The Day That Brings on the Darts World Cup

Darts World Cup has started. The afternoon session will be played for the first time on Thursday. The big attractions follow in the evening: with a duel between the young Schmutzler and the former champion.

LONDON (DPA) – Now the World Championships for Darts Germany is also starting in London.

16-year-old Fabian Schmutzler will enter the most important tournament of the year as the first of four players this Thursday (1.30 p.m. and 8 p.m. / Sport1 & DAZN). If he wins, he gets a World Cup record from a fellow countryman.

Schmutzler is fighting for a record

Normal teens go to school at the age of 16. This also applies to Frankfurt Schmutzler. This week, however, the high school student got a break on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday to attend the Darts World Cup in London. “I may be the youngest participant to win a game. That much. But I see it as more of a motivation than a pressure. I’m trying to achieve it,” said DPA’s Schmutzler. If he If he defeats Englishman Ryan Meichel (at 9 p.m.), he will replace Max Hope as the youngest individual winner in tournament history.

former world champion duel

Adrian Lewis mastered the mandatory task with 3:1 against Canada’s Matt Campbell. Now it comes to the former world champion’s duel: “Jackpot” Lewis, champion 2011 and 2012, has to do with late evening (11 p.m.) Scott Gary Anderson (title winner 2015 and 2016). Particularly striking: the two legends went head-to-head in the 2011 and 2016 World Cup finals. Now they are already playing in the second round of the World Cup to make it to the last 32.