Nijman/Clemens - Oh dear oh dear. This one set me back a bit, and it was basically Wessel, for want of a better word, choking. First set, leg three was the break. Yes, people will look at him missing three clear at double, which is bad, but he only got those because Clemens got massively ahead after Nijman couldn't score with his first six darts. The second set was better, but this one can definitely be put down to missed doubles. Neither player did a lot wrong until Nijman, wanting 16 for the set with Gabriel sat on tops, misses three at it. Great. Then all the legs in set three were complete gifts. Real shame, I thought he'd got over not playing great on TV but I guess we'll have to wait for that.
Munyua/Doets - Was a fun story while it lasted, but Kevin's just too steady a player. David didn't play bad at all here, it was just a case of being a bit inconsistent, that'll come with more play, he can certainly hit a big score but, like in the last leg of set one, a 180 doesn't help if you're that far behind that your opponent is sat on a double.
Wade/Evans - Really, really not sure how Ricky pulled that one off. First set was four decent holds, then in the decider, Wade missed and Ricky didn't. Set two was a very good recovery by James, then set three was a bit like set one. Two good holds, then they swap gifts of breaks, before Wade picked a real bad time to have his worst scoring leg of the match. Wade levelled well, got up 2-0 without allowing Evans to be able to do much of anything, third leg was a bit scrappy but Wade got it anyway, then we go to set five. Huge out from Ricky to break and then get 2-0 up, but scoring fell apart in leg 3 (similar to the last game, 180 coming way too late), then doubling fell apart to close it out in leg 4. They both kind of do that in leg 5 but Evans eventually nicks it, before missing another match dart and letting Wade back in (awful choice of bull route, but it worked). Wade held well and then generated his own match dart which he couldn't take, then missed one to hold for 5-4 and it goes 4-5 instead, Ricky finding the perfect time to throw his best leg of the match.
van Veen/Soutar - Marker thrown down here. Soots did well to get set one, a mix of good legs of his own and taking advantage of maybe the only thing Gian did wrong all match, but after that it was pretty much all one way traffic. Soutar got another couple of legs, but van Veen was more or less unplayable after that.
Aspinall/Gates, Humphries/Lim, Manby/Sevada - I'm going to group these all together as they were pretty much all the same game really. First one was the closest one, but Gates never really threatened, one leg was very good but at least one of the other two was only gifted by Aspinall missing doubles. Lim didn't play badly, but Luke was on it - at least for eight legs, the ninth was a cluster, but that got corrected easily enough. The last one was the closest with the bookies but it should have been more one sided, Charlie was not playing as well as he can do, but frankly he didn't need to, Sevada only really doing anything at all in the one leg he held well in fifteen. Kind of makes for a poor session loading things up like this, but I think that's partially just the way things happened.
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