Dave Chisnall claimed his second European Tour triumph of 2023 with a repeat victory over Luke Humphries in Sunday’s Dutch Darts Championship final in Leeuwarden.<\/p>\n
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Chisnall overcame Humphries in February’s Baltic Sea Darts Open final, and added a second \u00a330,000 prize by claiming the top honours at WTC Expo to pick up a fifth European Tour success.<\/p>\n
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The Morecambe star had looked on course to race away to victory in the final, with an 11-dart break of throw helping him establish a three-leg cushion from 4-1.<\/p>\n
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Humphries defied two 13-darters from Chisnall as he battled back to trail by just one leg, as he followed a 12-darter with a break of throw.<\/p>\n
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Chisnall, though, crucially broke back with a 14-darter to lead 7-5 before landing double ten to seal glory.<\/p>\n
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“Luke is not just a great player, he’s a great friend and I’ve got so much respect for him,” said Chisnall, who has now claimed five European Tour wins.<\/p>\n
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“You have to play 100 averages to beat him – unfortunately he didn’t play like he did before but I took advantage and hit my doubles.<\/p>\n
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“Now, it’s so hard – you have to hit 100 averages to win tournaments. All the players are so good – there are no easy games any more.”<\/p>\n
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Chisnall began Sunday’s Finals Day with a 6-3 win over Josh Rock before performing superbly to see off world number two Peter Wright 6-1 in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n
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The 42-year-old led 3-0 in his semi-final against Van Gerwen before the home favourite fired in a 170 finish, before hitting back from 5-2 down to level.<\/p>\n
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The game eventually went to a deciding leg as seven missed match darts gave Van Gerwen a chance to swoop – but he uncharacteristically spurned three darts at double six to allow Chisnall back to book his spot in the decider.<\/p>\n
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Humphries, meanwhile, battled past the last two UK Open champions, Andrew Gilding and Danny Noppert, on his way to the final, and also defied a 170 checkout from Damon Heta with a 7-3 semi-final victory.<\/p>\n
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“I’ll always take positives – I feel like I put up a good fight,” admitted Humphries. “Apart from Ryan Searle, [Dave] is my best mate on tour, we get along really well, I know his game inside out.<\/p>\n
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“Considering he played really well I got close to him, but I’m really disappointed because I played nowhere like I can.<\/p>\n
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“I know there’s more European Tour titles in me, but I keep running into a fantastic player and I have to give credit to Chizzy. I’m happy to make the final, gutted not to win but the better man won.”<\/p>\n
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Van Gerwen’s bid to claim European Tour glory in his home country was ended at the semi-final stage by Chisnall, after he had defeated Martin Schindler and Keane Barry earlier on Sunday.<\/p>\n
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Another Dutchman, Noppert, was a narrow quarter-final loser, joining Barry, Wright and Stephen Bunting in exiting at the last eight stage.<\/p>\n
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The PDC European Tour continues from May 5-7 with the Bl\u00e5kl\u00e4der Belgian Darts Open (ET7) in Wieze, where 48 players will compete at the Oktoberhallen in the \u00a3175,000 event.<\/p>\n
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The tournament will be broadcast live on Viaplay, DAZN and PDCTV (excluding Germany, Austria and Switzerland) and through bookmakers’ websites worldwide.<\/p>\n
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2023 Dutch Darts Championship<\/strong> <\/p>\n Evening Session<\/strong> <\/p>\n Semi-Finals<\/strong> <\/p>\n Final<\/strong> Dave Chisnall claimed his second European Tour triumph of 2023 with a repeat victory over Luke Humphries in Sunday’s Dutch…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[943,109,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-pdc-europe","category-results"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nSunday April 30<\/strong>
\nAfternoon Session<\/strong>
\nThird Round<\/strong>
\nKeane Barry 6-5 Ryan Searle
\nMichael van Gerwen 6-2 Martin Schindler
\nPeter Wright 6-4 Michael Smith
\nDave Chisnall 6-3 Josh Rock
\nStephen Bunting 6-4 Dirk van Duijvenbode
\nDamon Heta 6-1 Berry van Peer
\nDanny Noppert 6-5 Nathan Aspinall
\nLuke Humphries 6-4 Andrew Gilding<\/p>\n
\nQuarter-Finals<\/strong>
\nMichael van Gerwen 6-2 Keane Barry
\nDave Chisnall 6-1\u00a0Peter Wright
\nDamon Heta 6-2\u00a0Stephen Bunting
\nLuke Humphries 6-5\u00a0Danny Noppert<\/p>\n
\nDave Chisnall 7-6 Michael van Gerwen
\nLuke Humphries 7-3 Damon Heta<\/p>\n
\nDave Chisnall 8-5 Luke Humphries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"