Bermuda's James Stout had to put brotherly love to one side en route to lifting one of the game of rackets' most prestigious titles.

Stout, more renowned for his squash exploits, won the HK Foster Cup at the coveted Queens tournament in England.

And the youngster, who attends Cheltenham College in Gloucestershire, had to see off stiff competition from his sibling, 18-year-old Michael, to reach the final.

Rackets is the forerunner of squash and is played with a ball similar to that used in golf.

It is played on a court measuring 60 feet by 30 feet and players use larger, stronger wooden racquets.

Invented in the 1800s it is now played mainly by English public schools.

Describing the game, the elder Stout, also an accomplished squash player, said: "I couldn't hit the ball at all the first time I went on to a rackets court, despite my squash background, and it took me a year to feel reasonably confortable with it.

"Personally, I feel squash is often not much more than running around like a headless chicken. If you are not 100 per cent fit you will lose, whereas with rackets it is much more likely for the player who use his brain to win.

"Singles at rackets in mainly a back-of-the-court game, where judgement of angles is the real key to success.'' Stout junior certainly got all his angles correct during the competition. The 16-year-old, Bermuda's Under-17 and Under-19 squash champion, defeated his schoolmate Alex Coldicott 3-1 in the final to take the cup.

He had an untroubled passage to the last stage, his closest match being against his brother in the quarter-final which went to the fifth set in the first game.

"That was probably second toughest match but I won 3-0 in end,'' he said.

"On court I don't exclude him as my brother but I do put it to the back of my mind and just go out there and try to win.'' Stout's next match should have been against number one seed Karn Behal from Harrow but an unfortunate accident in his match with Nicholas Walker of Haileybury led to him having to scratch because of an eye injury.

In the final the Bermudian ace always looked in control, even though he lost the second game.

Having fought back from 6-13 down to level it appeared Stout would go 2-0 up, but Coldicott had other ideas and produced some of his best rackets to take the game.

Stout, however, was too good for him in the next two games and ran out an easy winner.

"I knew it would be tough but I was quite confident because I had beaten him the last time we'd played,'' he said.

"I went out there thinking I'd win and I did 3-1 in the end.'' Proud champion: Bermudian rackets player James Stout, pictured in front of Cheltenham College, England, where he studies, with the HK Foster Cup.