MARK WEBSTER 4 v GLENN MOODY 1

Top seed Mark Webster kept the Welsh dream of world championship glory  alive, sweeping up “house husband” Glenn Moody with a hard-fought  4-1 success.

The gulf between the two players was enormous as the Welshman from Denbigh who holds the World Cup and Europe Cup singles nailed his title intentions to the board.

It took the Denbigh based left-hander 65 minutes repel the challenge of the slow-throwing blue and black shirted smiling newcomer from the North East of England.

Without doubt, Moody is one of the most popular players to have appeared on the Frimley Green stage. Normally slow players are not “adopted” by the audience – Moody takes an average of 15 seconds to throw his 3 darts.

But the infectious beaming smile, swaggering walk along the oche and little jigs endeared him to the enthusiastic crowd with virtually everyone chanting  “Moody, Moody” after every leg of darts.

Webster took seven successive legs before the people’s favourite notched his first double success – double eight. Surprisingly he added the next and when the top seed missed “tops” Moody fired out on double eight to take the third set, much to the delight of the audience.

The Welshman saw his 1-0 lead turned around in the fourth but then levelled, taking it into a tense fifth leg. Moody missed 11 doubles to level the match and Webster only extending his lead to 3-1 after 11 attempts for the winning double five.

Moody raced 2-0 in front in the fifth set but Webster fought back, a 180 and double tops taking the set into a deciding fifth leg which the Welshman finished with a 17-darter finished on 56.

 
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