Wattimena and Bunting ease through to second round 2019 European Championship
PDCFriday, 25 October 2019 at 13:16
Jermaine Wattimena and Stephen Bunting are both through to the second round at the European Championship after easing through their respective first round tests.
Wattimena saw off an out of sorts Jamie Hughes in a 6-1 win. 'Machine Gun' went 1-0 behind but he reeled off six straight legs to ease through.
After two breaks, Wattimena headed into the first interval with a 4-1 lead and in the case of Hughes it seemed like he was struggling with some sort of injury.
His misery was confounded with him missing one at double 18 which allowed Wattimena to go one away and from there the Dutchman sealed the deal to defeat Hughes, who has been a champion on the European Tour this season so in this case whimpered out of the tournament.
In Bunting's game against Keegan Brown, he also impressed. The St Helens ace stormed to a 6-1 rout of 'The Needle' with a 95 average.
Bunting broke throw early doors and held throw after Brown had missed darts to break to go 3-1 up. He continued his rout with him 4-1 up at the interval.
From there the one way traffic continued and Bunting sealed the deal expertly to move through to the second round.
Click here for more information on the European Championship, which takes place in Gottingen this weekend.
European Championship 2019 schedule
Day Two, afternoon session
Jamie Hughes (86.97) 1-6 (91.51) Jermaine Wattimena
Keegan Brown (89.52) 1-6 (95.42) Stephen Bunting
14:00 Krzysztof Ratajski v Chris Dobey
14:30 Nathan Aspinall v Steve Beaton
15:00 Mensur Suljovic v Vincent van der Voort
15:30 Ian White v Michael Smith
16:00 Peter Wright v Jeffrey de Zwaan
16:30 Gerwyn Price v Ted Evetts
Keegan Brown (89.52) 1-6 (95.42) Stephen Bunting
14:00 Krzysztof Ratajski v Chris Dobey
14:30 Nathan Aspinall v Steve Beaton
15:00 Mensur Suljovic v Vincent van der Voort
15:30 Ian White v Michael Smith
16:00 Peter Wright v Jeffrey de Zwaan
16:30 Gerwyn Price v Ted Evetts
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- The pundits glossing over the other factor at play in that match. They appear to be somewhat constrained in what they can say publicly.
UndartedWaters16-11-2024 - So, you don't like Littler, then? I was cheering him on, being a fellow Englishman. Honestly, some of us get far too offended nowadays. If you want to see crowd passion... watch a match when German and Dutch players face off... that can be just as bad if not worse for crowd noises. It happens, I have watched and heard Littler being jeered - Dirk van Duijvenbode in Holland, January this year. Where was your outrage then? Yes, I can clearly see what is going on here.MrYnyslas197116-11-2024