Rules & Decisions

To understand more about the rules and refereeing decisions please click on the rules buttons below. More information can also be found at the World Squash Officiating website, where they have an excellent library of resource materials to download and videos to watch.

Singles

Doubles

The rules for Squash 57, previously known as Racketball, differ slightly and can be found here.

What’s the Decision?

The most difficult, and sometimes contentious, decision in squash is whether to award a ‘Let’, ‘No Let’ or ‘Stroke’. We recommend that all Team players undertake an England Squash Referee Training Workshop before marking a match. For details, please visit the England Squash website. However, a simplified overview of the decision process can be seen below. We have also linked some of the rules to videos from the WSO website as examples:

Consideration			Decision	Rule/Video
Did the previous striker cause interference to occur?	NO		No Let	8.6.1
YES
Could the obstructed player have got to the ball and made a good return and was that player making every effort to do so?	NO		No Let	8.6.2
YES
Did the obstructed player move past the point of interference and play on?	YES		No Let	8.6.3
NO
Was the interference minimal?	YES		No Let	8.6.4
NO
Did the opponent make every effort to avoid interference?	NO		Stroke to striker	8.6.5
YES
Did the interference prevent the player’s reasonable swing?	YES		Stroke to striker	8.9.2
NO
Would the obstructed player have struck the opponent with the ball going directly to the front wall or if going to a side wall would it have been a winning return?	YES NO		Stroke to striker Yes Let	8.11.1 8.11.2 8.11.3