It is a busy Saturday in the Danish Darts Open out in Copenhagen with the seeded players joining those who survived Friday’s play for the last 32 of the tournament which will be played over two stacked sessions of competition.
The European Tour campaign has been full of top class darts as well as shocks and surprises thus far and it would be foolish of us to expect anything different over the course of what looks a good card on Saturday.
Afternoon Session
We begin with the former world champion Stephen Bunting as he takes on a man who made the quarter final of the World Cup last weekend in Cody Harris before Darren Webster will look to begin what he hopes will be a big tournament when we faces Jose de Sousa. The home crowds will be buzzing for the third match of the afternoon when their man Per Laursen takes on Jonny Clayton before we head to the interval with Dave Chisnall going up against Krzysztof Ratajski.
The rest of the afternoon action looks decent enough and it begins with last year’s beaten finalist Simon Whitlock taking on the UK Open champion Nathan Aspinall. Joe Cullen then looks to kick a disappointing campaign into life when he meets Kevin Burness before Daryl Gurney gets his quest for the title underway. He meets Ryan Joyce before the afternoon concludes with two of the new breed colliding when Ricky Evans takes on Chris Dobey.
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Evening Session
We have a very good looking evening session of play on the schedule on Saturday and it begins with Gerwyn Price taking to the stage when he faces Ryan Harrington. Rob Cross is up next when he faces the former world finalist Kirk Shepherd before a cracking clash gets going when Peter Wright plays William O’Connor. James Wade will fancy his chances with no MVG this week and he meets Dennis Nilsson for a spot in the last 16.
The second half of the evening begins with two class acts against each other as Adrian Lewis faces Kyle Anderson before an all-European battle between Mensur Suljovic and Gabriel Clemens will get plenty of attention. The number one seed Ian White begins a tilt at another title in the penultimate match of the day when he meets Martin Schindler and then the last 32 concludes with Jermaine Wattimena taking on Michael Smith.
Betting
I like a couple of bets over the course of the day. Chris Dobey is the first one. He faces Ricky Evans who has already made a final of a European Tour event this year but that was in March and in the four tournaments since then he has won just two matches. Dobey is actually ranked higher than his opponent in the world rankings so I’m a little surprised he isn’t a bigger favourite here, especially having had a match on the stage on Friday. There were signs in the last Players Championship events that Dobey’s form is coming back and that continued on the opening day of this event. Evans is a touch erratic at the best of times but he could have his work cut out here.
Mensur Suljovic has lost in the last 32 of three of the last six European Tour events and the last 16 of another so his form doesn’t look to be at the level we might expect from him at the minute. That makes me think he could be vulnerable against an extremely competent German player Gabriel Clemens. Clemens has reached two finals on the floor this year which highlights his credentials and while we’ve not seen that massive breakthrough on the stage from him yet he is getting more and more experience on it and it won’t be long before we do. If it is this weekend when we see it he will be capable of winning this one.
Tips
WON – Back C.Dobey to beat R.Evans for a 4/10 stake at 2.00 with William Hill
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Back G.Clemens to beat M.Suljovic for a 3/10 stake at 2.90 with Coral
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