Howdy-Ho scoring is that games oft terminal longer every bit players continually win service before losing service to the other player without the score being afflicted. Consequently, the winner is more than often than not the fitter athlete. Moreover, English or How-do-you-do-Ho scoring tin encourage players to play defensively with the aim of wearing down one's opponent before winning by virtue of one'south fitness. Such exhausting, defensive play tin can affect player's prospects in knock-out tournaments and does not brand for riveting TV. In English or Hi-Ho, one actor might win past 9–0 despite the opponent having repeatedly won service, but without converting that service into actual points.

For the Globe Championships: HiHo to 9 was used until 1988; PARS to xv from 1989 to 2003; and PARS to 11 from 2004. For the British Open: HiHo to nine was used until 1994; PARS to 15 from 1995 to 2003; and PARS to 11 from 2004.^[nineteen]

The WSF's decision to switch to PARS 11 proved controversial in the Great britain and Commonwealth where games were unremarkably played according to English or Hi-Ho. When the Veterans Squash Rackets Guild of Great britain surveyed their members in 2012, they establish that eighty% of their members were confronting switching from HiHo to PARS.^[twenty] President Philip Ayton argued that PARS would "kill the essence of the game."^[20] Ayton was particularly concerned that the "great comebacks" that characterised English or Hi-Ho when "the player who is down in a game can all the same attack when in hand serving"^[20] would disappear as PARS fostered an "ultra-defensive attitude, because every rally counts the same."^[20]

Jahangir Khan has countered that PARS actually fabricated the game far more attacking, only macerated the psychological aspect of the game: "With the nine points scoring organisation, matches were more than mental and physical and could become longer, only now with the 11-bespeak system, every rally counts, and even if y'all go behind y'all tin still recover. That makes it a lot more than attacking." Maj Madan, one of the game's top referees, similarly stated that PARS had "destroyed the fitness element and, more importantly, the cerebral magic of the…game."^[21] His comments were unearthed when an email chain of referees discussing the problem of shorter and shorter squash matches was leaked in 2011.

Contribution to health [edit]

Squash provides an fantabulous cardiovascular conditioning. Players can expend approximately 600 to 1,000 food calories (iii,000 to four,000 kJ) every hour playing squash according to English or Hi-Ho scoring.^[22] The sport likewise provides a good upper and lower body workout by exercising both the legs in running around the courtroom and the artillery and torso in swinging the racket. In 2003, Forbes rated squash as the number ane healthiest sport to play.^[22] Yet, ane report has implicated squash as a crusade of possible fatal cardiac arrhythmia and argued that squash is an inappropriate class of do for older men with center disease.^[23]

Effectually the earth [edit]

Co-ordinate to the Globe Squash Federation, at that place are most l,000 squash courts in the world, with 188 countries and territories having at least i court. England had the greatest number at 8,500. The other countries with more than 1,000 courts, in descending order by number were Frg, Egypt, the United states of america of America, Australia, South Africa, Canada, Malaysia, France, holland, and Spain. Today, The The states has the fastest growing squash participation. There are an estimated 20 1000000 squash players worldwide.

As of November 2019, at that place were players from eighteen countries in the top fifty of the men'southward globe rankings, with Arab republic of egypt dominating with fifteen players, half dozen of whom were in the acme ten, including ranks one through four.^[24] Similarly, the women's world rankings featured players from sixteen countries, again led by Egypt taking thirteen spots of the peak fifty, whilst holding spots ane through four in the earth.^[25]

The men's and women's Professional Squash Clan tour, men's rankings and women's rankings are run past the Professional Squash Association (PSA).

The Professional Squash Bout is a tour based in the United states.^[26]

Inclusion in multi-sport events [edit]

Squash has been featured regularly at the multi-sport events of the Commonwealth Games and Asian Games since 1998. Squash is likewise a regular sport at the Pan American Games since 1995. Squash players and associations have lobbied for many years for the sport to be accustomed into the Olympic Games, with no success as of 2021. Squash narrowly missed existence instated for the 2012 London Games and the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games (missed out again every bit the IOC assembly decided to add golf and rugby sevens to the Olympic programme).^[27] Squash likewise was non selected as an result in the 2020 Olympic Games.^[28] At the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires, the IOC voted for Wrestling instead of Squash or Baseball/Softball. The usual reason cited for the failure of the sport to be adopted for Olympic competition is that information technology is difficult for spectators to follow the action, particularly via television. Previous globe number one Peter Nicol stated that he believed squash had a "very realistic hazard" of existence added to the list of Olympic sports for the 2016 Olympic Games,^[29] just it ultimately lost out to golf game and rugby sevens.

Squash was accustomed equally a demonstration sport for the 2018 Summertime Youth Olympics.^[xxx] The Earth Squash Federation hopes that this inclusion will create a strong bid for a potential inclusion at the 2024 Summer Olympics.^[31]

Major tournaments [edit]

• British Open
• Tournament of Champions
• US Open
• Hong Kong Open
• Qatar Classic
• Windy City Open up
• El Gouna International

Players, records and rankings [edit]

Nicol David; widely regarded equally the most successful Malaysian squash role player ever.

The (British) Squash Rackets Association (now known as England Squash) conducted its beginning British Open up title for men in December 1930, using a "challenge" arrangement. Charles Read was designated champion in 1930, but was browbeaten in habitation and abroad matches by Don Butcher, who was then recorded as the champion for 1931. The championship continues to this day, but has been conducted with a "knockout" format since 1947.

The women's championship started in 1921, and has been dominated by relatively few players:^[32] Joyce Cavern, Nancy Cave, Cecily Fenwick (England) in the 1920s; Margot Lumb and Susan Noel (England) 1930s; Janet Morgan (England) 1950s; Heather McKay (Commonwealth of australia) 1960s and 1970s; Vicki Cardwell (Australia) and Susan Devoy (New Zealand) 1980s; Michelle Martin and Sarah Fitz-Gerald (Commonwealth of australia) 1990s and Nicol David (Malaysia) 2000s.

The Men's British Open up has similarly been dominated by relatively few players:^[32] F.D. Amr Bey (Egypt) in the 1930s; Mahmoud Karim (Egypt) in the 1940s; brothers Hashim Khan and Azam Khan (Pakistan) in the 1950s and 1960s; Jonah Barrington (Great Uk and Ireland) and Geoff Hunt (Australia) in the 1960s and 1970s, Jahangir Khan (Pakistan) 1980s ; Jansher Khan (Pakistan) in the 1990s and more recently, David Palmer and Nick Matthew.

The Globe Open professional championship was inaugurated in 1976 and serves equally the main competition today. Jansher Khan holds the tape of winning 8 World titles followed by Jahangir Khan with six, Geoff Hunt & Amr Shabana four, Nick Matthew & Ramy Ashour three. The women's record is held past Nicol David with 8 wins followed by Sarah Fitzgerald five, Susan Devoy four, and Michelle Martin three.

Heather McKay remained undefeated in competitive matches for 19 years (between 1962 and 1981) and won sixteen sequent British Open titles between 1962 and 1977.^[33]

Current rankings [edit]

The Professional Squash Association (PSA) publishes monthly rankings of professional players:

Men's [edit]

PSA Men'due south World Rankings, of March 2022[34]
Rank	Histrion	Average Points	Move†
1	Paul Coll(NZL)	1,539
two	Ali Farag(EGY)	ane,489
3	Mohamed Elshorbagy(EGY)	ane,178
4	Mostafa Asal(EGY)	969
five	Tarek Momen(EGY)	961
half-dozen	Diego Elías(PER)	846
seven	Marwan Elshorbagy(EGY)	794
8	Joel Makin(WAL)	712
9	Mazen Hesham(EGY)	503
ten	Fares Dessouky(EGY)	500

Women's [edit]

PSA Women's World Rankings, of March 2022[35]
Rank	Histrion	Average Points	Move†
1	Nour El Sherbini(EGY)	1,901
2	Nouran Gohar(EGY)	1,743
3	Hania El Hammamy(EGY)	1,105
four	Amanda Sobhy(Usa)	973
5	Sarah-Jane Perry(ENG)	663
6	Joelle Male monarch(NZL)	654
7	Salma Hany(EGY)	654
viii	Camille Serme(FRA)	497
ix	Rowan Elaraby(EGY)	448
x	Olivia Fiechter(Us)	438

Current champions [edit]

Competition	Men		Women
	Edition	Championship holder	Edition	Championship holder
World Championship	2019–2020	Tarek Momen	2019–2020	Nour El Sherbini
WSF Earth Squad Championships	2019	Egypt	2018	Egypt
World Games	2017	Simon Rösner	2017	Camille Serme
WSF World Inferior Championships	2019	Mostafa Asal	2019	Hania El Hammamy
WSF Earth Junior Squad Championships	2018	Egypt	2019	Arab republic of egypt
Globe University	2018	Joshua Masters	2018	Lily Taylor
Globe Masters (Over 35)	2018	Laurens-Jan Anjema	2018	Natalie Grainger

Run across likewise [edit]

• The Howe Cup
• Earth Squash Federation
• PSA World Tour
• PSA Globe Tour records
• Racquetball
• List of squash players
• World Title
• Hardball squash
• List of PSA number 1 ranked players
• Listing of WSA number 1 ranked players
• World Team Squash Championships
• British Open Squash Championships
• Listing of US Intercollegiate squash champions
• US Inferior Open squash title
• Longest squash match records
• Squash lawn tennis
• Table squash

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Further reading [edit]

• Satterthwaite, Frank (1979). The 3-wall nick and other angles: a squash autobiography. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. ISBN0-03-016666-7.
• Zug, James; Plimpton, George (2003). Squash: a history of the game. New York: Scribner. ISBN 0-7432-2990-8.

External links [edit]

• Squash (sport) at Curlie
• World Squash Federation official website

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squash_%28sport%29

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