{"id":422862,"date":"2026-04-29T04:53:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/422862\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T04:53:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:53:18","slug":"barry-betters-humphries-as-nijman-wins-in-milton-keyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/422862\/","title":{"rendered":"Barry betters Humphries as Nijman wins in Milton Keyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keane Barry picked up a notable scalp at the Players Championship 12 in Milton Keynes as he defeated world no. 2 Luke Humphries on a night where Wessel Nijman triumphed.<\/p>\n<p>Barry won 6-5 against the Englishman in his first match of the night, but fell to Alexander Merkx of the Netherlands by the same score in the next round.<\/p>\n<p>Beau Greaves was unable to build on her historic start to the week after being well beaten in the last 16<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/darts\/2026\/0427\/1570508-history-as-greaves-becomes-first-female-pdc-title-winner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Greaves on Monday became the first woman to win a PDC ranking title<\/a> after toppling three former champions, but 24 hours later the 22-year-old was crushed 6-0 by Tom Bissell having dispatched Tommy Morris and Damon Heta in the first two rounds.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Nijman took the honours in Tuesday&#8217;s action following an 8-5 victory over his Dutch compatriot Jermaine Wattimena in the final.<\/p>\n<p>It was Nijman\u2019s fourth Players Championship title in this year\u2019s 12 events to continue his stellar 2026.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a nervy final and I had to come from behind. I made it difficult for myself but I\u2019m so happy I kept it together,&#8221; Nijman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keane Barry picked up a notable scalp at the Players Championship 12 in Milton Keynes as he defeated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-422862","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\/422862","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=422862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}