T&T's top squash play­er Col­in Ra­mas­ra re­bound­ed from a semi­fi­nal ex­it of the re­cent­ly-con­clud­ed na­tion­al cham­pi­onships to take the 2012 St Lu­cia Open in style, de­feat­ing the UK's top seed­ed Matthew Schon­frucht in three straight sets in the fi­nal on Sat­ur­day. Ra­mas­ra had an in­cred­i­ble cam­paign, all the way through to the fi­nal, drop­ping not a sin­gle set in his ef­forts. He be­gan by drop­ping St Lu­cian lo­cal Car­los Segovia 11/8, 11/4, 11/2, then Cameron Mof­fat 11/2, 11/5, 11/2, be­fore whip­ping the is­land's num­ber one play­er Char­lie Son Son 11/5, 11/5, 11/6. Ra­mas­ra ad­vanced to the quar­ter­fi­nal and faced Ol­lie Go­b­at who gave the T&T play­er his tough­est test.

The St Lu­cian ef­forts were in vain as, again, Ra­mas­ra went on to win three straight sets, 11/8, 11/5, 15/13. In the open­ing semi­fi­nal, the even­tu­al fi­nal­ist Schon­srucht took four sets to de­feat Vin­cent­ian Kevin Bai­ley 11/6, 8/11, 11/6 14/12. Ra­mas­ra again en­tered the sec­ond knock­out match and played a con­fi­dent but con­trolled match, where he made his semi­fi­nal op­po­nent in an­oth­er St Vin­cent play­er James Bentick do most of the run­ning. Ra­mas­ra de­feat­ed Bentick 11/7, 11/8, 11/4 for a spot in the fi­nal, which he made look easy. The T&T favourite re­mained in com­plete con­trol, es­pe­cial­ly in the first set, as he hand­ed Schon­frucht a 11/2 thrash­ing, be­fore flour­ish­ing to take the sec­ond two sets 11/4, 11/6, with lit­tle ef­fort.