Saturday's William Hill World Darts Championship match predictions & free tips

Best bets for Saturday's matches in the William Hill World Darts Championship.

When to watch

Sky Sports Darts, 12.30pm & 7pm Saturday

Best bets

Darius Labanauskas to beat Steve Beaton
2pts Evs general

Dimitri van den Bergh to beat Adrian Lewis
1pt 10-11 general

Peter Wright more 180s v Jeffrey de Zwaan
1pt 13-8 general

Gerwyn price -2.5 sets v Simon Whitlock
2pts 4-5 Hills

Preview

Steve Beaton v Darius Labanauskas

Head-to-head: Labanauskas leads 2-0

A surprise quarter-finalist will emerge from this tie and rock-solid Darius Labanauskas is taken to complete a hat-trick of triumphs over Steve Beaton this year.

This part of the draw was supposed to yield a James Wade-Ian White last-eight tie but Beaton and Labanauskas took care of the eighth and ninth seeds and both are playing supremely well.

Labanauskas had looked good in his opener, dropping just two legs in a whitewash of Matt Edgar, and he proved too good on the outer ring against White. Max Hopp was the next victim and the Lithuanian number one boasts an impressive 46 percent on his doubles.

Beaton, the ageless former Lakeside champ, has been every bit as clinical in seeing off Kyle Anderson and Wade.

Both floor contests between these two men went the distance and it would be no surprise if this isn’t also titanically close.

Beaton boasts the big-event pedigree but there are absolutely no signs that the doughty Labanauskas is going to crack.

Kim Huybrechts v Luke Humphries

Humphries leads 1-0

Luke Humphries has demonstrated his big-stage credentials by winning knife-edge showdowns with Devon Petersen and Jermaine Wattimena before getting the better of Nico Kurz in another high-class affair. He’s been averaging around the 94 mark.

Forgotten Premier League star Kim Huybrechts has rediscovered his touch with impressive successes over seeds Rob Cross and Danny Noppert.

This looks a seriously tough one to call though but Humphries was fancied from the off and has done nothing to suggest it's time to desert him now.

Dimitri Van den Bergh v Adrian Lewis

Tied at 2-2

There are plenty of punters prepared to believe that Adrian Lewis can complete the ultimate rehabilitation and go on to end a couple of years of torment by lifting a third world crown.

But if that’s to happen he’s going to have to demonstrate a level of consistency he hasn’t showed so far and he has also failed to convince that he has that in his tank.

Dimitri van den Bergh is another player returning from a dark place and did so pretty impressively with a spectacular 103.81 average in his whitewash of Josh Payne. He then took care of an off-colour Luke Woodhouse and really ought to have the measure of Jackpot.

Peter Wright v Jeffrey de Zwaan

De Zwaan leads 2-1

The layers have arguably got most 180s the wrong way round in the tussle between Peter Wright and Jeffrey de Zwaan – though anyone backing Snakebite is rather reliant on him having the correct arrers in his hand.

Wright changed his tungsten during his hard-fought 4-2 win over Seigo Asada, a match in which he popped in eight 180s. Before that he had hit nine against Noel Malicdem.

De Zwaan had eight against Darin Young and seven against Dave Chisnall in a match where the pace brought out the best in the young Dutchman.

Wright will be far too shrewd to go at De Zwaan’s lick and also hits more 180s on tour than his younger opponent, averaging a maximum every 7.5 visits out of 100 compared to De Zwaan’s return of one every 5.8 visits per 100.

Glen Durrant v Chris Dobey

Durrant leads 2-0

Chris Dobey ended the Fallon Sherrock fairytale and should find an all-men’s, all-northeast gunfight with Glen Durrant more to his liking.
Dobey averaged a magnificent 101.09 in his 4-2 win over Sherrock – impressive given he was fighting the crowd, a decent opponent and an early inability to hit doubles – and there’s more to come from Hollywood.

Duzza will grind away and is the favourite with the bookies. Dobey was an ante-post pick to win his quarter and it doesn't look the time to start opposing him in this one.

Gerwyn Price v Simon Whitlock

Tied at 7-7

Gerwyn Price showed his hand with a 104.2 average and a 4-0 win over the reliable John Henderson in round three of the William Hill World Championship and the Welshman looks set for another convincing victory over Simon Whitlock.

The Iceman has turned the heat up on Michael van Gerwen and Price is unlikely to let his level drop against Whitlock.

The Aussie was a 4-1 winner over Mervyn King in the previous round but an average of 90.94 will not cut it against the Iceman.

Price is a rated as a 4-5 chance giving Whitlock a two-and-a-half-set start and that looks a cracking bet.

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