Co Stomps on the Vegas Field
Posted on June 30th, 2010
CO STOMPE claimed his maiden PDC title with a 6-3 defeat of James Wade in Tuesday’s Las Vegas Players Championship.
The Dutch star picked up the £6,000 victory during the New Tropicana World Series of Darts Festival to celebrate his recent two-year anniversary since moving onto the PDC circuit.
He produced some outstanding darts during Tuesday’s event in Las Vegas, opening with a whitewash of Edwin Martin and then defeating Wayne Mardle, Adrian Lewis and Steve Beaton to set up an all-Dutch quarter-final with Jelle Klaasen.
After seeing off the former Lakeside Champion 6-4, Stompe whitewashed Matt Clark in the semi-finals before defeating Wade in the decider.
World number three Wade took the final’s opening leg, but Stompe hit back with four successive legs to lead 4-1, twice hitting two maximums in a leg.
Wade won the next two to reduce the gap to one leg, but Stompe crucially took the eight before securing victory in the next.
Wade’s run to the final bettered his semi-final appearance in Sunday’s PDC US Open Players Championship, as he claimed the £3,000 runner-up prize.
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Vegas Win For Anderson
Posted on June 29th, 2010
GARY ANDERSON won his third tournament of 2010 with a 6-4 victory over Simon Whitlock in Monday’s Las Vegas Players Championship.
Anderson followed up a quarter-final appearance in Sunday’s PDC US Open Players Championship by taking the £6,000 first prize in the third of five days in the New Tropicana World Series of Darts Festival.
The victory continues a fine month for the Scot – who was the runner-up in the Rileys Darts Zones UK Open and also won a Players Championship in Barnsley.
After needing all 11 legs to defeat Mark Hylton in the first round at the Tropicana Hotel, Anderson then whitewashed fellow Scot Chris Loudon and Wales’ Mark Webster in progressing to the last 16.
Steve Maish and Paul Lim were also defeated before a 6-2 win over Colin Lloyd put him into the decider against Australian star Whitlock.
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