EAT, SLEEP, RAVE AND REPEAT: SQUASH-ing!!

I was involve in squash starting since year 3 also at the age of 9. If you ask me how I get involve in this sport that few would learn to play, I would say I joined them in the"buta-buta" way. During that time, the school made it compulsory for students to have co-curriculum activities. As you can see I was just 9 years old, and I was told that there's a sport called squash, so what I did was just put my name in it! Then, my siblings were all involved in this game. And that's how we involved in squash for the next few years. After playing for a few years, I started representing my state in squash tournaments (it was just luck and I'm not that good), I've been to numerous of states to participate in tournaments and my brother even crossed the international border to paricipate in Hong Kong Open.

Now, I'm going to explain briefly about the rules of the game cause this is a sport few will know.
Some informations are collected from some squash sites.

Squash Rules

The basic rules of squash are fairly simple. First the player spins his/ her raquet, the winner gets to choose which side they want to serve from and alternates sides until they lose a point. The "spinning" is basically spinning the racquet, with one player guessing whether the racquet will land up or down based on the direction of the logo at the end of the grip. The ball can hit any number of walls ( i.e sidewall, backwall ) but must eventually hit the front wall before bouncing on the floor. A rally ( the exchange of shots ) ends when one of the following occurs:

The ball bounces twice
The ball hits the tin
The ball is hit outside the out lines

Interference resulting in a stroke, i.e. point to the obstructed player.

The serve is done by having at least one foot in the service box, then hitting the ball to the front wall, above the service line and having it bounce in the opposite quarter-court. The receiver can stand anywhere as long as they do not interfere with the server. Only one serve is allowed. There is no second serve as in tennis.

Your opponent has the option of volleying return your serve before it hits the ground. After hitting the front wall first, the ball may hit any other number of walls before landing in the opponent’s quarter court. However, a serve is illegal if it hits any sidewall before hitting the front wall! Following the serve, the ball can hit any number of sidewalls before hitting the front wall.

The red lines mark the out of bounds of the court. So all shots must be below the lines. If the ball touches the line it is considered out!

Scoring is to 11 , where every rally is a point, regardless of who served. So if you serve and lose the rally, then your opponents get a point and gets to serve. The professionals play best of five games ,scoring to 11. Where the score reaches ten all, the game will be won by two clear points (which will be expressed as 11-10, irrespective of the actual score ).

Some not-so-obvious rules of squash are you can not carry the ball or hit the ball twice, but you can make several attempts at striking the ball as long as only contact is made once.

These are some quick briefings about the squash game, some may feel that it's a boring sport but once u play, no doubt you will get addicted to it. Plus, now we have a current Women's World Champion, Datuk Nicol Ann David, and I hope squash can be a popular sports among the people like badminton or football.