壁球是一项具有百年历史的运动,在欧美及东南亚地区相当普及。它是从19世纪初伦敦监狱里犯人对着墙击打球的简单形式发展起来的,后来在英国培养皇室后代的哈卢中学得到改进。1920年世界第一块标准壁球场地建成。1967年,有115个会员国的国际壁球联合会成立。目前,全世界约有5万块壁球场地,约1500万人参与这项运动。 Squash is a century-old sport that is quite popular in Europe, America and Southeast Asia. It developed from a simple form of prisoner-in-the-wall play in prisons in London at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and Halo High School, later trained in the royal family in the UK, improved. In 1920 the world’s first standard squash court built. In 1967, the International Squash Federation with 115 member states was established. At present, there are about 50,000 squash courts in the world and about 15 million people participate in the sport.