1. Player A plays a boast and the ball
hits his opponent on its way from the side wall to the front
wall. Answer: if the ball would have made a good return but has
touched or will touch a side wall before reaching the front wall
a LET is allowed.
2. Player A plays the ball and on his follow through strikes his
opponent with his racket. The opponent asks for a let. Answer:
As long as it is a reasonable follow through the opponent is
entitled to nothing and NO LET is the correct decision.
3. Player A serves the ball and you (the ref.) think that it
might have touched the line. At the end of the rally which the
server won the opponent asks for a let on the service. Answer:
As referee you were correct not to stop the rally if you were
unsure of the service. You should now allow a LET as you were in
doubt. The winning or losing of the rally makes no difference to
this decision.
4. A player breaks her racket during a rally and asks for a let.
What is your decision and how long has the player to replace her
racket? Answer: NO LET for the broken racket and 90 seconds for
the change of equipment.
5. A player serves from the incorrect side of the court but you
did not stop the serve. At the end of the rally the receiver -
who lost the rally - asks for a let on the serve as it was from
the wrong side. Answer: As referee you should have made sure
that the serve was taken from the correct side. However, once
the receiver accepts the serve then the result of the rally
should stand and your decision is NO LET. The same would apply
if the server had lost the rally.
6. A player returns the ball down the centre of the court and
takes up a position on the 'T'. The opponent allows the ball to
come off the back wall and then asks for a let as there is every
chance that the ball, if played, would strike the other player.
Answer: This is a STROKE as he would have struck his opponent
with the ball if he had played his shot. The fact that it has
come off the back wall does not change the decision. Some
players wrongly think that because a ball has come off the back
wall the decision should be a let only.
7. A player turns on the ball (that is, allows the ball to pass
on one side of the body, strike the back wall and travel back by
the other side of the body) plays the shot and strikes the
opponent with the ball on its way to the front wall. Answer: The
rule on 'turning' has been changed and the correct decision now
is to penalize the player who played the ball by awarding a
STROKE TO THE OPPONENT who was struck by the ball. Only where
the opponent ran in front of the turning player will the striker
be awarded a stroke.
8. A player is injured and requests time to recover. How long
has the player? Answer: In the case of injury the referee must
decide if the injury is self-inflicted, an injury contributed to
by both players or an opponent inflicted injury.
In the case of 'self-inflicted' injury the referee should allow
3 minutes to the injured player to recover. The player must then
play on or concede the game in progress and use the 90 second
interval between games.
In the case of 'contributed to' injury the player has 1 hour.
If the injury is caused by the opponent, the player is awarded
the match if recovery time is needed..
9. What is the marker's call in each of the following?
(a) A player fails to play the ball before its second bounce.
Answer: The call is "not up".
(b) A player strikes the tin with the ball. Answer: The call
should is "down".
(c) The ball touches the out of court line. Answer: The calls is
"out".
10. A Junior player requests to play using his or her own
glasses instead of the required eye-guards. Answer: Junior
players (that is those under 19 years) playing in all
competitions are required by the rules of the game to wear
protective eye-guards. Junior players are not allowed to wear
their own glasses (spectacles) but can wear prescription lenses
in their eye-guards. World Squash recommends all players to wear
protective eye guards.
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