Van Gerwen misses nine-dart finish in seeing off De Decker, Wright safely through with victory over Hamilton

Wright safely won through to the Last 16 despite only averaging 91 as he claimed a 6-2 victory over Andy Hamilton.

This included only a solitary 180 but the difference came on the doubling where he pinned 30 percent compared to three 180s but only 16 percent on the doubles.

Van Gerwen on the other hand was pushed by Mike de Decker but surged to claim victory including missing double 12 for a nine-dart finish.

It was 2-2 in the early stages with ‘The Real Deal’ very much keeping with him but a timely break saw Van Gerwen well on his way to victory and he nearly capped it off with the perfect ending but couldn’t deal the deal.

Then it was the turn of Jeffrey de Zwaan who ended the hopes of home hero Kim Huybrechts.

De Zwaan averaged 93 which included three 180’s and 6/15 on the doubles in a pretty polished performance from the Black Cobra.

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Nathan Aspinall (98.73) 6-3 (93.47) Steve Beaton
Gerwyn Price (89.66) 6-1 (82.72) Wesley Plaisier
Peter Wright (90.92) 6-2 (85.15) Andy Hamilton
Michael van Gerwen (99.71) 6-3 (91.08) Mike de Decker
Jeffrey de Zwaan (93.24) 6-4 (91.97) Kim Huybrechts
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