APPENDIX 7 - POINT-A-RALLY SCORING

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APPENDIX 7 - POINT-A-RALLY SCORING

The standard scoring system described in Rule 2 The Scoring is the approved scoring system for Singles Squash.

If Point-a-Rally scoring (PARS) is used, the following text replaces Rule 2.

2.THE SCORING

2.1 Both player may score points. The server, on winning a stroke, scores a point and retains the service; the receiver, on winning a stroke, scores a point and becomes the server.

2.2 A match shall consist of the best of three or five games and each game shall be played to nine or fifteen points at the option of the organisers of the competition.

Where each game is to fifteen points, the player who scores fifteen points wins the game, except that on the score reaching fourteen-all the receiver shall choose, before the server delivers the next service, to continue that game either to fifteen points (known as "Set one") or to seventeen points (known as "Set three"). In the latter case the player who scores three more points wins the game. The receiver shall in both cases clearly indicate this choice to the Marker, Referee and the opponent.

Where each game is to nine points, the player who scores nine points wins the game, except that on the score reaching eight-all the receiver shall choose, before the server delivers the next service to continue that game either to nine points (known as "Set one") or to eleven points (known as "Set three"). In the latter case the player who scores three more points wins the game. The receiver shall in both cases clearly indicate this choice to the Marker, Referee and the opponent.

The Marker shall call "Set one" or "Set three" as applicable before play continues.

The Marker shall call "Game ball" to indicate that either player requires one point to win the game in progress, "Match ball" to indicate that either player requires one point to win the match, "Match ball, game ball" if the server requires one point to win the match and the receiver requires one point to win the game in progress, and "Game ball, match ball" if the server requires one point to win the game in progress and the receiver requires one point to win the match.

4. THE SERVICE The spin of a racket decides the right to serve or to receive first.

Note: The Marker's use of the terms "Game ball", "Match ball", "Point", and "Stroke" must be adjusted to comply with the Point-a-Rally scoring system.

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