Steve ‘The Adonis’ Beaton is in prime place to regain his PDC Tour Card following an excellent run to quarter-finals at UK Q-College on Thursday.
Beaton fell to a 6-5 defeat by the hands of Australia’s Adam Leek on the primary day of the ultimate stage occasion in Milton Keynes.
The previous Lakeside world champion determined to step away from the oche on the finish of 2024, however after only one 12 months away from skilled darts the 61-year-old made a dramatic U-turn, becoming a member of 925 names all searching for that coveted Tour Card.
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Watch classic Beaton on the 2023 World Darts Championship with this bullseye checkout throughout his win in opposition to Wessel Nijman
Beaton was simply two wins away from securing his Tour Card on the first alternative however remains to be effectively positioned. He sits in fifth place within the order of advantage, with the highest 5 being awarded a Tour Card after 4 days of motion.
Arno Merk and Filip Bereza have been the primary gamers to safe their Tour Playing cards with the pair defeating Jeffrey Sparidaans and Jeffrey De Zwaan respectively.
Merk follows up a memorable debut at Alexandra Palace by recovering from 5-3 all the way down to edge out Sparidaans 6-5.
Poland’s Bereza battled again from 5-1 down, surviving 9 match darts to beat former World Matchplay semi-finalist De Zwaan.
Rhys Griffin and Beaton’s conqueror Leek turned the second pair to earn their Tour Playing cards.
Welshman Griffin returned to the PDC Tour on the first time of asking courtesy of an emphatic 6-0 whitewash of Scott Waites, whereas Aussie ace Leek secures a coveted PDC Tour Card for the primary time after edging out Tyler Thorpe in a deciding leg.
Sherrock, Manby and Half all fall early
Fallon Sherrock is on zero factors after falling early together with ‘Champagne’ Charlie Manby
PDC Tour Playing cards are awarded to the final two gamers left standing on every day’s play in Closing Stage at each the UK and European Qualifying Colleges.
There are 128 gamers are competing in every occasion, with the 2 finalists progressing to the PDC tour, with all different gamers’ factors going in direction of the order of advantage.
Some huge names fell at each UK and EU Q-College, together with fan favourites Fallon Sherrock and Charlie Manby within the first spherical.
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Debutant Charlie Manby defeated Ricky Evans in memorable conflict at Ally Pally
Devon Peterson additionally fell by the hands of Beaton in spherical one, with Jose De Sousa taking out Matt Campbell within the subsequent stage over in Kalkar, Germany.
De Sousa and Mervyn King crashed out on the last-32 stage.
De Sousa beat each Davy Proosten and former tour card holder Campbell 6-3 earlier than falling brief to Ricardo Ulrich by the identical scoreline.
King had wins over Tom Lonsdale and Martin Grearson with a excessive common of 94.17 earlier than he was defeated by Eire’s Stephen Rosney.
Another names out included Boris Krcmar, Cristo Reyes, Jelle Klaasen, John Half, Mason Whitlock, Willie Borland and Nathan Rafferty.
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