Squash Etiquette

All of these 91 points  depend on self-respect, respecting your opponent, honesty, and safety.  In many cases, the etiquette violations you see on the squash court reflect the perpetrator’s character at home or at work, too.  So, Be Good !

 

91 Things Not to do in The Game of Squash…

  1. Arrive late to your match
  2. Fail to arrive to your match without informing your opponent well in advance
  3. Leave the court without thanking your opponent
  4. Fail to shake hands before and after the match
  5. Say “lucky shot”
  6. Decline to offer lets or strokes when you obstruct play
  7. Challenge your opponents’ retrievals or “gets”
  8. Make excuses for losing or missing shots
  9. Pump your fist after a rally, game or match
  10. Cheer when a player hits a tin
  11. Shout in the court or within earshot of players in a court
  12. Wear street shoes on a squash court or wear squash shoes outside
  13. Intentionally hit your racket on the wall or floor
  14. Consistently arrive to your match without a squash ball or with an old ball
  15. Coach a player during or between points
  16. Question a referee’s calls during a game
  17. Try to converse with a referee while he or she is refereeing a game
  18. Neglect to call your own double bounces, out-of-court shots, and carries
  19. Intentionally add to your points or deduct from your opponent’s points when calling the score
  20. Expect a let or stroke without requesting a let
  21. Hit a bad shot, then ask for a let
  22. Delay excessively between points and between games
  23. Wipe your hands on the walls of the court
  24. Sign up for a league or ladder and fail to play a majority of your matches
  25. Slam the door to the squash court
  26. Negotiate calls and rulings with the referee and your opponent
  27. Hit more than 50% of the warm-up shots to your side of the court
  28. Coach players when you are the referee or a tournament official
  29. Throw your racket
  30. Play only with players who are better than you
  31. Neglect to offer to over-rule a referee when you know that the referee has erroneously ruled in your favor
  32. Wear dirty or stinky clothes on court
  33. Play with a contagious illness
  34. Grunt loudly for every difficult shot
  35. Give unsolicited advice
  36. Refuse to accommodate reasonable match re-schedule requests
  37. Push off of an opponent to reach a shot
  38. Asking for lets by calling lets when you’re out of range or unprepared
  39. Ask your opponent for a stroke
  40. Threaten to hit your opponent with the ball to prove a referee wrong
  41. Refuse to lend a racket to a player who needs one
  42. Hit your opponent with the ball to show her that she’s blocking
  43. Decline to vacate a court when a player who has reserved that court waits
  44. Employ an excessive swing, and neglect to attempt to reduce it
  45. Bring badly behaved children (or adults) to an important match
  46. Stop to discuss every point at its end
  47. Repeatedly solicit advice, but fail to follow it
  48. Curse loudly on court
  49. Habitually foot-fault
  50. Complain about tournament favors, shirts, food or prizes
  51. Criticize the  squash committee without attempting to make a meaningful contribution to it
  52. Fail to referee the tournament match which follows a match you won, unless you find an acceptable substitute referee or have been dismissed by the director
  53. Decline to seek a replacement referee when you reasonably know that the match or players you are to referee are beyond your referee capabilities
  54. Neglect to encourage a new player or a junior player
  55. Stomp your feet when your opponent is preparing to play a shot in front of you
  56. Wring the sweat out of your headbands or grips onto the floor
  57. Transfer your sweat onto the ball to change its movement
  58. Purport to arrive to your match on time, then excessively delay entering the court to prepare the racket, adjust clothing/eye wear, or stretch
  59. Play a hard match smelling strongly of smoke, alcohol, perfume or cologne
  60. Use a cell phone between games or interrupt play to answer a cell phone
  61. Decline challenging matches to avoid the risk of losing
  62. Record/videotape a game without your opponent’s knowledge or consent
  63. Treat club staff members disrespectfully
  64. Await your opponent or a spectator to fetch a ball that you hit out of court
  65. Fail to offer to replace or restring a racket that you borrowed and damaged
  66. Publicly criticize the technique of a player who consistently beats you
  67. Eat or drink on the court
  68. Double-book opponents for a match without obtaining approval from both
  69. Hit the ball hard in the court after a point concludes
  70. Insist on a disputed stroke or no-let without compromising with a let
  71. Persist in a fruitless debate about a let ruling, long after the point, game or match
  72. Fail to post ladder, league or tournament results in a timely fashion
  73. Leave towels, old grips, food wrappers or other refuse , in an appropriate place.
  74. Decline to wear safety glasses, yet complain when an opponent cleans or adjusts hers
  75. Argue playing without safety glasses in the presence of a minor
  76. Doubt your opponent’s integrity by asking:  “Did you get that?”
  77. Shout “TURNING”
  78. Swing at a ball after you turn in the back court
  79. Promise “I’ll play better next time” every time you lose, then repeatedly fail to play better
  80. Spit in or around the court or in or around drinking fountains
  81. Face the rear to gesture to spectators during a match while your opponent is on court
  82. Persistently ask how a player fared against another named player
  83. Put your bags, rackets or towels on chairs or benches when seating is limited
  84. Place your bags, rackets or dark towels outside the court near the bottom of a glass back wall where they can obscure players’ sight of the ball
  85. Idly watch your guest clean your court’s floor or walls to make the court playable
  86. Bounce the ball excessively as a serving ritual
  87. Ask a professional to play without offering to pay
  88. Perpetually whine about your lack of improvement, but fail to take lessons and train harder
  89. Blame a loss on your age
  90. Sign up for a tournament division below your skill level.
  91. Coach or parent a juvenile (aka “junior”) without correcting them when they behave as enumerated above

 

 
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