Wade continues form, Tabern & Payne edge last leg thrillers

The evening session of Day 1 of the German Darts Grand Prix in Munich has gleamed wins for James Wade, Alan Tabern and Josh Payne with the latter two games going the distance.

‘The Machine’ continued his excellent return to form by defeating Madars Razma who had his best performance on the Euro Tour so far including a 164 checkout.
It was a 96 average and 6/12 on the doubles for Wade who will face Jelle Klaasen again tomorrow.
Alan Tabern returned to the Euro Tour and the St Helens ace marked it well coming from behind to defeat Jermaine Wattimena. He was 5-2 down but came back and survived five match darts to go through to tomorrow’s action.
Josh Payne similarly won a last leg decider defeating Michael Rasztovits. He pulled out ruthless finishes of 160, 86 and 146 and survived match darts to book a match with Peter Wright tomorrow.
Evening Session (6.15pm-10pm)
Madars Razma (93.16) 2-6 (96,79) James Wade
Jermaine Wattimena (83.94) 5-6 (84.21) Alan Tabern
Josh Payne (87.23) 6-5 (88.56) Michael Rasztovits
Martin Schindler v Chris Dobey
James Wilson v Toni Alcinas
Stephen Bunting v Christian Goedl
Jonny Clayton v Rene Berndt
Adrian Lewis v Yordi Meeuwisse
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