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A spot of housekeeping
There’s a agelong time ahead, and darts isn’t nan astir liveblog-friendly sport, truthful we mightiness not do leg-by-leg sum for each azygous set. If thing else, this comedian needs nan occasional toilet break. But we’ll beryllium posting updates each fewer minutes.
Jonny Clayton started nan tourney arsenic world No5. He moved to No5 by beating Andreas Harryson; a triumph coming would assistance him to No3, supra Michael van Gerwen. Ryan Searle has already jumped from No20 to No13; a triumph coming lifts him to No7. “Is that right, I don’t know,” says Searle, “but that’s nan measurement nan rankings work.”
Ryan Searle v Jonny Clayton
With each eyes elsewhere, Ryan Searle has softly strolled into nan quarter-finals pinch a cleanable record: 14 sets won, nary lost. I still fancy Jonny Clayton, chiefly because of his experience. But if I had to put nan workplace connected 1 of today’s matches going to 9 sets, it’d astir apt beryllium this one.
At nan extremity we’ll person a first-time semi-finalist. Searle has ne'er reached this shape before; Clayton’s only erstwhile quarter-final was 3 years ago, erstwhile he mislaid 5-3 to Dimitri Van den Bergh.
Preamble
Happy caller twelvemonth 1 and all. What amended measurement to commencement 2026 than pinch a hangover, you’ve bloody done it again haven’t you, and what’s happened to grandad’s vessel of Kopke Colheita 1974 port quarter-final time astatine Ally Pally?
For darts fans – thoughts pinch non-darts fans astatine this difficult clip – coming is going to beryllium long, gruelling and ceaselessly rewarding. Here’s nan statement up.
Afternoon convention (starts astir 12.45pm)
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Ryan Searle (20) v Jonny Clayton (5)
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Gary Anderson (14) v Justin Hood (unseeded)
Evening convention (around 7.15pm)
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Luke Littler (1) v Krzysztof Ratajski (unseeded)
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Luke Humphries (2) v Gian van Veen (10)
