Anastasia Dobromyslova followed Lisa Ashton out of the PDC world championship as she lost to the Alexandra Palace debutant Ryan Joyce, while Raymond van Barneveld went out to Darius Labanauskas in Monday’s big shock.
Ashton and Dobromyslova were the two multiple British Darts Organisation women’s world champions to qualify this year and Ashton lost to Jan Dekker on the opening night of the Professional Darts Corporation event last Thursday.
Dobromyslova received a rapturous welcome at Alexandra Palace and took the opening leg. However, Joyce won nine of the next 11 legs to make it through to face Simon Whitlock.
“I’ve never been so popular in all my life – I gave it my best shot but it wasn’t enough,” Dobromyslova said.
“What did I learn from tonight? Probably that I need to practise more! But if the PDC announced tomorrow that they were launching a ladies’ tour, I would be first in the queue.”
Darius Labanauskas beat Van Barneveld 3-2. The five-times world champion never led in the second-round match, his frustration visibly growing as he missed several darts that could have turned the tide.
It was the biggest win of Labanauskas’s career as the Lithuanian knocked out Van Barneveld, who was hoping to add a second PDC title before his planned retirement at the end of next year.
Devon Peterson claimed victory in a thrilling battle with Wayne Jones, winning 3-2. The pair had traded blows throughout before the match went to a decider, in which Jones passed up six attempts at a match-winning double before Peterson snatched it at the eighth attempt.
“Not to sound too cocky but I think the right man won in the end,” Petersen told pdc.tv. “I was way ahead of him performance-wise and I just let him in after 2-0 which was my fault because I felt like I was cruising. I thought it was going to be 3-1 worse-case scenario. I’m just happy that I won in the end.”
The evening’s first contest saw Vincent Van Der Voort hold off Lourence Illagan to advance with a 3-1 win.
