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Hello, and welcome to our first instalment of very late night drama | :00:00. | :00:40. | |
from the 2016 BDO darts World Championship. We start with a match | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
involving an American returning here to the | :00:44. | :00:44. | |
involving an American returning here to the big stage for the first time | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
in 24 years - Larry Butler found himself up against a very proud | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
Gloucesterman making his debut, James Hurrell. Your commentary on | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
this one comes from John Rawling and Vassos Alexander. | :00:58. | :01:09. | |
Andy Fordham watching on, The Viking, former champion. Great | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
bloke. Done his fair share of autograph | :01:13. | :01:21. | |
signing today, and eabd wanting to get their photograph -- everybody | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
wanting to get their photograph with him. An affable a fella as you could | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
wish to meet. I wonder if he can hear me! Managing to smile happily | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
with a camera right in his face. Butler doubling his set tally at the | :01:31. | :01:51. | |
World Championships - almost a generation, 24 years, after he won | :01:52. | :01:52. | |
his first set. First to three sets, let me remind | :01:53. | :02:05. | |
you. Takes you through into the first round, where Ryan 'Lou' Reed | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
awaits the winner. Better from Hurrell. A few American | :02:11. | :02:46. | |
fans over here. Or at least a flag! Maybe, yeah. Unusual flag to have, | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
though, if you're not sort of cheering them on. | :02:51. | :02:50. | |
LAUGHS Very nice indeed! Well, that was | :02:51. | :03:34. | |
pretty clinical, wasn't it? A 101 checkout. Butler taking the early | :03:35. | :03:42. | |
advantage in a leg which looked as if he was struggling in. But Hurrell | :03:43. | :03:43. | |
couldn't capitalise. Good response by Hurrell. The pair | :03:44. | :04:15. | |
of them averaging very similarly - around about 82, their match | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
averages. Checkout percentages for both below 30%. | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
Went for the bull's-eye - that didn't go well. He's left himself on | :04:27. | :05:24. | |
no finish - 173. So Butler concedes control here. | :05:25. | :05:57. | |
101 and now an 80! Might not be scoring heavily, but he's checking | :05:58. | :06:05. | |
out well now. Keep knocking those out, it's going to be difficult to | :06:06. | :06:07. | |
beat. At one stage, he'd only hit one out | :06:08. | :06:18. | |
of 11 doubles. He's now hit three in a row, Larry Butler. The 58-year-old | :06:19. | :06:29. | |
from Dayton, Ohio... Moves to within a leg of a two-set lead. There will | :06:30. | :06:31. | |
be a short break after two sets. Hurrell did have a chance at the | :06:32. | :06:53. | |
start of this leg. To pressure the Butler throw, only 26 scored with | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
his first visit, but he couldn't do it. This is better. | :06:57. | :07:04. | |
Unlucky. Maybe a new night, maybe a new stem as well. That is his first | :07:05. | :07:22. | |
maximum from Larry Butler. That has done some damage to Hurrell's hopes. | :07:23. | :07:35. | |
Sharon Butler cheering on her husband. Getting rightfully excited. | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
There she is. Well, she's enjoying this. 180, 135 - just 60 left for | :07:42. | :07:52. | |
the set. Hurrell's nowhere. It's turning out to be a very comfortable | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
exercise, this, so far, for Larry Butler. You certainly wouldn't bet | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
against him getting this. Good marker. | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
Has at least left a finish, and not a bad one - 126. | :08:03. | :08:51. | |
He's missed five for the set. But not six. Easy as you like, Larry | :08:52. | :09:04. | |
Butler moving into a two-set lead. Gloucestershire man on the Auki. -- | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
oche, hoping to come back from two sets down. It can be done, of | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
course. But not with darts like that. He's just looked as though | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
he's been maybe just a wee bit intimidated by the atmosphere | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
tonight, James Hurrell. He's not producing the game that he knows | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
he's capable of delivering - not yet, anyway. | :09:29. | :09:39. | |
Important he gets his nose ahead in this first leg with the darts. | :09:40. | :09:53. | |
Good focus, good last dart for the second visit in a row from Hurrell. | :09:54. | :10:10. | |
He has got his nose ahead in this leg. | :10:11. | :10:21. | |
He's got every opportunity to take this one now. | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
He needed the treble 18 there. Went to wrong bed, so no checkout | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
opportunity with his next visit. Hasn't had a dart in the double for | :10:34. | :11:27. | |
the second half. He'd enjoy that. Butler didn't really put him under | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
too much pressure there. I think the break maybe just acting the wrong | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
way for him. That's more like it. You can see that when you have the | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
commercial breaks - for somebody who's going well, it can just | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
interrupt the momentum. For somebody who's struggling - as Hurrell was - | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
it gives you a chance to regroup with darts like that. That's his | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
first maximum of the match, and he's throwing his best darts of the match | :11:53. | :12:00. | |
here. He does look refocused. He did look really nervy at times in that | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
second set. The first set was better. Good response from Butler. | :12:04. | :12:12. | |
Two ton-40s and a maximum at the start of this leg. That's more like | :12:13. | :12:14. | |
it, really. It's the World Championship! | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
He didn't like that last one, did he? | :12:19. | :12:25. | |
You sometimes see that in these preliminary round matches - 140, | :12:26. | :12:52. | |
180, 140, then 45, 22. That leaves it more enticing - a makeable | :12:53. | :12:54. | |
checkout, on 136. 136, then, for Hurrell, for 2-0. | :12:55. | :13:06. | |
Great first dart. Almost threw that last dart away in | :13:07. | :13:35. | |
frustration. Tops for Hurrell for 2-0. Tens... That's good! He's | :13:36. | :13:44. | |
getting charged up now! Having said that he wasn't doing himself | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
justice, he's come back from the break looking like a different guy! | :13:48. | :13:55. | |
The Hillbilly is getting into the groove! Funny what five minutes of | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
"me" time backstage can do. Talking to himself, trying to keep | :14:01. | :14:15. | |
himself focused and charged up. Different people do it different | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
ways. Some people try to get rid of that nervous energy. Others try to | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
harness it. It looks as though that's what Hurrell's trying to get | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
into. Big, big mountain back, though. But he's got a chance of | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
taking this third set here. Butler's lost his scoring | :14:33. | :14:51. | |
completely. 41 and 41. He's lost the plot a bit, in this set - shaking | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
his head there at the back, just practising his delivery, practising | :14:57. | :14:57. | |
his throw. That's poor from Hurrell. Butler's just taken his eye off the | :14:58. | :15:07. | |
ball a little, you suspect. Butler's been serving up some rubbish. | :15:08. | :15:17. | |
May be And nobody is more aware of that than the man himself. | :15:18. | :15:27. | |
Hurrell, though, is staggering as he comes towards the winning line. | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
Surely not going to let him back into this set. First to three, | :15:34. | :15:34. | |
remember, wins the match. Just to continue that Butler analogy | :15:35. | :15:46. | |
- he's opened the door. Hurrell hasn't come through. | :15:47. | :15:53. | |
And now, Larry Butler... His second maximum. ..Showing why he is the man | :15:54. | :16:02. | |
from the USA, why he was top of those rankings. Why he qualified for | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
Lakeside. This can be done. Hurrell should have put him away | :16:07. | :16:39. | |
here, but hasn't done so. We have seen Larry Butler faltering | :16:40. | :17:00. | |
on his doubles under pressure. Tops from Butler - good dart. 7 out | :17:01. | :17:15. | |
of 23 on the checkouts. Larry Butler narrows the gap in what could, if he | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
wins it, be the final set. Well, he broke the throw as he needed to, to | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
extend the set. He has the darts in this leg. Been in really good form | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
in the last year or so, Larry Butler. Qualifying for this a head | :17:31. | :17:39. | |
of Jim Widmayer, who was the American representative at the top | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
of their ranking list for the previous two years. | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
Reached the final of the World Masters, Butler. He did. Grave an | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
impressive list earlier on of the people who he swept past. Including | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
the current champion, Scott Mitchell, and Wolfie, Martin Adams. | :17:58. | :18:25. | |
He's won 14 ranking titles, Larry Butler. | :18:26. | :18:33. | |
Very, very warm in this auditorium now. You can see the perspiration | :18:34. | :19:01. | |
glistening on Larry Butler. Some of the players have really struggled | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
with that today. It has been very warm. | :19:06. | :19:20. | |
On a nice finish - Shanghai. Triple, single, double top. | :19:21. | :19:35. | |
This is to square it off and put him within a leg of winning the match, | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
with 120. Oh, dear. He looks angry at that aberration. | :19:43. | :20:10. | |
Not far away from the bull. Not far away... | :20:11. | :20:24. | |
He seemed to hurry that a bit. This is for the set. | :20:25. | :20:37. | |
CHEERING His sizeable contingent of | :20:38. | :20:44. | |
supporters roar their approval. That's a set back. 2-1 now - first | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
to three will win this preliminary round match. Butler, though, with | :20:52. | :20:53. | |
the darts and making a good start. Butler with the darts, in vigorated | :20:54. | :21:16. | |
by the turnaround, looking to make a statement in this opening leg. No | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
slip-ups. Could do with a treble 20 but can't find it. | :21:22. | :21:34. | |
Butler still with the advantage of the throw. | :21:35. | :22:25. | |
Well, the door is ajar for Hurrell. Three loose visits from Larry | :22:26. | :22:26. | |
Butler. Again, Hurrell doesn't take | :22:27. | :22:39. | |
advantage. He wanted to leap all over that, didn't he? | :22:40. | :22:47. | |
Not great match, this, it has to be said. The args of both men are | :22:48. | :22:55. | |
sub-80. Going anywhere in this tournament, you really want to be | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
hitting the 90s-plus. Despite the fact that the W, of course - the win | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
- is all that really matters, but you're not going to beat the big | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
guns unless you can score more heavily than this. | :23:09. | :23:20. | |
148 would be the highest of the tournament so far. Not far away. | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
Hurrell now with a chance. 145. Things are getting critical for The | :23:25. | :24:03. | |
Hillbilly, James Hurrell. Can't afford to lose a leg now. Did so, | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
Butler would just have the darts to finish this off by a 3-1 margin. | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
You'd have two chances at it, as well. 55 is not what Hurrell wanted. | :24:15. | :24:27. | |
Sunglasses on, but the darts are far from dazzling just at the moment. | :24:28. | :24:46. | |
The sort of match that needs a maximum or two, just to get everyone | :24:47. | :24:55. | |
going. 140 is not a bad second-best. That's a serious physique. | :24:56. | :25:12. | |
Butler's pinched the throw. He's ahead, despite the fact that Hurrell | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
had the darts. Just not happening for James. Butler | :25:16. | :25:37. | |
- six from here on the 180 to go two legs ahead. ..And edge closer to a | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
place in the first round proper. That's a tonne of them... It's been | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
a decent leg from him. Two tonnes and a 140. | :25:51. | :25:59. | |
Big moment, this. Really big moment. You can't imagine he'll be offered | :26:00. | :26:33. | |
another opportunity if he misses this 109. | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
What a big dart! Lakeside comes alive! Well, good moment, that was. | :26:40. | :27:02. | |
He steadied himself, puffed out his chest, and blasted it home. | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
180! CHEERING | :27:07. | :27:07. | |
His third of the match... Shame about the treble five, wasn't | :27:08. | :27:32. | |
it... Tell you what, though - all of a | :27:33. | :27:46. | |
sudden, the match has come to life. Long, long way, though, for Hurrell. | :27:47. | :27:52. | |
Not quite the darts he had hoped for, but he's on a finish, of sorts. | :27:53. | :28:00. | |
Hurrell well back. That's another poor visit for | :28:01. | :28:32. | |
Butler. 180, 135, then 42 and 28. Still, Hurrell back on 315. Oh, | :28:33. | :28:34. | |
dear. 25. 116 for the leg, for 2-1. Tops for the leg... Good darts. Good | :28:35. | :28:56. | |
finishing. 116. And moving him within a leg of the match. 15-dart | :28:57. | :29:03. | |
leg with two visits of under 50. Hurrell's Lakeside debut - it's a | :29:04. | :29:31. | |
learning experience. He'll be stronger for having been here, and | :29:32. | :29:35. | |
maybe offer more next time around. Larry Butler very much in the | :29:36. | :29:38. | |
veteran category - 58 years old. He can close this out, even if | :29:39. | :29:53. | |
Hurrell hangs onto his throw here. Oh, yes! How often do you see that? | :29:54. | :30:09. | |
The arm freed up by the scoreboard? Kind of when you reach the final | :30:10. | :30:14. | |
point of no return, as though, "Well, I'm heading for defeat - | :30:15. | :30:18. | |
unless I can do it." He and he just gives you that bit of relaxation, | :30:19. | :30:22. | |
and suddenly he's away and produces a three like that. Not a bad first | :30:23. | :30:24. | |
dart, either. 6 darts from 86, but... Mustn't make | :30:25. | :30:51. | |
an error. Must make sure he wins this leg. | :30:52. | :31:00. | |
Didn't even give himself a dart at a double there. He will be back. That | :31:01. | :31:06. | |
wasn't great from Hurrell. Butler, though, on 177 - he can do no more | :31:07. | :31:11. | |
than try and get a decent score. One is not a great start, but the second | :31:12. | :31:15. | |
two were. Must take this, for Hurrell. He's only going to get two | :31:16. | :31:17. | |
darts at a double. Could have been his last dart at | :31:18. | :31:33. | |
Lakeside this year. Well, well played, James Hurrell. | :31:34. | :31:40. | |
So we move into the decisive leg here, with Butler with the darts | :31:41. | :31:47. | |
again, but Hurrell just hanging on him. Does launch them, doesn't he, | :31:48. | :31:53. | |
Larry? You never know, though - if Hurrell can find a way of nicking | :31:54. | :31:56. | |
this leg, all of a sudden he's come from two sets down, he won't know | :31:57. | :32:00. | |
how he done it, but we'll be into a deciding set. Big "if", though - | :32:01. | :32:06. | |
he's going to need to find some trebles. Some great vantage points | :32:07. | :32:13. | |
of the darts. The balcony not too far away from where we sit in our | :32:14. | :32:16. | |
commentary box. 261 was what he needed to move into | :32:17. | :32:59. | |
the next round. Stumbles... He'll be relieved to see Hurrell back on 346. | :33:00. | :33:03. | |
Now Butler - 220 is what he needs. And he has six darts at it. | :33:04. | :33:32. | |
Did well to thread that one through. He's left himself with Shanghai - | :33:33. | :33:40. | |
the treble-single-double on 20s - to win the match. | :33:41. | :33:48. | |
This could be Hurrell's final visit... But only if Butler takes | :33:49. | :33:54. | |
out Shanghai 120. Hurrell breathes again. Hurrell - | :33:55. | :34:02. | |
95. This is to square up the match. A little unlucky. Tops now... How | :34:03. | :34:24. | |
about that! 95! He's back and roaring! What a terrific checkout! | :34:25. | :34:29. | |
Somehow, he has clawed his way back into this match, and Larry Butler | :34:30. | :34:35. | |
can only stand and think what might have been. How on earth are we into | :34:36. | :34:42. | |
a deciding set? How on earth has this happened? But it has, you know? | :34:43. | :34:44. | |
And he's got the darts. First to three legs by two clear | :34:45. | :34:57. | |
legs. If it gets to 2-2, we go to sudden death. If it gets to 5-5, | :34:58. | :35:04. | |
we're into a sudden-death leg. It's happened already today. | :35:05. | :35:11. | |
Brilliant start from Butler. That's his fourth maximum of the match. | :35:12. | :35:31. | |
We get a great view from up here in the commentary box. That's us. | :35:32. | :35:50. | |
That's me! LAUGHS | :35:51. | :35:52. | |
Hello, John's mum! Yeah, we are very lucky to be up | :35:53. | :36:04. | |
here and watching the darting action. | :36:05. | :36:12. | |
Me and Vassos trying to keep an eye on every little nuance of the match. | :36:13. | :36:17. | |
No checkout for Butler. First blood to Larry Butler of the | :36:18. | :36:55. | |
United States. You knew he meant business from the moment he started | :36:56. | :36:58. | |
this deciding set with a maximum. And it's almost another, but a wild | :36:59. | :37:05. | |
third dart. Still, a handy start. I'm not sure even James Hurrell | :37:06. | :37:28. | |
knows how he's still alive in this match. From two sets down... He took | :37:29. | :37:34. | |
his time to settle, didn't he? He did look as though he was a little | :37:35. | :37:39. | |
bit fazed by it early on. He's kind of just grown in confidence as he's | :37:40. | :37:42. | |
gone on. It was after that first little break when they left the | :37:43. | :37:45. | |
stage when he was two sets down and he came back looking like a | :37:46. | :37:51. | |
different guy. Having won the third set, he was a leg down in the | :37:52. | :37:59. | |
second, Butler missed the shot at double top to go two legs up, and | :38:00. | :38:03. | |
Hurrell needed a bull's-eye to check out 109 and hit it. | :38:04. | :38:14. | |
Could've done with a treble there. Butler, despite stuttering somewhat, | :38:15. | :38:20. | |
still has his nose ahead with the break, crucially. | :38:21. | :38:28. | |
That's better! CHEERING | :38:29. | :38:30. | |
Maximum number five. You have to say, well played, Larry | :38:31. | :38:43. | |
Butler. In both legs so far in this deciding set, he has found the | :38:44. | :38:45. | |
perfect three darts. He'd have been after a double 16, if | :38:46. | :38:54. | |
he could have put that one away. Meanwhile, Hurrell can step up and | :38:55. | :38:55. | |
put some pressure on. For the leg, and to move within one | :38:56. | :39:13. | |
of the match... He's produced a bit of a Houdini act | :39:14. | :39:29. | |
to get to this stage, has James Hurrell, but two legs down now - my | :39:30. | :39:34. | |
goodness, he's got to really fly from here. Almost at the point where | :39:35. | :39:35. | |
he can make no errors. He has the darts in this leg. First | :39:36. | :39:45. | |
things first for Hurrell - just hold your throw. | :39:46. | :40:17. | |
180 would make it look a bit healthier, Larry... He's had five of | :40:18. | :41:06. | |
them. Decides to go down the 18 route. | :41:07. | :41:27. | |
That's good. He's on 40. Butler can do no more than, well, try and get a | :41:28. | :41:35. | |
big score, and then just hope - hope against hope. But he will still have | :41:36. | :41:37. | |
the throw to close out the match. Hurrell to stay alive - yes, he's | :41:38. | :41:50. | |
done it again. He will not go away, James Hurrell. Forcing Larry Butler | :41:51. | :41:58. | |
from the USA, from Dayton, Ohio - The Eagle - to throw it out. | :41:59. | :42:04. | |
Hurrell's finishing has been pretty handy. 47% - that's good. | :42:05. | :42:11. | |
When he's had the opportunities, he's taken them. Hasn't been scoring | :42:12. | :42:16. | |
heavily, but he's still hanging on in there. And if Butler can't close | :42:17. | :42:23. | |
him out here, he'd have every chance. | :42:24. | :42:37. | |
Opportunity for Hurrell. Must break the throw, remember. That's unlucky. | :42:38. | :42:43. | |
Butler with his nose ahead, moving closer. | :42:44. | :43:00. | |
Mounting tension in the air... It got to him a bit with that last | :43:01. | :43:21. | |
dart. Still nip and tuck... The advantage is simply with the darts. | :43:22. | :43:28. | |
Butler's not on a finish, but Hurrell is away, and Butler has six | :43:29. | :43:52. | |
from here. I think that's a single one he's got | :43:53. | :44:02. | |
there. 61, 94. What sort of pressure can Hurrell | :44:03. | :44:18. | |
apply? Match point to Butler again. He's back on 217. | :44:19. | :44:22. | |
Two darts, then, can do it for Larry Butler. Hurrell's not on a finish. | :44:23. | :44:40. | |
He's got six, if he needs them. He'd like to just finish this match off. | :44:41. | :44:43. | |
Not this time, though. He'll stare at the top bit of the | :44:44. | :44:56. | |
board, for his first victory on the Lakeside stage, Larry Butler - 24 | :44:57. | :45:02. | |
years after his debut, when he lost to the defending champion, Dennis | :45:03. | :45:06. | |
Priestly, in Round 1 - double top for Larry Butler, 58 years old of | :45:07. | :45:12. | |
the USA - to win his first match at Lakeside! He was two sets up. The | :45:13. | :45:20. | |
finishing line was in sight. And the The Butler eventually did it. | :45:21. | :45:26. | |
Dutchman Matthew Medhurst was one of ten players making their debut in | :45:27. | :45:31. | |
the men's draw for this year's Lakeside Country Club -- Lakeside | :45:32. | :45:34. | |
World Championship, and he was up against a giant killer, Jeff Smith, | :45:35. | :45:40. | |
the Canadian from 12 months ago, who raced through to the semifinals, | :45:41. | :45:43. | |
upsetting Robbie Green in the quarters. Would he carry on where he | :45:44. | :45:47. | |
left off in 2015? Let's find out. Your commentary comes from John | :45:48. | :45:52. | |
Rawling and Tony Green. First to three. You know the format | :45:53. | :45:58. | |
by now. What a great start! He's come out flying, Tony! | :45:59. | :46:05. | |
Let's just settle down and see how it goes these first few darts, few | :46:06. | :46:15. | |
legs. Let's sit back and relax and enjoy some top-class darts. | :46:16. | :46:25. | |
Dutch darts, you don't need me to emphasise, are in a pretty good | :46:26. | :46:28. | |
place at the moment. Matthew Medhurst comes from | :46:29. | :46:38. | |
Ossenziel in the low countries. This is his Lakeside debut on - one of | :46:39. | :46:42. | |
ten debutants here for this championship. | :46:43. | :46:52. | |
Runner-up in 2015. Got some class. He got to the final, losing out to | :46:53. | :47:00. | |
another Dutchman, Danny Blum. We've already seen that Jeff Smith | :47:01. | :47:11. | |
seemingly thrives on this big stage. He's got to be able to replicate | :47:12. | :47:18. | |
this year what he did last year... John Part keeps a very close check | :47:19. | :47:20. | |
on his progress - something of a mentor to him. Yeah, a great friend | :47:21. | :47:24. | |
of mine, great commentator. Had some great times together, John | :47:25. | :47:33. | |
and I. Veryerdite individual. Confident piece of finishing. | :47:34. | :48:32. | |
Settles the player down when you get you can get those early doubles | :48:33. | :48:33. | |
without struggling. Well, it's the double Dutch, if | :48:34. | :49:06. | |
nothing else. Certainly been a party atmosphere here today, hasn't it? | :49:07. | :49:11. | |
There were a fair number of these people in at 11:00 this morning, and | :49:12. | :49:17. | |
still going strong. Silencer of the clogs - is Jeff Smith going to be | :49:18. | :49:22. | |
able to prove that one right? Not many clogs being worn in the | :49:23. | :49:28. | |
Netherlands nowadays, really... Every seat's taken. Great | :49:29. | :49:29. | |
atmosphere. They're not clogs. Soft and | :49:30. | :49:37. | |
comfortable. Like slippers, really. Tall lad, isn't he, Matthew? Stands | :49:38. | :49:46. | |
over six foot. Stark contrast to Jeff Smith, who's | :49:47. | :49:59. | |
- tell you what, those who are old enough to recall, he looks like the | :50:00. | :50:05. | |
old tennis player Ken Rosewall. I'm too young for that. Get on with it! | :50:06. | :50:50. | |
Comes from New Brunswick. Calls himself The Silencer - he silenced | :50:51. | :50:56. | |
one or two reputations last year, quietly going about his job and | :50:57. | :51:00. | |
enjoying the moment. Maybe he can replicate it this time around. | :51:01. | :51:07. | |
There's been some great champions from Canada. John Part, for one. | :51:08. | :51:20. | |
He's had three BDO ranking title successes this year - Las Vegas | :51:21. | :51:29. | |
Open, where he beat Big Darren Young, the Which City Open. Which | :51:30. | :51:38. | |
And Richard Astan has given us one or two marvellous notes about these | :51:39. | :51:41. | |
players. Jeff Smith was the 16th player in the last 30 years to reach | :51:42. | :51:46. | |
the semis on his debut. How does he know that?! | :51:47. | :52:42. | |
Matthew needs to get into this match, sharp-ish, or it's going to | :52:43. | :52:48. | |
fly away from him. It's got a break at the end of this set. He could | :52:49. | :52:50. | |
badly do with taking it. Compact little player, Jeff. No | :52:51. | :53:21. | |
frills, not particularly demonstrative. Very, very | :53:22. | :53:25. | |
well-organised. He looks like a bank manager. | :53:26. | :53:25. | |
LAUGHS He's just not really quite got into | :53:26. | :53:35. | |
this yet, Medhurst. Needs badly to hold his throw in | :53:36. | :53:47. | |
this opening leg of the second set. He's not too bad - he's on 194. So | :53:48. | :53:52. | |
he should be getting to the doubles first. He's not had a double yet. | :53:53. | :53:57. | |
He's not had a shot to win a leg. No. | :53:58. | :54:31. | |
He must have to get this, Matthew... Two darts would do it. | :54:32. | :55:14. | |
Matthew's not scoring heavily enough. He's not got himself into a | :55:15. | :55:19. | |
position where he can challenge for it. Smith's average is over 90, and | :55:20. | :55:24. | |
Matthew Medhurst - only around about 77. That tells its own story. Yeah, | :55:25. | :55:32. | |
he's getting the speed he wants for his throw, not being challenged by | :55:33. | :55:39. | |
Medhurst. Things'll have to change. Good cover shot, and another. | :55:40. | :55:49. | |
Fast and furious. It's got a nice, appealing pace to it, this match - | :55:50. | :55:53. | |
good rhythm about it. Thinks a good game as well, does | :55:54. | :56:08. | |
Smith. Annoyed at himself for letting that | :56:09. | :56:25. | |
one slide by... Jeff Smith is just blowing him away. | :56:26. | :57:34. | |
I think he's got to slow it down a little bit. | :57:35. | :57:38. | |
You can see from the throw, he's got talent. | :57:39. | :57:46. | |
This man is just the right size for darts. Up on the big stage. Big | :57:47. | :57:56. | |
atmosphere. It's a lot different to a great deal of what he'll have | :57:57. | :58:01. | |
experienced. His only BDO ranking title victory - the Italian grand | :58:02. | :58:06. | |
masters in November 2014, Matthew Medhurst. I nearly said last year - | :58:07. | :58:11. | |
I've got to get used to the idea we're in 2016, haven't I? Almost | :58:12. | :58:17. | |
throwing out cornetoes at that time... | :58:18. | :58:42. | |
Good vision, that, Tony. He's got time on his side, because Smith is | :58:43. | :58:47. | |
well back, so Medhurst - if he's going to get into this set - then | :58:48. | :58:50. | |
he's not going to get a much better chance than this. | :58:51. | :59:07. | |
He decided not to go for double three, and busted it. He's had 119, | :59:08. | :59:12. | |
137, 121 in that leg. Can he build on it, or is it just a | :59:13. | :59:31. | |
token? Might have switched to the 18s then, | :59:32. | :59:38. | |
but fancied the 20. These two do play at a similar sort | :59:39. | :00:03. | |
of rate... Or even the long and the small... | :00:04. | :00:07. | |
Either way... He takes it out again. His checking | :00:08. | :00:54. | |
out has been impressive. Of course, Martin Adams particularly | :00:55. | :01:13. | |
interested in this one because the winner of this pre-law match will | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
face him in the first round. It is looking very much as though it's | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
going to be the be spectacled Canadian, Jeff Smith. Because | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
Matthew Medhurst, for whatever reason, just hasn't delivered so | :01:26. | :01:26. | |
far. I think Smith would have rather | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
carried on... We said earlier breaks can affect | :01:32. | :01:46. | |
people both ways. It might give Medhurst a chance to regroup and | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
focus better than he has done so far. Smith was on a roll, as Tony | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
intimates there, and he would have liked to have continued sweeping | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
towards the finishing line. Just watch - he's slowing down now... | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
Good dart. Much better rhythm. Smith's really taken away from him. | :02:03. | :02:31. | |
Smith's match average at the moment - 93.7. If he keeps that going, it | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
would be the best that we've seen on the opening day. | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
What is that, a 14-darter? Yeah. Matthew would have had a chance, as | :02:43. | :03:00. | |
well, at a finish, if... He has settled down a little bit, Medhurst. | :03:01. | :03:10. | |
Lose this one, and he's lost the match. Short and sweet... | :03:11. | :03:22. | |
All the good work of that opening 140 in danger of being undone. To be | :03:23. | :03:32. | |
honest, he's looking like a champion. Is Smith. I think it's | :03:33. | :03:40. | |
worth a little waiver. I'm sure Martin Adams won't see it that way! | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
But he really did throw very well last year until, for whatever | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
reason, he was derailed against Scott Mitchell in the semis. Scott | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
threw very well, but Jeff, for that particular match, didn't really show | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
up, did he? Had he thrown as well as he had done in the previous rounds, | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
he'd have given Scott a run for his money. I think he gave up when the | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
big men came on last year. Medhurst just has to hold onto his | :04:09. | :04:24. | |
throw here. That's good. Solid tonne. He's got a very good action. | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
Full, flowing action. No finish for Smith. He'll come | :04:29. | :04:52. | |
back, Medhurst, with 56 to square up the match. A very makeable, | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
attainable checkout, that one. A steady tonne for Smith. Right... | :04:58. | :04:59. | |
Cometh the moment, Matthew... That's more like it! Much more | :05:00. | :05:11. | |
composed since coming back from that break. He's just regrouped, | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
refocused, and he's looked altogether more purposeful. | :05:17. | :05:32. | |
Didn't need that... Good dart... Fill 'em up! | :05:33. | :05:44. | |
Another terrific visit for Smith. Two 140s moving in... | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
Switched down to bull, and did so to great effect, hitting the big one - | :05:52. | :06:04. | |
50. No great damage done, though. He's | :06:05. | :06:29. | |
left it on his favourite double - double 16. Medhurst is way, way | :06:30. | :06:30. | |
back. Brought him within a leg of a place | :06:31. | :06:41. | |
in the first round against Martin Adams. Look at that finishing again | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
- maintaining that impressive checkout rate - 8 out of 13 now, a | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
62% checkout rate. He's a very talented player. He's using his | :06:53. | :06:54. | |
head. He knows what he's doing. He's in | :06:55. | :07:06. | |
charge of everything. He looks in good physical nick as well, doesn't | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
he? That's no bad thing when you're up there in such a hot environment | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
as this one. He stays the pace. A bit like Jockey Lawson, when he | :07:14. | :07:28. | |
used to go running. Good old Jockey. Still think about you, mate. Used to | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
run around the stage, didn't he? What a character he was... | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
There was nothing textbook about the way in which he approached the game, | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
but he had a following - and rightly so. | :07:44. | :07:59. | |
He's not frightened of using the board... | :08:00. | :08:07. | |
Medhurst is throwing to keep this match alive now. Smith wins this | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
leg, and it's all over. He's 2-1 up. Good last dart, Tony. It was. He | :08:11. | :08:33. | |
needed that. Still keeping his hopes alive, but only slightly. The flame | :08:34. | :08:35. | |
flickers. His checking out was terrific. 64% | :08:36. | :09:25. | |
ratio, and he's carried on where he left off last year. He is playing | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
really well, and Martin Adams has got | :09:30. | :09:29. | |
left off last year. He is playing really well, and Martin Adams has | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
got a game on his hands. Russia's Anastasia Dobromyslova has won the | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
women's title here at Lakeside three times, but standing in her way of a | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
place in yet another major quarterfinal was a Dutch woman | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
making her debut - Anca Zijlstra. Would her nerve hold on the big | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
occasion? For your commentary on this one, Vassos Alexander and Tony | :09:49. | :09:49. | |
Green. If it does get to two legs all, | :09:50. | :10:51. | |
it'll be a sudden death. Whoever wins, wins. She will be very | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
nervous, Anca Zijlstra. But she is doing well. | :10:58. | :11:18. | |
Unlucky, just 60. She was a semifinalist last you, Anastasia. -- | :11:19. | :11:31. | |
last year, she reached six finals, seven if you include the one she | :11:32. | :11:40. | |
won. A runner-up on six occasions. 100. There are a lot of tournaments | :11:41. | :11:49. | |
now for the ladies. Lots of money to be had. Anastasia, you require 141. | :11:50. | :12:09. | |
She needs a treble 20. Anca Zijlstra, she needs 95. Three | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
darts. 13 four double extender for the | :12:15. | :12:38. | |
first leg. -- 13 for the double. This is an 18 dart leg. Welcome to | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
Lakeside. We saw Lisa Ashton earlier, really | :12:43. | :13:07. | |
making a statement in her match. Anastasia, and Anca Zijlstra, so | :13:08. | :13:14. | |
far, matching that, dart for dart. 140. | :13:15. | :13:38. | |
Anastasia, you require 161. The runner-up watches on. She was the | :13:39. | :14:08. | |
runner-up last year. 140, time, time, time, from Anastasia. -- ton. | :14:09. | :14:30. | |
And tell you what, she is really getting into it, really getting some | :14:31. | :15:20. | |
great scores. 134! Not bad for a first time. | :15:21. | :15:28. | |
A really good standard so far. I think the men would be loved to be | :15:29. | :15:38. | |
getting these scores. Both players are averaging north of 90. | :15:39. | :15:46. | |
72 left for Anca Zijlstra. One the first set. -- one each for the first | :15:47. | :16:33. | |
set. Double 12. How about that? A 14 dart leg. | :16:34. | :16:55. | |
She is very good on the doubles. So far, so good, at any rate. Two out | :16:56. | :17:08. | |
of two for the debutante from Holland. She is giving Anastasia | :17:09. | :17:20. | |
something to think about. Anca Zijlstra lost to Tina Osborne last | :17:21. | :17:27. | |
October, but she made it to Lakeside and the standby player. At 14 in the | :17:28. | :17:38. | |
rankings, and no one was cheering louder then this player. Her | :17:39. | :17:49. | |
colleague made it to the final. You know it is New Year when you made it | :17:50. | :17:50. | |
to the darts. There are two of them, looking for | :17:51. | :18:27. | |
another. There is her partner, Dave, applauding her effort, the third of | :18:28. | :18:38. | |
the match already. 100. Anca Zijlstra, you require 116. She is on | :18:39. | :18:47. | |
the finish. This is unlike Anastasia, so she will be back. A | :18:48. | :19:05. | |
second art was and the start. -- per second -- that second dart was a | :19:06. | :19:06. | |
loose dart. Double top. You require 59, | :19:07. | :19:32. | |
Anastasia. That was a set dart. And other chance for Anca Zijlstra. The | :19:33. | :19:52. | |
market is good. -- -- mark. This is the first one she had missed. Four | :19:53. | :20:10. | |
missed set dart. She had missed it. She has missed five set dart. | :20:11. | :20:18. | |
Another attempt. Missed about by a mile. In the madhouse, Anastasia. | :20:19. | :20:45. | |
Until those missed doubles, it was a juristic standard, but Anca Zijlstra | :20:46. | :20:53. | |
missed six for the set, Anastasia missed five, before finally finding | :20:54. | :21:09. | |
the 11, and we are back on three. Or -- all four legs have gone on, and | :21:10. | :21:16. | |
you can imagine that Anca Zijlstra will take it out. But have those | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
missed attempts got to her. Anastasia bouncing all over. The | :21:20. | :21:41. | |
first sign of nerves from Anca Zijlstra. | :21:42. | :21:49. | |
She is a real Match Play, Anastasia. Finds her way to win. You have to | :21:50. | :21:58. | |
take your hat off to her. Not the form we were expecting from | :21:59. | :22:08. | |
Anastasia. Buries the treble. -- there is the | :22:09. | :22:36. | |
treble. They have to a piece -- two a piece. | :22:37. | :22:47. | |
Yes, 95 left. Oh, yes! She is getting the crowd going with her. | :22:48. | :23:02. | |
That is for sure. 35 left. Great time to produce. That single three | :23:03. | :23:12. | |
gives herself more chances to take out the first set. Double 16, she | :23:13. | :23:22. | |
needs, she has missed it. Treble 20, the shot. 16 it will be for Anca | :23:23. | :23:36. | |
Zijlstra. She has missed eight dart for the set. | :23:37. | :23:46. | |
All of a sudden, all of the missed dart do not matter at all. She is | :23:47. | :23:54. | |
one set away from knocking out the three-time champion. The way she is | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
throwing, it is certainly going her way. You just wonder how the nerves | :24:01. | :24:09. | |
will go when you are looking at a double to win the match. It took her | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
nine attempts to win the first set. The experience is not winning her | :24:16. | :24:23. | |
over. Oh, dear! I think she is in a bit of | :24:24. | :24:36. | |
trouble. Guaranteed to -- Darren, from | :24:37. | :25:12. | |
England, he will face the Greek any first-round preliminary match any | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
first-round on Sunday. He is a bit of a player, the Greek. | :25:18. | :25:27. | |
Anastasia on 107. Anastasia, you require 107. She should go for the | :25:28. | :26:07. | |
treble 21st. Yes, that is 47. Double top it is. | :26:08. | :26:16. | |
She cannot finish now. You would probably still just about make | :26:17. | :26:28. | |
Anastasia favourite to win the match, but only if she starts to hit | :26:29. | :26:29. | |
the doubles, just like that. I am very impressed with this girl. | :26:30. | :26:53. | |
She really can push the dart through the air. You say you would make | :26:54. | :27:04. | |
Anastasia favourite. Not if Anca Zijlstra keeps throwing like these. | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
-- this. Warehouse her scoring gone? -- where | :27:09. | :28:25. | |
has. You can keep calm and play dart upon the stage? -- who can? The | :28:26. | :28:39. | |
former semifinalist watching. On the right. Offering her support. You are | :28:40. | :28:48. | |
very engrossed, aren't you? 116 is an out shot, so 190 before | :28:49. | :29:29. | |
the throw. Unlucky, but a chance now. Will she go bull or treble 20? | :29:30. | :29:42. | |
She went for the Chisom Chiaha 18 -- to 18. -- two 18s. | :29:43. | :29:55. | |
Struggling. This leaves an opening, double 18. | :29:56. | :30:11. | |
Pulled it. Double top for an East -- for Anastasia. Three out of 17 | :30:12. | :30:29. | |
overall on the doubles. What a double that was. Very it is. | :30:30. | :30:37. | |
-- Berridge there it is. Remember the name, Anca Zijlstra, I | :30:38. | :31:03. | |
cannot spell it. This is a big leg, isn't it, Tony? | :31:04. | :31:28. | |
Is Anca Zijlstra Winslet, she has the dart, throwing for the match. -- | :31:29. | :31:43. | |
is Anca Zijlstra wins it. She has to make a move now. Making it difficult | :31:44. | :31:48. | |
for herself a little bit. And to gain. -- again. She certainly | :31:49. | :32:30. | |
have the help today. Steady town tons for Anastasia today. A single | :32:31. | :32:40. | |
and a double remaining. This throw will only put a little | :32:41. | :32:53. | |
bit of pressure, but if she gets the treble, but not to be. 41. This is | :32:54. | :33:11. | |
her 12th at double top. There you go. | :33:12. | :33:20. | |
That is not asked, Tony. -- us. There are not many who come to the | :33:21. | :33:58. | |
darts grumpy, and fewer who leave grumpy! That's more like it! | :33:59. | :34:11. | |
81. Anca Zijlstra, while we have been watching, got a 91, so the | :34:12. | :34:26. | |
scores 60 points ahead. She started well, but she is not | :34:27. | :34:48. | |
coping with the situation now. 66, 80, but that the performance is | :34:49. | :35:11. | |
showing that she is struggling to hit the treble 20. Not on a Finnish. | :35:12. | :35:37. | |
-- finish. Still a chance. This is set point. If she can take out 142, | :35:38. | :35:49. | |
not any more. Treble ten leaves double 16. The shot is on. That is | :35:50. | :36:05. | |
the one. Single extant. Double 16. -- single 16. | :36:06. | :36:15. | |
Double top, she hit it last time, but missed at this time. Double ten | :36:16. | :36:27. | |
for Anastasia, to win the set. And it levels the match. We have seen it | :36:28. | :36:32. | |
time and time again, she does enough, she finds a way. | :36:33. | :36:45. | |
She did have the dart at double 16 to level the second set. | :36:46. | :36:56. | |
Still, you have to put your head in the sky and score. They are equal | :36:57. | :37:07. | |
now, and didn't go that far they will go to sudden death. They will | :37:08. | :37:11. | |
throw for the bull to get the advantage. Made the darts be with | :37:12. | :37:35. | |
you. -- and -- may the darts be with you. Darts Vader. Darts Wars. That | :37:36. | :37:53. | |
the good ones to get over the top. Very nicely done. | :37:54. | :38:02. | |
Anca Zijlstra throwing first in this the first leg. | :38:03. | :38:13. | |
This is a good leg. This leaves very and pole position. -- leaves her. | :38:14. | :38:28. | |
Suddenly it is not coming quite so easily for Anca Zijlstra. Darts she | :38:29. | :38:40. | |
wants them. -- six darts if she wants them. | :38:41. | :38:47. | |
They are coming back for 40. 47. Two out of 13 for double top for | :38:48. | :39:05. | |
Anastasia, but she still leave that. -- leaves it. OK, a bull would help | :39:06. | :39:25. | |
her. Treble 19 would also help. Unlucky, -- that would leave her | :39:26. | :39:29. | |
unlucky and disappointed. A bit of pressure. | :39:30. | :40:14. | |
The door has been left open with a 43. But Zijlstra does not take | :40:15. | :40:28. | |
advantage. And the thing is with Anastasia, the daughters not get | :40:29. | :40:36. | |
left open for long. -- door does not get left open for long. | :40:37. | :40:44. | |
Still, Anca has a lot going for her. It is her first time in a major | :40:45. | :40:55. | |
champion. She certainly has not let the side down. Anca, last year in | :40:56. | :41:09. | |
the finals, lost to de Graaf in the first and then lost in the England | :41:10. | :41:16. | |
national singles. A few semifinals around the place as well, Denmark, | :41:17. | :41:22. | |
Poland, Switzerland, Luxembourg. Well travelled, but her first time | :41:23. | :41:26. | |
here. 65 points away. Anastasia you | :41:27. | :42:04. | |
require 65. She could win this leg and move one leg away from the | :42:05. | :42:15. | |
quarter-finals. Double 16. OK. The chances here. Still a chance. | :42:16. | :42:46. | |
Dobromyslova! The three-time champion is now the three-time | :42:47. | :42:55. | |
champion is now a leg away. See what a fight she put up here. She has | :42:56. | :43:00. | |
done well for her first appearance, I will say that. But experience will | :43:01. | :43:15. | |
tell. How fluid she is with that throw. Right the way through. That | :43:16. | :43:31. | |
is a good ton as well. A good recovery. 31 years old, Anastasia. | :43:32. | :43:42. | |
She first played on the lakeside stage in a 2007 World Championship. | :43:43. | :43:48. | |
She lost in the semifinals. She came back the following year and won the | :43:49. | :44:01. | |
final. Won again in 2012 and in 13 -- 2013. But has not been beyond the | :44:02. | :44:05. | |
semifinals since. Pressure in her head now. She has | :44:06. | :44:20. | |
never lost for the quarter-finals, Anastasia. Just for a moment tonight | :44:21. | :44:26. | |
it looked like that record may be in jeopardy. But who would bet against | :44:27. | :44:30. | |
her now? Finish on 170. That would be nice to | :44:31. | :44:47. | |
finish with. I am sure she will go for it. Anastasia, you require 170. | :44:48. | :45:03. | |
Two triple 20s and a bull's-eye, the biggest checkout berries. It is not | :45:04. | :45:12. | |
over yet. -- biggest checkout there is. | :45:13. | :45:25. | |
A double top. I don't know why she keeps leaving it. She is not hitting | :45:26. | :45:36. | |
it. Two out of 15 on a double top for Anastasia. That single 18 leaves | :45:37. | :45:42. | |
the bull's-eye to stay alive for Anca Zijlstra of the Netherlands. | :45:43. | :45:43. | |
Oh! How about that! Unconcerned -- Anca said it is not | :45:44. | :46:13. | |
over until the fat lady sings. That was unfortunate. Caught the flank | :46:14. | :46:14. | |
there. And other one. Oh! Again, and other | :46:15. | :46:37. | |
three in there. That is why she has won free world titles. Simply does | :46:38. | :46:49. | |
not let it bother her. -- three. She watched her opponent checkout with a | :46:50. | :46:51. | |
bull's-eye... But she has come back. Anastasia, you require 161. She does | :46:52. | :47:14. | |
not need to go for it. Anca's miles away. She can't finish. | :47:15. | :47:20. | |
120 left. A big score here. Oh, yes, this is good, this is very good. | :47:21. | :47:39. | |
It is double top. They another chance to save it. For Anca. How | :47:40. | :47:57. | |
about this, if she takes this out? Anastasia, you know, has only hit | :47:58. | :48:02. | |
double top twice and she has had 16 darts today. She will hope she | :48:03. | :48:06. | |
doesn't need another. A double ten for the match. | :48:07. | :48:11. | |
Mind you, she has had only one out of seven now on double tens, make | :48:12. | :48:21. | |
that one out of eight. OK. Deep breath. Triple 20. Triple 19. | :48:22. | :48:40. | |
This for the match. In all she has missed 29 darts at a double, | :48:41. | :48:47. | |
Anastasia. Double top it is. Double ten to save | :48:48. | :49:04. | |
the match. Yeah! Well done! We are into sudden death! What a difference | :49:05. | :49:16. | |
a dart makes. So they will throw for the bull's-eye. Whoever is closest | :49:17. | :49:20. | |
will have the advantage of throwing first in this, the sudden-death leg. | :49:21. | :49:26. | |
Whoever wins this leg wins this match. | :49:27. | :49:32. | |
Finding out whether that is OK. Yes. This is it. Well, well, well, Tony. | :49:33. | :49:49. | |
Who is your money on? I said Anca's away that she hasn't dropped yet. I | :49:50. | :49:59. | |
think she is in with a good chance. She has stuck to her guns. | :50:00. | :50:11. | |
Anastasia has had darts to win the match. Plenty of them. Good | :50:12. | :50:26. | |
thinking. But she has missed them all. That is good. Must break the | :50:27. | :50:35. | |
throw, though, if she is to go through. No fireworks yet from | :50:36. | :50:43. | |
either player. It is who can hold their nerve at this stage. Terrific | :50:44. | :50:55. | |
entertainment. Yes. They are battling away. The first 100 in this | :50:56. | :50:57. | |
leg. Only a 60 from Anastasia. A little | :50:58. | :51:09. | |
bit of daylight now for Anca Zijlstra from the Netherlands. Her | :51:10. | :51:17. | |
partner, Les Dave, watches on as he starts to believe that Anca might do | :51:18. | :51:19. | |
it. She is 202 points away. Well, the Mexicans are in. That is a | :51:20. | :51:45. | |
part as are out. -- The Zapatas are out. Needs a triple. OK. The finish | :51:46. | :51:56. | |
is on. Oh, dear, what happened then, Anca? | :51:57. | :52:16. | |
Match point again for the Russian. Oh, she has left double top again. | :52:17. | :52:24. | |
Anastasia! And she has listed again! -- missed it again. Pull the dart! | :52:25. | :52:43. | |
Anastasia, you require 20. Experience can tell here. Two left. | :52:44. | :52:52. | |
Double ten. 55, not the best double on the board. 15. This is exciting. | :52:53. | :53:00. | |
Double two. Look at that. Just a fraction above that wire. Oh! | :53:01. | :53:20. | |
Anastasia, you require five. Well, well, well, 35 missed doubles. There | :53:21. | :53:26. | |
goes a number one. This is for the match and there goes another one! | :53:27. | :53:31. | |
Can you believe what you are seeing here? Oh, dear. | :53:32. | :53:42. | |
Unlucky. They are both in the madhouse and that is what lakeside | :53:43. | :53:53. | |
is. A madhouse. This is the sudden-death leg, for a place in the | :53:54. | :53:55. | |
quarter-finals. She has missed again and again and | :53:56. | :54:08. | |
again! A little drink of water because you need it. Let's show them | :54:09. | :54:17. | |
the way come on, everyone is cheering for you. Dave cannot | :54:18. | :54:33. | |
breathe. Tens, nervous. There is! There it is! It is all over. What a | :54:34. | :54:46. | |
match! Well, well, well, the tale of missed doubles ending, perhaps | :54:47. | :54:56. | |
fittingly, with a double one. Reigning women's world champion Lisa | :54:57. | :54:59. | |
Ashton has rewritten the rulebook as to what is possible as far as women | :55:00. | :55:04. | |
starts is concerned. Her performance last year was sensational and he she | :55:05. | :55:09. | |
was, at the start of going for a hat-trick of world grounds will | :55:10. | :55:14. | |
opponent was the Lincolnshire County captain. Paula Jacklin on the way. | :55:15. | :55:25. | |
Clearly these the world through rose tinted spectacles. -- sees the | :55:26. | :55:37. | |
world. She has the advantage of throwing first in this leg. The best | :55:38. | :55:44. | |
out of three sets wins the match. And wins a place in the | :55:45. | :55:52. | |
quarter-finals. She has a lot to content with, I am afraid to say. -- | :55:53. | :56:08. | |
I think this will be very quick. But it is always quick when Lisa Ashton | :56:09. | :56:13. | |
is there. She does not hang around. She is unbelievable. She should be | :56:14. | :56:16. | |
playing with the men, to be honest. A decent start from Paula. You can | :56:17. | :56:34. | |
tell from her walk on she was not nervous. She is not fazed by playing | :56:35. | :56:40. | |
on that stage. Ball-up, she lost too early to the Gras last year. -- | :56:41. | :56:55. | |
Paula. Knocking on the door for a major final last year was Paula. She | :56:56. | :56:57. | |
often came but it is Lisa who is on to her | :56:58. | :57:28. | |
finish first. You really would not put this past her, even in the first | :57:29. | :57:30. | |
leg. 136. These are the shots she would need | :57:31. | :57:43. | |
to take out if she wants to stay in this match. That was for the bull. | :57:44. | :57:59. | |
So Lisa, coming to the key. Triple 20 88, that is the shot. Oh, that is | :58:00. | :58:09. | |
way off. I tell you what, pity our cameraman went Lisa Ashton is a | :58:10. | :58:15. | |
deaf. She is just so quick. This is for the first leg of the match. She | :58:16. | :58:21. | |
was aiming for the big 20 and hit the triple. That is double top. That | :58:22. | :58:27. | |
is the one. Her two daughters also play | :58:28. | :58:47. | |
Lancashire darts. It is a family affair. Daniel is the world youth | :58:48. | :59:06. | |
champion. -- Danielle. There she is. What a great prospect she is as | :59:07. | :59:15. | |
well. I had some great days with Lancashire. She was with them for | :59:16. | :59:21. | |
seven or eight years, we had a great team then. | :59:22. | :59:35. | |
And Louise Peters watching on, in action later. With a nice smile. | :59:36. | :59:52. | |
This is good. This is good. Come on! That is OK. It keeps her in the leg. | :59:53. | :59:56. | |
Perfect. A very nice last start. Paula has | :59:57. | :00:16. | |
left 175. 170 is the biggest outshot that you | :00:17. | :00:41. | |
can take out in three darts, three triple 20s and a bull's-eye, of | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
course. Bring on the men. The match is only | :00:47. | :01:05. | |
two legs old already and a three digit checkout. A nice diet from | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
Paula. -- dart. There are the averages. In one match | :01:13. | :01:54. | |
last year, Lisa averaged 90 plus. There's not much to separate them, | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
it's just that Lisa is there, getting her chance at the end and | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
taking it. Paula has not even had a chance of a double yet. Mind you, we | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
are only two legs into this match. Some wonderful players, those | :02:08. | :02:35. | |
Lancashire men and women. Billy Leonard, former world champion. | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
He was a great player but let's get back to the action. This is for the | :02:43. | :03:03. | |
set. It can't now be taken out. Paula has a chance. Yes. She could | :03:04. | :03:20. | |
go for the ball all the triple 20. -- bull or for the triple 20. | :03:21. | :03:31. | |
OK, for the first time, how are those doubles, Paula? She needs | :03:32. | :04:03. | |
this. Come on, Paula. There are many people watching you. A full house. | :04:04. | :04:05. | |
Yes! Very, very, very good diet. -- diet | :04:06. | :04:15. | |
-- dart. I think Peter started off slowly | :04:16. | :04:49. | |
like a few people do... In Mexico, he? We will be seeing all the fancy | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
dress this week. Brilliant turnouts. Her second scorer of 140 plus, Lisa. | :04:57. | :05:25. | |
It is comeback time. And another. That is her second score of over | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
140, Paula. Recent match, this. Still favourites to take this lot. | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
There it is. You would have lots of room. Squeeze | :05:35. | :05:58. | |
one between them. Oh, lucky! This 61 is for the set for Lisa Ashton. | :05:59. | :06:06. | |
Double 18, no problem. They are loving it. | :06:07. | :06:16. | |
Averaging 85 in that state, hitting 50% of her doubles. She has returned | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
to form, the defending champion. They are enjoying themselves | :06:24. | :06:48. | |
already. This is the first date of action. Day one at Lakeside 2016, | :06:49. | :07:00. | |
match one in the women's World Championship. Do you have the buzz | :07:01. | :07:11. | |
yet? I get the buzz, Tony, when I pull into the car park. And now I | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
think everyone else has got the buzz! Just to remind you, this is | :07:18. | :07:28. | |
the women, not the man. -- men. There it is. A good marker. Yes. | :07:29. | :07:37. | |
Oh, unlucky. Lisa has thrown 12 darts. She wants | :07:38. | :07:55. | |
a. You should make that a lab and because one of them fell out of the | :07:56. | :08:07. | |
board. -- 11. Here we go. Treble 20. 25 would have left double 18. She is | :08:08. | :08:16. | |
allowed to ask the refereeing. She will be back four double 16, will | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
Lisa, because Paul is back in 276? She needs to rediscover her focus | :08:23. | :08:31. | |
after losing that first set. So double 16. Yes, no problem for the | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
defending champions. Set after set. She missed her first | :08:36. | :08:50. | |
two doubles in the first leg of the match at double top and she has only | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
missed a bull's-eye since. And that was not by much. | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
Metronomic. He she goes again. He she goes again! | :09:00. | :09:16. | |
. There is a great buzz around the act arena. Desert around the arena. | :09:17. | :09:32. | |
Amonde, Paula! -- come on, Paula! Everyone wants you to steam top. -- | :09:33. | :09:52. | |
deemed it up. Not too bad, but neither is on 261. -- Lisa. Paula | :09:53. | :10:04. | |
needs a big score. Not enough. Enjoying themselves. It | :10:05. | :10:34. | |
is a finish, 144. Paula is still on 234. | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
55. Lisa, you require 144. She needs six dart from 144. 66 for Lisa. A | :10:41. | :11:18. | |
treble ten would be handy. 16, double 12 she had left. Still the | :11:19. | :11:37. | |
same five. -- same size. Astonishing finishing from Lisa Ashton. She | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
missed to darts, at double top in the first leg of the match, but she | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
had it everything bar one shot of everything at the bull 's eye in the | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
third leg. I thought you were going to say everything but the kitchen | :11:56. | :12:03. | |
door! It has been magic, really have the -- really has. She is averaging | :12:04. | :12:16. | |
85. This is in round one. You have to feel for Paula. She had done | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
nothing wrong. She has not had a look in. 30. I think Lisa may have | :12:22. | :12:36. | |
to go into the men's teams this year! | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
39. It is still just about pantomime season. And they have high heel on | :12:42. | :13:06. | |
as well. 60. On my lord! Imagine sitting opposite him on the train. | :13:07. | :13:08. | |
You would not get on it! OK, 280, the bureau. -- the throw. | :13:09. | :13:33. | |
100. Well, flamingos in the stand on one leg, and Lisa Ashton is only one | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
leg away from winning the match. She had six dart on 188, should she | :13:40. | :13:51. | |
require them. -- six darts. No out shots for Paula. | :13:52. | :14:02. | |
Will those be the last darts that Paula Jacklin throws? Double 16 for | :14:03. | :14:14. | |
Lisa, for a place in the quarter-finals. Did you ever | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
doubted? Great scoring from the world champion. Great finishing from | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
the world champion. Do the very thoughtful Paula Jacklin, he did | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
nothing wrong, but Lisa Ashton is through to the quarter-finals and | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
makes a bit of a statement. Craig Caldwell had travelled all the way | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
from Wellington to make this his debut, and he was up against a | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
Scotsman, who had not travelled so far, Alan Souter, and the prize was | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
the opportunity to say the defending world champion in the first round | :14:52. | :14:53. | |
proper on Sunday. First blood to Alan Souter, the 30 | :14:54. | :15:18. | |
four-year-old Scottish qualifier. -- 34-year-old. 85. | :15:19. | :15:31. | |
Caldwell needs to step on it. If he carries on like this, it will be a | :15:32. | :15:43. | |
great match. It will go right down to the wire. He is putting those | :15:44. | :16:13. | |
darts where he wants them. All that Alan Soutar can do is hope that he | :16:14. | :16:20. | |
can take it out with the darts, but he has a lot of time. 81 left. 12 | :16:21. | :16:35. | |
darts thrown and he is on 62. 62, for Caldwell. 57. He once double | :16:36. | :16:44. | |
16. -- that he wants. Holding his throw, a nice check | :16:45. | :16:55. | |
out. 15 dart. XT. -- 60. Could match this, John. | :16:56. | :17:26. | |
-- good. Solid match again, peppering that 20. 100. | :17:27. | :17:43. | |
Having to make an adjustment, coming down with a really good cover shot. | :17:44. | :17:52. | |
Ross Montgomery, another Scotsman, in the crowd, watching on. There | :17:53. | :18:01. | |
here is -- he is, cherishing ambitions of his own and realising | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
he is on camera as well! A great player, Ross. Alan Soutar needs a | :18:08. | :18:18. | |
big hit, over 100 points adrift, this is handy. And another would be | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
ideal. This is the maximum of the match, and what a time to do it! | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
Couldn't group them together. Alan Soutar coming back with 106 | :18:31. | :18:43. | |
square up the match. That 180 was perfect in timing. Can Alan Soutar | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
finish it off! -- off? Delay champ. Treble 18, full. | :18:47. | :19:19. | |
Unlucky. -- bull. -- delay champ -- still a chance. To the wrong side. | :19:20. | :19:39. | |
68. Extends. Double 16, under pressure, Alan Soutar on form. He | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
has to get this. So important that he does not leave his road to go two | :19:46. | :20:05. | |
down. -- live is bureau Dart -- loose his throw. | :20:06. | :20:14. | |
Dingdong, he is right back in the match. Exciting. This is why he has | :20:15. | :20:27. | |
done it so well this year. He has come up from under and he is in | :20:28. | :20:35. | |
form. That if his first maximum. Was an up and under. | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
He is heating them now, and in other. -- heating Dart hitting. | :20:41. | :21:09. | |
Can he do this? Just the wrong side of the wire, and the pantomime crowd | :21:10. | :21:29. | |
do not like it. The main thing now is to finish it off. He is throwing | :21:30. | :21:39. | |
well now. That is the first time he has smiled. The playwright be? -- | :21:40. | :21:51. | |
can he play rugby? Looks like he may have done once upon a time. How many | :21:52. | :22:02. | |
times have you seen that? You need 20 at the double top and usually the | :22:03. | :22:11. | |
treble. -- you hit the treble. The double top. | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
He did well then. A bit unlucky. Now, back on level terms. The | :22:18. | :22:35. | |
checkout percentages of Caldwell are extraordinary, 71%. If he keep that | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
up, he will be very difficult to beat. Anything around 40%-50%, very | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
good. That was a really good effort. If you are just joining up, Dart up | :22:46. | :23:07. | |
-- if you are just joining us, there have been no known Dart nine -- | :23:08. | :23:22. | |
9-darter since 1990. 1.2 when it. -- on point to win it. | :23:23. | :24:19. | |
There we go. Treble 20. The bull. Caldwell to take the opening leg, | :24:20. | :24:28. | |
116. You need that four double 18, for a 96 checkout. Perfect. That | :24:29. | :24:42. | |
hurts Alan Soutar. Well, we have certainly found some talent here. | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
The big man is getting the big scores, and he is getting the big | :24:47. | :24:54. | |
out shots. He could be dangerous. We talked about the checkout | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
percentage, that would make it even better. He has six out of eight. He | :24:59. | :25:07. | |
is showing that he will be hard to beat. He looks in the zone, doesn't | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
he? Overall averages are not what they were. Alan Soutar has gone off | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
the boil a little. 81. A couple of loose starts in the | :25:18. | :25:43. | |
meantime. 58. I wonder how long Craig has been over here because the | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
jetlag is a factor when you start travelling all over the world, as I | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
know from personal experience Jocky it is some journey. -- personal | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
experience! The last time I was there, we have | :25:59. | :26:09. | |
to turn around, the engine was on fire. Don't say that! Alan Soutar | :26:10. | :26:21. | |
needs to get back quickly. He needs to break back and you really need a | :26:22. | :26:22. | |
treble. But he is not on a finish. 59. Neither is called well. -- | :26:23. | :26:31. | |
Caldwell. 58. The Scottish flag is on his | :26:32. | :26:44. | |
dart. Here we go, 19s. Here is a chance | :26:45. | :27:35. | |
for Alan. Oh, dear! Unlucky, but a chance that had to be taken for Alan | :27:36. | :27:42. | |
Soutar, double top needed. He has done it. All square. He kind of got | :27:43. | :28:01. | |
away with that a little bit, Alan. Now, what a difference a dart | :28:02. | :28:10. | |
makes! Young and old, they are all loving it. 140. | :28:11. | :28:25. | |
Having to switch and doing it beautifully, once more. Cracking | :28:26. | :28:36. | |
cover shot from Alan Soutar. Switching. 99. | :28:37. | :28:50. | |
He has the advantage of this throw. And he has made it count. He has | :28:51. | :28:57. | |
left a finish, 124. A good response, a good leg, this | :28:58. | :29:11. | |
one. By the thrown nine though far. 124 the checkout required. This is | :29:12. | :29:24. | |
the bull. Unlucky! Every chance for Caldwell. That is a great first | :29:25. | :29:36. | |
dart, and is now 77. -- double seven. Swings and roundabouts, it is | :29:37. | :29:50. | |
all happening. It is double four. Can he do it? He went for three. | :29:51. | :30:06. | |
Caldwell, double seven. Three. Double two! Nurse from Alan Soutar, | :30:07. | :30:17. | |
and Caldwell have the bit between his teeth -- and nurse -- and | :30:18. | :30:28. | |
nerves. He'll be throwing this to his advantage, meanwhile, Alan | :30:29. | :30:32. | |
Soutar having to compose himself and put that behind him. A bit of | :30:33. | :30:37. | |
nervousness, I think. Creeping ever closer. 85. | :30:38. | :30:52. | |
His Lakeside debut, called well but it called well -- Caldwell. Looking | :30:53. | :31:13. | |
for his second maximum. The crowd is giving him the best of order. Yes! | :31:14. | :31:29. | |
It is on with the show. This is the third for Caldwell. | :31:30. | :31:40. | |
He has a lot of time on his side, Caldwell. What a cracker! We know | :31:41. | :31:58. | |
now that they have some talent in Australia and New Zealand. OK, | :31:59. | :32:12. | |
double top. Yes! That puts him in control of the match, potentially. | :32:13. | :32:17. | |
Alan Soutar had his opportunities, and could not clean it out, and the | :32:18. | :32:22. | |
man who has travelled 12,000 miles is now in a strong position in what | :32:23. | :32:28. | |
could turn out to be the final set of this match. Well said, John. It | :32:29. | :32:37. | |
has been magic. I have loved it. Have you? I have. Interesting how it | :32:38. | :32:46. | |
turned around, because Alan Soutar started so impressively, but the | :32:47. | :32:49. | |
tension has been palpable in the last few leg and it is the result of | :32:50. | :32:58. | |
Caldwell cranking up the pressure. That is a 62% checkout rate for the | :32:59. | :33:01. | |
man from New Zealand. Coming down, trying to take one at | :33:02. | :33:17. | |
the bottom, and there it is. 97. Moving further ahead. | :33:18. | :33:24. | |
140. Nice response. This puts Alan Soutar on the finish. Caldwell | :33:25. | :33:42. | |
ahead, but Alan Soutar is in a good position to take this against the | :33:43. | :33:45. | |
throw. This is very important for the Scotsman... | :33:46. | :33:55. | |
He went for the treble 19. He cannot finish now, so maybe treble ten. He | :33:56. | :34:20. | |
is left with 57. Double 8 four seater. -- double 8 for Alan Soutar. | :34:21. | :34:35. | |
He has made a bit of a mess of this, Caldwell. May be a counting | :34:36. | :34:36. | |
issue. Double ten. The fans are shouting out. What a | :34:37. | :35:08. | |
last dart that was. He needed it. None of them like that. | :35:09. | :35:16. | |
Caldwell has just lost that momentum that he had. I was just going to | :35:17. | :35:37. | |
say, slipping by a little. Alan Soutar needs to alive, and they | :35:38. | :36:06. | |
were excellent 19. 99. Caldwell have had the advantage and maximum 3-1. | :36:07. | :36:19. | |
Tight match. 99. Scott will take that. | :36:20. | :36:27. | |
He needed that travel, Alan Soutar now with 217. -- that treble. | :36:28. | :36:39. | |
134. That was a nice dart from Caldwell. Eight treble 20 will lead | :36:40. | :37:15. | |
a bull 's eye. -- are treble 80. Another one will do. Yes, double | :37:16. | :37:23. | |
ten. It has hit the wire! What a dart! Alan Soutar, with the throw, | :37:24. | :37:33. | |
87, to stop Caldwell to take the advantage that the seized in the | :37:34. | :37:39. | |
first set. He needed the bull's-eye, but did not get close. | :37:40. | :37:47. | |
That is not a bad marker. Cannot alive. Big dart for the New Zealand | :37:48. | :38:01. | |
a. Using it. Sliding off the barrel of his first dart to go ahead. It | :38:02. | :38:04. | |
goes to one apiece. And he Fordham is in the house, I am | :38:05. | :38:35. | |
told. A former champion. -- Andrew. The old Viking. This is good. Look | :38:36. | :38:53. | |
at them here! It is manic! 100. He loved it, and he knew how important | :38:54. | :38:57. | |
it was, punching the air at the through those -- threw those. He is | :38:58. | :39:27. | |
a nice fellow, and he. Another one, just off the wire! Treble 20. Cannot | :39:28. | :39:34. | |
be done now. Trying to stay in the match now. | :39:35. | :40:00. | |
Coldwell is a lead away from 31 and a place in the first round proper | :40:01. | :40:04. | |
and a match against the defending champion. He has lasted the pace a | :40:05. | :40:13. | |
lot better than Saturn, I am afraid to say. -- van salt time. Soutan. I | :40:14. | :40:45. | |
think you are right there, John. Soutan has to win this led to keep | :40:46. | :40:51. | |
the match alive. He is going the right way to do it, John. His second | :40:52. | :41:00. | |
match. Not on a Finnish, but he is in a good position now. | :41:01. | :41:16. | |
Two trebles would be handy. There is one of them and, yes! 76. He needs | :41:17. | :41:50. | |
to get that finished. That is not what he needed. He needed 14 for the | :41:51. | :41:54. | |
bull's-eye and you get the triple 11. Dear, dear. 15 would leave them | :41:55. | :42:04. | |
on 88. Called well now 76 for the match. Triple 20. The shot is double | :42:05. | :42:19. | |
eight. It is for the match. What a Mac should you have seen there. | :42:20. | :42:30. | |
Absolutely fantastic. The New Zealander and Scotland are giving | :42:31. | :42:36. | |
their roll of New Zealand, be proud. A quality finish. Craig Caldwell | :42:37. | :42:43. | |
takes the place in the first round where he will play Scott Mitchell. | :42:44. | :42:48. | |
The last time Jim Williams appeared on this stage he suffered a few | :42:49. | :42:53. | |
nerves. Would it be the same when he was up against one of the most | :42:54. | :42:59. | |
popular players ever to appear, none other than Tony O'Shea, appearing | :43:00. | :43:01. | |
here for the 15th consecutive year. Anything over 50%, they bite your | :43:02. | :43:17. | |
hand off for. Anything under 30%, they are disappointed with. And both | :43:18. | :43:23. | |
players regularly check out percentages under 30. A little growl | :43:24. | :43:31. | |
of frustration there from O'Shea as he took his darts out of the board. | :43:32. | :43:34. | |
The silverback in him talking. That is more like it. Hello. There | :43:35. | :43:49. | |
it is. His first 180 of the tournament putting him in very handy | :43:50. | :43:51. | |
position. A nice reply. Nice cover on the 19th | :43:52. | :44:05. | |
from Jim Williams. Not on a finish, though. And neither is O'Shea. Just | :44:06. | :44:09. | |
when he wanted a big hit, he wasn't there. Back into the 19th. | :44:10. | :44:21. | |
Unerringly. Nicely poised. 204 then, O'Shea. He could do with a number | :44:22. | :44:32. | |
one. -- another one. Double 16 he needs. 88 just above. Yes! So, once | :44:33. | :44:41. | |
again we are going to a deciding leg in this second set. Going with the | :44:42. | :44:48. | |
fro, O'Shea under pressure now. He cannot afford to lose another set. | :44:49. | :44:55. | |
If you were to lose this leg than the spectre of a potential | :44:56. | :44:57. | |
first-round defeat would become only too real. | :44:58. | :45:05. | |
After reaching the final in 2013, Tony O'Shea lost in round one 3- | :45:06. | :45:15. | |
zero. Lost in a sudden-death leg to Scott Mitchell in the first round | :45:16. | :45:19. | |
last year. Desperate not to make it a hat-trick of first round defeats | :45:20. | :45:29. | |
bite he must win this leg, you feel. If he is to have a chance. | :45:30. | :45:52. | |
And it is just 60. One of the players taking the opportunity to | :45:53. | :46:07. | |
check out the atmosphere. They have all had a throw up on stage this | :46:08. | :46:10. | |
morning just to see how it looks. Jim, you require 141. This is for | :46:11. | :46:28. | |
the set for a two set lead. It cannot be done that you he is | :46:29. | :46:33. | |
applying massive pressure to Tony O'Shea and that 142. 142 to stay | :46:34. | :46:40. | |
alive in this set, then, and he cannot do it now. He will just have | :46:41. | :46:44. | |
to hope that William is' nerves crack. | :46:45. | :46:52. | |
Double 16, double eight and he has got it. Now O'Shea really has his | :46:53. | :47:03. | |
back against the wall. Williams with a two set lead. | :47:04. | :47:15. | |
Williams with the advantage of throwing first in this third set. | :47:16. | :47:24. | |
Here is O'Shea staring at another first round defeat? Two in the last | :47:25. | :47:36. | |
two years. Six in total for him. But he is also reached three finals. | :47:37. | :47:44. | |
Beads of perspiration on his face. He has struggled, I think, with the | :47:45. | :47:48. | |
conditions, the warmth of their onstage. -- up some low -- there are | :47:49. | :48:05. | |
onstage. He has a marginal advantage, Williams, Betty has got | :48:06. | :48:09. | |
in it when he needed it and that gave him the two set at vantage. | :48:10. | :48:17. | |
Both of those sets that William is one went to a deciding leg. And on | :48:18. | :48:26. | |
and on neither occasion did Tony O'Shea throw a dart for the set. | :48:27. | :48:38. | |
At least he is still thinking. Double 18. This will be something. | :48:39. | :48:49. | |
Close. Very close. A chance for O'Shea to take this leg against the | :48:50. | :48:56. | |
throw. That is so important to O'Shea's chances and getting him at | :48:57. | :49:02. | |
self out from a very difficult position. | :49:03. | :49:09. | |
If he can get on a little roll, then you just never know. | :49:10. | :49:22. | |
A great cover shot from Williams. Switching to the 19th. He has been | :49:23. | :49:29. | |
metronomic down there, hasn't he? The last five dart at triple 19 have | :49:30. | :49:39. | |
found the green. Williams has effectively taken the throw by the | :49:40. | :49:44. | |
virtue of that previous visit and he has not capitalise there. -- | :49:45. | :49:58. | |
capitalised. A bit of downturn ad become gorilla. He must be warm in | :49:59. | :50:10. | |
that suit. -- he must be cheering for the silverback. | :50:11. | :50:16. | |
He has found a little bit of something better here, Tony O'Shea. | :50:17. | :50:23. | |
And the 120 checkout is very makeable. | :50:24. | :50:39. | |
Well, 166 is not a finish. 170 is the biggest one. And there are a | :50:40. | :50:46. | |
couple of boogie numbers where you cannot take them out in three darts | :50:47. | :50:54. | |
and a great first dart therefore O'Shea. Ooh, unlucky. | :50:55. | :51:06. | |
A double 16 and this would hurt. O'Shea breathes again. | :51:07. | :51:16. | |
That should be a good marker. He drags the 22 down and he cannot | :51:17. | :51:33. | |
believe it. Right in the middle. That is a big, big leg that has | :51:34. | :51:38. | |
slipped away from O'Shea. He should have taken that. | :51:39. | :51:43. | |
Straight back in at triple 20, Jim Williams. He has a bit of swagger | :51:44. | :51:54. | |
about him now. Decided to go for the triple 19 with the third died | :51:55. | :52:00. | |
because of the lie of the first two. Darts aficionados know that of | :52:01. | :52:05. | |
course and now about the cover shot, the switch down below, that is why | :52:06. | :52:07. | |
they do it. Jaqui over from Belgium, he is | :52:08. | :52:27. | |
always here. A great dad 's supporter. Year after year he makes | :52:28. | :52:45. | |
the pilgrimage. -- darts. Williams is on one of those boogie numbers, | :52:46. | :52:54. | |
no checkout on 165. But he will be back to look at 124 with Tony O'Shea | :52:55. | :53:00. | |
back on 266. He needs a big score. I'm lucky. | :53:01. | :53:03. | |
back on 266. He needs a big score. I'm Unlucky. So close to 180. A | :53:04. | :53:10. | |
triple 18 would leave him bull's-eye. Bull's-eye for a 2-1 | :53:11. | :53:17. | |
lead in this third set. Would have left him a leg away. | :53:18. | :53:23. | |
146 is big and can't be done. Williams with a big opportunity to | :53:24. | :53:35. | |
move to the brink of a victory. Double eight. Take it out. Only one | :53:36. | :53:40. | |
more leg required. Quoted the 11 to eight favourite, | :53:41. | :54:06. | |
Jim Williams. He has been solid. 140 from Tony O'Shea and straight back | :54:07. | :54:10. | |
into the triple 20 at the start of this leg. Perhaps the scoreboard is | :54:11. | :54:14. | |
freeing up his arm a little. He needs it to. | :54:15. | :54:19. | |
If he does not hold onto its throw here, O'Shea, it is good night and | :54:20. | :54:25. | |
thank you. Or, good afternoon and thank you. Start the taxi. Whichever | :54:26. | :54:29. | |
euphemism you care to use. I think he will be around for a | :54:30. | :54:39. | |
little while yet. He likes to sample the atmosphere, sometimes he gets | :54:40. | :54:46. | |
behind the microphone. He is good at it. | :54:47. | :54:55. | |
You would have hoped for more than 60 to 76 is makeable. Nervous times | :54:56. | :55:01. | |
for Jill. OK, then, Tony. 25 for Bull. Oh, he | :55:02. | :55:18. | |
has hit the bull's-eye. So, Williams, 141 for the match. Cannot | :55:19. | :55:21. | |
be done. Jill enjoyed that. He still | :55:22. | :55:32. | |
cherishes his hopes. That was a nice solid start. He is | :55:33. | :55:59. | |
putting O'Shea under big pressure to get huge numbers. | :56:00. | :56:08. | |
Another set goes the distance. Will it go the same way as the first two? | :56:09. | :56:18. | |
Will it go to Wales or can Tony O'Shea find something? He needs to | :56:19. | :56:25. | |
find the triple 20. I wonder if there is potential to be heading | :56:26. | :56:32. | |
towards a second round match against a Dutchman. | :56:33. | :56:38. | |
Looking as though it is going to go the way of the Welshman at the | :56:39. | :56:42. | |
moment. But so is this. That was a bounce | :56:43. | :57:04. | |
out. How unlucky is that? 140 when he comes back. O'Shea is looking at | :57:05. | :57:09. | |
the small target to try he comes back. O'Shea is looking at | :57:10. | :57:15. | |
the small target to to try and add just to get the double, treble | :57:16. | :57:22. | |
eight. This is a match died for Jim Williams. Oh, what a way to do it! | :57:23. | :57:33. | |
He has knocked out Tony O'Shea, one of Lakeside's true gentleman. And a | :57:34. | :57:38. | |
gracious loser as you can see. But Jim Williams in only his second | :57:39. | :57:47. | |
visit has produced the big performance that he knew he was | :57:48. | :57:52. | |
capable of. Well done on passing the standard. You now have time for a | :57:53. | :57:57. | |
few hours sleep before joining is later this afternoon, one o'clock on | :57:58. | :58:02. | |
BBC Two for two of the Lakeside World Championship. | :58:03. | :58:12. | |
Join us again very soon. That night. -- good night. | :58:13. | :58:22. | |
Listen to that cheer. It's going to be our year. | :58:23. | :58:26. | |
With a little bit of luck I can see us lift the cup. | :58:27. | :58:30. | |
It's the FA Cup. Anything can happen. | :58:31. | :58:34. |