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Irelandā€™s Kyle McKinstry is through to the quarter-finals of the World Professional Darts Championship. :clap:

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, heā€™ll be back for another vote next year.

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Wow. What a checkout by Scott ā€œThe 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 Bakerā€™s treat - he took out 140 to win the deciding leg of set 6 and take this final last 16 tie to a deciding set.

Itā€™s 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.

Itā€™s 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 Oā€™Brien

Russia and Japan never collided properly during World War II, but I expect they will on Saturday.

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This match shaping up to be a cracker.

Waites and Whitehead.

Scotty takes the first set.

This is a cracker the barbarian has upped his average dramatically,.

Mark McGeeney, a plumber by trade, helped out with drain issues in the Lakeside last night following being knocked out by Conan Whitehead.

Where would you get it?

A shithole pub in Essex?

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Surrey

That may be quite literally gutter stuff, but itā€™s the exact opposite of the metaphorical gutter stuff youā€™d 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.

If true.

The boy from the county Armagh has taken the first set against the world champion.

As good as it got for our Kyle, aye, so it was.

Duzza hits a 98 average to win 5-2.

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Serious standard here in second semi final.

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. Heā€™s a very steady player with a big future.

However Duzza has just won the deciding leg of set 4 and heā€™s gone 3-1 up. Heā€™ll 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 youā€™d feel Scotty has the capacity to considerably up things for the final.

Fantastic darts in the womenā€™s final today from Japanā€™s 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. Didnā€™t the former PDC world finalist crash out on an average of about 80 last week?

Hamilton hit an 83 average in losing 3-0.

Itā€™s a good question. Iā€™m not sure whether the women are alllowed into the menā€™s competition but thereā€™s absolutely no inherent reason why they shouldnā€™t be.

The only problem arises from the fact that the womenā€™s competition is held simultaneously with the menā€™s, which maximises the media exposure it gets.

If Suzuki decided to enter the menā€™s competition, it would probably be unrealistic to expect her to also compete in a womenā€™s competition being held simultaneously.

But the credibility of the womenā€™s competition would suffer if she was at Lakeside but not playing in the womenā€™s competition.

If the competition was rescheduled so it wasnā€™t played during Lakeside week, the media coverage it currently gets would diminish.

Great darts by Jim here. Heā€™s 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 heā€™s to have a chance of winning it.

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9 darter opp

Tony Oā€™Shea has 11 grandkids.

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All over. 6-3 and the reigning champion is in the final again. Duzza simply kicked into a higher gear from 3-3 on and Jim couldnā€™t stay with him.

We know Scotty Waites can deliver on the biggest stage, but heā€™ll have his hands full tomorrow.

Both players will be aiming for a third world title.

Game on in the final.

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.

Has there ever been a World Final in which both players went in as multiple World Champions? All Yorkshire clash as well.