Jonny Clayton and Gerwyn Price celebrate in COVID-19 fashion after their victory over defending champions Scotland on Saturday.

Gerwyn Price And Jonny Clayton At The Double For Wales To Reach World Cup Quarters

Gerwyn Price and Jonny Clayton triumphed in a doubles decider to book their quarter-final spot at the World Cup of Darts in Austria.

The pre-tournament favourites came through 2-1 with a 4-0 victory in the doubles over Scotland’s John Henderson and Robert Thornton.

Second-seed Wales’ reward for seeing off the defending champions – though it is a different Scottish pairing – is a last eight clash with Australia who beat Portugal 2-0.

Price raced into a 2-0 lead against Henderson after two successive legs of 12-darts in Salzburg.

The world No 3 went on to wrap-up a 4-2 victory to put Wales into the lead having averaged over 104 in the match.

Clayton then lost by the same score to Thornton to set up a double decider.

But Markham’s Price and Clayton, from Pontyberem, showed their class as they averaged over 101 to reach the quarter-finals.

Wales are bidding to win the trophy for the first time after finishing runners-up in 2010 and 2017.

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