Danny Noppert and Gian van Veen have reached the quarterfinals of the World Cup of Darts on Saturday. The Dutch duo left nothing of the Scottish former world champions Gary Anderson and Peter Wright: 8-0.
Noppert and Van Veen impressed from start to finish against the Scottish duo. The Dutch couple achieved an average of 100.2 per three darts and allowed the Scots only two darts at a double.
Anderson and Wright did not get beyond a disappointing average of 79.73 per three darts for them. The Scots were both twice world champions and won the World Cup together in 2019.
Noppert and Van Veen are having an impressive tournament. The couple is still without a leg loss after three matches. Italy and Hungary also failed to take any legs from the Netherlands in the group stage.
In the quarterfinals, the Netherlands will play against the Czech team on Sunday, which consists of Petr Křivka and Karel Sedlácek. The Netherlands has won the World Cup four times. The last time this happened was in 2018.
Then Michael van Gerwen and Raymond van Barneveld appeared on the oche. Both players are not there this year. ‘Mighty Mike’ announced at an early stage that he would skip the World Cup and ‘Barney’ has fallen too far down the rankings.