Clayton comes through sudden-death leg against Mansell at PDC worlds Jonny Clayton won a sudden-death leg in the deciding set to edge past Mickey Mansell and book his place in the third round of the PDC world championship after an epic contest at Alexandra Palace.
In the final set Mansell landed successive monster finishes of 136 and 154 to leave Clayton on the brink of a shock early exit but the 50-year-old from Llanelli held with a 70 checkout before a clinical 114 finish made it 2-2 in legs.
Mansell, who impressed on his run to the semi-finals of the Grand Slam of Darts, had claimed the opening set against the darts as Clayton was made to pay for missed doubles.
Helped by his first 180 of the match, Mansell forced a sudden-death leg – which Clayton, with advantage of throwing first, eventually wrapped up on double five.
Despite plenty of wayward throwing, Northern Irishman Mansell dug in during the fourth set and capitalised on some low scoring from Clayton to level things up at 2-2.
