Racquetball

Singles racquetball is one player against one player in a four-wall court. Serve, rally, control center court, and win the match format your group selected.

Racquetball is played by two players in singles or four players in doubles. A rally starts with a serve from the service zone: the server bounces the ball, strikes it to the front wall, and puts it into play according to the serve rules. After a legal serve, players alternate returns. A return may use side walls, back wall, or ceiling as long as the ball reaches the front wall before touching the floor. The receiving player or team may let the ball bounce once, but the rally is lost if the ball bounces twice, fails to reach the front wall legally, goes out under local rules, or creates a penalty situation. USA Racquetball rules use side-out scoring for common U.S. play, while international formats may use rally scoring, so confirm the rule set before recording.

Under USA Racquetball rules, points are scored only by the serving side. A standard match is won by the first side to win two games: the first two games are played to 15 points, and if each side wins one game, a tiebreaker is played to 11. International Racquetball Federation formats can differ, including rally-scoring matches. How You Rank currently records racquetball variants as winner-only, so save the match winner and put game scores in notes.

Record the winning player or team. Add the game scores, singles or doubles, and whether you used USAR side-out scoring or an IRF/rally-scoring format.