WATTIMENA STEALS IT ON THE BULLSEYE 🤯 It's incredible from Jermaine Wattimena as he beats James Wade in a last leg decider to reach the Quarter-Finals. He wins 10-9 in a thriller in Dortmund! 📺 bit.ly/EC24Live #ECDarts24 | R2
Wonderful Wattimena comeback leaves Wade seething after European Championship classic
PDCSaturday, 26 October 2024 at 20:52
After Dirk van Duijvenbode and Danny Noppert, Jermaine Wattimena has made it a hatrick of Dutch in the last eight at the 2024 European Darts Championship in Dortmund. 'The Machine Gun' managed to outwit the experienced James Wade after a deciding leg thriller at the major tournament in Dortmund.
For Wattimena, it is only the second major-quarterfinal in his career. The darter previously reached the last eight at the World Grand Prix, but that was only in 2019.
The Dutchman delivered a fine comeback, as Wade led 5-1 after six legs after a 14-darter and a 109 finish, among other things. Moments later, Wade also threw out 95 to lead 6-3. With two 14-darters and a 68 finish, Wattimena then came back to 6-6 before Wade regained the lead in the 13th leg. Wattimena produced a 52 finish to make it 7-7 again. Wade narrowly missed double for a 9 darter in the next leg before the contest ultimately went all the way to a decider.
Wade was allowed to start the final leg but did not start well with only one treble in the first two visits. Wattimena set off with a 137 score and was on 124 after nine arrows. He managed to throw out that finish, allowing Wattimena to qualify for the quarterfinals on Sunday afternoon.
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- "Surely darts has little to do with physicality?" If that was true, there would not be women's events for the mentally ill bloke to play in.thebogeyman24-10-2024
- My god what a clown this guy is.... So REAL women should take pills to suppress natural processes to make it equal as he does not have such symptoms? And no: you are not winning because you put in the time and money, you are winning because you have an unfair advantage. Men play better than women, it is a fact. And let's not forget he was in the top 10 of the world in the boys earlier in life!DannyJ23-10-2024