Michael van Gerwen and Gary Anderson produced a combined total of 42 maximums in the final of the PDC World Championship earlier this week. That was a world record for the number of 180s in a single game and helped the tournament tally rocket to 704, easily bettering the previous best of 654 set last year.
Van Gerwen averaged almost 108 in the final, personally hit 20 180s and had five 100+ finishes, helping him end with a checkout percentage of more than 44 per cent as he ended the reign of the two-time defending champion from Scotland in front of a sell-out crowd at Alexandra Palace and an estimated TV audience of over a million. The Dutchman and world number one had averaged more than 114 when beating compatriot Raymond van Barneveld in the semi-finals and is now setting the bar so high as to be almost unbeatable.
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Channel 4 will broadcast the BDO World Championships this year and next in the UK but things didn’t get off to a great start last month when the main draw had to be restarted after the same number mysteriously got drawn twice. Glen Durrant is bidding for his first world championship but the 46-year-old from Middlesbrough is number one seed and the hot favourite (a general 15/8). He won seven BDO tournaments in 2016, including the England Masters, Matchplay and Open. Danny Noppert is a general 6/1 and Martin ‘Wolfie’ Adams – one of the more familiar names on the oche – can be backed at 20/1 in several places. Scott ‘Scotty Dog’ Mitchell, champion in 2015, is a general 14/1 and could be the one to profit if nerves get the better of favourite Durrant. I wonder if his dad will get another new tractor if he wins again?
BDO World Championship Current Best Odds
Glen Durrant (15/8), Danny Noppert (6/1), Scott Waites, Scott Mitchell and Jamie Hughes (14/1), Dean Reynolds (18/1), Martin Adams (20/1), Jeff Smith and Mark McGeeney (28/1), Wesley Harms and Geert de Vos (33/1), Darius Labanauskas (40/1), Darryl Fitton (50/1), Richard Veenstra (66/1), Martin Phillips (80/1), Brian Dawson and Jim Williams (100/1)
