Mensur Suljovic Wins Players Championship 26

Mensur Suljovic Wins Players Championship 26

Mensur Suljovic Players Championship

In an otherwise quiet week, The Gentle Mensur Suljovic saw off Ian ‘Diamond’ White in the final of the latest Players Championship event, which took place in Barnsley at the weekend. He did so in spite of White checking out for a nine darter to take the match to 5-5.

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Suljovic averaged 97 in the final and gradually took control of the match before sealing the event with a 109 checkout in the deciding leg, giving the Austrian Darts Championship winner his second tournament of the season.

Earlier on in the afternoon, Rob Cross also scored a nine darter, but the day’s standout performance came when Suljovic took on Glen Durrant in the fourth round. Winning 6-2 while averaging a stunning 112.6, The Gentle moved on to Cristo Reyes in the quarter-finals and Jonny Clayton, where he completed a 102.3 average during his 7-5 semi-final triumph.

Saturday’s Players Championship went the way of Daryl Gurney, who finally nailed his first title of the year. He defeated Nathan Aspinall 8-5 in the final and had previously seen off the likes of Michael Smith and Peter ‘Snakebite’ Wright.

Gibraltar Darts Trophy Betting Tips

Up next for our heroes is the Gibraltar Darts Trophy, which is the 13th of 13 2019 European Tour events and runs from Friday September 27 through Sunday 29.

Friday’s first-round features the 32 qualifiers competing across two sessions at the Victoria Stadium, with a high-quality field including some former European Tour winners, while the big boys join in the action when we reach the last 32.

Michael van Gerwen returns to action having sat out the past fortnight to go on a family holiday, but he wasn’t about to miss his annual victorious trip to the rock. This, after all, is a competition Mighty Mike has won in 2015, 2016 and 2018. At the time of writing, Mighty Mike is available at a best price of 11/8 through Betway.

As ever, Rob Cross, 9/1, and Peter Wright, 10’s, are considered the next most likely victors, but neither win enough to really justify wasting your money on week in week out. Cue Cross win.

On that note, don’t rule out Ian White, who came runner up last week. Diamond has taken down two European Tour events so far already this season while making the final in another two. He has also been served the good fortune of avoiding van Gerwen’s side of the draw and so he cannot meet MVG until the final.

Michael ‘Bully Boy’ Smith, who shouldn’t be discounted himself, provides the main threat on that side of the draw and the pair could meet head-on in Sunday’s third round. Smith is in lousy form, though, and is priced at 16/1. White, on the other hand, looks like good value at the same price, especially with each-way terms being ½ of the odds. Last week’s champion, Mensur Suljovic can be picked up for 20’s. Others in the field are available.

Gibraltar Darts Trophy Schedule of Play

Friday September 27

  • Wessel Nijman v Darren Webster
  • Krzysztof Kciuk v Kirk Shepherd
  • Ryan Joyce v Matt Clark
  • Cor Dekker v HNQ3
  • Ryan Meikle v Paul Rowley
  • Justin Pipe v Kim Huybrechts
  • Carl Wilkinson v HNQ4
  • Steve Beaton v Tony Newell
  • Jeffrey de Zwaan v Steve West
  • William O’Connor v Chris Dobey
  • Keegan Brown v Danny Noppert
  • HNQ2 v Michael Rosenauer
  • Dimitri Van den Bergh v Scott Taylor
  • Darius Labanauskas v Jose De Sousa
  • Robert Thornton v HNQ1
  • Ritchie Edhouse v Jamie Hughes

Saturday, September 28

Second Round

  • Nathan Aspinall v Joyce/Clark
  • James Wade v Meikle/Rowley
  • Krzysztof Ratajski v Beaton/Newell
  • Jonny Clayton v Pipe/Huybrechts
  • Rob Cross v Kciuk/Shepherd
  • Daryl Gurney v Wilkinson/HNQ4
  • Dave Chisnall v De Zwaan/West
  • Michael Smith v Brown/Noppert
  • Ian White v HNQ2/Rosenauer
  • Jermaine Wattimena v Van den Bergh/Taylor
  • Mensur Suljovic v Nijman/Webster
  • Michael van Gerwen v Labanauskas/De Sousa
  • Peter Wright v Dekker/HNQ3
  • Joe Cullen v Edhouse/Hughes
  • Glen Durrant v O’Connor/Dobey
  • Gerwyn Price v Thornton/HNQ1

Sunday, September 29

  • Third Round
  • Evening Session (1915 local time, 1815 BST)
  • Quarter-Finals
  • Semi-Finals
  • Final

GLANCE AT GIBRALTAR DARTS TROPHY

Venue: Victoria Stadium
Dates: Thursday 27.09.2019 – 29.09.2019
Format: Best of 11, 13 and 15 legs
Current Champion: Michael van Gerwen
Where To Watch: PDC TV
When To Watch: 1200 BST, 1800 BST

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Gerwyn Price Defends International Darts Open

Gerwyn Price Defends International Darts Open

Gerwyn Price International Darts Open

The Welsh Iceman, Gerwyn Price has successfully defended his International Darts Open title in Riesa, Germany. Twelve months ago, the former Rugby player overcame Simon ‘The Wizard’ Whitlock to claim his maiden European Tour victory, a feat he has now repeated, this time at the expense of Rob Cross.

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Voltage, the World Matchplay champion, was vanquished 8-6 in a closely-fought final where he averaged 90 to Price’s 93. Cross was hunting what would have been the maiden European Tour title of his career. He had initially opened up a 4-2 advantage after checking out from 148. Instantly though, Price hit back with a 121 to complete a 12-darter. Before long, Price finished the job in style with a 108 checkout. Pinning two 180s each, neither player was in great finishing form. Voltage failed in 10 of his 16 double attempts, while The Iceman misguided eight from 21.

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34-year-old Price’s route to the final saw him take on and dismiss Joe Murnan as well as UK Open winner Nathan Aspinall, both by 6-4 score lines. In the last four he met with Glen Durrant, who was also sent packing, this time in a 7-3 win.

As for Voltage, he thrashed last week’s European Tour winner Joe Cullen 6-0 in the third round before moving on to Richard North, who was dealt with equally brutally, 6-1. Things were a little less comfortable in the semi-finals where a 7-6 score line was enough to move into the final at the expense of Peter ‘Snakebite’ Wright.

Price now has a total of seven PDC crowns to his name which includes the Grand Slam of Darts as well as two Players Championship titles. He can now look forward to the final few months of the year in which, following the European Tour event number 13, the Gibraltar Darts Trophy, the Champions League of Darts, European Championship, World Series of Darts Finals, Grand Slam of Darts, Players Championship Finals and the World Championship all take place.

2019 Champions League Of Darts

The draw for this year’s Champions League of Darts, which pits the world’s top eight players against each other over two days, has now been made. The event starts on October 19 and takes place at the Morningside Arena in Leicester. The reigning champion here is Gary Anderson, who will open up his defense against Michael ‘Bully Boy’ Smith.

The BBC-televised tournament works by splitting the participants up into two groups of four for a round-robin phase which is held over the opening three sessions of play. This is followed by the top two from each group competing in the semi-finals and final.

With only the world’s best eight competing, there are no easy games, but all the same Group A looks like a particularly frightening prospect. Gary ‘The Flying Scotsman’ Anderson has been handed the same group as World Champion Michael van Gerwen, World Championship finalist Michael Smith and reigning European Champion James Wade.

Former World Grand Prix winner Daryl Gurney will be sharing Group B with 2018 Champions League finalist Peter Wright, World Matchplay champion Rob Cross and Grand Slam of Darts winner Gerwyn Price.

We’ll take a better look at the prices close to the event, but right now, ante-post betting at Betway is worth taking a look at. Michael van Gerwen leads the betting at 11/8 which will surely only draw in as the event gets closer. Rob Cross is currently at 9/2, while Peter Wright is at 6/1 and Gary Anderson 7/1.

Rounding out the odds are Michael Smith, who is priced 10/1, with Daryl Gurney, James Wade and Gerwyn Price all fancied at 12/1.

2019 Paddy Power Champions League of Darts Schedule of Play

Saturday October

  • Daryl Gurney v Peter Wright (Group B)
  • Rob Cross v Gerwyn Price (Group B)
  • Michael Smith v Gary Anderson (Group A)
  • Michael van Gerwen v James Wade (Group A)
  • 4x Group Matches (evening session)

Sunday October 20

  • Remaining group matches (Afternoon Session)
  • Semi-Finals (Evening Session)
  • Final (Evening Session)
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Joe Cullen Wins First European Tour Title

Joe Cullen Wins First European Tour Title

Joe Cullen European Darts

Playing in his first ranking final on a stage, Joe ‘The Rockstar’ Cullen put in a series of brilliant performances at the European Darts Matchplay in Mannheim last weekend, which culminated in him winning the event at the expense of the world champion Michael van Gerwen, who was defending his title.

Since bagging a pair of minor PDC titles back in 2017, Cullen had been expected to become a major player on the circuit, challenging regularly for the top honours. Instead though, he drifted down the ranks while others came from relative obscurity – we’re looking at you Rob Cross – to win the biggest events in darts.

Instead, the closest Cullen came to challenging was running Gary Anderson extremely close in the 2018 World Matchplay quarter-finals and almost making the European Championship final only to fall at the last against Simon Whitlock.

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Last week though, he demonstrated that there was still a player in there as he saw off Jamie Hughes, William O’Connor, Glen Durrant and James Wade before his showdown with Mighty Mike where he would go on to average 101.3 compared to MVG’s 100.18.

Once in the final, the 29-year-old brought the crowd to their feet by scoring a 170 checkout in the seventh leg to move 5-2 up. This was a feat he repeated later to finish from 88, and by doing so, he would clinch an 8-5 victory courtesy of a match-winning 14-darter.

Cullen also managed to successfully convert 17 attempts at doubles while his Dutch opponent wasted 12 of his 17.

Mighty Mike may have lost last weekend’s final to Mensur Suljovic in Austria but got his revenge this time around in Germany by seeing off The Gentle 6-4 in the third round. This was before dismissing Krzysztof Ratajski 6-5 in the quarter-finals and seeing off Dave Chisnall, his eleventh straight win against Chizzy, 7-1 in the last four.

2019 International Darts Open Betting Tips

Play now moves on to the German town of Riesa for this year’s International Darts Open. It is the 12th in a series of 13 European Tour events throughout 2019 and will see 48 players competing at the Sachsenarena from September 13-15. As with all European Tour events, all the action is streamed on PDC TV.

The first round takes place on Friday but it isn’t until Saturday that we will see the 16 seeded players enter the event in round two. Names to look out for at this stage include reigning champion Gerwyn Price, Peter Wright and number one seed Ian ‘Diamond’ White. Sadly, Michael van Gerwen and Dave Chisnall have withdrawn with their places going to Host Nation Qualifiers (HNQ) who will be competing earlier than the others except for the South & West Europe Qualifiers (SWEQ).

The betting lines for the event have been shaken up. Rob Voltage’ Cross is the favourite for the event, helped by MVG’s withdrawal. Betway value the Hastings chucker at 5/1. Second favourite is reserved for Peter ‘Snakebite’ Wright at 11/2, and while either of these two are worth considering, this event last year was picked up by Gerwyn Price, who is 10/1 and more than twice the value than those ahead of him.

Daryl Gurney, Glen Durrant and Mensur Suljovic are also fancied at 10/1 with the latter at least picking up a trophy in the last few weeks. Ian White, the number one seed, is priced at 12’s, while Dave ‘Chizzy’ Chisnall is at 18/1. Nathan Aspinall is available at 20/1, while last week’s hero Joe Cullen is a 22/1 to repeat last week’s heroics. Others are, of course, available.

2019 International Darts Open Schedule of Play

Friday September 13

First Round

  • Harry Ward v Reece Robinson
  • William O’Connor v Benito van de Pas
  • HNQ1 v Justin Pipe
  • Arron Monk v Kyle Anderson
  • John Henderson v Brett Claydon
  • James Richardson v HNQ2
  • Mickey Mansell v Danny Noppert
  • WSEQ2 v HNQ6
  • Richard North v Boris Koltsov
  • Daniel Larsson v Steve West
  • Ritchie Edhouse v WSEQ1
  • HNQ5 v Luke Woodhouse
  • Adam Hunt v Dimitri Van den Bergh
  • Andy Boulton v HNQ3
  • Joe Murnan v Jelle Klaasen
  • Davy Van Baelen v HNQ4

Saturday September 14

Second Round

  • Nathan Aspinall v HNQ1/Pipe
  • Krzysztof Ratajski v WSEQ2/HNQ6
  • Glen Durrant v Richardson/HNQ2
  • Rob Cross v Henderson/Claydon
  • Adrian Lewis v O’Connor/Van de Pas
  • Daryl Gurney v Mansell/Noppert
  • Steve Beaton v HNQ5/Woodhouse
  • Gerwyn Price v Monk/Anderson
  • Ricky Evans v Hunt/Van den Bergh
  • Jamie Hughes v Larsson/West
  • Jonny Clayton v Boulton/HNQ3
  • Jeffrey de Zwaan v Murnan/Klaasen
  • Joe Cullen v Van Baelen/HNQ4
  • Ian White v North/Koltsov
  • Mensur Suljovic v Ward/Robinson
  • Peter Wright v Edhouse/WSEQ1

Sunday September 15

  • Third Round
  • Quarter-Finals
  • Semi-Finals
  • Final

QUICK GLANCE AT THE INTERNATIONAL DARTS OPEN

Venue: Sachsenarena, Riesa, Germany
Dates: Friday September 13th – Sunday September 15th 2019
Format: Best of 11, 13 & 15 legs
Current Champion: Gerwyn Price
Where To Watch: PDC TV
When To Watch: (1100 & 1715 BST)

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