Day 1 Darts: World Championships - Extra

Hello, good evening and welcome to Darts Extra, the late-night review

of the day's best action from the 2013 Lakeside World Championship.

We are starting with a player who made the quarter-finals last year,

Alan 'Chuck' Norris. His opponent is the Welsh qualifier Wayne Warren,

making his first appearance since 2005. We pick it up at the

first ton of the match. Wayne Warren has been here in the

intervening eight years, supporting his friend, the captain of Wales.

Today's opponent reached the second round twice, losing in the first

round once, and last year he reached the quarter-finals when he

lost to the eventual champion, Christian Kist. He has only lost in

the first round on one occasion, ominously the only other time he

has been seeded here. But he is back amongst the seeds, Alan Norris,

the match, how are you? His answer was, still fat. He is not the only

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the leg? Game, shot and the 1st leg, international in the past. He

reached the quarter-finals of the Welsh Open and English masters as

well. He would not be the first man to qualify in the pay-offs and --

in the play-offs and go on to win the title. Christian Kist did it

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He had Thame 170 checkouts in the and no surprise. He might want to

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both sets, and Alan Norris has to enjoy himself up on the Lakeside

stage. He says it will -- he will take it seriously, because he has

to, but if you do not enjoy it, what is the point? It does not come

around very often. Every eight years in his case. He will not be

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Warren! He has waited eight years for that! He wins a leg on the

Lakeside stage, and against the daughter Lisa and his partner,

is either a mini celebration or a 83 but he will be back to have

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blast it, he missed the board backhand. More like one of my

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he has been throwing, but no harm done as Alan Norris takes the first

He does not want to make a big deal of it but his shoulder has been

giving him some trouble, so he takes just an hour or so before a

match to get his head right, get his throwing action right. He says

tonight. His family will be jumping alone with your thoughts, but being

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second set. Warren misses the chance. On the 14th Dart, Norris

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Fourth of the night already for Norris beginning to picket up. To a

level he finds acceptable. You're playing the Lakeside, you're

playing the crowd, you're playing yourself. He has got a good record

in this first round in the past. Just one defeat in four previous

comfortable. Three legs in prepare professionally for his

second appearance on the world stage. A few hours' practice every

day on his own to get his head right. The rest of his preparation

is matches or exhibitions. He was hoping that all of that would make

for a higher average and a higher double percentage than he has

brought so far. There is a break after two set. That may help him.

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celebration from the big man. He is two sets ahead. Cannae see off

Wayne Warren in the quickest when it there is a five-minute

delay in proceedings. He is struggling early in this first leg

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grandson. Warren has to make sure good after losing four consecutive

140 to start this leg. Alan Norris has not settled. This is the a game

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that way no one has been talking Wayne Warren. He looked dead and

buried. Comes back with 13 darts. Then finishes with 21 darts. Game

on. What is the response from starts since the break, or Warren.

-- first set of the police Dart. Alan Norris holds the record for

the most 100 and ATS in the first round. -- 180s in the first round.

He hit nine of them two years ago. He has it four so far. -- Heeks. --

he has hit. The first bounce out of this game. We have seen a few

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missed darts at a double in this lacking that little bit of

The scoring averages suggest that Wayne Warren has been peppering the

treble 20 a little bit more missed darts for it already. He

for Lisa and Nicky. Delight for Wayne Warren. His first ever set on

the Lakeside stage. The relief is tangible. He has spent his entire

professional career as a roofer but he is hitting new heights here. His

supporters will raise the roof if he reaches the second round. Still

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Chuck Norris beat two seeds last year. Two treble 18s, we probably

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to the good, and he has a hefty lead in this leg. -- in this leg.

This is where you would expect the Lakeside experience to take over,

to get them over the finish line. Alan Norris is finding his rhythm

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how about in the biggest stage in darts? Magnificent stuff! He hits a

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125, approaching the finishing line finish from Alan Norris, he has let

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break so throw here, he has only managed it twice so far in a match

that has been pretty much dominated the lead, but only by 45. He stays

ahead. He is getting frustrated with himself. He was two legs up in

what could be the final set if he wins it. He has let the first on go

and is making a mess of this one as well. The adrenalin from that 125

finish, I wonder if it has pushed him over the edge for the moment.

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has double nine to get it back and Seven missed doubles in this leg,

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and now Alan Norris is back with He crosses the finishing line. They

hold up on stage. It was funny, it was tense, it was exciting, but it

is the seed who is through. He is Now Robbie 'Kong' Green against a

defending champion struggling for form and fitness. What the Dutchman

Christian Kist managed to rekindle the magic of 12 months ago or would

in prospect. It is a first round match, would you believe? The 5th

seed against the defending champion. Two big men. I think Robbie, really,

would be favourite in this particular match. Kist has had a

lot of problems. But, a long way to go. He had hand problems, foot

problems. At one stage his hand, Christian Kist, just before he was

due to play in a exhibition, swelled up to twice its normal size,

he could not even hold a dart. He was not able to play. Speaking to

him moments ago, he says he is now fully fit. His hand is fine, his

foot is fine. And he says he loves being stopped in the street in

Holland for autographs and photographs. Maybe that is why his

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so well done... Well done 2 Phil you can see on screen. And we are

up and running in the 20 their team Lakeside World Darts Championships!

-- the 2013 World Darts He made his mark. The third

qualifier to win the championship. When he got back home, on the

Monday after his World Championship win, he lives in rural north-east

Holland, and the whole town had stayed up to welcome him. They had

a good old knees-up. At 10pm when he got home. And it was darts like

that that brought him the title! The first ton-eighty of the match

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from the defending champion, he missed the double Ten as well.

two leg lead in the first set, Robbie Green! If fist pumping

that is one good thing for him. said he felt a little burnt out

after the Masters in end-December, so he took two weeks away from the

oche, Robbie Green. He usually works so hard before the World

Championship doing what he says he thinks he should be doing rather

than what he wants to do, but not this year. Some practice with some

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mates who came to stay in the past seems to have been working. Despite

what ever he has been doing. Yes, the big man from Birkenhead. He has

lost a few titles just by the finishing. That was a good finish.

It will give incompetence against the world champion. -- confidence.

He said that he cheered when the draw came out. Did he say why?

fancied beating him. He said he had got the beating of a man who has

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never before lost on the Lakeside Kist. Losing by one set but one sec

ahead - not one lager head in this professional darts player. He used

to work on the roads in his native Holland before last year's win,

which brought with it a cheque for �100,000. He thought, I can make a

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finding top gear yet. Those boys do. more about the bar as here. That is

enough. Copper that one. She is after someone. The Pirates of

Frimley Green. This leg has flown Christian Kist. Thank you very much,

right. She told him that if he did not win tonight, he is walking home.

glimpse on his left sleeve. His son Jamie is already a promising darts

player. He has a lot to live up to. The canteen ladies have even come

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where we started. Christian is refereeing. He is known for his

call of 100. A slight but a very charming lisp, the we says 100. --

the way he says 100. chandeliers will be shaking this

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week. They have already been shaken. of the Lakeside. Bob Potter's

paradise. Everybody comes ear mack and everybody has got a great big

smile on their face. -- everybody comes here. The third maximum of

the match for Christian Kist to put the pressure on a Robbie Green, who

and two twenties. Not far away. It leaves Robbie Green with double 14.

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the third leg -- Christian Kist. told me he loves darts. He has been

coming for 20 years, but he told me he is terrible. It is Robbie during

the chase at the moment. A lot of celebrities and television

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nose in front? Yes! It is there! Robbie Green. Winner of four

ranking titles but he has never been beyond the second round in

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three previous visits to Frimley Christian Kist. And La there it is.

This one will take the set, how little bit here. The high-scoring

is not happening. It is the pressure of the match situation.

the context of the match, this is a chance? 177 to take charge of the

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dart! He celebrates like he has won the title! He still has got to win

another set to win round to, but look at Ruth! It looks from here

that Robbie has got quite a number of fans here. Everybody was stirred

up there. He is one leg away from beating the reigning champion.

of fans down supporting Robbie Green from Wallasey. He said to say

hello to all of those who could not come down, so hello to all Robbie

Green fans at home watching in Wallasey. And perhaps a little

happier than they were five minutes ago with their man a set away from

round two. Shortly, Christian Kist Robbie's head there. We hear it

year after year, but it is really hot up there on that stage under

the lights. Game, shot and the 3rd leg, Robbie

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having to leave at the first round and his injury problems. I asked

him how his year as world champion has been, and, without missing a

beat, he said, difficult. I expected him to say it was

brilliant. It is a form of arthritis. Have you had the same

thing? I have not come I am pleased to say. I think it is a problem in

his elbow, and a foot problem similar to doubt as well. He would

not wish it on anybody but he says he is fully fit now and recovered.

Game, shot and the 2nd leg, Robbie though if reigning world champion

has given up. Those were loosed lose a plaque. He has been a great

back, which he will. It is looking a bleak for the defending champion.

But he will not leave without a fight! How about that?! If but this

is for the match for Robbie Green! Double top... No! How many times

Green, the Times he has done that. Well, he is still King for now.

What a time to throw in a maximum! We thought he had given up! Well,

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you never do give up. 180! They habit, qualify as winning the title

on their first visit and then losing in the first round the next

year. It has happened twice before. occasion before... But he takes in.

-- he takes it! The reign of Christian Kist is over! No longer

King Christiane, King Kong goes into rant two! He has beaten the

defending champion. Now we turn our attention to one of the most

eagerly awaited Lakeside debuts in history, because at day one at

Lakeside a George took centre stage but not Bobby but his son Richie.

Wide shoulders, but were they big enough to replicate the drama and

achievements of his dad? Dave Prins, aka the Badger, hoped he would

succession by Richie George now. know that Richie has the philosophy

that if he is going to get beaten, he is going to get beaten, so throw

caution to the wing and just forget what is happening and play your

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to put pressure on him. -- Davies that one? Smile. A bit late for a

Richie George against the darts. He has won the set. His first ever 180

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saying. Come on, my son. How then won for success of legs, Dave Prins

has now lost three in succession. - - having won. Look what it means to

Marie. It is like the match starting all over again at one set

apiece. I think both players will look at what has happened and think

there is better to come. No harm done so far. Dave Prins's brain

will be working, he will be thinking he is coming back. He is a

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Another great player on the stage single. Will that be a costly

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being played in a magnificent spirit. Grade banter between the

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players on stage. Richie knows the pace again. That could suit Dave

game. It is something that neither thinking with his last dark. --

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He has hit it on four locations. Double top has been a disaster zone

for him. It is all square. One set apiece, one led a piece. Once again

last year. A warehouse operator from County Durham and the big

handed world champion. Mark Webster and Les Wallace were the other two.

He won it in a kilt. Yes, he had attempt at a double top. Still

playing to leave himself double top at every available opportunity body

has not hit it at double one times wait until my son comes home. He

has not lost yet. Do not worry. He certainly knows how to come back.

He does not give in. There are 13 players who have reached the final

on their debut. Ritchie is hoping to become the 14th. Bobby was one

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suffered from diabetes, Richie. He takes his injections so he can get

third set will go to a decisive lead. It is Dave Prins with the

darter this time. -- the darts. Sometimes going first does not work

to your advantage. It has on this occasion. Already under pressure.

Both men hitting the treble with increasing regularity. After all

the hype, we still do not know who is going to win this. It has been a

dart for darter over recent legs. You cannot get any Klosir. --

stretch of the imagination, but this is for a 2-1 lead for Dave

pressure really on the young pretender here, Richie George, now.

Already know look with the three kind, either. He has seldom found

the treble 19s. He has not punished Dave Prins as much as he might have

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but it has slipped away. He knows, George. Another example of just how

fine those margins can be. He missed the bull's-eye by a fraction,

being extremely impressive. He has won each of the last four legs

where he has thrown a double, his problem is the scoring.

Significantly better on the first nine darts, Dave Prins. That's

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where he has had the advantage in the head. Perhaps guilty of over

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is Richie George, I think Dave Prins has done a good job to keep

himself together, really. Invariably a pretty even split in

terms of loyalty to the players from the assembled masses here at

the Lakeside, but you sense that Ritchie has got the big volume of

support behind him on this one. they all understand darts, they

have been coming for years. It is a is coming back for double top. --

is hold his throat, and Dave Prins is through to the second round for

the first time in his career -- now. Everything will be going

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through his head now. But he has and Richie is guaranteed the single

biggest pay-day for his Geraint -- off his career, but that is no

consolation if he walks off the stage and feels he has not done

himself justice. He is struggling here. Dave Prins, all he has to do

is hold his throw to make it through. I don't think he has done

himself justice. He got to this position in the last half of the

season. When most people have 12 months, he had six months and has

accumulated all of the trapeze and has got a chance at 60 that he did

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George. Relief for the family! What these youngsters put you through!

Des if Prins my chink -- missing were to lose this leg, he is out of

That is the hard part, you think, I have got it now, but it is never

there until the last dart goes in because now it could turn around

again. 2-2 in legs, it might be 2-2 Dave Prins missing four darts for

the match, and punished emphatically by Richie George.

dart finish, that leg. He has woken a lot to look at now, having missed

and Colin Lloyd, Richie's long-time sparring partners, cheering the

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If he can finish the leg, he goes countered. I'm sure he is bust. We

will see what the referee comes up a couple of occasions, so he cannot

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wind now. Tony, you would imagine there would be some players here

who would be rattled by a mathematical error like that. I do

not think Richie will be one of those necessarily. Yes. He is young.

not, in the first leg of the deciding set of your biggest match

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ever. That is true. There is still hour of play. Two steps each, one

leg each in this deciding 5th set. The advantage once again is with

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this decisive set. After all the hype, still we continue. It is now

Dave Prins with the advantage of the throat. -- throat. He needs to

has been throwing in a leg of knowing that if he wins it he wins

the match. Ritchie still in there fighting. If Ritchie were to win

this leg, it would be two legs all. You have to win by two clear legs.

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Unless it gets to 5-5, which case situation. You have to win by two

Kia legs at this point. -- clear. Unless it goes to five apiece, in

which case it will be sudden death. I think Richie has got the

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when he comes back. No loud shot for the match in the last leg. He

is back again with three to take a Look at his fiancee. -- look at

needs to win by two legs. It is like celebrating the goal only to

turn around and see the offside flag up. They thought it was all

over. It could be now. It is a good start. It meant a lot. Richie just

passed to hold. -- he just has to hold. Bobby would have turned

around to the crowd. Murray is made the match what it is. Mostly

has had darts in his hand knowing he has got a cheque out to win the

to win the match. When he is back. He does not mean a thing. Get the