Kyme still going strong at Junior Worlds
World Junior Squash Championships at Princeton University in New Jersey with two wins in the last couple of days.
On Wednesday he came from behind to defeat Canadian Carl Baglio and yesterday he pulled off a superb 3-2 win over second ranked Argentinian Robertino Pezzota.
Argentina are seeded seventh in the team event which is due to start on Sunday while Bermuda are ranked 28th.
After losing the first game to Baglio 9-3, Kyme focused on getting better length and depth, and taking the ball earlier, as he swept through the next two games 9-4, 9-1.
But he was stretched to the limit in the fourth game, coming back from 3-8 down to tie 9-9 and eventually clinch match point for a 10-9 win.
Yesterday, after an exciting first game which see-sawed all the way to 9-all, Kyme hit one of his high risk but spectacular winners. But the referee did not see its rally winning quality and allowed the play to continue.
Thirty minutes after the start Kyme was on the losing side of a 10-9 marathon game. Somewhat deflated, he struggled to focus until facing match ball at 8-3 down in the third, having lost the second game 9-2.
But in a tremendous fightback, he hustled through to save the match with a 10-8 victory. And having regained his composure, he confidently strode through the fourth and fifth games 9-2, 9-3 in a contest which lasted one and a half hours.
The latest achievement puts Kyme in the quarter-finals where he will meet Australia's number two player Paul Davis.
Bermudian brothers Michael and James Stout, meanwhile, bowed out of the tournament against stronger, older and more experienced opponents.
Michael lost to Federico Samper of Colombia 9-1, 9-2, 9-3 in 23 minutes while James was beaten in 20 minutes by Alexandre Dornelas of Brazil 9-0, 9-0, 9-1.
The fifth round of the individual championships saw many of the seeded players continue their march at the top of the draw.
Included in that mix was Pakistan's number three seed Muhammad Hussain who outfought Argentina's Jorge Gutierrez, while other wins went to Malaysia's number one seed Ong Ben Hee who beat Wales' Gavin Jones and England's Adrian Grant who downed Pakistan's Shahid Zaman.
