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The Federal Technical Squash Centre in Riccione is one of the most important squash facilities in Italy. In 2007 it hosted the European Championship for teams and many other international competitions.

The pride of the Green Pearl, it can rely on the collaboration of the Municipal Sports Councillorship and the Italian Squash League.

The Centre, which is situated just in the heart of Riccione, Via Forlimpopoli, gathers seven squash courts; every month, it hosts both national and international events and legendary squash personalities.

Riccione's Squash Centre is situated in a privileged position which made it the most important Italian gathering place for squash lovers.


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The national team appoints Riccione's coach

After many years without a permanent seat, the Italian national team trained by Vinicio Menegozzi chose Riccione's Federal Technical Squash Centre as its official seat. This is an important step for the team, which can now train regularly.

Riccione is the ideal place to train. Besides being a traditional tourist mecca, it is built for people and its squash centre complies with the highest International standards. According to the Italian Champion Sonia Pasteris, Riccione is a lovely place to train since it is able to convey players utmost transport and team spirit.


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Rules

Squash is a racquet sport game played by two players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball. Different balls are provided for varying temperatures and atmospheric conditions and standards of play. Depending on its specific rubber composition, a squash ball has the property that it bounces more at higher temperatures. Given the game's vigorousness, players wear comfortable sports clothing and robust indoor (non-marking) sports shoes.


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Court

The court size was codified at 975 cm long and 640 cm wide. The front wall has a front wall line 475 cm above the floor, connected by a ranking front line meeting the out line on the back wall at 213 cm above the floor. The front wall also has a service line with the 48-cm-high tin, made out of a special material designed to make a distinctive sound when hit by a quickly moving ball.


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Scoring System

Games are usually played to 9 points. Competition matches are usually played to best-of-five.
Points are awarded if, during the course of play: the receiver fails to strike the ball before it has bounced twice; the receiver hits the ball out; the receiver fails to hit the front wall with the ball before the ball has bounced.
Where the server does any of these things, or fails to hit the serve, then the players change roles and the receiver will serve the next point, but no points are awarded.
Alternatively, in the point-a-rally scoring system, points are scored by the winner of each rally, whether or not he or she served. Traditionally, this scoring is up to 15 points.


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Professional game

The scoring was reduced to 11 for the professional game (if the game reaches 10-10, a player must win by two clear points).
This scoring is now used on the men's Professional Tour, and the tin height has been lowered by two inches for the men's professional tournaments. The women's Professional Tour uses the original tin height and games are usually played to nine points.
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