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\nChris Dobey reached the semi-finals at Ally Pally last year<\/p>\n
Gerwyn Price romped to a 3-0 win over Adam Gawlas to ease into the second round of the World Championship on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Price, who was roared on by the the crowd at Alexandra Palace, bagged six 180s before closing out the win with his second 120 checkout of the evening.<\/p>\n
Despite missing 17 of his 26 attempts at doubles, he scored a 96.44 average to set up a second-round meeting with Wesley Plaisier.<\/p>\n
“I don’t usually get this (crowd support), so thank you very much,” he told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n
“The fans have been great for me the last 18 months, two years, and to come here and get the support like I have, as you can hear now, still they\u2019re chanting my name.<\/p>\n
“Honestly, if I win the million (first prize), it\u2019s not going to change my life, but I want to win trophies.<\/p>\n
“I want to be back in the top four in the world and be where I think I deserve.<\/p>\n
“As long these are where they are with me, I think I can win everything, so thank you very much.”<\/p>\n
Danny Noppert recovered from a slow start to produce a fine win over Jurjen van der Velde, finally triumphing 3-1 after the fourth set.<\/p>\n
A strong finish saw him throw four perfect darts at the start of the final leg to get down to 47 after nine darts.<\/p>\n
Van der Velde had arrived on stage with a can of insect spray after issues on Monday with a wasp at the venue but it was not enough to keep him in contention, Noppert missing two match darts in the final leg before claiming victory.<\/p>\n
Ricardo Pietreczko saw off the impressive Jose de Sousa 3-1 to seal his place in the second round, while Joe Comito upset Niko Springer 3-1 in the last match to finish.<\/p>\n
\nChris Dobey reached the semi-finals at Ally Pally last year<\/p>\n
Chris Dobey shrugged off an early scare to reach the second round of the World Darts Championship with a 3-1 win over China’s Zong Xiaochen at Alexandra Palace.<\/p>\n
Dobey, who reached the semi-final last year, was not expected to be troubled by his opponent but a spate of missed early doubles threatened to cost the eighth seed.<\/p>\n
After winning the opening set, Dobey\u2019s repeated failure to find double top allowed his opponent to level at 1-1 and briefly threaten what would have been a momentous upset.<\/p>\n
Missed doubles continued to dog the Bedlington man in the fourth set but Zong failed to capitalise on his opportunities and the favourite wrapped up victory.<\/p>\n
Another former semi-finalist, Scott Williams, cruised into the second round with a 3-0 win over Paolo Nebrida of the Philippines, while Justin Hood whitewashed Welshman Nick Kenny.<\/p>\n
In an epic opener, Alan Soutar missed no fewer than 15 match darts before finally seeing off Finland\u2019s Teemu Harju in a sudden death leg.<\/p>\n
Soutar missed his first 10 darts for the match in the fourth set, which Harju eventually won to continue his recovery from two sets down.<\/p>\n
Harju missed four match darts himself when he led 3-2 in the deciding set, before Dundee man Soutar held his nerve to take out double 16 at his 16th attempt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gerwyn Price romped to a 3-0 win over Adam Gawlas to ease into the second round of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-195680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}