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Free darts tips, best bets and analysis for Sunday's PDC Home Tour Group Three

What is the PDC Home Tour

The PDC announced a new event to keep sport rolling during the coronavirus pandemic.

The Home Tour event starts on Friday April 17 and will be streamed on bookmaker websites and features a host of big names.

Each session starts at 7.30 and will see four stars do battle in nightly round-robin groups which are played over the best-of-nine legs. The 32 group winners will progress through to the next phase.

Sunday's PDC Home Tour Group Three preview

Night three of the PDC Home Tour is headlined by multiple TV-event finalist Dave Chisnall with bookmakers fully expecting the 39-year-old world number 11 to top Group Three.

Chisnall is the class act in this heat and, as such, is no bigger than 5-6 to top the section with double BDO world champion and 2010 Grand Slam winner Scott Waites rated his nearest challenger at 3-1.

Dutchman Jan 'Double' Dekker is 5-1 with Jonathan Worsley the outsider of four at 15-2.

Chizzy, a frequent competitor in high-level PDC events, is deservedly favourite but he was dumped out of the PDC World Championship at the last-32 stage by Jeffrey de Zwaan and has since failed to progress any further than a quarter-final in ten events since.

The 39-year-old has suffered several losses against players he would normally be expected to comfortably see off and he was hammered 10-0 by world champion Peter Wright at the Masters in February.

Chisnall is usually associated with heavy scoring but the Morecambe man was woeful against Wright, averaging just 78.9 to engineer just five darts at a double - all of which he missed.

While Waites is not the force of old, the Yorkshireman is likely to give Chisnall the most to think about and the fate of the group could well be decided when they meet in the opening match of the evening session which starts at 7.30pm.

The pair have clashed five times, with Chisnall edging their head-to-head series 3-2, although they haven't met since 2013 when Waites ran out a ready 5-1 winner in the 2013 Grand Slam.

Scotty 2 Hotty, who reached the semi-finals of the Grand Slam that year, has not often scaled those heights since joining the PDC but he has at least been in decent nick of late, beating Brendan Dolan, Mervyn King and Darren Webster in March.

If he takes down Chisnall in his opener, there is every chance that he can see off Dekker and and Worsley and take group honours.

Dekker is a two-time BDO semi-finalist but he has failed to make it big in the PDC and was on a run of ten consecutive defeats before snapping that sequence with two PDPA Players Championship victories last month.

Double cannot match Waites and Chisnall in career achievements but should at least have too much for Worsley.

The Womble has made little impact since regaining his tour card at Q-School at the start of 2019 and Dekker, who beat him 6-0 in 2017 and 6-4 in their most recent meeting, should extend his head-to-head record to 3-1.

Best bets
S Waites to win Group C
1pt 3-1 general
J Dekker to beat J Worsley (8pm)
2pts 4-6 general

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