{"id":799593,"date":"2026-10-11T23:08:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T23:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/799593\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T23:08:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T23:08:22","slug":"jonny-clayton-beats-luke-humphries-to-claim-swiss-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/799593\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonny Clayton beats Luke Humphries to claim Swiss title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jonny Clayton claimed his first ranking title of the year by beating Luke Humphries in the Swiss Darts Trophy final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Welshman Clayton began the day by beating Rob Cross 6-4 in the last-16 stage, returning to beat Karel Sedlacek 6-2 at the start of the evening session before a 7-4 semi-final victory against world number three Gian van Veen took him to the final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number two Humphries, who progressed in Basel with wins against Krzysztof Ratajski (6-0), Cristo Reyes (6-3) and Mensur Suljovic (7-4), was hoping to add to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/darts\/articles\/cw1m49g84mmro\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his recent success at the World Grand Prix.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, world number five Clayton had other ideas and claimed an 8-4 victory in the Euro Tour event to also secure a place in November&#8217;s Grand Slam of Darts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The players had almost identical averages \u2013 101.75 for Humphries and 101.68 for Clayton \u2013 but it was the latter&#8217;s finishing that proved decisive as he claimed victory with a run of four successive legs from 4-4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Clayton, who hit six 180s compared to four from his rival, had a checkout success of 61.54% compared to just 22.22% from Humphries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonny Clayton claimed his first ranking title of the year by beating Luke Humphries in the Swiss Darts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-799593","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}