Players Championship Tour 2019

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[1205]

Another new winner. That's the 15th potential qualifier for the GSoD.

[Jowinho]

Barney out in 1st round. Rajtaski beat him with a 112.3 average

[Ginge]

What a shame.

[oche balboa]

What a shame.

Hughes 2-0 down

[1205]

What a shame.

Hughes 2-0 down

Came back and won 6-3. He had a lower average than van Duijvenbode, which explains his win.
Now about to play Bunting, who averaged 102.5 in his whitewash of Jamie Lewis.

Durrant was 2-4 down against Ronny Huybrechts and won 6-4. He'll play Schindler next.

The far-from-all-conquering Cadby also came back from 0-3 against North and won 6-4.
He'll play King in a battle royal.

[1205]

Lewis v Durrant in a board final again today.
Durrant has now at least made the board final in 8 consecutive Players Championships.
Durrant already missed 3 darts to win at 5-4.
Has the darts in the final leg. Can he cross the line? 267 v 412 after 6 darts. Surely he can't lose it from here...
OK. 28 after 12 darts. Lewis on 219.
Missed. On 7. Lewis 177 to leave 42.
Finally. Out in 2 darts.
Into the last 16, with a 103.7 average, yet looking like he'll never be a top player.

Still, 1,500 quid at least is a good day's work for a choker.
Will play Joyce in the last 16.

[1205]

Monk won his board. He's a player in decent form. Over 14k this year already, and at least another 1.5k today. Made at least the board final in 7 out of the last 8 PCs.
But, he has only managed to qualify for 1 ET event (ET3). Won his first game there, but really needs to qualify for more to pick up his earnings.

[1205]

With Chisnall, Durrant and Price all losing in the last 16, we are now guaranteed to have a new winner and a 16th name on the list of GSoD qualifiers and reserve qualifiers.

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Just in from work in time to watch the Semi Finals.

Looks like De Zwaan has been tearing it up again today.

Not a huge surprise to see him in the Last 4, Bunting neither as he has been playing well recently without getting the results that form merited.

Monk also been playing well and good to see Darius have a run.

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I wonder if the issue with the air conditioning was exacerbated for Bunting by throwing such light darts.

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Final coming up on Stream 2.

[1205]

If de Zwaan wins he'll move up to 35th, and the Dutch #4 spot ahead of both Van de Voort and Klaasen.
He'll move ahead of Klaasen soon anyway, because Klaasen will be dropping European Tour money.

Well, that was quick: de Zwaan crushed Bunting 8-2.

He's now the 16th player on the GSoD qualifier/reserve list:
-- Qualifiers
Michael van Gerwen
Gerwyn Price
Dimitri Van den Bergh
Nathan Aspinall
Daryl Gurney
Michael Smith
Gary Anderson
-- Reserves
Martin Schindler
James Wade
England Rob Cross
-- Players Championship Winners
Dave Chisnall (2)
Glen Durrant
Adrian Lewis
Jonny Clayton
William O'Connor
Jeffrey de Zwaan

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De Zwaan playing amazing darts at the moment.

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Aaron Monk's take on his performances today.

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Some huge averages over the last couple of days.

Peter Wright coming back to form, but did not see any of his matches , so just asking if he used the same darts today as he has at last week's PL and ET event.

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Just seen this tweet from Joe Cullen. Anyone have any idea who it was that accused him of being a cheat.

[ChrisW]

Whitlock?