Chris Binnie and Nicolette Fernandes both retained their individual Caribbean crowns in the finals of the CASA 2012 held in Trinidad. photo:supplied

Binnie is unbeaten in 2 years on home soil, but went down in straight sets to the BVI's Joe Kniepp in a tournament held in the Cayman's in 2011. photo: supplied

Binnie won the recent BVI Pro Championship where both he and Joe Chapman started in the qualifying rounds. photo: supplied

For Jamaica’s Binnie it was a third title as he beat Cayman Island’s Cameron Stafford in straight games, while Fernandes made it four titles in a repeat of last year’s final. Karen Meakins, appearing in her sixth consecutive final, came within a whisker of taking the first game but after taking it 12/10 Fernandes raced through the next two, 11/2 and 11/1.

Winning his third Caribbean Senior Championship was a major goal for Binnie who launched his professional career earlier this year and he claimed his second Pro Title with an emphatic 11/7, 11/6, 11/4 score line

The 23-year-old has not lost a match on Jamaican soil for more than two years and has already claimed a pro title with a win at the British Virgin Islands Open in June.

Binnie, the All Jamaica senior men's champion advanced to the finals after beating Barbadian Shawn Simpson 11-8, 11-8, and 11-9. In his most competitive match since the start of the tournament, Binnie found himself down 0-3 in the third set after winning the first two. Clearly not willing to go down without a fight, Simpson threw all he had at the Jamaican; but Binnie prevailed and maintained his so-far perfect record of straight set wins.

In contrast, Stafford fought his way through an epic five-setter in the semi-finals. Taking on the third seed, Micah Franklin of Bermuda, Stafford, who won the first set then went down 2-1, had to dig deep to beat his rival 11-5, 9-11, 7-11, 11-5, and 11-7.

In the Ladies Semis Fernandes beat Kerrie Sample 11/6, 11/4, 11/5 and Meakins beat Cheri-Ann Paris 11/6, 1/11, 11/5, 11/9

Chris Binnie, a long time friend of the BVI’s number one ranked player, Joe Chapman, is the reigning Caribbean Champion and is on his way to becoming one of the Caribbean’s best represented players in a long time.

He is a former two-time U17 and U19 Caribbean Champion and has also won the senior Men’s Caribbean title in 2009 and 2011.He recently became the first ever Caribbean player to win a PSA Open title when he took home the British Virgin Islands Open as a qualifier, taking out world #150 and world #155 players along the way.

He was a member of the Trinity College squash team in the U.S. (13-time National Intercollegiate Champions), and was ranked in the top 15 on the CSA Men’s Individuals rankings in 2011.

Since joining the tour in January of this year, he has quickly climbed to #168 on the PSA.