PDC World Darts: Daryl Gurney into round three after 3-0 win over Ross Smith
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Gurney will face Jamie Lewis on Saturday afternoon
2019 William Hill PDC World Darts Championship |
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Dates: 13 December 2018 - 1 January 2019 Venue: Alexandra Palace, London |
Coverage: Daily reports on BBC Sport website and app, plus live text coverage of the final on 1 January, 2019 |
Northern Ireland's Daryl Gurney is into round three at the PDC World Darts Championship after beating England's Ross Smith 3-0 on Tuesday night.
While scoring heavily, fifth seed Gurney struggled with his doubles but outsider Smith was unable to punish the Londonderry man at Alexandra Palace.
Smith, 29, fought back from 2-0 down to level the first set but Gurney, 32, held his nerve to move 1-0 up.
The Englishman was unable to win another leg as Gurney eased to victory.
Smith, who reached the quarter-finals of the BDO World Championship in 2011, has competed on only one other occasion at the PDC championship when he suffered a first-round defeat by Simon Whitlock in 2014.
Gurney, who beat Michael van Gerwen to win the Players Championship last month, finished the match with five 180s as well as a double figures haul of 140s and his average of 100.3 proved far too strong for the qualifier.
The Northern Irishman upped his form in the closing stages as he had a final-set average of 110 to set up a third-round encounter with Welshman Jamie Lewis on Saturday afternoon.
Fermanagh man Brendan Dolan will face England's 14th seed Joe Cullen in his second-round match on Wednesday afternoon.
