Squash
Szépia Bio & Art Hotel has 2 squash courts.
Squash 5.300 Ft / hour
Our hotel's Squash courts can be booked subject to availability.
Telephone: +36 30 948 2142
SQUASH rules
Starting rules
When the players enter the court, they are given five minutes of warm-up play before the first game begins. During this time, the players stand on opposite sides of the court and hit the ball against the wall so that it bounces on the opponent's side. After two and a half minutes, the players switch sides. It has two purposes: first, to warm up the ball (since when the ball is still cold, it bounces less) and second, to allow the players to warm up themselves with a few strokes. The game can only be started with a warm ball.After the warm-up game, the player spins the racket to decide who serves first, with the winner of the spin choosing whether to serve or receive first. In most cases, serving is the preferred choice, especially when playing according to traditional scoring, when only the serving side can score points.
The competition
The game begins with the start of the serve. A player wins the rally if his opponent hits the ball on the tin (a metal-covered strip 0.45 m wide at the bottom of the main wall); if he hits the ball outside the boundary lines; or if he fails to hit the ball before it bounces on the floor a second time. During the rally, players may hit the ball directly from the air or after it has bounced on the floor once.The side and back walls can be used to return the ball to the main wall.
In matches, the so-called "traditional" or "international" scoring system is usually used, which means that only the player who served can score a point. If the other player wins the set, he does not score a point, but he gains the right to serve. Each game is played to nine points. In recent years, the American scoring system has been used mostly in prize money tournaments, which means that either player can win the set, regardless of who served. In this system, each game is played to 15 points. This change was necessary because professional matches were becoming too long. They often lasted more than two hours, as most of the time was spent trying to win the right to serve from each other while the score remained the same. In the American scoring system, matches between professionals can also be very long, but the two-hour period is rarely exceeded. Usually, the winner is the player who wins three out of five games, but there is also a scoring system in which two out of three games are required to win.
Matches can also be played by teams. Teams consist of three to five players. In this case, team members compete against each other in order of ranking, meaning the strongest players compete first, then the second best, and so on. Each match won is worth one point.Tournaments are played by a number of players or teams. They are usually played in a single-elimination format, meaning that the player or team that loses a match is eliminated. There are also group-elimination tournaments, where players or teams are eliminated after losing two matches. A third option is a round-robin tournament, meaning that everyone plays against everyone else, and the team or player who wins the most matches overall wins the tournament.
Serving
The player serving first can decide whether to serve from the right or left service square. It is usually the right one for a right-handed opponent and the left one for a left-handed one, because this way the opponent has to return the ball from behind, which is usually everyone's weak point.
A serve is valid if at least one point of the server's foot is within the service square at the moment the ball is hit without touching any of the lines surrounding the square.
The server tosses the ball into the air and then hits it towards the back wall before it bounces. The ball must touch the area on the back wall between the service line and the boundary line and must bounce back to land in the back court opposite the serving square currently being used. The back court, also known as the receiving square, is the area bounded by the cross line, the half court line, the side wall and the back wall. (If the ball bounces on one of the boundary lines of the receiving square, the serve is invalid.)The ball may bounce off the back wall, the side wall, or both before hitting the floor, but it may not go out of bounds. An unsuccessful serve is called a foul: in this case, the receiver wins the serve.
The serve is invalid in the following cases:
The server has at least one foot not in contact with the floor within the service square (foot fault). The server touches the ball after it has already bounced on the floor.
The server prepares and hits but misses the ball. The ball does not bounce on the home wall above the service line. The ball bounces on the side wall first and only then on the home wall.The ball bounces on the floor outside the opposite receiving square. The ball touches any wall outside the boundary line. The server hits the ball twice. The server hits the ball after it has bounced off the main wall.
The winning run
If the server has successfully served, the service line and the lines on the floor have no role in the rest of the game, only the tin and the boundary line count. The server wins the rally if his opponent cannot hit the ball before it bounces a second time, cannot hit the ball on the main wall, the ball bounces on the floor before the main wall, hits the ball outside the boundary line on any wall,the ball bounces on the ceiling, or hits something, or passes over something hanging from the ceiling, carries the ball on the strings of the racket, or if it hits it twice,
touches the ball with anything other than the racket, intentionally prevents it from making a stroke,
accidentally interferes with it during a stroke in such a way as to prevent it from making a possible winning stroke.