2023 PDC World Championship - Road to the Ally Pally

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Fixtures today

Afternoon Session

Brendan Dolan vs Jimmy Hendriks
Chris Dobey vs Martijn Kleermaker
Ross Smith vs Darius Labanauskas
Rob Cross vs Scott Williams

Evening Session

Martin Schindler vs Martin Lukeman
Danny Noppert vs David Cameron
Jonny Clayton vs Danny van Trijp
Joe Cullen vs Ricky Evans

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Dolan to win easy against Hendriks
Dobey to win in 4 vs Kleermaker
Smith 3-0
Cross in a 5 set game vs Williams

Lukeman to win 3-1
Noppert 3-1
Clayton 3-0
Cullen 3-1

[BlueSpark]

Hendriks is absolutely shite

[1205]

Hendriks is absolutely shite

Fun fact: in PC19 Hendriks was absolutely shite and beat Dolan 6-4.

[fling]

Hendriks is absolutely shite

Dolan will be glad off a walkover game at World Champs for a change.

[Black Velvet]

Hendriks is absolutely shite

Dolan will be glad off a walkover game at World Champs for a change.

Eh?

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And a walkover for Dobey.

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Ross Smith will win his game 3-0 as well. Thankfully all this will get better

[ChrisW]

Cross v Williams should be a closer game.

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You would hope so

[ChrisW]

I will update it once the relevant organisation has the good grace to tell their players when the event actually is, and where.

Excellent.

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Well its coming

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The "Big Fish" has happened as well

Schindler hit it in a 3-1 win over Lukeman

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And the 2nd match has started

Noppy leading Cameron

[mik252]

Would be very surprised if 29 out of 32 seeds through isn’t a record.

[1205]

Would be very surprised if 29 out of 32 seeds through isn’t a record.

It is. Beats 27 in 2013. (Just went through Wikipedia and might have miscounted.)

2006 19
2007 21
2008 23
2009 20
2010 23
2011 25
2012 21
2013 27
2014 25
2015 23
2016 22
2017 26
2018 20
2019 19
2020 24
2021 26
2022 24

[Rout]

I wouldn't mind betting that a few records average wise have been broken for the first round too.

[mik252]

Would be very surprised if 29 out of 32 seeds through isn’t a record.

It is. Beats 27 in 2013. (Just went through Wikipedia and might have miscounted.)

2006 19
2007 21
2008 23
2009 20
2010 23
2011 25
2012 21
2013 27
2014 25
2015 23
2016 22
2017 26
2018 20
2019 19
2020 24
2021 26
2022 24

Cheers also none of the 32 international/secondary tour qualifiers making it through which must be a rarity- all in all a fairly underwhelming pre-Christmas tournament.

[ChrisW]

Tuesday December 27
Afternoon Session (1230 GMT)
3x Third Round
Dimitri Van den Bergh v Krzysztof Ratajski
Nathan Aspinall v Josh Rock
Jonny Clayton v Brendan Dolan

Evening Session (1900 GMT)
3x Third Round
Jim Williams v Gabriel Clemens
Gerwyn Price v Raymond van Barneveld
Peter Wright v Kim Huybrechts

Best of seven sets

[Rout]

Starting to look a bit more watchable now after the horrendous opening two rounds.