Ted Evetts was crowned Unicorn World Youth Champion for the first time in Minehead on Sunday after defeating Nathan Rafferty 6-4 in the final.<\/p>\n
Competing in the World Youth Championship for the seventh and final time, the 24-year-old came back from 3-1 down to lift the title on the Main Stage at Butlin’s Minehead Resort.<\/p>\n
Evetts, who had already secured qualification for the 2021\/22 World Championship via the ProTour Order of Merit, also receives the \u00a310,000 winners’ prize.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the day, Evetts and Rafferty came through a 32-player tournament, played in group and knockout stages in Reds.<\/p>\n
The early stages of the final saw Rafferty land the first break of throw to lead 3-1, before back-to-back legs from Evetts saw him draw level.<\/p>\n
The following two legs were also won by Evetts, before Rafferty kept his hopes alive with a 100 checkout.<\/p>\n
However, his hopes of a first World Youth Championship title were extinguished in the following leg as Evetts cleaned up 37 in two darts to end his youth career on a high.<\/p>\n
“I’m over the moon, I would’ve swapped all my youth titles for this one,” said Evetts, the most successful player in Development Tour history.<\/p>\n
“If you’d have spoken to 16-year-old me who couldn’t make it past the last 16, I wouldn’t have believed I’d be standing here with this trophy.<\/p>\n
“I don’t think I’ve shown anywhere close to what I can do in the senior ranks so far. There’s a lot more to come from me.<\/p>\n
“Hopefully I can use this as a springboard for future success on the big stage.”<\/p>\n
2021 Unicorn World Youth Championship Group B<\/strong> Group C<\/strong> Group D<\/strong> Group E<\/strong> Group F<\/strong> Group G<\/strong> Group H<\/strong> Knockout Stage Quarter-Finals<\/strong> Semi-Finals<\/strong> Final<\/strong> Ted Evetts was crowned Unicorn World Youth Champion for the first time in Minehead on Sunday after defeating Nathan Rafferty…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"de":4089,"en":4086},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdc.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4086"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdc.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdc.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdc.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdc.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pdc.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4088,"href":"https:\/\/pdc.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4086\/revisions\/4088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdc.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdc.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdc.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdc.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nResults
\nGroup Stage
\nGroup A<\/strong>
\nCallan Rydz 4-0 John Brown
\nJack Male 4-0 Owen Roelofs
\nJack Male 4-1 Callan Rydz
\nOwen Roelofs 4-3 John Brown
\nCallan Rydz 4-1 Owen Roelofs
\nJack Male 4-1 John Brown<\/p>\n
\nAdam Gawlas 4-2 Reece Colley
\nNathan Rafferty 4-0 Joshua Richardson
\nAdam Gawlas 4-2 Nathan Rafferty
\nReece Colley 4-2 Joshua Richardson
\nAdam Gawlas 4-0 Joshua Richardson
\nNathan Rafferty 4-3 Reece Colley<\/p>\n
\nLiam Meek 4-2 Keane Barry
\nShusaku Nakamura 4-2 Jarred Cole
\nKeane Barry 4-2 Jarred Cole
\nLiam Meek 4-2 Shusaku Nakamura
\nKeane Barry 4-3 Shusaku Nakamura
\nLiam Meek 4-1 Jarred Cole<\/p>\n
\nCiaran Teehan 4-3 Dom Taylor
\nGeert Nentjes 4-0 Victor Manuel Rodriguez
\nCiaran Teehan 4-1 Geert Nentjes
\nDom Taylor 4-2 Victor Manuel Rodriguez
\nCiaran Teehan 4-2 Victor Manuel Rodriguez
\nGeert Nentjes 4-3 Dom Taylor<\/p>\n
\nBradley Brooks 4-1 Lewis Pride
\nLee Lok Yin 4-0 Tobias Fischer
\nBradley Brooks 4-2 Lee Lok Yin
\nLewis Pride 4-0 Tobias Fischer
\nBradley Brooks 4-3 Tobias Fischer
\nLewis Pride 4-3 Lee Lok Yin<\/p>\n
\nRusty-Jake Rodriguez 4-1 Kevin Doets
\nFabian Schmutzler 4-3 Jurjen van der Velde
\nRusty-Jake Rodriguez 4-3 Fabian Schmutzler
\nKevin Doets 4-2 Jurjen van der Velde
\nRusty-Jake Rodriguez 4-2 Jurjen van der Velde
\nKevin Doets 4-0 Fabian Schmutzler<\/p>\n
\nTed Evetts 4-3 Niko Springer
\nKeelan Kay 4-0 Sebastian Bialecki
\nTed Evetts 4-1 Keelan Kay
\nNiko Springer 4-1 Sebastian Bialecki
\nTed Evetts 4-2 Sebastian Bialecki
\nKeelan Kay 4-0 Niko Springer<\/p>\n
\nLewy Williams 4-0 Niels Zonneveld
\nMaikel Verberk 4-3 Cameron Anderson
\nLewy Williams 4-2 Maikel Verberk
\nNiels Zonneveld 4-0 Cameron Anderson
\nLewy Williams 4-1 Cameron Anderson
\nNiels Zonneveld 4-2 Maikel Verberk<\/p>\n
\nLast 16<\/strong>
\nNathan Rafferty 5-0 Jack Male
\nAdam Gawlas 5-4 Callan Rydz
\nGeert Nentjes 5-2 Liam Meek
\nKeane Barry 5-1 Ciaran Teehan
\nKevin Doets 5-3 Bradley Brooks
\nRusty-Jake Rodriguez 5-1 Lewis Pride
\nTed Evetts 5-0 Niels Zonneveld
\nKeelan Kay 5-1 Lewy Williams<\/p>\n
\nNathan Rafferty 5-4 Adam Gawlas
\nGeert Nentjes 5-3 Keane Barry
\nKevin Doets 5-1 Rusty-Jake Rodriguez
\nTed Evetts 5-3 Keelan Kay<\/p>\n
\nNathan Rafferty 5-3 Geert Nentjes
\nTed Evetts 5-1 Kevin Doets<\/p>\n
\nTed Evetts 6-4 Nathan Rafferty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"