World Darts Championship day 11 predictions and PDC darts betting tips

Free darts tips, best bets and analysis for day 11 of the PDC World Darts Championship at Alexandra Palace on Wednesday

Where to watch

Sky Sports Arena, 12.30pm & 7pm Wednesday

Best bets

J Cullen to beat D Heta 7.15pm
2pts 10-11 general

A Soutar to beat D Noppert 2pm
2pts 21-10 BoyleSports, Coral, Ladbrokes

Under 15.5 180s in M Smith v M Schindler 9.45pm
1pt 11-10 Betfair, Paddy Power

J de Sousa to beat R Searle 12.45pm
2pts 6-5 general

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World Championship day 11 preview

Take Joe Cullen to complete a TV treble over Damon Heta and power his way into round four of the PDC World Darts Championship at Alexandra Palace.

Cullen beat Heta in round one of the Matchplay in July and round one of the Grand Prix in October and he can now round off the three-timer by defeating the Aussie at the Worlds.

Both men qualified for this stage in style, as Heta saw off an out-of-sorts Adrian Lewis 3-0 with a 96 average in the second round.

Cullen needed to keep his cool against the colourful Ricky Evans and finished up producing some seriously good darts in a 3-1 win.

Heta has struggled towards the end of the year – he also suffered first-hurdle falls at the European Championships and Players Championship Finals – and he definitely delivers his best darts on the floor. That said, he is a World Cup winner, although Simon Whitlock held his hand across the line in that event.

Cullen began the year in style by winning the Masters and going on to reach the Premier League final on his debut in the competition and he can rubber-stamp that form by reaching the last 16 of the biggest tournament of the lot.

Alan Soutar, one of only three non-seeds to get through round two, has to fancy his chances of going at least one stage further by seeing off favourite Danny Noppert.

This will be a seriously tough assignment for Souts although he did beat Noppert in their one and only meeting in 2022, a Players Championship tussle in October.

Noppert is one of the tour's most improved players – he was seeded 18 this time last year but this time around he carries the number nine on his back, largely down to his stunning 80-1 triumph at the UK Open in March.

He plays well in front of the cameras and often goes deep into tournaments but Soutar also looks totally at home on the big stage and back-to-back whitewashes of Mal Cuming and, more impressively, Daryl Gurney, illustrate that he is in very good nick.

We're into best-of-seven sets territory which means that the 180s are going to go up accordingly but because the layers anticipate maximum efficiency from Michael van Gerwen against Mensur Suljovic – the Green Machine is a 1-12 shot – they have set the 180s bar at a modest 8.5.

Contrast that with the game immediately after it, between Michael Smith and Martin Schindler, in which maximums are in at 15.5.

Both men are prodigious but both have to perform for that bar to be cleared and Schindler, who hadn't won on the Ally Pally stage until this week, comes with no guarantees against a player he has lost to nine times in ten previous meetings.

The afternoon opener features Ryan Searle and Jose de Sousa, two players desperately trying to find some form after indifferent years. Neither impressed in round two although De Sousa showed real guts coming from 2-0 down to beat Whitlock and he is a big price if he can rediscover his Grand Slam-winning spark.

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