It was Ladies Quarter Finals Day and 2nd round for the men. The line up today included Martin ‘Wolfie’ Adams, Lakeside Finalist Alan Norris, 3 times Ladies World Champion Anastasia Dobromyslova and the current World No 1 Deta Hedman.
‘Wolfie’ hushed the crowd as he was one dart away from the Holy Grail – a nine dart finish. After 8 perfect darts Martin missed double 12 to take the £20,000 prize for a nine dart finish. This didn’t stop him going on to beat the young Dutchman Jan Dekker 7 legs to 5.
Earlier the crowd were entertained by Alan Norris and Jim Williams, and after Norris romped into a comfortable lead, the North Walean tried to stem the tide before eventually succumbing 7-3. Gary Robson and Ross Montgomery won their games against Jim Widmayer and Remco Van Eijden.
The ladies game saw defeats for Deta Hedman and Sharon Prins. The World No 1 could only watch on as the Russian Irina Armstrong took advantage and won the game 5 legs to 3. Sharon Prins fought hard during her game against Anastasia, having initially found herself 3-0 down. However, she won 3 consecutive legs to get back into the game but the former Lakeside Champion was too strong in the end and took the game by 5 legs to 4.
19 year old Fallon Sherrock was in action against Aileen de Graaf. The game was pushed to a deciding leg after Aileen levelled at 4-4 courtesy of a 12 dart-finish to win the 8th leg. In the ninth, Sherrock held her nerve to seal her place in the semis.
The final half of this days play saw Karel Sedlacek play Paul Jennings. The Czech could not produce the finishing game he had last night when he put out the World Championship semi finalist Robbie Green, and ‘Jenno’ took advantage to win comfortably 7-2. This was followed by an all English affair when Scott Mitchell took on ‘The Dazzler’ Darryl Fitton. Scott raced into a 4-1 lead but Darryl in the 6th leg took out a spectacular 12-dart leg with scores of 58, 140, 171, and a 132 finish with bull, bull, double 16. However, Mitchell provided a 100+ average to secure the match.
The final ladies match of the evening saw the current World Champion Lisa Ashton see off the Yorkshire lady Dee Bateman by 5 legs to 1 to set up a meeting with Fallon Sherrock in the semi-finals.
The evening was rounded off with games between young Dutchman Jeffrey De Graaf and Dave Prins, and Rick Hofstra v James Wilson. After wiring the bull for a 170 finish yesterday, De Graaf went one step further this time by pinning the bull for the maximum finish, before snatching a thriller 7 legs to 6, after Prins had missed 3 darts to progress himself.
Rick was relentless from the off in the final game of the day and was soon 4-0 in front. But a strong comeback from James Wilson brought the game to a tense deciding leg which James took with double top.
Tomorrow's Games Times to be confirmed.
Irina Armstrong v Anastasia Dobromyslova
Fallon Sherrock v Lisa Ashton
Alan Norris v Gary Robson
Ross Montgomery v Martin Adams
Paul Jennings v Scott Mitchell
Jeffrey De Graaf v James Wilson
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