Peter Wright secures his first victory since returning from surgery, as he defeats Raymond van Barneveld in a battle of the World Champions. Up next 👉 Gerwyn Price v Lewy Williams 📺bit.ly/PDCTVLive
Wright seals first win since return from surgery against Van Barneveld, Cullen survives Murnan scare
PDCSaturday, 10 September 2022 at 20:57
After losing in his first match back last weekend in Budapest, Peter Wright has returned to the winners' circle seeing off Raymond van Barneveld in a battle of World Champions at the German Darts Open in Jena.
Wright recently had gallstones surgery which has caused him to miss sometime including the World Series recently but he will now aim to revive his form with a confidence building run this weekend.
In the end, it was a 6-3 win over 'Barney' with a 99.88 average, two 180's and 40% on the doubles in a polished display. Breaking to go 2-0 up, he was halfway to victory after consolidating but Barney broke to make it 3-2 after Wright had missed darts to go 4-1 ahead.
He consolidated to make it 3-3 but a pivotal two missed darts at double which allowed Wright back to pin double 18 and go 5-3 up proved vital as Wright sealed the deal on double eight last dart in hand.
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While Joe Cullen has survived a scare in moving through with last week's Hungarian Darts Trophy winner having to produce a masterclass of finishing to deny Joe Murnan.
To begin the tie, Murnan pinned a 121 checkout on the bull to go 2-1 up before Cullen replied albeit both only holds with a 141 checkout. But Murnan continued to hold and build, after a 116 checkout from Cullen, he made it 5-4 and went one away.
But finally Murnan's throw was broken albeit in a decider as Cullen pulled out a 136 checkout with the former sat on 84 to win.
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