Jonny Clayton beats Luke Humphries to say Swiss title

Jonny Clayton claimed his first rating title of the 12 months by beating Luke Humphries within the Swiss Darts Trophy remaining.

Welshman Clayton started the day by beating Rob Cross 6-4 within the last-16 stage, returning to beat Karel Sedlacek 6-2 at the beginning of the night session earlier than a 7-4 semi-final victory towards planet quantity three Gian van Veen took him to the ultimate.

World quantity two Humphries, who progressed in Basel with wins towards Krzysztof Ratajski (6-0), Cristo Reyes (6-3) and Mensur Suljovic (7-4), hoped so as to add to his recent success at the World Grand Prix.

However, planet quantity 5 Clayton had different concepts and claimed an 8-4 victory within the Euro Tour occasion to additionally safe a spot in November’s Grand Slam of Darts.

The gamers had virtually equivalent averages – 101.75 for Humphries and 101.68 for Clayton – nevertheless it was the latter’s ending that proved decisive as he claimed victory with a run of 4 successive legs from 4-4.

Clayton, who hit six 180s in comparison with 4 from his rival, had a checkout success of 61.54% in comparison with simply 22.22% from Humphries.