Noa Lynn to step away from darts for mental health reasons and won't play in the Winmau Masters pre-lims
They failed to get a tour card at Q-School with a disappointing first stage performance following its round 1 exit at the world's.

Schedule of Play
Thursday January 16 (2000 local time, 1700 GMT)
First Round x8
Rob Cross v Paolo Nebrida
Gerwyn Price v Lok Yin Lee
Stephen Bunting v Nitin Kumar
Chris Dobey v Basem Mahmood
Luke Humphries v Abdulla Saeed
Luke Littler v Lourence Ilagan
Peter Wright v Alexis Toylo
Nathan Aspinall v Xiaochen Zong

Friday January 17 (1900 local time, 1600 GMT)
Quarter-Finals
Semi-Finals
Final

Format
First Round - Best of 11 legs
Quarter-Finals - Best of 11 legs
Semi-Finals - Best of 13 legs
Final - Best of 15 legs

Nebrida beat Cross

Friday January 17 (1900 local time, 1600 GMT)
Quarter-Finals
Luke Humphries v Nathan Aspinall
Stephen Bunting v Chris Dobey
Luke Littler v Gerwyn Price
Paolo Nebrida v Peter Wright
Best of 11 legs

Semi-Finals
Humphries/Aspinall v Bunting/Dobey
Littler/Price v Nebrida/Wright
Best of 13 legs

Final
v
Best of 15 legs

First 2 Challenge Tour events are today.

Beau Greaves going well with a 5-1 win over Merkx and a 5-2 over van den Velde.

Not so good for Fallon Sherrock, who lost 5-3 to James Evans-Bradford. Home town favourite Pat Scurfield went out in first round.

Simon Whitlock and Andy "the Hammer" Hamilton are just starting in last 64 clash of former big names.

Greaves, Merv King and Unterbuchner among those through to last 16.

King, with a 110.5 average, smashes Hall 5-0.
He plays Unterbuchner in the quarters, while Beau meets Coates and Bellmont and Bottenberg face up.

Simon Whitlock, after stuffing Hamilton, beats Shane Turner 5-3 to also progress to the quarters where he meets Lishman.

Greaves 5-1 Coates

Bellmont 5-2 Bottenburg

Unterbuchner 5-4 King

Lishman 5-3 Whitlock.

Greaves 5-3 Unterbuchner
Bellmont 5-3 Lishman

Beau Greaves wins her maiden challenge tour title with a hard-fought 5-4 win over Bellmont.
The Swiss star had match darts but couldn't seal the deal, allowing Beau to take the victory.


Event 2 is already underway!

Greaves straight back with a 5-2 win.

Pat Scurfield gets a maiden win on the Challenge Tour this year, 5-0 over Arno Merk.

Over in Dubai, Humphries battles past Aspinall 6-5 - both averaging over 100.

Bunting is impressing - 4-0 up on Dobey and 109 average. Can he complete the job?

6-0 with a 111 average.
Magic darts.

Brilliant win for Pat Scurfield over Mike Warburton on the CT

Price mms away from a 9 darter and loses the leg to a 12 dart LL leg.

Price leads 4-2 though.

Price 115 average

6-2

that was a mental match !

Littler averaged 105 & got battered

Sometimes in darts you just have to applaud the opponent and move on.

Price certainly justified his PL place with that performance and looks to have got over his slump.

Nebrida did the "locals" proud, but falls short of a semi.

Humphries vs Bunting next, with Price vs Wright in the second semi.


Over in the CT, Beau Greaves misses a lot of match darts and loses 5-4.

Good win for Humphries

Bit premature Thought it was first to 6.

Great win for Bunting