Tuesday PDC World Championship Tips – JP
Tuesday PDC World Championship Tips
We were quids in yesterday with 2/3 winners in the afternoon session and 1/1 in the evening. The winners were decent odds too, 5.00, 2.00 and 1.63. James is looking to cause the bookies more heartache today. Check out his Tuesday PDC World Championship Tips below.
Steve Lennon vs. Merv King
Their H2H record is 3-1 to Lennon but King won their only match in 2021, 6-2. This will be Steve Lennon’s first time in the third-round while King will be playing his twelfth and he has only won three. His semi-final in 2009 apart, King has not enjoyed much success in the World Championship.
Merv King has lost six of his last ten matches and he struggled to get past Ryan Joyce in his opener, nicking it 3-2 with a 92.7 average. His form is very inconsistent and in his last ten matches he has hit everything from a 115 average to an 80. You really do not know what you are going to get.
Lennon will be getting nose bleeds, reaching the giddy heights of the third round and a realistic chance of the fourth. He came into this event having won one of his last eleven matches, so to have reached the third round and guaranteed a minimum £25k is ridiculous. He hasn’t scored that well, averaging 92 but he beat Razma and Ratajski, both 3-1. It is hard to say why.
Will Merv’s very poor third round record continue, or will he have one of his on days? Will Lennon wake up and realise that he is playing for £35k?
Lennon’s Run To End?
There is no reason why Lennon’s run should carry on. He hasn’t done anything of note so far, he has had a poor season, but he finds himself playing someone he has a winning H2H record against and who rarely wins a third rounder. Surely King is too shrewd a cookie to let this opportunity pass by?
King is the 1.44 favourite with Lennon 3.10. Hard to argue with those odds but it looks like one of those matches that anything could happen. King is too unpredictable at the moment to be backing him at odds on and there is virtually no reason to back Lennon, other than King might hand it to him.
Ryan Searle vs. Danny Noppert
Two of the form players coming into this tournament, Searle runner up at the Players Championship finals, but Noppert scoring a little better. Searle has said that he really wants to beat Noppert. He has beaten all the rest of the top 20 on the OOM but he is 0-5 against Noppert and he wants to break his duck.
Noppert is yet to get beyond the third round at Ally Pally, but he is playing at a very high level recently, arguably his best ever. They have met twice this year and Noppert won both, 6-4 and 10-4 in the European Championship. Searle averaged 101 in that match, so he has thrown his best punches against Noppert, and got stuffed.
Heavy Metal has played three third round matches here and won two, Noppert played two and lost two. Searle has been the better player at Ally Pally and Noppert has struggled here in the past, but the Dutchman has upped his game in 2021, as has Searle to be fair.
Ryan Searle is the 1.62 favourite and Noppert 2.38. Searle is flavour of the month, but Noppert may be being underestimated here. Searle was runner up in the Players Championship, but he was very lucky in the first two rounds and quite poor in the semi and final. People tend to forget the poor wins and then we have that H2H record, which is clearly looming large in Searle’s mind.
Tuesday PDC World Championship Tips: 1 point Danny Noppert to win @ 2.38 with William Hill and Betvictor
Joe Cullen vs. Martijn Kleermaker
Cullen was taken to a deciding set by Jim Williams in the second round and it was clear that Cullen’s Ally Pally scar tissue was still haunting him. To win the match, and it was comfortable in the last two sets, will have settled him down. Just to get through Christmas and still be in it, will feel so much better to him than anyone else. He played well overall and finished with a 96 average.
Kleermaker has taken advantage of a good draw. He beat John Michael 3-1 in the first round and an out of form Simon Whitlock, 3-1 in the second. Both opponents throwing sub 90 averages. Kleermaker averaged 90 over those two matches and now it is time for Cullen to take advantage of the draw. The Dutchman came here on the back of seven defeats from his last ten and winning against two poor opponents does not mean he is in form.
Their H2H record is 2-2 but one of those was during the first lockdown and on the remote Home Tour. He won their only match this year 6-3 in August. Cullen knows that Kleermaker can be a dangerous opponent but a player that has lost 10 of his last 15 is there to be had.
Cullen is the 1.25 favourite but take the handicap bet.
