Philippines triggered a serious upset on Day Two on the BetVictor World Cup of Darts, dumping out former finalists Belgium to e book their place within the knockout levels.
Lourence Ilagan and Paolo Nebrida trailed Mike De Decker and Dimitri Van den Bergh 3-0 of their winner-takes-all Group B showdown, solely to reel off 4 straight legs to finish a shocking fightback.
De Decker and Van den Bergh squandered seven match darts within the closing levels, with Nebrida hitting all 4 of Philippines’ successful doubles to sentence Belgium to their earliest exit in World Cup historical past.
“We did not count on this. We’re actually completely happy to win,” mirrored Ilagan, who additionally led his facet to a 4-2 win over Latvia of their opening round-robin tie.
“It is not simple to play in opposition to two of the very best gamers within the PDC, however we simply tried to play our personal recreation and we trusted one another.”
It was a memorable day for Asian darts in Frankfurt, as Malaysia and Hong Kong additionally made it by means of to the final 16 because the group stage reached a dramatic conclusion.
Malaysia created their very own slice of historical past to hitch Philippines within the knockout levels, as Tengku Shah and Tan Jenn Ming impressed them to an emphatic 4-1 win over Denmark in a decisive Group F match.
In the meantime, Hong Kong’s Man Lok Leung and Lok Yin Lee breezed into spherical two with a whitewash win over Bahrain, following on from their 4-1 demolition of USA on Thursday’s opening evening.
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