{"id":668619,"date":"2026-10-29T07:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T07:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/668619\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T07:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T07:18:12","slug":"manby-wins-first-pdc-title-at-players-championship-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/668619\/","title":{"rendered":"Manby wins first PDC title at Players Championship 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Manby claimed his first PDC title after overwhelming Maik Kuivenhoven 8-2 in the Players Championship 31 final.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old from Huddersfield, England confirmed his qualification for the Grand Slam of Darts next month and scooped the \u00a315,000 (\u20ac17,920) top prize in Den Bosch after progressing beyond the quarter-finals of a ranking event for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Manby stormed to a five-leg lead against Kuivenhoven and following a brief fightback from the Dutchman, he closed out the remaining three legs in style.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s absolutely amazing \u2013 I\u2019m literally lost for words,&#8221; Manby said. &#8220;There are so many good players here, so it\u2019s just crazy that I\u2019ve actually done it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I knew I was definitely capable of winning a title, but I\u2019m over the moon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ireland&#8217;s Keane Barry was eliminated at the last 16 stage after a 6-5 defeat to England&#8217;s Beau Greaves, who would go onto lose 7-5 to Manby in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlie Manby claimed his first PDC title after overwhelming Maik Kuivenhoven 8-2 in the Players Championship 31 final.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-668619","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\/668619","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=668619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}