Better late than never its good to see Scott Waites in the PDC.

He should of moved across when he won the Grand Slam all those years ago.

Needs a run here though, not currently in the Worlds.

Scratch that. He is in a good Pro Tour OoM position - I was looking at 2020

Ladbrokes Players Championship Finals
Schedule of Play
Friday November 27
First Round
Afternoon Session (1245 GMT)
Main Stage
Dirk van Duijvenbode v William O'Connor
Michael Smith v Boris Krcmar
Rob Cross v Jason Lowe
Joe Cullen v Adam Hunt
Devon Petersen v Luke Humphries
Ryan Searle v Dimitri Van den Bergh
Adrian Lewis v Simon Whitlock

Stage Two
Brendan Dolan v Luke Woodhouse
Ryan Joyce v Andy Boulton
Stephen Bunting v Ryan Murray
Krzysztof Ratajski v Karel Sedlacek
Gabriel Clemens v Martijn Kleermaker
Ian White v William Borland
Jonny Clayton v Mickey Mansell
Daryl Gurney v Callan Rydz
Dave Chisnall v Mervyn King

Evening Session (1900 GMT)
Main Stage
Nathan Aspinall v Scott Waites
Gary Anderson v Keegan Brown
James Wade v Niels Zonneveld
Peter Wright v Ryan Meikle
Michael van Gerwen v Darius Labanauskas
Gerwyn Price v John Henderson
Jose De Sousa v Mike De Decker

Stage Two
Vincent van der Voort v Derk Telnekes
Ricky Evans v Jamie Hughes
Ross Smith v Kim Huybrechts
Damon Heta v Maik Kuivenhoven
Jermaine Wattimena v Steve Lennon
Madars Razma v Chris Dobey
Glen Durrant v Wayne Jones
Darren Webster v Jeffrey de Zwaan
Danny Noppert v Steve Beaton

LETS PLAY DAAAAAAAAAAAARTS!!!!!!!!!!

Michael Smith sneaks through 6-5.

High averages in the first 2 games.

All 4 players on the main stage have averaged over 100

Ratajski out. Another flop for the Pole in a big tournament.

Adrian Lewis is very young to have lost it but after watching him miss 6 darts to go 5-4 up against Whitlock I fear he may never return to anything like his former self.

Yeah, can't see him returning to the top.
The COVID break revitalised many, but it doesn't seem to have helped Lewis.

Wade out

Jose de Sousa joins the likes of MvGerwyn Price, Anderson and Wright in the next round.

Big casualties along with Wade were van den Burgh, Durrant, Gurney, Ratajski, Chisnall, Lewis and Petersen.

Main Stage
Ian White 6-3 Gabriel Clemens
Nathan Aspinall v Ross Smith
Michael Smith v Gary Anderson
Joe Cullen v Rob Cross
Jose de Sousa v Vincent Van der Voort
Michael Van Gerwen v Jonny Clayton
Gerwyn Price v Jamie Hughes
Peter Wright v Simon Whitlock

Stage Two
Luke Woodhouse 6-4 Andy Boulton
Karel Sedlacek v Madars Razma
Ryan Searle v Callan Rydz
Damon Heta v Ryan Murray
Danny Noppert v Mervyn King
Jermaine Wattimena v Luke Humphries
Wayne Jones v Jeffrey De Zwaan
Niels Zonneveld v Dirk van Duijvenbode

The Asp is out!
Good win for Ross Smith.

Real chance for lower ranked players to add decent money here. In that quarter you have Smith, Heta/Murray, Noppert/King and Sedlacek.

You have to fancy Heta to have a strong run now.

Callan Rydz wins. Looks on form after his fine win over Gurney. Faces the winner of Wright/Whitlock so will need to carry that form into tonight.

Michael Smith was 4-1 down, but 5 in a row means he beats Gary Anderson 6-4.

Anderson looks in a bit of trouble ahead of the Worlds. He will be coming out in a wheelchair at this rate. Don't think we will see much of him next year.

comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 45 minutes ago
The Asp is out!
Good win for Ross Smith.

Real chance for lower ranked players to add decent money here. In that quarter you have Smith, Heta/Murray, Noppert/King and Sedlacek.

You have to fancy Heta to have a strong run now.
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Heta sneaks through, 6-5.

Cullen beats Cross 6-5.
King smashes Noppert 6-1

Jose de Sousa gets through 6-5, just about.
Luke Humphries had a good win over Wattimena.
de Zwaan beats Wayne Jones.

3rd round beginning to shape up now, and Michael Smith vs Jose de Sousa is one to look out for.

MvG comes through a tough game with Clayton.

Van Duijvenbode also through.

Just two games left this afternoon, Price v Hughes and Wright v Whitlock.

Gerwyn Price wins quite comforably.

Wright leads 4-1.

Michael Smith wins 3 in a row to take it 10-7 over de Sousa it s great game.

Wright beat Rydz 10-9, but the standard was poor.

don't think mervyn king will be too pleased by dan dawson giving him the nickname of "the mervert".