Making shots take on more of a downward angle to make them more effective.

One thing you can do to make even the most ordinary shots more attacking is to get your racket above the ball. If your hit your shots from this position, the ball will go downwards and put far more pressure on your opponent, as they’ll know the ball is going to bounce twice fairly soon. This is something you should particularly look to do when you’re playing straight drives or lengths shots. It’s easy to get into a habit of hitting aimlessly down the line without really paying attention to the accuracy of your width and length but if you get your racket above the ball, you’ll make your ball die or bounce twice quicker.

The aim with playing this straight drive with the racket above the ball is to make the ball bounce twice in the back corner and not come off the back wall. If you do this repeatedly over the course of a game, your opponent will be under enormous pressure in every sense of the word.

Physically, they’ll have to move quicker to get the ball and if they get there, they will most likely not be in the greatest position. Psychologically, they’ll have to select their shot while rushing, which is never easy. Assuming that either psychologically or physically they come up even a bit short, their technique and shot itself will also suffer.

This simple change in racket height when you begin your backswing can do all that. It just goes to show that playing attacking squash and winning points isn’t about hitting nicks or winning shots but about applying pressure through small alterations to even the simplest of shots.