{"id":7353,"date":"2025-12-27T23:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T23:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=7353"},"modified":"2025-12-27T23:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T23:30:15","slug":"pdc-world-darts-championship-luke-littler-wins-but-stephen-bunting-out-in-third-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=7353","title":{"rendered":"PDC World Darts Championship: Luke Littler wins but Stephen Bunting out in third round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Saturday&#8217;s afternoon session, fifth seed Jonny Clayton needed a deciding set to overcome world number 44 Niels Zonneveld.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The first six sets of a high-quality match all went with the throw, with Clayton moving in front of Zonneveld on three separate occasions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Dutch left-hander kept responding in an impressive display, but former Premier League champion Clayton found the key break of throw in the second leg of the deciding set before sealing victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Welshman Clayton, 51, was back in action after a 12-day break, having received a bye through to round three because his second-round opponent Dom Taylor was suspended for failing a drugs test.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In round four, Clayton will play Swedish debutant Andreas Harrysson, who defeated Germany&#8217;s Ricardo Pietreczko 4-2 later on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Luke Woodhouse, the 25th seed, defeated fellow Englishman Andrew Gilding 4-1 to reach the fourth round for the second successive year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Woodhouse will next face Poland&#8217;s Krzysztof Ratajski, who beat Dutchman Wesley Plaisier in a deciding set having trailed 3-1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Six more third-round matches are scheduled for Sunday, with four former world champions &#8211; Luke Humphries, Michael van Gerwen, Gary Anderson and Cross &#8211; among those hoping to secure spots in the last 16.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#PDC #World #Darts #Championship #Luke #Littler #wins #Stephen #Bunting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Saturday&#8217;s afternoon &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}