VICTORY FOR VOLTAGE! 🏆 Rob Cross secures his second Players Championship title in the space of four events, defeating world number one Peter Wright 8-4 to claim PC27 glory! 👏
Clinical Cross seals second PDC ranking title of 2022 with superb Wright win at Players Championship 27
PDCSaturday, 22 October 2022 at 18:45
Rob Cross as he does usually has fired into life at the right time of the year and has a second title in the last four ProTour tournaments after sealing a second final win of the year in Barnsley at Players Championship 27.
A sublime show of finishing from 'Voltage' saw him seal an 8-4 win over World Number One, Peter Wright with finishes of 164, 160 and 143 highlights as he heads into the final ProTour tomorrow then his European Championship defence next week.
As alluded to, Cross spectacularly hit 164 to draw first blood and hit 160 to go 2-1 up and was throwing for a 3-1 lead. An 11-dart 84 checkout saw Wright draw it level though at 2-2. He held from there and had chances to break again with Cross careless in slipping into treble seven on 76 but after returning, he cleaned it up for 3-3.
A 143 was added to Cross’ 100+ tally to go 4-3 up and break again. Cross finally held to go 5-3 up and open up a gap. Double 10 saw him three clear at 6-3 and the one-way traffic continued as he went one away.
Cross had a lapse in his scoring but that was solely on Wright’s throw and he began his dominance again leaving 122 after nine-darts. Match darts went begging though and he slipped into double 15 offering Wright a lifeline on 104 but he didn’t take it and ‘Voltage’ hit double 10 finally to claim it.
Players Championship 27
Last 16
Callan Rydz (92.57) 6 | 2 (91.26) Richie Burnett
Alan Soutar (95.17) 6 | 5 (96.59) Dirk van Duijvenbode
Rob Cross (94.20) 6 | 4 (83.41) George Killington
Stephen Bunting (89.66) 6 | 1 (79.11) Joe Murnan
Jose de Sousa (97.58) 6 | 3 (89.27) Danny van Trijp
Peter Wright (96.58) 6 | 5 (97.94) Josh Rock
Gary Anderson (102.68) 6 | 2 (102.11) Chris Dobey
Ryan Meikle (102.63) 6 | 3 (96.48) Martin Lukeman
Quarter-Finals
Callan Rydz (109.48) 6 | 1 (97.13) Alan Soutar
Rob Cross (99.76) 6 | 2 (92.14) Stephen Bunting
Jose de Sousa (98.29) 3 | 6 (101.78) Peter Wright
Gary Anderson (97.52) 4 | 6 (98.58) Ryan Meikle
Semi-Finals
Callan Rydz (98.42) 5 | 7 (110.90) Rob Cross
Peter Wright (90.02) 7 | 2 (86.81) Ryan Meikle
Final
Rob Cross (94.1) 8 | 4 (96.63) Peter Wright
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