The Tie Break
Malcolm Willstrop
I thought from the beginning that 11 scoring was going to be a great
success and everything I have seen since, in Hong Kong, Nottingham
and Doha has vindicated that opinion.
I have to say that in all the years of watching top class squash I
have never enjoyed the game so much or been better entertained.
The tie-break, too, has added extra dimensions: match balls and game
balls one after the other create excitement, perhaps previously
missing. I also think that the tie-break gives players incentives,
which lead to recoveries from losing situations, which the 15
scoring didn't have.
But if we are trying to make the game intelligible to a wider
audience - and I hope we are - then the confusion in the final
declaration of the score needs to be eradicated.
Call it what it is
11-10 (2-0) or whatever is not necessary.
Just call it what it is,
15-13, 18-16 or whatever.
That would be simpler for everybody.
It doesn't seem to me that it would take much to do that and it
would be for the general good.
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Thanks ...
 Could I thank everybody who has sent
messages of congratulation on my induction into the
Coaching Hall of
Fame.
Apart from the personal pleasure the award gave me, I hope the fact
that the game of squash has received publicity at such exalted
levels helps it to achieve more recognition than it currently
receives and certainly deserves.
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