Daryl Gurney overcomes errors to defeat William O’Connor and reach third round
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18 December 2020, 12:30 am
Daryl Gurney advanced into the third round of the PDC World Championship as he saw off William O’Connor 3-2 at Alexandra Palace.
Gurney, the 11th seed, won the first two sets before missing four match darts in the third as O’Connor reduced the deficit.
After O’Connor then continued his fightback to draw level, Gurney broke his opponent’s throw in the first leg of the deciding set en route to winning it 3-0.
The Northern Irishman, who will face Chris Dobey in round three, said afterwards in quotes on pdc.tv: “I’ve been working so hard at home to prepare for this World Championship.
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William O Connor pictured competing tonight.
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LIMERICK NATIVE William O’Connor earned a convincing win against first-timer, Holland’s Niels Zonneveld, in the PDC World Championship at Alexandra Palace.
The Irishman eased to a 3-0 victory and a date with Daryl Gurney in the second round, dropping just three legs in the process.
Elsewhere, Lisa Ashton narrowly failed in her bid to emulate Fallon Sherrock.
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Rod Studd: It s as open as it has even been at Alexandra Palace and because of what has happened over the last few months a host of names are now amongst the contenders but how will they react to Ally Pally, a crowd, albeit small? It won t be the sanitised environments they have been used to - for that reason I think normality will return and while he hasn t been invincible
Michael van Gerwen is still the most likely man to win it.
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Michael Van Gerwen. First at the Grand Slam there was a bit more ruthlessness to him there which he backed up to win the Players. By his standards, he hasn t won much this year and I ll think he ll be so determined to win this one.
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