2025 PDC WC Sunday Night Preview & Tips – JP
2025 PDC WC Sunday Night Preview
James Punt’s difficult run continued this afternoon. Dirk Van Duijvenbode collapsed, Joe Cullen was transformed and the Bank Of Edhouse was bankrupted by Ian White. We try again tonight, check out his 2025 PDC WC Sunday Night preview and tips below.
Martin Schindler vs. Callan Rydz
Martin Schindler has had a breakthrough season, winning his first PDC title via the International Darts Open. He followed it up by winning another, the Swiss Darts Trophy, at the end of September.
His recent form is decent, winning six of his last ten matches, but his scoring has been light, most of the time. There was a 109 average in the Grand Slam, but he has hit three sub 90s and four sub 93s. Schindler has won his second round matches here for the last two years.
Callan Rydz got his World Championship campaign off to a good start, beating Romeo Grbavac 3-0, and averaging a tournament best 107.06. Afterwards, he put his good form simply down to him feeling well, feeling quite happy. His head is in the right place to play darts and play them well. He is a great player when he is in the mood. Newcastle winning 4-0 yesterday will only have improved his mood.
Rydz is a former quarter finalist here, and so long as he stays happy, there is no reason why he can’t have another good run. It is fairly pointless looking at his recent form. He is very much a ‘now’ player where his mood is all that matters. He has only won three of his last seven matches, which sort of underlines the point.
Their H2H record is an emphatic 12-0 to Schindler. It is unlikely Rydz will hit another 107 average, but he may not need to. I will ignore recent form, and the H2H record, and back the happy Rydz.
2025 PDC WC Sunday Night Tip: 1 point Callan Rydz to win @ 2.20 with SpreadEx, Boylesports
Ross Smith vs. Paolo Nebrida
Nebrida was a nice winner for us in the first round, but his run is very likely to come to an end tonight. The Asian players are getting better, but they still can’t hack it at second round level.
Ross Smith can become the highest ranked Smith in the World if he wins this game. He is the 1.11 favourite to do so and I can’t argue with that. He has reached the third round here for the last three years and this is a great chance to do so again.
Ross has won seven of his last ten matches, and warmed up for this by reaching the semi-final of the Players Championship finals. His last nine matches have all been on TV and he won six. Good preparation for this. He has only dropped two sets in his last four opening matches here, two 3-0 wins.
2025 PDC WC Sunday Night Tip: 1 point Ross Smith to win 3-0 @ 1.95 with Ladbrokes
Gary Anderson vs. Jeffrey de Graaf
This will not be an easy match for Anderson. De Graaf is a very handy player. He is not the heaviest of scorers, but he is very effective. He has won seven of his last ten matches and he had to be up to his work to beat the surprisingly good Bahamian, Rashad Sweeting, in round one. It was a 3-1 win in the end, but Sweeting very nearly went 2-0 up. De Graaf beat Jose de Sousa at this stage last year, but this is a much tougher task.
We have backed Anderson to win the quarter and this is a potential banana skin. Anderson slipped up in the first round of the Players Championship, losing 5-6 to Ryan Meikle, despite averaging 103.88. He has won seven of his last ten matches and has been scoring well. His firepower is going to make things difficult for De Graaf.
Their H2H record is 2-1 to Anderson and he has won both their matches in 2024, 6-2 and 6-3. Anderson’s 12 month average is ten points higher than De Graaf’s and that is a huge gap, should both play to their ‘average’ standard.
Anderson has won all fifteen of his opening matches, thirteen by 3-0 or 3-1. The odds are very short for under 4.5 sets at 1.22, so I will sit this one out.
2025 PDC WC Sunday Night Tip: No Bet
Dimitri van den Bergh vs. Dylan Slevin
Slevin won the all Irish derby on Friday. Willy O’Connor looked like someone had stolen his bun and his attitude was dreadful. Maybe he had something on his mind, but it certainly wasn’t darts. It was a 86.35 average for Slevin, so not a great performance but enough to beat someone who didn’t want to be there. He has won six of his last ten matches and is playing OK.
Dimitri van den Bergh has had a very mixed season. He won the UK Open, reached the quarter final in the Matchplay and the semi-final of the Grand Prix. His floor form was not good, and Euro Tour form dreadful.
Despite playing in twelve Euro Tour events, he failed to even qualify for the European Championship, which took some doing. Eventually, that bad form worked its way into his usually rock solid stage form, and he went out in the second round at the Grand Slam and the first round at the Players Championship.
Poor Form
His recent form sees seven defeats from his last ten matches. In his last ten matches on TV, his natural habitat, he has lost five from his last ten. He has played in nine previous World Championships and won six of his opening matches. He will be glad that he isn’t facing Florian Hempel, who has beaten him twice in the last three years here. These two have never played each other before.
Dimitri is the 1.53 favourite, but the money has been coming for Slevin. On recent form, Slevin has a reasonable chance of winning, but he will need to up his game from where it was against O’Connor. It would take a bit more than 2.80 to get me backing Slevin against a player with a good Ally Pally record. No bet.
