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IWGA Member Federation since 1994.
Learn more about Squash on the WSF website or YouTube.
Squash – a highly popular tactical court sport
Discipline at The World Games 2025: Squash Singles
Squash is a racket and ball sport played by two players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball. It is a highly popular sport, easy to understand. Squash has a huge fan base, especially in Asia where it also benefits from high media interest.
The players alternate in striking the ball with their rackets on to the playable surfaces of the four walls of the court. Squash and Racquetball are quite similar; the main differences concern the ball, racket and court dimensions. In squash, the ceiling cannot be used as a playing surface.
The objective of the game is to hit the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return, and therefore to score a point. It is a highly-skilled game with many different types of shot, and clever tactics involve both shot choice and court positioning. Rallies between experienced players may involve 30 or more shots and therefore a very high premium is placed on fitness, both aerobic and anaerobic.
Each game is played to 11 points. If the score reaches 10-all, the game continues until one player leads by two points. A match is won by the first side winning two games (best of three).
Federation: World Squash Federation (WSF), www.worldsquash.org
