World Darts Championship: Gary Anderson overwhelmed by Jeffrey De Graaf on shock exit night time at Alexandra Palace | Darts Information

Two-time world champion Gary Anderson has bowed out of the World Darts Championship after a shock second spherical defeat to Jeffrey De Graaf at Alexandra Palace.

Anderson struggled all through a one-sided contest in opposition to his unseeded opponent, profitable only one stage and changing simply three out of 20 doubles makes an attempt earlier than posting a straight-set loss to De Graaf.

De Graaf obtained by means of the primary two units with out dropping a leg and broke Anderson once more within the subsequent, scoring a well-known victory to e-book a 3rd spherical assembly with Paolo Nebrida after Christmas.

Anderson’s birthday to overlook was the primary time he had misplaced his opening match in 16 appearances on the World Championship, an evening the place his compatriots Ross Smith and Martin Schindler had been additionally eradicated.

What’s subsequent…

Cullen cuts media duties brief after crossing

Through the afternoon session, Joe Cullen stormed out of his post-match press convention after advancing to the third spherical with a straight-sets victory over Dutchman Wessel Nijman.

Cullen had gained simply three of his final 12 matches heading into this yr’s Worlds, however produced one in every of his finest performances of the yr, averaging 98.18 to arrange a gathering with the previous world champion. Gerwyn Value world after Christmas.

The Rockstar felt he had been disrespected within the build-up to the match, telling reporters: “I have never been proven any respect, so I am not going to share any respect with any of you tonight. I will go house.”

Ryan Searle opened proceedings with a formidable 3-0 win over Matt Campbell whereas Dirk van Duijvenbode turned the most recent seed to exit early after the Latvian. Madar Razma got here again from a set down to assert a 3-1 victory.

Ian White additionally precipitated an upset after knocking out present European Championship winner Ritchie Edhouse, with a 3-1 win for ‘Diamond’ seeing him progress to face pre-tournament favourite Luke Littler within the third spherical.

“He [Littler] is quantity 2 in Runcorn – I am from Runcorn and I am number one!” White mentioned. “You need to trigger an upset. I fully agree. Luke Littler has carried out every thing for this sport proper now.”

What occurs on the ninth day?

The ultimate eight matches of the second spherical happen on Monday, with Jonny Clayton headlining the afternoon session in opposition to Mickey Mansell and former junior world champion Josh Rock in opposition to Rhys Griffin.

Krzysztof Ratajski will face Alexis Toylo within the opening match of the day and former UK Open champion Andrew Gilding will open his match in opposition to Martin Lukeman, whereas Dave Chisnall and former world champion Rob Cross will each be concerned within the night session.

Chisnall performs Ricky Evans and Cross takes on Scott Williams, after Gian van Veen taking over Ricardo Pietreczko and Daryl Gurney taking part in Florian Hempel.

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