BoyleSports Grand Slam of Darts day three predictions, darts betting tips & odds

Free darts tips, best bets and analysis for day three of the Grand Slam of Darts in Wolverhampton.

Where to watch

Sky Sports Arena, 7pm

Best bets

M King +1.5
2pts 11-10 general

Rowby-John Rodriguez
2pts 7-4 Hills

Preview

The winning machine that is Jonny Clayton continues to march serenely towards the last 16 of the Grand Slam but Mervyn King looks a fair price to give him a game in their Group B finale in Wolverhampton.

Clayton is two from two so far having got the better of youngsters Rusty-Jake Rodriguez and Bradley Brooks, but both were by 5-3 scorelines.

King beat Rodriguez 5-4 on Sunday to stay in contention for qualification - the kind of gritty, battling effort you'd expect from a man on his knees.

And that's the situation again on Monday. Lose, and King's going home, so the twice semi-finalist should be at his sharpest with the stakes high.

Clayton has been tested twice and should be again with King fancied with a 1.5-leg handicap start.

There is a winner-takes-all showdown between Rowby-John Rodriguez and Stephen Bunting in Group D which looks seriously difficult to call. Except that the layers have called it, rating The Bullet a 1-2 shot.

That looks short enough on the evidence of the first few days in which both players have beaten Chris Dobey and both men have chalked up ton-plus averages in defeat at the hands of Ryan Joyce, who is through to round two.

Rodriguez and Bunting have played each other this year on the floor and each has beaten the other. This looks closer to call than the odds suggest which makes the Austrian a spot of value.

In Group C, Rob Cross needs three legs against James Wade to go through though that factors in Jim Williams beating Boris Krcmar, so we can pretty much presume Voltage is through to the last 16. He's odds-on to beat Wade whose form isn't the best right now.

Gerwyn Price is through in Group A and can make it three wins out of three against Martin Schindler, who looks a bit out of his depth.

The other tussle in that group is another winner-takes-all affair between Nathan Rafferty and Krzysztof Ratajski.

Development Tour order of merit runner-up Rafferty is clearly enjoying a great year but it's hard to oppose the Polish Eagle, who is such an experienced campaigner.

Of all Ratajski's recent eye-catching results, it was his 6-1 demolition of crowd favourite Fallon Sherrock at last month's World Series Finals which surely illustrate that he has the bottle for this job.

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