The Hungarian Darts Trophy continues on Saturday as the entire last 32 of the latest European Tour event gets played out in Budapest as the players take to the oche to look to seal their spot at the final day of the tournament on Sunday.
As always, this is the round where the big name seeded players enter the fray and with the level of qualifiers we get on the European Tour these days we are guaranteed an excellent schedule and some decent matches.
Afternoon Session
To be fair, the afternoon session begins in a relatively quiet fashion with Ricardo Pietreczko the first seed onto the stage. He meets Niels Zonneveld before another young Dutch player gets his campaign underway when Gian van Veen takes on Keane Barry in a clash between two men who have starred on the Development Tour in the past. Ryan Searle is the third seed onto the stage. He meets the sole remaining home representative in Alberto Bezjian before we get to the halfway point of the afternoon with a clash between Daryl Gurney and Florian Hempel.
The second part of the afternoon starts out with The Masters winner Stephen Bunting looking to pick up a morale boosting win. The Norwegian player Cor Dekker is his opponent before three good looking matches round off the afternoon session. The first of those sees Chris Dobey meeting the World Championship semi-finalist in Scott Williams while Martin Schindler takes on the other Williams in the tournament in Jim Williams. Josh Rock closes off the afternoon when he faces James Wade.
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Evening Session
We have a really tasty evening session in Budapest on Saturday and it gets underway with a clash between two former UK Open winners as Danny Noppert takes on Nathan Aspinall before Damon Heta and Peter Wright square off for a spot at the final day of the event. Dave Chisnall begins the defence of his title in the third match of the evening when he faces Jonny Clayton before we reach the halfway point of the session with a clash between Gerwyn Price and Wessel Nijman.
The remainder of the evening is top quality all the way with the number two seed Ross Smith looking to come out on top when he goes up against Raymond van Barneveld before the world champion Luke Humphries opens his campaign against the quality German player Gabriel Clemens. Michael van Gerwen takes to the stage in the penultimate match of the evening. Martin Lukeman is his opponent and then we round off the day with Rob Cross going up against Andrew Gilding.
Betting
We have a really good day of darts ahead of us on Saturday but in terms of picking out really good bets I’m not so sure it is that great, although that might just be my pet hate of betting in these best of 11 matches! One bet I am happy too look at though is James Wade to get the better of Josh Rock in the closing match in the afternoon. This will be just the second competitive match that Rock has played in the last month and one of those was against someone outside the top 100 in the rankings.
It is also his first match this weekend whereas his opponent James Wade has already played this weekend, coming through against Lukas Wenig on Friday evening and he played the Players Championship events earlier in the week so ‘The Machine’ is match sharp. You do wonder if this gets tight if that lack of recent competitive darts will count against Rock, especially against someone who rarely gives up much to an opponent. Wade looked in decent order on Friday and he is value to come out on top here.
Tips
Back J.Wade to beat J.Rock for a 3/10 stake at 2.30 with Coral
