Ontario Squash Rankings
RATINGS AND RANKINGS
At Squash Ontario, we have two different levels to the ratings and rankings systems, Universal Ratings and Squash Ontario Rankings.
Club Locker uses a Universal Squash Rating (USR) for any player who has an account with results. These players do not need to be competitive members of Squash Ontario to generate a USR, it can be done on free accounts. To generate a USR, player must have at least one win and one loss against other rated players recorded on their profile (through friendlies, leagues or tournaments).
The USR allows all players—regardless of age, gender, or location—to track their improvement over time, find other players of similar skill level, and be connected across the squash community. A player’s USR is a long-term measure of their level of play, which adjusts daily based on any match result entered into Club Locker. The USR ranges roughly from 1.5 for a beginner to 7.0 for a top-level professional player.
In addition to Universal Ratings, players who have Squash Ontario Competitive Memberships will fall into our Player Rankings list in club locker, which has many different filters. We have an overall rankings list for all men, women, boys and girls, as well as age groups (from under 11, up to 80+). There are singles and doubles rankings pages. The rankings order is based off your individual rating. To be included in the Squash Ontario Player Rankings, a player must have 5 exposures (matches) in at least two tournaments within a 12 month period. A player who does not meet these requirements, may fall out of the rankings list, even if they do have a competitive membership.
Please read the document linked on the button below for more information on USRs and Squash Ontario Rankings.
Defaults
Players defaulting from any Squash Ontario sanctioned event after 4:00 PM the day before the start of the event will be subject to default loss for the match in question regardless of a Doctor’s note. Squash Ontario will use their discretion to complete a re-draw if there is time to do so in the event that the player defaulting is a top seeded entry.
Defaults throughout the event will result in a default loss for the first match defaulted regardless of a Doctor’s note; subsequent matches are not subject to the default policy and will be considered "not played". If a player retires after the commencement of a match, they will lose head to head points for the retiring match.
Defaulting players with just cause may continue to play consolation or plate rounds at the discretion of the Tournament Chair.
Age Ineligible Players
In the event a player enters a Squash Ontario tournament (Junior Silver, Junior Gold or Ontario Championship) and is age ineligible for the category entered, Squash Ontario will deem the offending player to have only participated in the tournament and the player will not be eligible to receive any ranking points gained/lost during said tournament. In addition, all non-offending players who played the offending player will not be eligible to receive any ranking points gained/lost during the tournament. Points will be manually adjusted to the affected players overall ranking points after the rankings have been run.
Out-Of-Province Matches
Squash Ontario rankings include only Ontario residents that are current members in good standing of the association. Matches against an out of province player will still count towards your Club Locker rating.
Inter Gender Matches
Squash Ontario does not enter Inter Gender Matches into the rankings.