World Series Of Darts

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More darts tomorrow and broadcasted on ITV. The World Series of Darts. This was won by MVG last year, beating Danny Noppert in the finals. He's been drawn in the top half and when you look around in that half there isn't too much for him to be worried about. In the bottom half we have Peter Wright and Gerwyn Price.

It's the latter that I'm interested in here. Price comes into this with the best form of the lot. Winning back-to-back Autumn Series wins and with ease too, hitting averages of over 100 in every match pretty match. The only other I like in the bottom half is Joe Cullen. Cullen is another who on some pretty decent form. Making a final of an Autumn Series and beating Price in one of those events. He would play Price quite early on and although I fancy Price to win the event, I think it could be a close one if Cullen turns up on the stage.

I want a player in the top half to take on MVG but the only one I think is worth giving a chance is Ratajski. He made a final yesterday in the final Autumn Series and hit a 99 average when losing to Price. He is more than capable of getting through the half.

4pts E/W G.Price to win World Series Of Darts 7/1 paddypower [2 places, 1/2]
1pt E/W K.Ratajski to win World Series Of Darts 33/1 Paddypower 33/1 paddypower [2 places, 1/2]
1pt E/W J.Cullen to win World Series Of Darts 100/1 willhill [2 places, 1/2]

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I'm going to take Sherrock to beat Smith tonight. Fallon has shown enough times that she is quite consistent infront of a crowd and Smith just didn't do enough at the Autumn Series for me. He went out in round 1 4 out of the 5 events. 3 times he lost to Bunting and the other Evans. He won one match and then went out in Round 2 to Clayton, who scored a mammoth 112 average. If you look at his averages in the first 3 events though it was 85.85, 79.63 & 81.27. He had a good match against Clayton which he lost but that was 102.28 and then in the final event he went out again in Round 1 to Bunting with a 91.18 average.

Sherrocks last 2 matches she managed an 87.71 & 87.36 average but at the Worlds, where she had a crowd behind her she managed a 90/91 average in every match. I think if Jeff isn't up for this match then it's there for the taking.

4pts F.Sherrock to beat J.Smith 2/1 betfred
1pt accy - Labanauskas, Sherrock, Durrant & Whitlock 12/1 willhill