The PDC World Championship continues on Sunday with two more sessions of first and second round action inside the Alexandra Palace with 16 more players taking to the stage looking for wins to progress in the competition.
Three of the top four in the world have made it into the third round in the opening three days of the tournament and on Sunday it will be the turn of Peter Wright to look to join them. He comes up in the evening session which we will preview later but the afternoon session is to be looked at first.
Gabriel Clemens vs Aden Kirk
We begin with a couple of debutants on this stage when the German player Gabriel Clemens takes on the relative youngster Aden Kirk for a place in the second round. John Henderson will have an eye on this one as he plays the winner.
Clemens has been one of the standout players from mainland Europe on the pro tour this year and probably qualified for this tournament fairly early on in the piece. Back in May he made the final of a Players Championship event and a month earlier made the semi-final of another and beat Peter Wright on both occasions so he can clearly play this game. It is now about whether he can play it under the intense lights of the big stage.
Aden Kirk was a huge factor on the development tour a couple of years ago but the step up to the senior tour has not been as smooth for him and until he went to the PDPA qualifier to make it into this event he had done little of note all year. I don’t think he is going to win this one but I don’t see Clemens completely dominating it so my trusted Clemens to win but both to win a set looks the way forward here.
William O’Connor vs Yordi Meeuwisse
The second match of the afternoon might prove to be one of the closer ones when William O’Connor goes up against Yordi Meeuwisse over the best of five sets for the right to face James Wilson in the second round of the competition.
The first thing we should really mention is that both these men have vulnerabilities and I’m not really sure you could trust either of them. O’Connor does at least have a run to the final of a European Tour event this year which is decent form but that sort of performance is the rarity rather than the norm. Meeuwisse operates at a lower level than O’Connor but should the Irishman have one of his poor days you couldn’t rule the Dutchman out. I can’t decide which way this will go so I’ll sit this out.
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Brendan Dolan vs Yuanjun Liu
Joe Cullen will have his eyes on the third match of the session as he will face the winner of the battle between the Northern Ireland star Brendan Dolan and the Chinese player Yuanjun Liu, which is heavily expected to be Dolan.
I have to say I fancy Dolan to win this but he’s incredibly short to come through. I don’t think he’ll have any problems in making it through but he’s in this first round because he is a fading force in the game so I’m not really in a hurry to chase small prices or big handicaps on him. Hopefully he sticks in a decent performance here and creates a betting angle in the next round but for now he’s an easy swerve in this one.
Dave Chisnall vs Josh Payne
As ever there is one second round match in the session and it is the one involving Dave Chisnall and Josh Payne who meet with the chance of taking on potentially Kim Huybrechts in the third round much later in the competition.
These two men have met six times in competition with Chisnall leading 4-2 but it might be that Payne has a slight advantage having played a match in this tournament on Saturday, a win which he was way below his best and edged out Jeff Smith. Unless Payne improves on that it is hard to see him coming through here so I’ve got to think he is vulnerable. If Chisnall hits his doubles he’ll win this but the prices are fairly skinny. I’ll sit this out but hope Chisnall sticks in a decent performance to boost his quarter hopes which I’m already invested in.
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