Dave Chisnall: “I’m playing some good darts. I think I played better yesterday than I did today, but luckily for me I got away with a few games early on and did the job”
Last Updated: 02/11/23 9:35pm
Dave Chisnall proved too sturdy for Jim Williams in Thursday’s Players Championship 30, triumphing 8-4
Dave Chisnall claimed a fifth rating title of 2023 because the ProfessionalTour season concluded with Players Championship 30 in Barnsley on Thursday.
Morecambe-based Chisnall has loved an outstanding 12 months on the circuit, profitable three European Tour occasions and September’s Players Championship 23 in a memorable marketing campaign.
He added an extra title to finish the Players Championship season in model on Thursday, overcoming Jim Williams 8-4 to scoop the £12,000 high prize.
Chisnall warmed up for the forthcoming Mr Vegas Grand Slam of Darts and Cazoo Players Championship Finals in model with seven excellent victories in Event 30, with the spotlight being a 111.35 common in a 6-2 quarter-final win over Scott Waites.
Chisnall additionally averaged over 105 in his Last 16 win over Jamie Hughes, and averaged no less than 92 in every of his different 5 wins, which included early spherical defeats of Jeffrey Sparidaans and Irish duo Dylan Slevin and Steve Lennon.
He adopted up his super-show within the quarter-finals by overcoming Winmau World Youth Championship finalist Gian van Veen 7-4, opening up a 4-1 lead earlier than holding out for victory.
Chisnall then proved too sturdy for Williams within the decider, with a devastating six-leg burst seeing him open up a 6-1 benefit over the Welshman.
Michael Bridge and Mark Webster give out their awards for the 2023 World Grand Prix.
Williams gained two of the subsequent three to preserve his hopes, however Chisnall adopted up a 167 checkout in leg ten with a seventh 180 of the competition as he closed out victory – going one higher than on Wednesday when he was the runner-up to Gerwyn Price.
“I’m playing some good darts,” stated Chisnall. “I think I played better yesterday than I did today, but luckily for me I got away with a few games early on and did the job.
“I do know I can play the sport, I’m taking part in properly and it reveals – it is a good job there was no Gezzy right here at present to cease me!
“If I can keep winning these, it keeps me up the rankings. If I put some time in, I’ll definitely be better – I’m alright at the moment.”
Williams’ run to the final was his finest consequence on the circuit this 12 months – bettering his semi-final look in Players Championship 25 – as he gained via to the decider.
His finest show statistically got here in a Last 16 victory over Mario Vandenbogaerde, the place he averaged 105.27, in a consequence which was sandwiched between averages of 99 and 98 in wins over Josh Rock and Danny Noppert respectively, whereas he noticed off Damon Heta 7-5 in a see-saw semi-final.
Heta was a semi-finalist for the twelfth time on the PDC ProfessionalTour this 12 months, seeing off World Champion Michael Smith in one other sturdy day of darts.
Van Veen, in the meantime, adopted up final weekend’s run to the semi-finals of the Machineseeker European Championship by reaching the final 4 of a 3rd Players Championship in his breakthrough 12 months.
Smith, Noppert and Waites had been joined within the quarter-finals by teenager Cam Crabtree – who gained via to the final eight for the second time on the ProfessionalTour however narrowly missed out on qualifying for the Players Championship Finals.
Former Grand Slam champion Waites wanted to attain Thursday’s final to snatch qualification for the Players Championship Finals, and defeated Krzysztof Ratajski and Ross Smith in his valiant run to the final eight, which means that he additionally missed out on a spot in Minehead later this month.
Ricky Evans held on to declare the sixty fourth place within the Players Championship Finals on a memorable day which noticed him land a nine-dart end within the second leg of his first spherical win over Callan Rydz – taking simply 36 seconds to full an ideal leg!
European Championship winner Peter Wright headlined the celebrities who missed out on qualifying for the Players Championship Finals following his first spherical exit on Thursday.
Former finalist Mervyn King, World Matchplay champion Nathan Aspinall and Mensur Suljovic will even miss the Minehead occasion, which options the highest 64 from the Players Championship Order of Merit following this 12 months’s 30 occasions.
Welshman Price, who gained 4 of the final eight occasions he competed in throughout 2023, topped the final Players Championship Order of Merit, forward of Gary Anderson, Heta and Chisnall.
2023 Players Championship 30
Thursday November 2: The Barnsley Metrodome
Last 16
Dave Chisnall 6-4 Jamie Hughes
Scott Waites 6-1 Ross Smith
Gian van Veen 6-5 Rob Cross
Cam Crabtree 6-4 Richard Veenstra
Damon Heta 6-2 Daryl Gurney
Michael Smith 6-3 Mickey Mansell
Jim Williams 6-2 Mario Vandenbogaerde
Danny Noppert 6-3 Stephen Bunting
Quarter-Finals
Dave Chisnall 6-2 Scott Waites
Gian van Veen 6-2 Cam Crabtree
Damon Heta 6-2 Michael Smith
Jim Williams 6-3 Danny Noppert
Semi-Finals
Dave Chisnall 7-4 Gian van Veen
Jim Williams 7-5 Damon Heta
Final
Dave Chisnall 8-4 Jim Williams
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