Hardball squash vs Rackets

Hardball squash is a North American form of squash played with a harder, faster ball than the international softball version. Traditional singles courts are narrower, measuring 18.5 feet wide, which changes the angles, pace, and movement patterns of play. The game is primarily of historical and specialist interest today, especially to players, clubs, and researchers documenting older North America...

Rackets is an English indoor racquet sport that developed in the eighteenth century in London debtors’ prisons, including the King’s Bench and the Fleet. Players adapted the hand-played game of fives by using tennis racquets to strike a ball against a wall, creating a fast game on a four-wall court. Rackets is historically important because it helped lead to squash and belongs to the same family o...