Waites no match for top seed

Scott Waites was very disappointed with his performance as he lost his BDO World Championship semi-final 6-2 to top seed and holder Glen Durrant yesterday.
World Darts Champion Scott Waites with Bethan Wilson and Kyle Walker at Rawson Junior & Infant School, Boothtown.World Darts Champion Scott Waites with Bethan Wilson and Kyle Walker at Rawson Junior & Infant School, Boothtown.
World Darts Champion Scott Waites with Bethan Wilson and Kyle Walker at Rawson Junior & Infant School, Boothtown.

Waites, who has won the title twice before, was unable to repeat the heroics of his last eight match the previous day when he came back from 4-1 down to beat Belgium’s Andy Baetens.

The Pennine Housing 2000 carpenter, who lives at Fixby, said: “I didn’t take my chances and that was the difference.”

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The opening three sets all went against the darts and from 2-1 up, Durrant pulled away to lead 5-1.

Waites upped his game to win the seventh set but it was a shortlived revival as Durrant closed out the contest and earned a Sunday final clash with second seed Mark McGeeney, who beat Michael Unterbuchner 6-4.

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