10:10 p.m
12-darter from Pietreczko!
Pietreczko attacks Humphries’ throwing leg with a 180 and follows up with a 90. The Brit can’t keep up in this leg and Pietreczko hits 91 with a 140. He throws an S17 and the T14 and hits the D16 for a 2-0 lead.
22:08
Pietreczko is getting better
Pietreczko opened the second set with a 99 and the Brit followed up with a 100. Pikachu does well after that throws a 140. But he can’t confirm the good shot and Humphries gets into the finish area first. The Englishman misses the Shanghai finish and Pietreczko takes the leg with the first dart on the D16.
10:04 p.m
air upward
With an average of 89 for Humphries and 85 for Pietreczko, both are still playing well below their potential. Both are still weak at checkout. The Englishman is currently only at 23 percent and Pikachu is at 25.
22:02
Humphries takes the first set
Pietreczko throws his first 180, after which he can’t finish with 80 points, but Humphries is also only at 180 remaining. Pietreczko can’t clear the 90 points via the D5 and the Englishman checks the 80 via tops with the first dart.
10:00 p.m
Re-break for Pietreczko
The Englishman’s scoring is now strong and after nine darts he is at 134 remaining. He can’t clear that, but he has plenty of time as Pietreczko is at 302. With 78 remaining he throws two darts past the double, but Pietreczko still doesn’t have a finish. But the Englishman cannot delete the 6 points either. 158 is too much for Pikachu, but Humphries still can’t check the 6 points and Pietreczko takes the leg with the third dart on D14.
9:57 p.m
Break for Cool Hand Luke
In the second leg the scoring isn’t going so well for both of them, but Pietreczko is the first to reach the finish area. But he can’t check the 108 and Humphries clears the 96 over the T20 and D18 and gets the break.
9:55 p.m
First leg for Humphries
Humphries opens the match with a 60 and Pietreczko answers with a 140. The Englishman again fails to hit a triple, but Pietreczko also only throws a 57. Humphries then throws the first 180 and Pietreczko follows suit with a 140. The 164 is still too much for Pietreczko and Humphries can’t check the 62 yet and leaves 16 remaining. He checks it with two darts over the D4.
9:50 p.m
The last German
Ricardo “Pikachu” Pietreczko is the last German player who still has a chance of reaching the round of 16 after the elimination of Martin Schindler and Gabriel Clemens yesterday Wednesday and Florian Hempel this afternoon. At the start, the 29-year-old easily beat the Japanese Mikuru Suzuki 3-0 and only gave up one leg. In the second round, Pikachu had a much more difficult time against Callan Rydz. In the end he narrowly prevailed against the Englishman 3-2 and scratched the 100 average.
9:45 p.m
Humphries struggles to win
The Englishman won his first match of the World Cup against his compatriot Lee Evans 3-0. But it wasn’t as clear as the result might sound at first. Sets two and three went into the decider and his average of 93 was only one point higher than his opponent. The 28-year-old was able to save himself thanks to his good checkout rate of 38 percent. “Cool Hand Luke” needs a significant increase in performance against Pietreczko if the World Cup favorite wants to survive here.
9:40 p.m
Welcome!
Hello and welcome to the third round of the Darts World Cup 2024. Luke Humphries and Ricardo Pietreczko will meet at 9:55 p.m.