Recap - Byrne Strikes Gold At Europe Cup

Recap - Byrne Strikes Gold At Europe Cup

Robyn Byrne is the new WDF Europe Cup women’s singles champion after producing an impressive run to the title in Slovakia last week.

The 27-year-old dropped just four legs on her way to the semi-finals, posting a pair of 92 averages in two of her first five matches, before overcoming Katie Sheldon 6-3 in an all-Irish clash to progress to the final.

The Irishwoman raced into a 5-0 lead in the decider against Noa-Lynn van Leuven, and held off a late fightback from her opponent to win 7-4 and take home the gold medal.

Byrne’s singles success helped the Republic of Ireland take silver in the final women’s points table, with Byrne and her team mates also reaching the semi-finals of the team event.

Rhian O’Sullivan left with a silver medal after a run to the final of the women’s pairs alongside her partner Eve Watson.

The Welsh duo were beaten 6-3 by the Dutch pairing of van Leuven and Aletta Wajer in the final.

Sweden’s Viktor Tingstrom took home two gold medals with his country’s victory in the men’s team event helping them top the men’s points table.

Cam Crabtree claimed three medals as part of the England men’s team, with the 21-year-old reaching the semi-finals of the singles and the final of the pairs alongside Scott Mitchell.

Crabtree and Mitchell were edged out 6-3 by the Swedish duo of Johan Engstrom and Andreas Harrysson in the pairs final, whilst his singles campaign ended in a 6-2 defeat to Adrian Devine in the semi-finals.

Those two medals helped England finish third in the final men’s points table, handing Crabtree another bronze medal for his efforts.

Elsewhere, Thomas Banks picked up his third WDF youth ranking title of the year with a victory in England Youth Grand Prix 6. The 18-year-old whitewashed Mason Teese 5-0 in yesterday’s final in Coventry.

Hungary’s Balazs Szotak did the double on home soil with a pair of wins in two WDF youth ranking events held in Budapest at the weekend.

The 14-year-old won the Budapest Youth Grand Prix and Hungarian Grand Prix titles to move up to second place in the WDF boys’ rankings.

Slovakia’s Dominik Kocik, 15, also caught the eye in Hungary with a run to the semi-finals of the Hungarian Grand Prix.

Meanwhile, Team Mission players made a big impression during a busy week on the PDC ProTour last week.

On Tuesday, Connor Scutt reached his second ProTour final at Players Championship 22 in Leicester.

‘The Sniper’ averaged 97 for the day as he reeled off six straight wins to make the final, where he lost out 8-4 to Gary Anderson.

The run has moved Scutt into a provisional ProTour spot for the PDC World Darts Championship, despite the 28-year-old not currently having a PDC tour card.

Madars Razma claimed the scalps of Damon Heta and Rob Cross on his way to the quarter-finals that day, whilst Martin Lukeman and Alan Soutar also made runs to the last 16.

On Wednesday, Adam Warner struck perfection with his first nine-dart leg in PDC competition. Warner threw the perfect leg during his second-round defeat to Jurjen van der Velde in Players Championship 23.

Stephen Burton also broke new ground with a run to his first ProTour semi-final, beating Cross and Heta in last-leg deciders before losing out 7-4 to the eventual winner Dave Chisnall.

Lukeman continued his recent good form with a run to the last eight, whilst there were appearances in the last 16 for Razma, Wessel Nijman and Lee Evans.

The penultimate stop on this year’s European Tour saw the PDC make its first-ever trip to Switzerland for the Swiss Darts Trophy at the weekend.

Josh Rock enjoyed a run to the semi-finals in Basel where he claimed an eye-catching 6-1 win against the world number one Luke Humphries in the quarter-finals.

Nijman and Razma also made the final day of action where they both bowed out in the last 16 to James Wade and Ryan Searle respectively.

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