{"id":632281,"date":"2025-12-14T17:06:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T17:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/632281\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T17:06:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T17:06:14","slug":"world-darts-championship-2026-nitin-kumar-becomes-first-indian-to-win-at-ally-pally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/632281\/","title":{"rendered":"World Darts Championship 2026: Nitin Kumar becomes first Indian to win at Ally Pally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Veenstra hit five 100-plus finishes, with his highest coming at 144. Kumar was not as flamboyant with his scoring, but proved to be incredibly consistent as the Alexandra Palace crowd roared him on. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three-time BDO world champion Glen Durrant said on Sky Sports: &#8220;It was one of the greatest games I have ever commentated on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not just the quality of the match, it&#8217;s the impact for Nitin Kumar and what it does for Indian darts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier world number 27 Ritchie Edhouse was knocked out by debutant Jonny Tata. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former European champion Edhouse was stunned 3-0 by the New Zealander, to taste defeat at this stage for the fourth time in a row.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the same fate did not follow fellow seed Joe Cullen after he eased past Bradley Brooks with a 3-0 win. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The world number 32 was in fine form to produce his second-highest average on the world stage with 99.33. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another debutant, Englishman Dom Taylor, progressed to the second round with a 3-0 win over Sweden&#8217;s Oskar Lukasiak, with the Englishman hitting a brilliant 114 checkout. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veenstra hit five 100-plus finishes, with his highest coming at 144. Kumar was not as flamboyant with his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-632281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115719017730878116","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}