Lourence Ilagan, Alexis Toylo and Ryusei Azemoto won the three tournaments on the PDC
Asian Tour last weekend. The fourth tournament weekend of this circuit took place in the Malaysian city of Penang.
The first tournament of the weekend proved to be a triumph for Ilagan, who took his first title of the season by defeating ranking leader Alexis Toylo 5-2. As a result, Ilagan became the first Asian player ever with 10 titles on the Asian Tour.
However, there is a good chance that Toylo will soon join Ilagan, as the Filipino darter was successful at the second tournament this weekend. Toylo thus underscored his dominance on the Asian Tour this season. He has won five of the first 12 tournaments, while also losing two finals.
The final tournament of the weekend went to Azemoto Ryusei. In his final, the Japanese defeated Reynaldo Rivera 5-0. Ryusei had earlier ensured the elimination of Toylo at the last sixteen.
The Asian Tour consists of a total of 24 tournaments. Prize money is paid from reaching the last 64. The results are then included in the PDC Asian Tour Order of Merit. The top four players in this ranking after all tournaments are completed will receive an invitation to participate in the World Darts Championship.
PDC Asian Tour 10
Last 16
Alexis Toylo 4-1 Norisame Wahab
Lok Yin Lee 4-2 Altantulkhuur Myagmarsuren
Sandro Sosing 4-2 Azemoto Ryusei
Keita Ono 4-0 Clarence JS Chan
Teng-Lieh Pupo 4-2 Sheng-Chieh Chang
Tengku Hadzali Shah Tengku Mustaffa 4-1 Guillermo Nival Jr
Sonny Balagat 4-1 Lihao Wen
Lourence Ilagan 4-0 Yoshihisa Baba
Quarterfinals
Alexis Toylo 4-3 Lok Yin Lee
Sandro Sosing 4-2 Keita Ono
Teng-Lieh Pupo 4-1 Tengku Hadzali Shah Tengku Mustaffa
Lourence Ilagan 4-0 Sonny Balagat
Semi-final
Alexis Toylo 5-4 Sandro Sosing
Lourence Ilagan 5-2 Teng-Lieh Pupo
Final
Lourence Ilagan 5-2 Alexis Toylo
PDC Asian Tour 11
Last 16
Alexis Toylo 4-2 Wahab Norisame
An Sheng Lu 4-1 Man Lok Leung
Sonny Balagat 4-1 Lok Yin Lee
Jia Xing Phung 4-1 Nitin Kumar
Paolo Nebrida 4-2 Munkh-Erdene Munkh-Ochir
Azemoto Ryusei 4-1 Sandro Sosing
Tomoya Goto 4-0 Teng-Lieh Pupo
Lourence Ilagan 4-0 Frolian Abao Soco
Quarterfinals
Alexis Toylo 4-2 An Sheng Lu
Jia Xing Phung 4-2 Sonny Balagat
Paolo Nebrida 4-2 Azemoto Ryusei
Tomoya Goto 4-1 Lourence Ilagan
Semi-final
Alexis Toylo 5-1 Jia Xing Phung
Paolo Nebrida 5-2 Tomoya Goto
Final
Alexis Toylo 5-2 Paolo Nebrida
PDC Asian Tour 12
Last 16
Azemoto Ryusei 4-3 Alexis Toylo
Keita Ono 4-2 Seng-Chieh Chang
Lourence Ilagan 4-3 Norisame Wahab
Zulrizan Azdan 4-2 Paul Lim
Ryan Khristoffer Condat 4-3 Paolo Nebrida
Reynaldo Rivera 4-3 Noel Malicdem
Tomoya Goto 4-2 Sonny Balagat
Man Lok Leung 4-3 Mark Anthony Opada
Quarterfinals
Azemoto Ryusei 4-2 Keita Ono
Lourence Ilagan 4-1 Zulrizan Azdan
Reynaldo Rivera 4-2 Ryan Khristoffer Condat
Man Lok Leung 4-3 Tomoya Goto
Semi-final
Azemoto Ryusei 5-3 Lourence Ilagan
Reynaldo Rivera 5-1 Man Lok Leung
Final
Azemoto Ryusei 5-0 Reynaldo Rivera