Dick Squires is certainly qualified to produce this manual on "Instant Squash Tennis." Added to an articulateness which equips him to put his experience and knowledge into words, his background in racquet games is broad, longstanding and at a level sufficiently upper echelon to have garnered national championships in three separate bat and ball sports. Starting early, in Bronxville, N.Y., he was a member of the National Junior Davis Cup Tennis team at 17.  Emerging from The Hill School in 1949 a

Anyone who enjoys playing Tennis, Squash Racquets, Platform Tennis, or any racquet game and has good reflexes will love Squash Tennis. Where it lacks the endurance and subtlety that Squash Racquets calls for, it offers the exhilaration inherent in powerfully hit strokes, split-second racquet work, and graceful, seemingly unhurried footwork.  The ball "comes to you" more often, but the challenge is to figure out the wider angles and exactly where the lightning fast green ball will eventually end

The strategy in Squash Tennis is basically the same as Squash Racquets; i.e., to control the so-called "T" or the intersection of the service court lines, by keeping your opponent up front, off to the sides, or behind you, the majority of the time (see fig. 2). The fundamental stratagem can only be carried out by your learning a wide assortment of Squash Tennis shots and perfecting your repertoire with practice and experience against many different types of opponents under competitive situations

The Squash Tennis stroke is more closely allied to the Squash Racquets swing than to the Tennis swing. Ground Strokes:   The wrist and grip should be kept loose at all times.  The grip will automatically be tightened at the moment of contact with the ball. The forehand and backhand ground strokes should be hit with a short, snap of the wrist—as though you were cracking a whip.  There is no time and no reason to employ a long, high follow-through. The head of the racquet at the moment of impact w

Most uninitiates, especially Squash Racquets players who are adroit at and/or addicted to that game, believe Squash Tennis offers nothing but prolonged "slam bang" rallies and a boring "sameness."  Because of the tremendous liveliness of the ball and the apparent absence of deftly placed straight "drops" that die in a corner, these potential players scorn and speak disparagingly of the wonderful game of Squash Tennis which, like all racquet games, has its own shots and ways of putting the ball a

Squash Tennis is one of the few racquet and ball indoor sports that can be termed honestly and strictly "American" in origin, whereas Squash Racquets has its roots in England going as far back as the 1850s.  The game spread to America in the 1880s and the first real organized Squash Racquets play was in 1882 at St. Paul's Prep School, in Concord, New Hampshire. Eventually some of the boys there experimented with a Lawn Tennis ball and liked the fast rallies and liveliness of the action.  Consequ

Court —Basically the Squash Tennis court is identical in specifications to Squash Racquets; namely 18½ feet wide, 32 feet long, and 16 feet high at the front wall:  The ceiling should be at least 18 feet 6 inches high in order to allow for lights.  Running along the front wall, 17 inches in height, is the "telltale" made of sheet metal.  Hitting the "telltale" is tantamount to hitting a Lawn Tennis ball into the net.  The front wall also has the front service line, which is 6½ feet above the flo