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Boris Krcmar beats Raymond van Barneveld 6-1

Belgian Darts Open · Last 48 · Fri 20 Mar

Raymond van Barneveld 1–6 Boris Krcmar
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LEG 1
0–1

Leg 1 stays with Boris Krcmar on throw. Boris Krcmar answers with a maximum; Raymond van Barneveld reaches 78 and has a chance to close the leg, but returns with 40 still on the board. Boris Krcmar is sitting on 14 at the other end, so the pressure is immediate.; Boris Krcmar takes out 14 with Raymond van Barneveld poised on 40; the checkout visit needs only 2 darts. Boris Krcmar leads 1-0.

Raymond van Barneveld76.83leg average
Boris Krcmar75.15leg average
14 CHECKOUT 1 × 180
LEG 2
0–2

Boris Krcmar strikes with a break of throw in Leg 2. Boris Krcmar answers with a maximum; Boris Krcmar shuts the door with a 121 checkout; the checkout visit needs only 1 dart; that makes it a 10-dart leg; and that is a break of throw. Boris Krcmar leads 2-0.

Raymond van Barneveld63.75leg average
Boris Krcmar150.30leg average
BREAK OF THROW 121 CHECKOUT 1 × 180
LEG 3
0–3

Boris Krcmar makes it 3 legs on the spin in Leg 3. A 180 from Raymond van Barneveld turns up the pressure; Boris Krcmar takes out 61 with Raymond van Barneveld poised on 40; the checkout visit needs only 2 darts; that makes it a 14-dart leg. Boris Krcmar leads 3-0.

Raymond van Barneveld115.25leg average
Boris Krcmar107.36leg average
61 CHECKOUT 1 × 180
LEG 4
0–4

Boris Krcmar makes it 4 legs on the spin in Leg 4. A 180 from Raymond van Barneveld turns up the pressure; Boris Krcmar answers with a maximum; Raymond van Barneveld reaches 32 and has a chance to close the leg, but returns with 8 still on the board. Boris Krcmar is sitting on 38 at the other end, so the pressure is immediate.; Boris Krcmar takes out 38 with Raymond van Barneveld poised on 8; the checkout visit needs only 1 dart; that makes it a 13-dart leg; and that is a break of throw. Boris Krcmar leads 4-0.

Raymond van Barneveld98.60leg average
Boris Krcmar115.62leg average
BREAK OF THROW 38 CHECKOUT 2 × 180
LEG 5
0–5

Boris Krcmar makes it 5 legs on the spin in Leg 5. Boris Krcmar takes out 78 with Raymond van Barneveld poised on 24; the checkout visit needs only 2 darts; that makes it a 14-dart leg. Boris Krcmar leads 5-0.

Raymond van Barneveld119.25leg average
Boris Krcmar107.36leg average
78 CHECKOUT
LEG 6
1–5

Raymond van Barneveld stops a run of 5 legs by taking Leg 6. Raymond van Barneveld answers with a maximum; Raymond van Barneveld has 40 available but cannot take it out, leaving 10. Boris Krcmar is sitting on 110 at the other end, so the pressure is immediate.; Raymond van Barneveld takes out 10 with Boris Krcmar poised on 32; the checkout visit needs only 1 dart. Boris Krcmar leads 5-1.

Raymond van Barneveld93.94leg average
Boris Krcmar93.80leg average
10 CHECKOUT 1 × 180
LEG 7
1–6

Boris Krcmar closes out Leg 7. Boris Krcmar shuts the door with a 116 checkout; the checkout visit needs only 2 darts; that makes it a 14-dart leg. That's the match - Boris Krcmar wins 6-1.

Raymond van Barneveld76.25leg average
Boris Krcmar107.36leg average
116 CHECKOUT
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Raymond van Barneveld faces Boris Krcmar at Belgian Darts Open in Last 48 and the match quickly starts producing the kind of moments that make live darts so tense. By the finish it is Boris Krcmar who has the result at 6-1, but every leg has its own part to play on the way there. Leg 1 stays with Boris Krcmar on throw. Boris Krcmar answers with a maximum; Raymond van Barneveld reaches 78 and has a chance to close the leg, but returns with 40 still on the board.

Boris Krcmar is sitting on 14 at the other end, so the pressure is immediate.; Boris Krcmar takes out 14 with Raymond van Barneveld poised on 40; the checkout visit needs only 2 darts. Boris Krcmar leads 1-0. Boris Krcmar strikes with a break of throw in Leg 2. Boris Krcmar answers with a maximum; Boris Krcmar shuts the door with a 121 checkout; the checkout visit needs only 1 dart; that makes it a 10-dart leg; and that is a break of throw.

Boris Krcmar leads 2-0. Boris Krcmar makes it 3 legs on the spin in Leg 3. A 180 from Raymond van Barneveld turns up the pressure; Boris Krcmar takes out 61 with Raymond van Barneveld poised on 40; the checkout visit needs only 2 darts; that makes it a 14-dart leg. Boris Krcmar leads 3-0.

Boris Krcmar makes it 4 legs on the spin in Leg 4. A 180 from Raymond van Barneveld turns up the pressure; Boris Krcmar answers with a maximum; Raymond van Barneveld reaches 32 and has a chance to close the leg, but returns with 8 still on the board. Boris Krcmar is sitting on 38 at the other end, so the pressure is immediate.; Boris Krcmar takes out 38 with Raymond van Barneveld poised on 8; the checkout visit needs only 1 dart; that makes it a 13-dart leg; and that is a break of throw. Boris Krcmar leads 4-0.

Boris Krcmar makes it 5 legs on the spin in Leg 5. Boris Krcmar takes out 78 with Raymond van Barneveld poised on 24; the checkout visit needs only 2 darts; that makes it a 14-dart leg. Boris Krcmar leads 5-0. Raymond van Barneveld stops a run of 5 legs by taking Leg 6.

Raymond van Barneveld answers with a maximum; Raymond van Barneveld has 40 available but cannot take it out, leaving 10. Boris Krcmar is sitting on 110 at the other end, so the pressure is immediate.; Raymond van Barneveld takes out 10 with Boris Krcmar poised on 32; the checkout visit needs only 1 dart. Boris Krcmar leads 5-1. The match contains 2 breaks of throw.

The decisive difference comes in the moments when one player reaches a finish, the other is close enough to punish a miss, and the next visit suddenly matters more than the average.

About this commentary: All Things Darts Match Centre compiles it from the stored match result, statistics and ordered visit-by-visit scoring. It does not invent exact doubles, missed darts or dart segments that are not present in the source data. Per-leg averages are only labelled as exact when darts used are available for every recorded visit in that leg.

MATCH DATA

Match statistics

89.483-dart avg101.21
3180s3
10Highest checkout121
9%Checkout %55%
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