Irelandās Kyle McKinstry is through to the quarter-finals of the World Professional Darts Championship.
A superb performance in the final set from the Village Man to sweep it 3-0. Kyle thrives on the pressure and his game stood up to the most searching test.
David Cameron treated that match as a referendum on his ability to close out a pressure game, and he lost it.
But thankfullly for the Canadian, heāll be back for another vote next year.
Wow. What a checkout by Scott āThe Modā Baker. With World Champion Glen Durrant having just missed double 18 to complete a 116 checkout and win the match, the Mod gave us a delicious Bakerās treat - he took out 140 to win the deciding leg of set 6 and take this final last 16 tie to a deciding set.
Itās certainly not a case of Scott Who? for the Mod.
Championship darts from the world champion as he steadies the ship brilliantly to take the deciding set 3-1 in legs and advance to the quarter-finals.
Itās a mouthwatering quarter-final line up:
Conan Whitehead v Scott Waites
Michael Unterbuchner v Willem Mandigers
Glen Durrant v Kyle McKinstry
Scott Mitchell v Jim Williams
I fancy Waites, Unterbuchner, Durrant and Mitchell to advance, but would not be a bit surprised if some of those predictions come a cropper given the level of competition.
The semi-final line-up for the ladiesā tournament is complete:
Lorraine Winstanley v Anastasia Dobromyslova
Mikuru Suzuki v Maria OāBrien
Russia and Japan never collided properly during World War II, but I expect they will on Saturday.
That may be quite literally gutter stuff, but itās the exact opposite of the metaphorical gutter stuff youād get in the pdc.
A truly noble good turn by a friend for other friends, and in the middle of what must have been a particularly difficult day for Geezer, having just been eliminated.
Jim was on the cusp of going 2-0 up but Duzza took out a pressure 110 in the deciding leg of set 2 to level up at 1-1.
Jim won a ding donger against Scotty Mitchell last night - 5-3 the final scoreline with almost every set going to a deciding leg. It only ended at 11:58pm so we were agonisingly denied a post-midnight finish. Heās a very steady player with a big future.
However Duzza has just won the deciding leg of set 4 and heās gone 3-1 up. Heāll be very hard to pull back from here.
Winner meets Scotty Waites in the final after the Yorkshireman defeated Michael Unterbuchner 6-1 in what in truth was a very disappointing first semi-final. But youād feel Scotty has the capacity to considerably up things for the final.
Fantastic darts in the womenās final today from Japanās Mikuru Suzuki - she averaged 90 to beat Lorraine Winstanley 3-0. Suzuki is apparently a superstar back home in Japan.
Are women allowed into the main competition? 90 is a great average on a proper dartboard. Didnāt the former PDC world finalist crash out on an average of about 80 last week?
Itās a good question. Iām not sure whether the women are alllowed into the menās competition but thereās absolutely no inherent reason why they shouldnāt be.
The only problem arises from the fact that the womenās competition is held simultaneously with the menās, which maximises the media exposure it gets.
If Suzuki decided to enter the menās competition, it would probably be unrealistic to expect her to also compete in a womenās competition being held simultaneously.
But the credibility of the womenās competition would suffer if she was at Lakeside but not playing in the womenās competition.
If the competition was rescheduled so it wasnāt played during Lakeside week, the media coverage it currently gets would diminish.
Great darts by Jim here. Heās battled back from 3-1 down to get back to 3-3.
Set 6 went to a deciding leg yet again, Duzza narrowly missed taking out another 110 outshot, and Jim got one dart at double top from an 80 finish and hit it. A huge dart in the context of the match if heās to have a chance of winning it.
Both players looking to join Wolfie and John Lowe in the pantheon of greats to win three world titles, Duzza looking to become the first man since Eric Bristow to win three world titles in a row.