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By Sean Sunderland
Originally Posted at Seattle Squash
INTRO: I have been a victim of or seen someone else be the victim of the following etiquette violations.
I am not “holier than thou” because I’ve been guilty of several of these myself. All of these 101 hinge 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!
101 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) Complain about your host’s squash courts, lights, locker room, court dimensions, cracks, walls, temperature, floors, ceiling, humidity, or etc.
10) Pump your fist after a rally, game or match
11) Cheer when a player hits a tin
12) Shout in the court or within earshot of players in a court
13) Wear street shoes on a squash court or wear squash shoes outside
14) Intentionally hit your racquet on the wall or floor
15) Consistently arrive to your match without a squash ball or with an old ball
16) Coach a player during or between points
17) Question a referee’s calls during a game
18) Try to converse with a referee while he or she is refereeing a game
19) Neglect to call your own double bounces, out-of-court shots, and carries
20) Intentionally add to your points or deduct from your opponent’s points when calling the score
21) Expect a let or stroke without requesting a let
22) Hit a bad shot, then ask for a let
23) Stall excessively between points and between games
24) Wipe your hands on the walls of the court
25) Sign up for a league or ladder and fail to play a majority of your matches
26) Slam the door to the squash court
27) Negotiate calls and rulings with the referee and your opponent
28) Hit more than 50% of the warm-up shots to your side of the court
29) Repeatedly fail to clear
30) Fail to clear without offering a stroke to your opponent
31) Coach players when you are the referee or a tournament official
32) Throw your racquet
33) Play only with players who are better than you
34) Neglect to offer to over-rule a referee when you know that the referee has erroneously ruled in your favor
35) Wear dirty or stinky clothes on court
36) Play with a contagious illness
37) Grunt loudly for every difficult shot
38) Give unsolicited advice
39) Refuse to accommodate reasonable match re-schedule requests
40) Push off of an opponent to reach a shot
41) Fish for lets by calling lets when you’re out of range or unprepared
42) Ask your opponent for a stroke
43) Threaten to hit your opponent with the ball to prove a referee wrong
44) Refuse to lend a racquet to a player who needs one
45) Hit your opponent with the ball to show her that she’s blocking
46) Decline to vacate a court when a player who has reserved that court waits
47) Employ an excessive swing, and neglect to attempt to reduce it
48) Bring badly behaved children (or adults) to an important match
49) Stop to discuss every point at its end
50) Repeatedly solicit advice, but fail to follow it
Stay tuned for 51 -101
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