To advance to the second round of the World Grand Prix in Leicester, Luke Humphries won by a score of 2-0 over Nathan Aspinall.
Premier League champion Humphries won the first set 3-2, despite Aspinall recovering from a slow start with a “big fish” finish that included two treble 20s and a bullseye.
Aspinall struggled to get started with doubles as fellow Englishman Humphries took advantage and finished the second set with a brutal 156 finish, which was required for the double-in double-out format.
Humphries bounced back from a 3-0 deficit to win the second set, which gave him a chance to face Poland’s Krzysztof Ratajski, who defeated Martin Schindler in the second set 2-0.
“It was a big game,” he said. Humphries described Nathan as a “fabulous player” on Sky Sports.
He made a few entrance attempts before letting me in with that 156, which was a big chance to score in my favor.
They simply didn’t want to drop in because my scoring was a little off the mark.
“Hopefully I can recover on Wednesday and be better.”
In a match all about English, fifth seed James Wade was defeated 2-0 by German Niko Springer while fourth-seeded Stephen Bunting, who recently won the Swiss Darts Trophy for his sixth title of the year, was defeated by Joe Cullen.
Peter Wright takes on Mike de Decker, Luke Littler takes on Gian van Veen, and Dirk van Duijvenbode takes on Michael van Gerwen and Michael van Gerwen take on the 2024 Grand Prix champion.
Results for Monday:
Nathan Aspinall 2-0 Luke Humphries
Raymond van Barneveld defeated Gary Anderson 2-1.
Wessel Nijman 2-1 Rob Cross
Martin Schindler 2-0 Krzysztof Ratajski
Chris Dobey 2-0, Menzies
James Wade 2-0 Joe Cullen
Jermaine Wattimena 2-1 Danny Noppert
Niko Springer scores 2-0 with Stephen Bunting.
Tuesday’s games:
Luke Woodhouse vs. Damon Heta
Daryl Gurney vs. Ross Smith
Andrew Gilding vs. Jonny Clayton
Ryan Searle vs. Gerwyn Price
Gian van Veen and Luke Littler
Dirk van Duijvenbode and Michael van Gerwen
Mike de Decker vs. Peter Wright
related subjects
- Darts
Source: BBC
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