{"id":203932,"date":"2025-12-21T18:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T18:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/203932\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T18:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T18:38:08","slug":"rob-cross-eases-into-world-darts-third-round-while-furious-cullen-takes-aim-at-suljovic-pdc-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/203932\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Cross eases into World Darts third round while furious Cullen takes aim at Suljovic | PDC World Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rob Cross eased into the third round of the PDC World Darts<\/a> Championship with a 3-1 win over the veteran Ian White.<\/p>\n

It has been a disappointing year for the 2018 champion, with a host of early exits in the major tournaments. But he still has dreams of adding a second world title and guaranteed a return to Alexandra Palace after Christmas with an accomplished display.<\/p>\n

Cross\u2019s comfortable afternoon a was in contrast to events earlier in north London, with Joe Cullen accusing his opponent Mensur Suljovic of \u201ccheating\u201d after defeat in their second-round match. The No 32 seed was unhappy with his opponent\u2019s slow play during the final set of his 3-1 defeat.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf that\u2019s darts , I don\u2019t want no part of it!\u201d wrote Cullen on X after the match<\/a>. \u201cAlways liked Mensur away from the board but that was plain for all to see! I don\u2019t think I\u2019m alone in feeling this way. The old guard will say it\u2019s part of the game but word it how you will \u2013 it\u2019s CHEATING! That\u2019s not darts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mensur Suljovic celebrates, while Joe Cullen cuts a forlorn figure. Photograph: Bradley Collyer\/PA<\/p>\n

In his post-match press conference Suljovic responded: \u201cI don\u2019t know what his problem is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Krzystof Ratajski will come back after Christmas after a 3-1 win over Ryan Joyce, while Luke Woodhouse made light work of Max Hopp with a 3-0 success.<\/p>\n

In the Sunday evening session the defending champion and world No 1 Luke Littler faces David Davies, while the 2021 winner Gerwyn Price takes on Wesley Plaisier and Damon Heta meets Switzerland\u2019s Stefan Bellmont, who knocked out Raymond van Barneveld in the first round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rob Cross eased into the third round of the PDC World Darts Championship with a 3-1 win over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-203932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203932","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=203932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}