Premature End on the Third Day

The evening session of the third day of the World Darts Championships kicked off with Steve Beaton being fought all the way by Sweden's Magnus Caris. The shock looked to be on the cards when Caris took the first set via a whitewash and then winning the second 3-1. The third set went the distance but Beaton managed to keep himself in the game by winning the decider. That spurred the Bronze Adonis on and he took the fourth set with a whitewash of his own to make it 2-2. The fifth and final set rightly went the distance. The pair were locked at 2-2 before Beaton took the fifth leg and then the sixth to win the set 4-2 and win the match 3-2.

The preliminary match of the night was between Germany's Kevin Munch and Malaysia's Lee Choon Peng. Peng took the first two legs before Munch battled back to win 4-2 and would face The Heat, Denis Ovens.

Holland's Vincent Van Der Voort faced a tough test against Mark Hylton in the third match of the night. The four sets followed a distinct patter. Van Der Voort won the first set 3-1 before Hylton equalised by winning the second set via a decider. The Dutchman then won the third set 3-1 but Hylton equalised again by winning the deciding leg in the fourth set. The final set saw Van Der Voort take full control and whitewashed Hylton to win the match 3-2 and progress into the second round.

The penultimate match of the night saw Paul Nicholson face Austria's Mensur Suljovic. The first set unsurprisingly went to Nicholson, winning it 3-1 against the darts. Suljovic managed to fight back in the second set from 2-1 down to win it 3-2 with a 121 checkout, finishing it on the bull. The third set went the same way as the first with Nicholson winning it 3-1 after going 2-0 ahead. Both players missed doubles in the deciding leg of the fourth set but Nicholson managed to hold his nerve to take the set and win the match 3-1.

The final match of the night saw 54 year-old Denis Ovens take on Kevin Munch. Unfortunately it was revealed that Ovens was suffering from a trapped nerve just before the match. He bravely played the first in which Munch played extremely well and won it 3-0. But Ovens couldn't continue and had to pull out, enabling Munch to go through via a bye.