The world’s top five players advanced to the fifth round, while four former champions crashed out on the Day One of the Cazoo UK Open.<\/p>\n
The tournament’s return to Butlin’s Minehead Resort saw 126 matches played across eight stages on a typically frantic opening day at the annual festival of darts.<\/p>\n
The opening four rounds took place across two sessions, with 158 players whittled down to 32.#<\/p>\n
Reigning champion James Wade was made to work hard in the opening game of his title defence, as he defied a 105.58 average from Steve Lennon to run out a 10-6 victor.<\/p>\n
Joining Wade in Saturday afternoon’s fifth round are world number one Gerwyn Price, who eased past Krzysztof Ratajski 10-5, and 2017 champion Peter Wright, who got the better of Joe Cullen 10-6.<\/p>\n
Three-time winner Michael van Gerwen claimed a 10-7 win over Gary Anderson, who joined Nathan Aspinall, Adrian Lewis and Raymond van Barneveld in the list of former champions to fall on Day One.<\/p>\n
Aspinall missed four match darts in a deciding leg against Callan Rydz and Lewis squandered a 6-2 lead over Ryan Searle, both in round four, while Van Barneveld fluffed eight match darts against William Borland in round three.<\/p>\n
Rob Cross also joined the list of high-profile casualties as he went down 10-7 to German number one Gabriel Clemens.<\/p>\n
Former semi-finalist Jelle Klaasen and surprise package Graham Hall were the last two Rileys Qualifiers left standing, but were both eliminated in round four.<\/p>\n
Polish youngster Sebastian Bialecki, who qualified via the Development Tour, is the last non-PDC Tour Card Holder remaining in the field and the only player remaining whose campaign began in round one.<\/p>\n
Jose Justicia hit the 13th nine-darter in UK Open history, but the Spaniard lost his third round tie against Adam Gawlas.<\/p>\n
One of the day’s other eye-catching moments came courtesy of Ian White, who pinned a 170 checkout in the deciding leg of his clash with last year’s runner-up Luke Humphries.<\/p>\n
The draw for the fifth round was made live on the Main Stage at the conclusion of Friday night’s action, with Van Gerwen pitted against in-form Australian Damon Heta.<\/p>\n
That game is pencilled in to take place on the Main Stage, along with Wright v Simon Whitlock, Price v Jamie Hughes and Searle v Dimitri van den Bergh.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile on Stage Two, Wade continues his title defence against Ron Meulenkamp and Jonny Clayton takes on Jose de Sousa in another of the stand-out fifth round ties.<\/p>\n
At the conclusion of the fifth round, the draw will be made for the sixth round – which will take place on Saturday evening across two stages.<\/p>\n
Sunday’s final day of play will see the remaining eight players return to compete for the \u00a3100,000 title.<\/p>\n
2022 Cazoo UK Open Second Round<\/strong> Third Round<\/strong> Evening Session (1900-2300 GMT) Stage Two<\/strong> Stage Three<\/strong> Stage Four<\/strong> Stage Five<\/strong> Stage Six<\/strong> Stage Seven<\/strong> Stage Eight<\/strong> Saturday March 5 Stage Two<\/strong> Stage Three<\/strong> Stage Four<\/strong> Evening Session (1900-2300 GMT) Sunday March 6 Evening Session (1900-2300 GMT) The world’s top five players advanced to the fifth round, while four former champions crashed out on the Day One…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"de":4542,"en":4539},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdc.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4539"}],"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=4539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pdc.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4541,"href":"https:\/\/pdc.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4539\/revisions\/4541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdc.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdc.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdc.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdc.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSchedule of Play
\nFriday March 4
\nAfternoon Session
\nFirst Round<\/strong>
\nRowby-John Rodriguez 6-1 Bradley Brooks
\nJelle Klaasen 6-5 Mark Rice
\nFabian Schmutzler 6-5 Kai Fan Leung
\nSebastian Bialecki 6-1 Matt Campbell
\nJules van Dongen 6-5 Mario Vandenbogaerde
\nDanny Lauby 6-5 Niko Springer
\nTed Evetts 6-4 Nick Fullwell
\nRyan Harrington 6-2 Rusty-Jake Rodriguez
\nRichie Burnett 6-3 Tony Martinez
\nJose Justicia 6-4 Darren Webster
\nKenny Neyens 6-4 Martin Thomas
\nGeorge Killington 6-4 Reece Robinson
\nDan Read 6-3 Diogo Portela
\nDamian Mol 6-5 Josh Rock
\nJames Wilson 6-4 Shaun Wilkinson
\nKeelan Kay 6-5 Matt Good
\nJim Williams 6-3 Ryan Murray
\nJohn O’Shea 6-0 Nathan Rafferty
\nJurjen van der Velde 6-4 Mickey Mansell
\nRicardo Pietreczko 6-2 Scott Taylor
\nSteve Clayson 6-2 Vladimir Andersen
\nPaul Hogan 6-4 Dom Taylor
\nPrakash Jiwa 6-2 Toni Alcinas
\nJimmy Hendriks 6-3 Darren Beveridge
\nRadek Szaganski 6-5 Wesley Plaisier
\nRoss Montgomery 6-3 Reece Colley
\nDanny Jansen 6-2 Liam Meek
\nLukas Wenig 6-3 Adam Warner
\nJamie Clark 6-0 Shaun McDonald
\nGraham Hall 6-3 Kevin Burness
\nLuc Peters 6-0 Paul Marsh<\/p>\n
\nKeane Barry 6-2 David Evans
\nMartin Schindler 6-1 Lewy Williams
\nConnor Scutt 6-3 Jules van Dongen
\nJohn Henderson 6-2 James Wilson
\nNiels Zonneveld 6-5 Jon Worsley
\nDanny Baggish 6-5 John Michael
\nTed Evetts 6-3 Jack Main
\nRowby-John Rodriguez 6-4 Gordon Mathers
\nBerry van Peer 6-3 Kevin Doets
\nGraham Hall 6-5 Andrew Gilding
\nJohn O’Shea 6-3 Peter Hudson
\nJim Williams 6-3 Jurjen van der Velde
\nLukas Wenig 6-1 Keelan Kay
\nJelle Klaasen 6-1 Cameron Menzies
\nRyan Harrington 6-3 Richie Burnett
\nGeert Nentjes 6-3 Jake Jones
\nScott Waites 6-4 Radek Szaganski
\nJose Justicia 6-2 Eddie Lovely
\nDanny Lauby 6-3 Paul Hogan
\nKrzysztof Kciuk 6-1 Brett Claydon
\nMartin Lukeman 6-3 Jamie Clark
\nDanny Jansen 6-4 Scott Mitchell
\nLuc Peters 6-2 Geert De Vos
\nZoran Lerchbacher 6-2 Ricardo Pietreczko
\nSebastian Bialecki 6-5 Joe Murnan
\nDamian Mol 6-3 John Brown
\nFabian Schmutzler 6-2 Steve Clayson
\nAdam Gawlas 6-3 George Killington
\nRoss Montgomery 6-2 Dan Read
\nJason Heaver 6-3 Prakash Jiwa
\nKenny Neyens 6-4 Jimmy Hendriks<\/p>\n
\nFlorian Hempel 6-3 Lukas Wenig
\nWilliam Borland 6-5 Raymond van Barneveld
\nAdrian Lewis 6-0 Fabian Schmutzler
\nJamie Hughes 6-1 Madars Razma
\nKrzysztof Kciuk 6-4 Ross Smith
\nMartin Schindler 6-2 Jeff Smith
\nKim Huybrechts 6-2 Luc Peters
\nRitchie Edhouse 6-2 Max Hopp
\nMartin Lukeman 6-3 Adam Hunt
\nJelle Klaasen 6-4 Jason Lowe
\nAndy Boulton 6-5 Danny Lauby
\nKeane Barry 6-2 Jeffrey de Zwaan
\nGraham Hall 6-3 Steve Beaton
\nMaik Kuivenhoven 6-1 John O’Shea
\nAdam Gawlas 6-5 Jose Justicia – Justicia hits nine-dart finish in leg four
\nJermaine Wattimena 6-5 Ross Montgomery
\nSebastian Bialecki 6-2 Keegan Brown
\nSteve West 6-3 Damian Mol
\nSteve Lennon 6-5 Ryan Harrington
\nNiels Zonneveld 6-2 Berry van Peer
\nRon Meulenkamp 6-2 Danny Baggish
\nRicky Evans 6-2 Danny Jansen
\nDarius Labanauskas 6-4 John Henderson
\nJim Williams 6-5 Alan Soutar
\nRyan Joyce 6-0 Mike De Decker
\nLuke Woodhouse 6-2 Ted Evetts
\nJason Heaver 6-5 Martijn Kleermaker
\nGeert Nentjes 6-5 Kenny Neyens
\nBoris Krcmar 6-2 Zoran Lerchbacher
\nWilliam O’Connor 6-5 Connor Scutt
\nRyan Meikle 6-0 Rowby-John Rodriguez
\nScott Waites 6-2 Brian Raman<\/p>\n
\nFourth Round
\nMain Stage<\/strong>
\nMichael Smith 10-7 Chris Dobey
\nGerwyn Price 10-5 Krzysztof Ratajski
\nMichael van Gerwen 10-7 Gary Anderson
\nPeter Wright 10-6 Joe Cullen<\/p>\n
\nVincent van der Voort 10-5 Jermaine Wattimena
\nDimitri Van den Bergh 10-2 Daryl Gurney
\nJames Wade 10-6 Steve Lennon
\nCallan Rydz 10-9 Nathan Aspinall<\/p>\n
\nDamon Heta 10-5 Andy Boulton
\nSimon Whitlock 10-9 Maik Kuivenhoven
\nBoris Krcmar 10-5 Luke Woodhouse
\nRon Meulenkamp 10-9 Krzysztof Kciuk<\/p>\n
\nSebastian Bialecki 10-6 Ritchie Edhouse
\nWilliam O’Connor 10-7 Jason Heaver
\nDevon Petersen 10-6 Jelle Klaasen
\nJose de Sousa 10-7 Steve West<\/p>\n
\nMartin Schindler 10-8 Ryan Joyce
\nScott Waites 10-5 Glen Durrant
\nDave Chisnall 10-3 Brendan Dolan
\nDanny Noppert 10-3 Ryan Meikle<\/p>\n
\nStephen Bunting 10-4 Mervyn King
\nGeert Nentjes 10-5 Florian Hempel
\nJamie Hughes 10-5 Adam Gawlas
\nIan White 10-9 Luke Humphries<\/p>\n
\nRyan Searle 10-7 Adrian Lewis
\nRicky Evans 10-9 Darius Labanauskas
\nDirk van Duijvenbode 10-6 William Borland
\nGabriel Clemens 10-7 Rob Cross<\/p>\n
\nNiels Zonneveld 10-5 Jim Williams
\nMensur Suljovic 10-9 Kim Huybrechts
\nKeane Barry 10-7 Graham Hall
\nJonny Clayton 10-9 Martin Lukeman<\/p>\n
\nAfternoon Session (1245-1700 GMT)
\nFifth Round
\nMain Stage<\/strong>
\nRyan Searle v Dimitri van den Bergh
\nDamon Heta v Michael van Gerwen
\nPeter Wright v Simon Whitlock
\nJamie Hughes v Gerwyn Price<\/p>\n
\nDanny Noppert v Devon Petersen
\nGabriel Clemens v Michael Smith
\nJonny Clayton v Jose de Sousa
\nRon Meulenkamp v James Wade<\/p>\n
\nDave Chisnall v Boris Krcmar
\nDirk van Duijvenbode v Martin Schindler
\nNiels Zonneveld v Keane Barry
\nCallan Rydz v Vincent van der Voort<\/p>\n
\nScott Waites v Ricky Evans
\nMensur Suljovic v Geert Nentjes
\nIan White v Sebastian Bialecki
\nWilliam O’Connor v Stephen Bunting<\/p>\n
\nSixth Round<\/strong>
\nPlay across two stages<\/p>\n
\nAfternoon Session (1245-1700 GMT)
\nQuarter-Finals<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nSemi-Finals
\nFinal<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"