Squash: Free Game Friday - Matthew v Elias - Oracle NetSuite Open 2017

[@gordoncampbell4706]

Completely agree with you regarding watching PSASQUASHTV, I recommend it to all our members and students of the game. I have seen and experienced some remarkable improvements. The monkey see monkey do phenomenon is amusing and beneficial in so many ways. Color commentary is always superb and truly allows this fine game to be understood by the masses. Best regards from LTSquash Canada.

[@petereedy6092]

Nick Matthew is a great champion, but his gamesmanship here suggests it is time to hang up his racket (which I understand he is doing soon). Credit to Diego Elias for showing maturity and not letting Nick's complaining and stalling get to him ... and as far as I know, there is no prohibition in the rules regarding 'pointing' at a suspect shot for a future appeal (as a former referee, I never had a problem with this)

[@tonytan5945]

Matthew particularly using lots of "rule book" gamesmanship here as he knew Elias was in form and dangerous. Always a good sign you're doing OK when a higher ranked player needs to resort to it. I'm so glad Elias won the match in the end.

[@cliffordstretton5438]

Listening to you two commentators is one of the best parts. Taking in oxygen...

[@darenhernandez8125]

Fantastic game. Such high quality.

[@arnaud78]

Insanely good game! Loved it!

[@feliperamonhotmail]

He said dunkened

[@hunterfrancischun]

elias is so impressive

[@gamolly]

So Mathew asks for a let because it's unsafe to play around a sweat patch from Diego's palm, but when Diego falls and leaves a whole body-sized sweat patch he keeps on playing... that's because he was losing the first and winning the latter of course. I don't like his ways.

[@fAtbAstUrd350]

Those are the rules though, the opponent of the player who put sweat on the floor gets to decide if they want to play on or stop for a let.

[@albertrutter3023]

@@fAtbAstUrd350 I agree those are the rules but if you are going off that then Matthew shouldn’t have been able to stop the first time as it was the sweat from Elias’ hand from his lunge that he said was making the court slippy and dangerous not his own sweat

[@fAtbAstUrd350]

@@albertrutter3023 If this is referring to the point around 17:15 then you're correct, Matthew shouldn't be able to stop as he caused the sweat patch. The only exception is if the ref decides it's unsafe to play. Hard to ref as you don't want to encourage diving to stop play but equally can't let players be in danger, especially in warm conditions where there is excess sweating.

[@bradburke1059]

To clarify; all of you are unfortunately wrong. The "rule," which is a PSA rule and not captured in the WSF Rule book is this: if a wet patch is created on the court surface, play is expected to continue if all shots are good, in fact, the players WANT the play to continue, as it almost always results in a compromised player at a disadvantage and a winning shot situation could be available. The player who created the wet patch is irrelevant. However, if court action forces EITHER player to return to the area/quadrant of the wet patch to play their shot, that player may request stoppage/a let specifically for safety reasons. No one wants an injury to any player. That being said; all the wet patches were created by Nick himself putting his hand down starting several rallies earlier, again, irrelevant, kind of, so, now the question is gamesmanship. You'll have to answer that yourselves; I have my opinion. A wily veteran and an up and comer. School is in session.

[@bobmckinney1005]

Agree with the comments about conduct. Matthew didn’t cover himself in glory in this match.

[@cookesam6]

Covered himself shame and embarrassment

[@akhilrajshah1232]

37 years of age! Unbelievable fitness. Really looking forward to his speech after winning one of the finals. Go NICK!

[@MrMarno]

5x in 6 points?????? and Elias did it once or twice like barely

[@triancirc]

Nick Matthew is amazing and inspirational. I am sure after the slip he decided to go easy to avoid getting injured in his last season. That is to say if that was his last match he wouldn’t have lost a single game unless he did his best which he didn’t here after the slip

[@cookesam6]

What the hell was 12:39?! Racquet was up, ready to play, realises it's an unorthodox serve and thinks "oh I'm not ready" (for THAT type of serve). He really was a scumbag of a person.

[@skyjockbill]

He said "dunkened", PJ!

[@ahsanmunir1911]

Elias is a gentleman

[@fahedjavaid1]

wow ..tht was awsome....

[@Gravsmusic]

Can someone tell my why Matthew got the point at 28:30? I only started playing squash and thought it is ok to play over the sidewall. Thanks

[@cookesam6]

Elias' final shot (the boast) actually hit the tin - you can see it bounce upward. I was confused at first too haha

[@fernandorafaelmorenosauced3906]

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[@uetel1120]

20:05Is this no let?

[@RB-12]

Elias won the next 3 games easily

[@bmw-e30]

Keeping the ball tight on the sidewall and waiting on opponents errors was Matthews game. Huge fitness levels but not very exciting to watch.

[@jasonmcnamara2079]

I'd be happy to be half as fit as these guys

[@JW-bs7xp]

I am an alpha male and am almost certainly as fit

[@ahsanmunir1911]

coming out of the court every time, is this even allowed? Why referee is allowing it?

[@유지석-w5e]

닉은 여전히 잘 치지만 아직도 스쿼시의 발전을 방해하고 있구만.. 언제나 사라질려나.. 영국 사람들에는 나쁜 감정 없지만 닉은 해도해도 너무한듯...

[@leonardodominguez3491]

Once a cry baby, always a cry a baby.

[@joshbush8450]

WTF was mathew arguing with elias hand. i dont think elias did that much. glad you lose old .. too much whining .

[@apt981]

read the rule books. Hes going by every rule in the book.

[@joshbush8450]

Salty Box Gaming no. he just cant keep up with elias game. and using an argument to distracted elias focus. elias barely rising his hand twice and mathew said it was 5 times. the hell

[@apt981]

He was talking about the sweat on the floor the 2nd time. Read the rule book Josh.

[@jungholee3793]

What he was saying was just good enough as they are written in the rule. You wont be responsible for him slipping down cuz of sweat on the floor. You cant raise hand just as you cant speak during a rally.

[@apt981]

But is it player safe? I think NOT! READ THE RULE BOOK

[@Sailingbill1]

Nick play the game for god sake..... Stop the being such a baby.....

[@JW-bs7xp]

Show some respect young man - he is an experienced player with multiple wins under his belt

[@Sailingbill1]

@@JW-bs7xp Have respect for others opinions, old man...

[@JW-bs7xp]

@@Sailingbill1 ​ Really peeves me that there are so many illiterate people voicing their opinions on topics they know nothing about... sigh... Fyi Nick Matthew was a professional player and used to beat a lot of the other pros

[@Sailingbill1]

@@JW-bs7xp Dude get therapy and go somewhere else. See, your feelings are just getting hurt.

[@JW-bs7xp]

@@Sailingbill1 I am an alpha male whose feelings never get hurt. I am also a Doctor - show some respect, we are in the middle of a pandemic

[@cookesam6]

What the hell was 12:39?! Racquet was up, ready to play, realises it's an unorthodox serve and thinks "oh I'm not ready" (for THAT type of serve). He really was a scumbag of a person.

[@dontwatchdotorg]

He might've just been going to catch the ball with his racket either way