Timing Club Championships over the weekend.

Nick Kyme, at 16 years, two months, became the youngest ever men's champion.

But mother Denise was left writhing in pain after severely damaging her knee, forcing her to retire while leading the Women's A final.

Much of the talk at the end surrounded the younger Kyme, a product of the Bermuda Squash Racquet Association's youth programme, who outlasted Bermuda's former number one ranked player, Julian Rose, in a five-game affair at the Devonshire Courts.

In a match pitting experience against youthful exuberance, Rose started well enough, cautiously moving to a 4-2 lead in the first game before claiming a 9-4 victory.

The second game saw Kyme take the lead role at the outset, but Rose came back to win the next two points and eventually took the game 9-6, forcing Kyme into playing long, slow rallies to length on the back-hand.

Kyme emerged determined for game number three and, despite being on the verge of extinction at 8-3 down, found the resources to rally back, returning everything Rose threw at him, surviving four service games to prevail 9-8.

Now expected to steam roll his tiring opponent, Kyme instead again fell behind and was forced in a battle for survival, trailing 8-4. He again produced a dramatic finish to win 10-8, setting up the decisive fifth game.

Kyme took that game 9-4 to earn his first Bermuda Club Championship title.

Kyme's triumph turned to concern for his mother, the number one seed, who was matched against newcomer Sarah Bishop, a former English county player.

Denise Kyme won the first two games 9-4 and 9-1 and was ahead 6-4 in the third when tragedy struck. After making a drop shot, she moved back to the T where her knee buckled, damaging the cartilage and ligaments and forcing her retirement from the match.

The injury also weakens the female team set to compete in the Rosebowl tournament in the Cayman Islands next month.

In other matches, Siobhan Rose narrowly defeated Julie Greaves 9-7, 8-10, 4-9, 9-4, 9-6 to take the Women's B final, Melinda Norris downed Karen Burgess 4-9, 9-4, 9-3, 9-0 in the Women's C, while on the men's side Barrie Mancell downed Phil Martin 9-6, 9-1, 4-9, 9-4 in B action and Michael Somers defeated John Evans 9-0, 9-3, 9-2 for the C crown.

Plate winners were Rod Holloway, Andy McDougall, John Gardner, Christine Barnes, Ann Mitchell and Susan Ripley.