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New Method for Assessing Squash Tactics Using 15 Court Areas for Ball Locations

This paper presents a new squash specific method for categorising court locations in which the ball was played, a novel techniques for assessing the reliability of this method and presents typical shots responses in these new areas controlled for preceding shot as well as the time between shots and the handedness of the players. Twelve games were viewed using the SAGIT/Squash software and 2907 shots viewed a second time from a video image taken from behind the court with an overall agreement of 88.90% for the court location data and 99.52% for shot type. 3, 192 shots from 9 matches from the 2003 World Team Championships were analysed in SAGIT/Squash. In the court areas analysed between 2 and 7 shot responses were predominant suggesting tactical patterns were evident. This was supported by differences evident between shot responses played from the two back corners where the backhand side was characterised by a predominance of straight drives whereas straight and crosscourt drives were played on the forehand side. These results tended to confirm that tactics i.e. consistent shot types, are played although these are only apparent when factors that determine shot selection are accounted for.

Squash Tactics ; Ball analysis ; Method ; Shot types

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