How To Understand The Scoring System

Hi, my name is Bob Jaffe. I am the director of coaching at the Dulwich Squash Club in London. I am going to talk to you about the equipment you are going to need, the etiquette you are going to use on court and the sort of shots that you are going to need to play and how you are going to play them.

There are two scoring systems to concern you in squash. There is the traditional hand out system or the English scoring system and the 'Par' scoring system. Which stands for "Point A Rally' scoring .

Starting off with the hand outs or English scoring system. Games are played to nine points. With the server scoring the points.

The reciever can only win the service back. Scoring is to nine, if you get to a situation of eight all, The person who got to eight first will choose to play to nine or ten. This is called set one, at nine, or, set two at ten.

Matches are usually best of three or five games. The par scoring system is a slightly quicker scoring system games go up to eleven points, and anybody can score a point. Whether you are serving or recieving.

If you get to a situation of ten points each, you must then play to the first person who wins by two clear points.