Peter Wright dumps defending champion Luke Humphries out of World Darts Championship
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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. Defending champion Luke Humphries has been stunned 4-1 by Peter Wright in the last 16 of the World Darts Championship.
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Snakebite turned in a stunning performance to down Cool Hand, which saw him hit 70 per cent of his efforts at double, 14 out of 20. Humphries was not at his superb best, but he was far from terrible against the two-time former champion, averaging 99.23 to Wright’s 100.93.
It was the veteran’s doubling that made the difference though, with as good a display of finishing as you are likely to see in a contest of this stature. ‘Luke gave me a load of chances there, he didn’t play like he can,’ said Wright. ‘I’ve been struggling with form all year. So annoying, I know I can still play darts. I’ve switched to another set [of darts] there to try and find something.
‘Lucky I wasn’t playing Luke Humphries of last year because he was absolutely awesome.’. Asked how he produced such good form after a year to forget on the tour, he said: ‘Because I’m a double world champion, I want to win it a third time, I’m not too old.
‘You’ve only got to play well two or three weeks in the whole year. It doesn’t matter what you do the rest of the year, these three weeks are all that matters.’. Wright came to Ally Pally having fallen out of the world’s top 16, ranked 17 which saw him take on the world number one before the quarter-final stage.
