Squash veteran Nick Kyme admitted that he was frustrated by a poor performance that led to him being knocked out of the plate quarter-finals at the Commonwealth Games on Saturday.

Kyme lost to Scott Fitzgerald, of Wales, 11-6, 11-5, 11-9 in the consolation event for first-round losers at the Scotstoun Sports Campus.

The 33-year-old, who is playing in his fifth and final Commonwealth Games, believed that he had let himself down after allowing his below-par display to be hampered by his frustrations.

“I’m bitterly disappointed,” Kyme, who won the plate title at the 2010 Games in New Delhi, said.

“I guess I had one of those days when everything I was trying just wasn’t working and I let myself get frustrated. I don’t play well when I get frustrated and one thing then led to another.”

Kyme will now switch his focus to the men’s doubles competition, where he will partner Micah Franklin, who himself lost in the classic plate, a consolation event for second-round losers.

Franklin was defeated by Joe Chapman, of the British Virgin Islands, 11-5, 11-9, 6-11, 11-7.

“It’s the first time I have partnered Micah and we don’t really know what to expect,” said Kyme, who made his Games debut in 1998 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

“We trained together this morning when we were trying to figure a few things out.”

Kyme and Franklin, the twelfth seeds, have been pitted against fifth-seeded Campbell Grayson and Martin Knight, of New Zealand, and James Fayia and Issa Kamara, of Sierra Leone, in pool E.

Franklin should be well aware of Grayson’s strengths already, having lost to him in the second round of the singles main draw.

“We’re definitely up for it and we want to try and go out with a bang,” Kyme said.

“This is still the Commonwealth Games, after all.

“Doubles is a lot different from the singles and we don’t really get a chance to play much, as we don’t have a doubles court in Bermuda.

“We’re not expecting to achieve anything brilliant, but we would love to get out of our group and reach the knockout stage.”

Kyme and Franklin take on the New Zealanders tomorrow at 2pm Bermuda time.