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Gritty Garry topples sixth seed Ross
Gritty
Yorkshireman Garry Thompson inflicted a surprise 3-2 defeat on Scot Ross
Montgomery, the tournament’s sixth seed.
The Glaswegian
- the ninth seed to fall in a week of shocks at the championship – was punished
for constantly missing doubles and failing to match the Silsden man’s superior
scoring in the 56-minute gripper.
The
Scot struggled to settle in the opening set and missed doubles allowing the
Silsden engineer - nicknamed the Cougar - to pounce for a 3-0 success.
He then moved
up a gear edging into a 2-0 lead but faltered in the third leg after he missed a
further three doubles as Thompson added the next with the throw.
Ross was given
a further fright by the West Yorkshire player as he hit two single 20s and wired
a set-winning bull finish, the Scot replying by hitting double 16 with his first
dart to level the game but his shaking hand suggested that he was ill at ease on
the Lakeside stage.
He remained
vulnerable as he failed to hit the big scores, Thompson, a 100-1 outsider at the
start of the week, sweeping to the third set 3-0.
The fourth set
went to a deciding fifth leg, Ross scrambling to double 16 and then blazing into
the next set with a show-stopping 125 checkout completed on double tops, against
the throw.
But passive
Thompson bounced back to level, Ross pinching the third after both missed
doubles. Racing into a commanding lead in the next, Ross missed a further six
doubles letting in the laid back Thompson to push the match into a tie-breaker.
Thompson chose the moment to fire in his first maximum of
the game and despite missing six match-winning doubles he scrambled through on
double eight to wreck the Scotsman’s title-hopes.
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