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Gabriel Clemens (37) beats the reigning darts world champion Peter Wright (50 / Scotland) 4: 3.
He is the first German in the round of 16 of the World Cup.
A historic victory for the "German Giant".
Possibly the greatest German victory of all time, as DAZN commentator Elmar Paulke also classified: "This is the greatest moment for darts Germany."
It is an arrows sensation!
With 98.85 points, Clemens plays the highest three-darts average of a German at a world championship.
He broke the round of 16 curse!
And against the current world champion.
The drama culminates in the decider
It goes into the decision set, into the decision leg!
It couldn't be more dramatic.
Gaga starts without a triple, Wright with a 140. Clemens keeps his nerve and gets his start.
He obviously has tears in his eyes.
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In the opening match, Peter Wright played disguised as a Grinch with a green mohawk, a green beard, a green long-sleeved shirt and green arrows.
He ran against Clemens with a black, red and gold jersey.
Black collar, red shoulders and yellow belly.
In the order of the German flag.
In black-red-gold against the German number one: Peter Wright from Scotland
Source: Getty Images / Luke Walker
The world champion managed the break in the first set.
Clemens misses the double 16, Wright thanks and takes the first set.
In the second, the pure world class begins - from both!
"The German Giant" meanwhile plays an average of 105 points, equalizing to 1: 1.
And the world champion fails!
The Scot only has a double quota of 21 percent.
"Gaga" uses this ice cold to 2: 1 (50 percent double quota).
Before the game he said in the “board show”: “I have to take the chances I get.” He does.
Here darts professional Martin Schindler imitates his colleagues
Martin Schindler is not only one of the best German darts professionals.
He is also an excellent impersonator.
Here he recreates six world-class players.
Do you recognize these players?
Source: WORLD
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But he missed the decisive set darts for the decisive 3: 1 - and left 48 points.
Only in the fifth movement does “The German Giant” find its way back, and how!
He checks 144 points under pressure, then 126 points to make it 3-2.
Madness!
Wright reacts, switching arrows.
It fights its way into the decision sentence, into the decision leg.
Gaga starts without a triple, Wright with a 140. Clemens keeps his nerve and gets his start: Round of 16.
"I have no words.
I beat the world champion.
He's such a nice guy, such a fantastic player.
But it was the biggest game of my life. "
The third round on Sunday
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Krzysztof Ratajski (POL / 15) - Simon Whitlock (AUS / 18) 4: 0
Kim Huybrechts (BEL) - Ryan Searle (ENG) 2-4
Dimitri van den Bergh (BEL / 9) - Jermaine Wattimena (NED / 24) 4: 0
Joe Cullen (ENG / 16) - Jonny Clayton (WAL / 17)
Peter Wright (SCO / 2) - Gabriel Clemens (GER / 31) 3: 4
Michael van Gerwen (NED / 1) - Ricky Evans (ENG / 32)
The third round on Monday
Jose de Sousa (POR / 14) - Mervyn King (ENG / 19)
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Dirk van Duijvenbode (NED) - Adam Hunt (ENG)
Nathan Aspinall (ENG / 6) - Vincent van der Voort (NED / 27)
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Gary Anderson (SCO / 13) - Mensur Suljovic (AUT / 20)
Gerwyn Price (WAL / 3) - Brendan Dolan (NIL / 30)
Glen Durrant (ENG / 12) - Danny Baggish (USA)
After the win, Danny Baggish bursts into tears
Danny Baggish is surprisingly in the third round of the Darts World Cup.
The American lost his mother this year and his brother suffered a stroke the day before the match against Adrian Lewis.
After the victory, the emotions break out of him.
Here you can see the highlights of the first session on the eighth day of the World Cup.
Source: DAZN / WELT
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