Kim Huybrechts says it is 'outrageous' that a player has to perform twice on the opening night at the World Darts Championship, believing the schedule is unfair.
Kim Huybrechts is back for a 14th World Championship challenge this year Kim Huybrechts says it is ‘outrageous’ that a player has to perform twice on the opening night at the World Darts Championship, believing the schedule is unfair. It has become the norm that the winner of the very first match of the tournament at Alexandra Palace returns later on the opening night to take on the defending champion.
For the rest, we haven’t even come close to such a shock. Other than Kevin Doets last year against Michael Smith. Thibault Tricole hopes to be facing Luke Humphries on Sunday ‘Now we have Tricole against Comito. The latter comes all the way from Australia and maybe he’s going to surprise. That one is then going to have a wow feeling and then they tap his back of, “Hey, in an hour you have to throw again”. ‘Whereas all the other 94 players have a day or days to let it all sink in.
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