Contents – Sport – Price wins historic darts World Cup semi-final



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Gerwyn Price and Stephen Bunting played very high quality and fun semi-finals at the World Darts Championships in London. The record match was ultimately won by the Welsh 6: 4, making them the first to reach the final on Sunday.

The parties started the back-and-forth game, winning 1-1 leg from the backcourt, and Price threw in the first set. In the world ranking, 26. Then, Bunting came in and spun 3: 1, winning three sets in a row. However, by the sixth set he was already even (3: 3), then in the seventh the English came back in, but from there he got into a hole from which he could not get out until the end of the match.

Or, on the contrary, Price shook his sensation: he shot in the eighth, ninth and tenth sets, in addition he gave Bunting a total of two matches, winning the semifinals and reaching the final of the World Cup for the first time in his career. career. “Iceman” became the first Welsh player to reach the World Cup final, with his victory leading the world rankings.

Gerwyn Price played fantastic in the semifinals: he produced an average of 100.92, shot 180 15 times and had eight out of 100 finalists. In contrast, Bunting brought in an average of 96.38, 11,180 and more than 5,100 landings.

Together, the two threw a total of more than 13 hundred landings, a match record at the PDC World Darts Championship. The peak so far was 11 in one match.

In the other semi-finals, defending champion Michael van Gerwent defeated Dave Chisnall 6: 3 over Gary Anderson, leaving the Scottish player as Price’s opponent in Sunday’s final.

PDC WORLD DARTS CHAMPIONSHIP, 2021
SEMIFINALS
Stephen Bunting (English, 26) –Gerwyn Price (Wales, 3.) 4: 6
Dave Chisnall (English, 8) –Gary Anderson (Scotsman, 13) 3: 6

(Cover image: Gerwyn Price after winning the semifinals. Photo: Luke Walker / Getty Images Hungary)



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