Squash Serve Returns : Squash Serve Returns: Down Wall Backhand

Return a squash serve down the wall with a backhand. Learn how to return squash serves down the wall with a backhand in this free racquet sports video from a squash instructor.

Expert: Hill Marks
Bio: Coach Hill has been teaching tennis, squash, racquetball and golf professionally for about ten years.
Filmmaker: Dustin Daniels

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• squash
• drills
• racquets
• sports
• serving
• service
• shots
• hits
• returns
• serves
• practice
• exercises

[mahlstadt]

oh, so i should just consistently smash the ball into the corner.

silly me, i've just been scraping my racquet against the wall and missing the ball completely.

please give us some more instruction guys...

[lRocknRolla]

unless your a pensioner splaying squash i doubt you hit the serve that slowly, everything changes at speed, would be nice if he showed us like it were an actual game ( at speed).

[ThomJBooth]

@davethenuts

After the serve on the return I'm pretty sure it's anything goes. As to you're other question the ball is out, so usual rules.... I think. ^^

[davethenuts]

can the ball hit the side wall before hitting the floor after serving! ? also what happens in a game when the ball gos over the back wall during a game? please help as i am new to the game. cheers

[versanil]

The point is that tennis and squash are completely different in terms of serve! A bad serve in either game will lose you the point but a good serve in tennis gives you an advantage you do not have in squash. I think this is what the guy is trying to say.

[mrbobevans]

They have really slowed the courts in tennis in the last 5-10 yrs. This has given the returner a greater advantage. 15 yrs. ago, server and volley was the main mode of attack for the server at Wimbledon. Now, there a few S & V's because they have slowed the Wimbledon court (also racket technology has played a role).

[versanil]

And now tell the odds of the server winning a point versus the receiver. This is not the case in squash, the receiver has a far better chance of winning the point than in tennis. It is almost impossible to 'ace' a squash serve, especially at the pro level.

[mrbobevans]

Go check a youtube video of Roddick blasting one of the fastest serves ever, and Federer returning the ball back even faster. Roddick was blown away by Federer's return. I think Connors and Agassi made a pretty good career by relying on their return of serve. Lendl starting beating McEnroe after he figured out where Mac was going with it.

[versanil]

Pro tennis, at least for the men, is all about the serve.

[mrbobevans]

OUCH!!!! The return of serve can be devastating in tennis. Men and women pros hit crushing returns of serve when given weak serves. I went to the women's pro tourney in Cincy. We are going thru a period of poor serving on the women's game. Pam Shriver mentioned this. Anyway, there were more winners on return of serves than there were on actual serves. He needs to watch more pro tennis.