Despite not winning any individual title, T&T's men and women captured the teams titles at the 2009 senior Caribbean Squash Championships, which concluded on Saturday night in the Cayman Islands. T&T came from behind to claim a 3-2 win over Barbados in the men's final while it was a ding dong battle all the way before the women finally edged the host 3-2, to secure the double. Barbados took an early 1-0 led after T&T's Ryan Abraham, playing against Mark Sealy, was forced to retire hurt. With the score at two sets each, and Sealy leading 1-0 in the fifth, Abraham was injured out.
Barbados went further ahead when Kale Wilson lost to Fabian Goodridge in five sets in the second match. With Barbados smelling victory, Colin Ramasra, who lost in the men's single final, found his rhythm and pulled off a hard fought 3-2 win over the region's number two seed, Shawn Simpson, to make it 2-1. T&T's Canadian based player Don Lee then brought the game alive with a 3-1 result over Gavin Cumberbatch to draw T&T level at 2-2. In the decider, Barbados' Bryant Cumberbatch took the first set against Paul Deverteuil at three (11-3). He moved his team closer to the title with an 11-6 score in the next before Deverteuil bounced back, taking consecutive games at 5, 4 and 4.
It was the first team title for T&T at the championships.�On the women's side, it was T&T who held an early 2-0 lead after Amy Gillezeau and Nakita Poon Kong claimed four-set wins over Samantha Henning and Melissa Evans respectively. The host came back into the title hunt after T&T's top seed, Kerrie Sample and 15-time national champ Rhea Khan both lost. Sample fell to Marlene West 1-3 while Khan went under to Caroline Heal 3-0. This left the US-based Joanna Scoon to follow the footsteps of Deverteuil and bring home the title. She took the opening set at seven, lost the next at seven, before going on to give T&T the double with an 11-8, 11-6 scoreline.
