2022 WDF Winmau World Masters Youth Events

Day Three saw the seniors in action at the World Open, with the boys and girls competing in their World Masters events.

Our two girls, Kenzie Anderson and Kaylee Zerby, again struggle against tough competition, and neither was able to make it out of their round-robin group. Ryan Avellino, Jeremy Demers, and Jimmy Fitzsimmons were to suffer the same fate as Kenzie and Kaylee.

Group C looked to be our best bet, with both P.J. Stewart and David Kramer in the four-player bracket. That’s just the way it turned out, with P.J. taking a hat-trick of comfortable 4-1 victories. Things got even better, as Seth Patenaude bounced back from a first match defeat to qualify from Group M.

In the knockout, Seth succumbed to a solid display from Germany’s Lucas Nitsche, but the Stewart lad advanced with a 4-1 demolition job (and a near-84 average) against another German, Mats Theobald. Highlight of the match wa a sweet 14-dart second leg.

His next match wasn’t quite as good, but it was good enough to not drop a leg, and then another 80+ average against England’s Kieran Thompson put him in the semis. This was a lot tighter, but P.J. levelled from 2-1 behind, and then stuck in a superb 12-dart leg (100, 140, 180, 81) against the throw to give him the advantage. The sixth leg was a little scrappy, but a nice check from 72 gave the three-time US National Champ the win. Six legs later, P.J. was in the final after beating Bradley van der Velden. Now he takes on Top Seed Luke Littler.

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