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James Wade reached his third final of the year in Barnsley on Tuesday but couldn’t quite get over the line. The Team Unicorn star lost 6-2 to Mervyn King in the final of Players Championship 15 after a superb day. It was King’s first title for almost four years as he averaged 105 to edge out Wade in the final. Wade banged in a 126 finish on the bull to counter King’s 127 check-out on the bull, but the Unicorn man missed some chances and King took full advantage....from 3-2 in front he won three legs

Ian White and Michael Smith both missed out on the big prize at the latest Players Championship weekend. Meanwhile Unicorn youngster Adam Hunt enjoyed one of the best senior results of his career, reaching the quarter-finals of PC 14 in Wigan on Sunday. But it was a case of ‘Double Cross’ for White and Smith over the PC weekend! White was beaten by Rob Cross in Saturday’s final, while Smith was downed by the World Champion in Sunday’s semi-finals. Cross won his first tournament since claiming the

Team Unicorn Young gun Ted Evetts has claimed his second PDC Unicorn Development title in the space of just two weeks. And this latest victory takes Evetts back to the top of the PDC Unicorn Development Tour Order of Merit. He won an all Unicorn final in event 12 as he beat Dimitri van den Bergh 5-2. For the Belgian, it was a second loss in a final over the weekend. He was beaten in DT 9 by Martin Schindler on Saturday. The German claimed a superb double as he also won event 10 with a 5-1 victory

Unicorn star Michael Smith will begin his defence of the Gibraltar Darts Trophy on Saturday against either Jermaine Wattimena or a Host Nation Qualifier. Unibet Premier League runner-up Smith claimed his fourth European Tour title at last year’s event, defeating Mensur Suljovic 6-4 in the final – players pictured. Smith has picked up two ProTour titles so far in 2018 as well as reaching the final of the German Darts Open in April and begins his bid for a first European Tour title of the year on Saturday

They came so close, but for a second time Gary Anderson and Scotland had to settle for runners-up spot in a World Cup. Anderson and Peter Wright lost out to the Netherlands who defended their title and won the World Cup for a 4th time. Holland won the final 3-1 as Michael van Gerwen beat Anderson in the reverse singles in Frankfurt on Sunday night. The Unicorn ace had kept the Scots in the final as he hit five 180s in beating Raymond van Barneveld 4 legs to 1 in the singles. But the Netherlands won

The biggest tournament in darts is to expand further as the William Hill World Championship grows to include 96 competitors and a record £2.5 million prize fund, including a huge £500,000 to the 2018/2019 champion. In the biggest development for the tournament since its move to London's Alexandra Palace a decade ago, the World Championship will continue its remarkable growth both on and off the oche this year. The sport's biggest event has seen 72 players in recent years competing in a festival of

Kyle and Gary Anderson have steered Scotland and Australia into the last eight at the World Cup. And the Team Unicorn duo remain on course to clash in the semi-finals in Frankfurt. Kyle led from the front as Australia beat Spain in a thriller to reach the quarter-finals, while Gary was a class act as the Scots dropped just one leg in beating the boys from Brazil. The Aussies face now Wales and Scotland play Japan. It was an easy run for Scotland as Gary beat Bruno Rangel 4-0 and Peter Wright was

Team Unicorn duo Kim Huybrechts and Dimitri van den Bergh produced a stunning fightback to keep their World Cup hopes alive. Belgium came from 0-3 and 2-4 down to beat the Republic of Ireland 5-4 in a thriller. The game changed in the 6th leg. The Irish duo of Steve Lennon and William O’Connor had left 48 to win the match 5-2......then from nowhere Van den Bergh, who had really struggled in the match, found a fabulous 130 finish on the bull to keep Belgium in the hunt. Dimitri then hit a maximum

Team Unicorn’s Seigo Asada led from the front as he and Haruki Muramatsu saw off Austria in the big shock on the opening night of the World Cup of Darts in Frankfurt. It was a thriller, going all the way to a deciding leg, and Asada was sensational. He hit four 180s and a 177 and finished superbly as they toppled Mensur Suljovic and Zoran Lerchbacher. It should have been more comprehensive. Japan missed three darts for a 4-1 lead after a hat-trick of Asada 180s. Muramatsu missed a dart at the bull

Team Unicorn starlet Ted Evetts has claimed another PDC title. He won a PDC Unicorn Development Tour event in Hildesheim over the weekend to further boost his darting stock. In a superb performance, Evetts lost only 10 legs in seven matches as he swept to victory in Development Tour 8, beating Geert Nentjes 5-2 in the final. It’s a second title of the year for Evetts who won on the PDC Unicorn Challenge Tour in March, and he is now in second spot on the Development Tour Order of Merit. Evetts also