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.
I donāt think so. Off the top of my head, this is the first final since 1989 where both participants have previously won at least one World title - that 1989 final, which is 30 years ago tomorrow, was the first darts match I ever watched.
It just shows the ultra-competitive nature of BDO darts. But these guys are two of the greats. The best of the best.
Duzza has taken the first set but Scotty is in control of the second. Fantastic 131 checkout by Glen however in the latest leg to bring his deficit in set 2 back to 2-1.
The champion is rightly favourite, but knowledgeable darts followers wouldnāt bet against this going the distance. Scotty has form against Glen having beaten him in an epic 2016 semi-final.
And Scotty closes out that second set as I type.
And a 128 bull checkout from him in leg 1 of set 3.
