POINT-A-RALLY scoring will be used for the first time in Trinidad since it was recently adopted by the world body when the 2009 squash season serves off at 2.30 p.m. today with the Vita Malt Junior Championships at Cascadia Squash Club, St Ann's.
In this system the score changes after every point as opposed to the previous system where a player could only win points on serve.
The previous system was also used in volleyball and badminton but the change to scoring every point came in badminton a couple years ago, after being made in volleyball about a decade earlier.
In point-a-rally a player will have to reach 11 points to win a game, as opposed to nine in the old system.
This junior tournament will be played over three consecutive days in the under-11, 13, 15, 17 and 19 age-groups and matches will be best-of-five sets.
McKenzie siblings, Matthew and Jilla, and Khamal Cumberbatch have come across from Barbados and are among the 60 entrants.
Both Matthew and Jilla have been seeded second, Jilla behind Charlotte Knaggs in the under-15 category and Matthew after Ryan Bayne in the under-17 division.
Cumberbatch, brother of former Caribbean singles champion Garvin Cumberbatch, is competing in the under-11 age-group, which, along with the under-13 category, is wide open.
National under-17 and 19 champ Kale Wilson is the top seed and overwhelming under-19 favourite, while Kevin Ross is the other seed.
Jessica Scott and Emily Bones are the seeds in the girls' equivalent draw, but there is no female under-17 division because of insufficient entries.
