Shock final at Players Championship 27 as Connor Scutt set to face Radek Szaganski in Barnsley
PDCFriday, 20 October 2023 at 19:04
The final is set at Players Championship 27 and it is one no-one would've been expecting even at the semi-final stage in Barnsley.
Connor Scutt will face Radek Szaganski shortly and for both, it will be a crack at a maiden ranking title and it is their first final also. Szaganski has perhaps got closest of them all before reaching a semi-final in Leicester earlier this season.
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He took out the latest first-time winner in Ricardo Pietreczko who would've been seeing today as a big chance of maybe sealing a second ranking title in a week, but he looked befuddled throughout his tie with the Pole as Szaganski kept taking out doubles and was hardly missing.
It finished 7-3 in the end and also gives Szaganski a big helping hand in the race to the World Championship. Same can be said for Scutt as Gian van Veen perhaps spurned his best chance of a maiden PDC title.
Van Veen looked sick to his stomach as Scutt hit the winning double to win it 7-5 after Van Veen had initially brought it back to 4-4. But in a week where Gary Anderson and Ryan Joyce have sealed titles, who seals the penultimate £12,000 in Barnsley ever with the Metrodome not on the calendar from next season?
Last 16
Connor Scutt (103.97) 6 | 3 (100.34) Ross Smith
Gary Anderson (103.03) 6 | 1 (89.56) Darryl Pilgrim
Ryan Searle (95.10) 6 | 5 (96.26) Josh Rock
Gian van Veen (96.74) 6 | 5 (95.57) Stephen Bunting
Ricardo Pietreczko (96.41) 6 | 5 (98.18) Raymond van Barneveld
Niels Zonneveld (87.05) 6 | 1 (81.45) George Killington
Maik Kuivenhoven (94.54) 6 | 4 (89.71) Andrew Gilding
Radek Szaganski (90.60) 6 | 4 (90.68) Ryan Joyce
Quarter-Finals
Connor Scutt (95.87) 6 | 4 (98.81) Gary Anderson
Ryan Searle (101.82) 5 | 6 (100.86) Gian van Veen
Ricardo Pietreczko (89.33) 6 | 4 (88.31) Niels Zonneveld
Maik Kuivenhoven (92.73) 6 | 1 (78.00) Radek Szaganski
Semi-Finals
Connor Scutt (93.34) 7 | 5 (91.60) Gian van Veen
Ricardo Pietreczko (89.38) 3 | 7 (96.91) Radek Szaganski
Final
Connor Scutt - | - Radek Szaganski
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