Bermuda?s number one squash player, professional Nick Kyme, demonstrated his fitness and strength as he overcame the Squash Racquet Association?s new coach, former world number 69 Patrick Foster in the Men?s Division A final of the World Distributors Annual Charity tournament over the weekend.

In front of a packed crowd, the first game began evenly with both players trading services for some five minutes at love-all, Foster no doubt realising early on that he was in for a tough match against a young player who seems to thrive on chasing down every ball.

Once on the scoresheet, Kyme raced to a 5-0 lead as Foster made a series of errors.

Foster scored his only point of the game before Kyme forced the pace and took the game 9-1 in just nine minutes.

The club?s new coach came out stronger in the second game, fully utilising his 6? 3? frame to stretch for the ball, and he seemed content at times to rally up and down the backhand wall, waiting for Kyme to make errors. But the young Bermudian was eager to break up Foster?s rhythm, keeping him on the move with relentless cross court drives.

Foster proved he could handle fast pace and speed with his long, loping style, enabling him to move around the court with consummate ease, and after moving into a 6-5 lead he looked to be on course to win the second game.

But Kyme was having none of it and kept applying the pressure to level the game at 7-7, and then take the next two points for a commanding two-game lead.

It was clear that Foster had expended a lot of energy in trying to take that game, and although he continued to play superb squash he simply had no answer to a much improved Kyme who showed no signs of tiring even though his experienced opponent moved him around the court.

Foster took just two points in the third game with Kyme cruising to victory in a scintillating display of power and fitness.

Foster said later: ?Nick is showing just how fit he is as a professional player on the circuit. His exposure to the world?s top players in the Virtual Spectator Bermuda Masters has inspired him, and he now has the fitness, strength and determination to move further up the world rankings.?

The Ladies? final saw two of the Island?s perennial top players and training partners in action, with defending champion Liz Martin proving too strong for Denise Kyme as she ran out a comfortable winner by three games to nil (9-3, 9-4, 9-0).

Martin has been training hard for the forthcoming Small Island Games and it showed as she volleyed consistently and was able to counter Kyme?s attacking strokes.

Alistair McNeish won the Men?s Division Two title with a straightforward 3-0 win against surprise finalist Graham Drainer.

Former junior player Peter Barratt marked his recent return to the game with a 3-0 win over promising junior Kristian Muldoon, a hard-hitting, young 12-year-old who fought hard in the first game, conceding it 10-9, but then showed the effects of a tough previous match against Under-13 champion Chris Stout, and lost the next two games 9-1, 9-3.

In Ladies? Division Two action, Kelly Barnes, the Girls? Under-13 Caribbean champion, overcame Zoe Sharpe 3-0, demonstrating once again that she will be a force to be reckoned with in the future.

Tournament director Ross Triffitt is a strong believer in exposing juniors to competition against adults, and it is beginning to pay off as many of them are now holding their own as they develop their gamesmanship and racquet skills.

Thirteen year-old Chris Stout is a prime example of a junior showing promise, and he also demonstrated his domination in the Under-13 division with a 3-0 victory over another up and coming junior, Kristian Muldoon.

Stout was made to work hard in the first game when his opponent made a strong start but Stout took the game 9-7 and then dropped just one point in the next two games.

In one of the most exciting finals, the Under-17, Douglas Olson defeated James Daniels after falling behind 2-1 in games before levelling the match at 2-2 and winning the final game 9-0.

The charity tournament, which raised a total of $3,700 for the Bermuda Diabetic Association, was described as an overwhelming success by World Distributors president Eugene Bothello