{"id":8532,"date":"2026-01-01T15:53:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T15:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=8532"},"modified":"2026-01-01T15:53:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T15:53:52","slug":"world-darts-championship-2026-results-gary-anderson-and-ryan-searle-into-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=8532","title":{"rendered":"World Darts Championship 2026 results: Gary Anderson and Ryan Searle into semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Searle had won 14 consecutive sets without reply to reach his first World Championship quarter-final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 38-year-old Englishman extended that run to 17 with some clinical finishing in the first three sets against Clayton, who took a scrappy fourth to reduce his deficit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Searle&#8217;s 111 finish in the deciding leg of the fifth, one of his three ton-plus checkouts in the match, restored his three-set advantage and he dominated the seventh set to secure a spot in the last four.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Clayton scored better for long spells of the quarter-final but too many missed attempts on the outer ring proved costly for the Welsh fifth seed, who landed just 10 of his 40 attempts at doubles (25%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Searle, in contrast, hit 17 of his 30 attempts (56.7%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Searle lives with dominant optic atrophy, a genetic eye condition which affects his vision and for which he wears contact lenses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking to Sky Sports on stage after his win, he said: &#8220;I can&#8217;t see particularly well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Other people who try to play darts, if they can&#8217;t see particularly well, try not to let that hold you back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I try to be an inspiration to them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#World #Darts #Championship #results #Gary #Anderson #Ryan #Searle #semifinals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Searle had won 14 consecutive &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8533,"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\/8532"}],"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=8532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}