Peter Wright claimed his first ProTour title of 2020 by defeating Gerwyn Price 8-6 in Saturday\u2019s Players Championship 5 final in Wigan, while Steve Lennon hit a nine-darter.<\/p>\n
The World Champion averaged over 100 in all but one of his matches on his way to claiming the \u00a310,000 top prize in this year\u2019s fifth Players Championship event, sealing the win with a 170 finish. <\/p>\n
In the second round, Wright missed a dart at double 20 to break his own broadcast record average, but he still managed an astonishing 120.2 average in a whitewash victory over Adrian Gray.<\/p>\n
Scotland\u2019s World Cup star then saw off Scott Mitchell, Ryan Joyce and Glen Durrant before edging a high contest semi-final with Devon Petersen.<\/p>\n
In a day filled with ton-plus averages, the final was no different, with both players averaging over 109 across the 14 legs.<\/p>\n
\u201cit\u2019s just the start. I\u2019m enjoying these darts and we\u2019ve got something in the pipeline to improve them further.\u201d said a confident Wright.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho knows what I can win this year? I just take it a leg at a time and that\u2019s all you can do.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs World Champion, I\u2019ve always got a target on my back but I feel like I\u2019m giving some of the other players the belief that they too can win anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
The first 13 legs of the contest went with throw before Wright produces the biggest finish of them all to not only break the Price throw, but claim the Scot\u2019s first ProTour title of 2020, continuing a fantastic start to the year. <\/p>\n
Earlier in the day World Cup runner-up, Lennon, hit a nine-dart finish in the fourth leg of his Last 32 clash with Kai Fan Leung, marking the tenth perfect leg across the PDC this year, before agonisingly missing match darts against Gerwyn Price in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n
The wait for a first title of the year continues for Michael van Gerwen as the world number one was dumped out by Christian Bunse in the Last 32, while Gary Anderson was eliminated at the same stage by Ryan Joyce. <\/p>\n
Players Championship Five<\/strong> Quarter-Finals Semi-Finals Final Peter Wright claimed his first ProTour title of 2020 by defeating Gerwyn Price 8-6 in Saturday\u2019s Players Championship 5 final…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[943,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":1369,"de":1366},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdc2.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdc2.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdc2.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdc2.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdc2.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pdc2.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1370,"href":"https:\/\/pdc2.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions\/1370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdc2.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdc2.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdc2.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdc2.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSaturday February 22
\nLast 16
\nRob Cross 6-4 Christian Bunse
\nDevon Petersen 6-2 Dimitri Van den Bergh
\nPeter Wright 6-3 Ryan Joyce
\nGlen Durrant 6-3 Vincent van der Voort
\nSteve Lennon 6-1 Benito van de Pas
\nGabriel Clemens 6-5 Nathan Aspinall
\nGerwyn Price 6-3 Jamie Lewis
\nWilliam O\u2019Connor 6-5 Brendan Dolan <\/p>\n
\nDevon Petersen 6-5 Rob Cross
\nPeter Wright 6-1 Glen Durrant
\nSteve Lennon 6-2 Gabriel Clemens
\nGerwyn Price 6-2 William O\u2019Connor<\/p>\n
\nPeter Wright 7-5 Devon Petersen
\nGerwyn Price 7-6 Steve Lennon<\/p>\n
\nPeter Wright 8-6 Gerwyn Price<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"