The first German darts player at the World Cup is out. Dragutin Horvat misses the surprise. A World Cup legend, on the other hand, is fully on track.
Dragutin Horvat clearly missed the surprise he was aiming for at the World Darts Championship in London and was eliminated.
The 47-year-old Hesse lost clearly 0-3 against the Belgian Mike De Decker and showed a weak performance for long periods. For Horvat, it was only his second participation in the most important tournament of the year after 2017.
In front of 3,000 spectators, including the dancing ex-footballer Peter Crouch, Horvat made far too many mistakes. De Decker himself played a mixed match, but that was enough for the warehouse clerk, who had to take extra vacation for the tournament at Alexandra Palace. On Sunday, Cologne’s Florian Hempel ensured a top German start to the World Cup with a 3-1 win against Dylan Slevin from Ireland.
In the first game of the evening session on Tuesday, Englishman Steve Beaton prevailed. In his 33rd World Cup participation in a row, the Bronzed Adonis, as Beaton is called, won 3-1 against Wessel Nijman from the Netherlands. Beaton can now challenge Daryl Gurney from Northern Ireland in round two.
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Source: Stern
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