Two days after breaking the tournament average record, Richard Veenstra came agonisingly close to the first nine-darter at Lakeside in 32 years as he defeated top seed Brian Raman 4-2 to make his second career World Championship semi-final.
Neil Duff and Thibault Tricole both survived match darts to win seven-set thrillers as Rhian O’Sullivan and Kirsty Hutchinson also booked their spots in the semi-finals of the 2022 WDF World Championships.
Cameron Menzies and Aileen de Graaf ended the title reigns of Wayne Warren and Mikuru Suzuki on an evening that saw the quarter-final line-ups confirmed in the Men’s and Women’s WDF World Championships at Lakeside.
Neil Duff defeated Nick Fullwell to book his spot in the quarter-finals of the Men’s WDF World Championship as Beau Greaves battled past Hungary’s Veronika Ihasz in her Lakeside debut.
Richard Veenstra shattered Raymond van Barneveld’s 18-year Lakeside record average to reach the quarter-finals of the 2022 WDF World Championships as Wayne Warren kicked off his title defence.
