Gary Anderson posts a huge average to thrash Ryan Joyce, while Michael van Gerwen, Wessel Nijman and Gian van Veen also book second round spots.
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Darts News
Stephen Bunting survived a sudden-death thriller as Luke Littler and Nathan Aspinall posted huge averages on the first night of the World Matchplay.
Darts News
The world's top 32 players head to the Winter Gardens for the prestigious World Matchplay, with Luke Littler defending his title.
Darts News
On this day in 2021, the world of darts lost one of its most popular champions, Andy 'The Viking' Fordham, the 2004 Lakeside World Champion.
Darts News
Nathan Aspinall has revealed he will miss further ProTour events due to personal issues, as preparations for the World Matchplay in Blackpool intensify.
Players & Legends
Three world titles across three decades, the first televised nine-darter, and a career that outlasted every rival of the golden era.
Tournament History
What the perfect leg demands, why John Lowe's was worth £102,000, and why Paul Lim's 1990 nine-darter remains the only one Lakeside ever saw.
The BBC didn't just broadcast darts in the 1980s — it made the sport what it was. Then it walked away. Here's what that cost darts, and who picked up the pieces.
The Lakeside Country Club held 1,170 people for darts. It sounded like a football ground. Here's why the smallest venue in world sport produced the loudest crowds.
Darts didn't become a major British sport by accident. It grew out of the pubs and working men's clubs of northern England and the Midlands, hit peak television in the early 1980s, and then fractured into two competing visions of what the game should be. This is how that happened.