Littler Littler from world masters Darts after a 4-2 defeat from Jonny Clayton, because Stephen Bunting also goes out | News Darts
Littler Littler was sent on Sunday afternoon from world masters Darts, while in the quarterfinals he suffered a amazing 4-2 defeat from Jonny Clayton.
The 18-year-old world champion was an irresistible favorite against the world no. 7 And he scored an impressive 108.5 in the match on average, but was rejected by some classes that ended while Clayton hit nine of the 15 duplicates in twice.
Losing means that Littler can now direct your focus on his defense The Darts Premier League title, which starts Thursday night in Belfast, live on Sky Sports.
Clayton stunned Littler with a superb 138 ending to take the first set, but the 18-year-old won the next two legs to immediately straighten the game.
Ferret silenced the crowd of Milton Keynes, winning the third against throwing, and then hit the D2 to ask for a 3-1 lead after Littler missed the Picado Set in Bullseye.
Littler kept his nerves to win a fifth set with 81 check-off, then he looked like he had returned control when he broke Clayton with a 11-clerk to take the first match of the sixth set.
But Clayton opened the next leg with five perfect darts before scoring D16 to spoil immediately and sealed the famous victory at the tops in what proved to be the last leg of the match.
“I like this phase,” said the champion 2021. Clayton at ITV.
“Luke obviously did not play his a-ogro, but it is a battle and I crossed over the line. I can smile a big smile.
“He is a crack guy, a great dart player and has a great future in front of him. He gave me a big lesson in the last two games I played against him.
“Everything jokes aside, that was on the road. It was my day.”
Clayton will face Dimitri van den Bergh In the semifinals after Belgian conveniently beat the extraordinary Nathan aspinall 4-1.
ASP showed some resistance with a win in the second set, but could not match Van Den Bergh for most of the match and eventually lost his extraordinary final leg.
Aspinall opened with seven perfect arrows before missing the T19 in search of nine Darter, but in the end he lost his leg – and a crucial match – when he missed three darts in pairs.
Van Den Bergh punished him by hitting the tops, then D10 to seal a victory of 11 cards.
Bunting’s title defense ends after the last leg drama
Earlier, Stephen Bunting’s The defense of her master’s title ended dramatically because he missed two matches in a crackling rear leg to lose 4-3 to Danny Noppert.
The Dutchman missed his own match to give Bunting the opportunity to check 41, but the misses in the D16 and D8 allowed Nooppert to return and hit the D8 for an exciting victory.
After Bunting claimed that he was a close set for opening, Noppert unbuttoned his six legs in a row to move 3-1 forward-but Englishman returned to 3-3 and then 1-1 in a decisive seventh set.
Ultimately, Bunting was made to pay for a missing 19 out of 26 dual packets – including 11 in a row at one stage – and lost the opportunity to play his friend Luke Humphories In the last four.
Humphories looked impressive in the introductory afternoon match, average 104 in a 4-1 victory over Damon Heta.
The best seed missed two darts for the second set, but it was the only significant flaw because he won every other set to reach the final session on Sunday night.
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