'I need to get out of Bermuda' ? that is the thought utmost in the mind of professional squash player Nick Kyme.

A disconsolate Kyme, ranked 85 in the world, speaking after yet another qualifying round defeat, admits that if he is to get anywhere in his chosen sport, he needs a new training base.

Kyme, ranked one in the qualifying for the Cleveland Open, was beaten by Julian Wellings 11-7, 11-3, 11-5 and blames the lack of a rigorous home training schedule.

"I need to get away and base myself somewhere else if this is going to work," said Kyme, a confidence player, who is going through an "extremely frustrating" low at the moment.

"When I am in Bermuda I am not being pushed and there are not enough players around for me to get the training I need. It is no reflection on the guys there ? they have helped me out enormously ? but to make it I need to base myself abroad like all the other guys on the tour."

Kyme is looking at either Belgium, where fellow pro James Stout is working with Shaun Moxham, the coach of Bermuda resident and former world number one David Palmer, or Toronto.

"I need regular playing partners and league squash to play in if I I am to be ready to play in these tournaments," continued Kyme, who had laser surgery earlier this year so he could dispense with his trademark spectacles.

"The only way to compete is to be playing regularly against the other players and that is not happening in Bermuda, where I train, head to a tournament for one game and then go back again.

"I need to get out of this cycle and the way to do it is move abroad."

Although a lack of financing is one obstacle, the other is finding a suitable coach and base.

"Shaun (Moxham) said he has run out of space but if he hadn't I would be over there like a shot," he said.

"The other option is Jonathon Power's coach Mike Way in Toronto."

The latest body blow for Kyme was his defeat to Wellings, who he dominated in the opening game.

"I was doing well in the first game, playing the shots I wanted to play," he added.

"Then in the break, he talked to a couple of the other lads who have been around a while and they must have told him about my main weakness, boasts to the front left of the court, because in the next game he played for that all the time.

"The more he played to my weakness, the more antsy I got and the less I played my natural game. It was very frustrating and it wasn't much consolation afterwards when guys came up to me and said 'he was amazing out there, that is the best we have ever seen him play'.

"He played like a top 20 player but it is another tournament and another loss after one game.

"It is hard sometimes ? I was moping around the other day moaning that I haven't had a win I can be proud of seven or eight months ? that is why I need to make big changes."