Wales’ duo Gerwyn Price and Jonny Clayton have set out an early marker at the World Cup of Darts in Austria after a whitewash win over Russia.
Price and Clayton averaged 96 and hit five 180’s in a rampant display against Boris Koltsov and Aleksei Kadochnikov. The former in particular showed great courage in playing after his father passed away this morning.
It was an excellent start from Wales who got about their business with a 130 from Clayton to complete a 12-darter. Russia missed their chance to get off the mark and it was soon towards the point of no return as Clayton pinned double 10 to make it 3-0.
Wales followed that up by hitting back-to-back 180’s and despite Price not being able to go for the nine-darter, Clayton took out 76 for an 11-darter to make it 4-0 and ‘The Iceman’ concluded proceedings from there to set up the aforementioned tie with Scotland.
Also through are the German pairing of Max Hopp and Gabriel Clemens who also were rampant in seeing off Finland in whitewash win.
They also averaged 96 with their individual averages standing at 100.81 and 90.86. In terms of doubles, they hit 42% each with Finland failing to find the mark with 0/4 on the doubles. They will now face Greece tomorrow.
World Cup of Darts 2020 schedule
Friday 6 November
Evening session (18:00 GMT)
Sweden (82.92) 0-5 (91.65) Greece
Japan (75.08) 3-5 (80.45) Scotland
Poland (90.54) 5-0 (82.73) South Africa
Republic of Ireland (93.12) 2-5 (92.52) Australia
Wales (93.94) 5-0 (73.6) Russia
Germany (96.35) 5-0 (81.77) Finland
Netherlands v Brazil
Hong Kong v Latvia
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