Former World Darts Championship semi-finalist Dave Chisnall suffered a second round exit at Alexandra Palace with a 3-2 defeat by Germany’s Ricardo Pietreczko.<\/p>\n
World number 21 Chisnall fired in 11 180s to none from Pietreczko and came from 2-0 down to force a fifth set, but the German took the decider to set up a third round tie with Sweden’s Andreas Harrysson after Christmas.<\/p>\n
Nine of Chisnall’s maximums came after going 2-0 down but after the Englishman missed a dart at double 16 on a 143 checkout to clinch victory, Pietreczko reeled off three straight legs for victory.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, world number 29 Dirk van Duijvenbode was beaten 3-2 by England’s James Hurrell.<\/p>\n
Hurrell, who lost the first set, will next face world number four Stephen Bunting or India’s Nitin Kumar, who meet on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n
The 20th seed Ryan Searle started this year’s second round with a blistering 3-0 win over Northern Ireland’s Brendan Dolan.<\/p>\n
Searle averaged 98.67 and landed nine of his 14 attempts on the doubles to knock out two-time quarter-finalist Dolan.<\/p>\n
Harrysson booked his place in the last 32 with a comfortable 3-0 defeat of fellow tournament debutant Motomu Sakai.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the day, Scottish teenager Mitchell Lawrie won the JDC World Youth Championship with a 5-2 win over Kaya Baysal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former World Darts Championship semi-finalist Dave Chisnall suffered a second round exit at Alexandra Palace with a 3-2…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-193940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}