I love playing squash but it’s really painful to watch at a professional level. It’s like watching golf. So boring. Except there’s also whining and bitching. Really, it’s no fun to watch.
clear stroke at start. and that would of been a hard double bounce to see . the refs wrong but u cant blame the ref for calling a let. most people would do that
first call probably a stroke, he did run through his swing. second call…..BULLSHIT!! first the ball bounced twice so should have been palmers point, and then he raises his hand which did not affect nicol and gets a stroke. pretty soft from nicol.
Weird one of the commentators says towards the end of the clip that the ref gave a stroke against Palmer for putting his hand up during the rally – even though the score is unchanged and Nicol is serving from the same side, meaning it was a let ball…
this match was great~
nicol is great~
and she makes malaysian proud as the defending world champion and she only lost 1 round in 7 months~
she’s the BEST!
If you look closely at 1:15, the ball is approaching the wall in a downward trajectory and suddenly goes slightly up… meaning either there was a funny bounce (because of some asperity in the wall or maybe the spin of the ball), either the second bounce was in the nick. Hard to say for SURE, but I think it’s not up.
Absolute bullshit call given how many times the ref let Nicol get away with the exact same thing with only a let. I watched that entire match. Palmer wasn’t going to beat Nicol any way though, Nicol was at his best and retrieving EVERYTHING.
Not so sure that the ball is “coming up” from the sidewall, it does not appear to do so. Not completely clear in the slow-mo, therefore it is not at all easy to be sure in realtime from where the ref sits…so I would expect the ref to call it a Let. He is unsure. (even tho it “probably” did nick) If the ref is unsure, he calls it a Let.
u are assuming it nicked. but that is not clear with this resolution on this clip. possible it had massive sidespin and projected back towards Nicol so he could hit it b4 the second bounce. just sayn. might have been. not conclusive from this clip.
Are you kidding? It bounced about a metre short of the side wall, hit the wall on the way down and was rising again coming from the wall. It couldn’t have been more blatantly not-up. If I had umpires that incompetent I’d be putting my hands in the air too. (I agree with the 1st rally – Stroke).
It appears that Nicol got the ball off of the sidewall b4 a second floor bounce. Palmer has been slow to give up the hand raising habit, and Nicol and others preyed on that for a few years.
then u dont like squash den.
Clearly, there are two women playing..
I love playing squash but it’s really painful to watch at a professional level. It’s like watching golf. So boring. Except there’s also whining and bitching. Really, it’s no fun to watch.
What a cunt!
MY Dad used to coach peter nicol! XD
He got a stroke against him for putting his hand up! Holy cow…
clear stroke at start. and that would of been a hard double bounce to see . the refs wrong but u cant blame the ref for calling a let. most people would do that
the ball was a double and should not be a let. the first rally should not be a stroke ’cause palmer moved away.
palmer got screwed
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first call probably a stroke, he did run through his swing. second call…..BULLSHIT!! first the ball bounced twice so should have been palmers point, and then he raises his hand which did not affect nicol and gets a stroke. pretty soft from nicol.
Weird one of the commentators says towards the end of the clip that the ref gave a stroke against Palmer for putting his hand up during the rally – even though the score is unchanged and Nicol is serving from the same side, meaning it was a let ball…
This video is Peter Nicol, not Nicol David.
this match was great~
nicol is great~
and she makes malaysian proud as the defending world champion and she only lost 1 round in 7 months~
she’s the BEST!
If you look closely at 1:15, the ball is approaching the wall in a downward trajectory and suddenly goes slightly up… meaning either there was a funny bounce (because of some asperity in the wall or maybe the spin of the ball), either the second bounce was in the nick. Hard to say for SURE, but I think it’s not up.
Absolute bullshit call given how many times the ref let Nicol get away with the exact same thing with only a let. I watched that entire match. Palmer wasn’t going to beat Nicol any way though, Nicol was at his best and retrieving EVERYTHING.
if you can’t see the ball nicked you must have bad eyesight.
Not so sure that the ball is “coming up” from the sidewall, it does not appear to do so. Not completely clear in the slow-mo, therefore it is not at all easy to be sure in realtime from where the ref sits…so I would expect the ref to call it a Let. He is unsure. (even tho it “probably” did nick) If the ref is unsure, he calls it a Let.
I disagree; the replay makes it conclusive. Definitely Palmer’s point.
u are assuming it nicked. but that is not clear with this resolution on this clip. possible it had massive sidespin and projected back towards Nicol so he could hit it b4 the second bounce. just sayn. might have been. not conclusive from this clip.
Are you kidding? It bounced about a metre short of the side wall, hit the wall on the way down and was rising again coming from the wall. It couldn’t have been more blatantly not-up. If I had umpires that incompetent I’d be putting my hands in the air too. (I agree with the 1st rally – Stroke).
Obviously it nicked. It wouldn’t have bounced up like that if it didn’t. Palmers point
It appears that Nicol got the ball off of the sidewall b4 a second floor bounce. Palmer has been slow to give up the hand raising habit, and Nicol and others preyed on that for a few years.