squash tennis

squash tennis
Singles racket game resembling squash rackets, played with an inflated ball the size of a tennis ball.

Played in virtually the same court as squash rackets, squash tennis makes fewer demands on the legs in pursuing the ball but puts a greater premium on agility and quickness of foot and reflexes in turning and spinning.

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 racket game resembling squash rackets played by two people only in a four-walled court using a lively inflated ball that bounces very fast and is the size of a tennis ball. The game requires great speed in anticipation and turning.

 Squash tennis is played in the same court as squash rackets. There are minor differences in the line markings, such as the “out” line on the back wall being two feet lower than for squash rackets. Players use a lawn tennis racket, an inch shorter in the handle, and a green, pressurized ball, similar to but slightly smaller than the tennis ball. Scoring is the same as in American squash rackets. Points were scored only by the server until a change made in 1954 allowed hand-out to score as well.

      Squash tennis makes fewer demands than squash rackets on the legs in pursuing the ball, but puts a greater premium on agility and quickness of foot and reflexes in turning and spinning. The ball caroms off the front, side, and back walls in dizzying action. It is so volatile that it may rebound from the front wall to the back wall and again to the front wall. Squash rackets is largely a game of wrist and touch, as well as of the arm. The squash tennis stroke is more comparable to the free-swinging lawn-tennis drive. The volley—returning the ball before it touches the floor—is important in both squash games.

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