Ladbrokes Masters
The UNIBET Masters is the top 16 players on the PDC OoM Table at the cut off date which is shown live on ITV4.
Joe Cullen wins maiden PDC TV Title with the Masters.
Cullen had never previously reached a televised decider, but continued the progress he has made in recent years by finally claiming big-stage glory.
In the process, he scooped the £60,000 Masters title at Milton Keynes’ Marshall Arena, following up Sunday’s earlier wins over Michael van Gerwen and Jose de Sousa with victory against Chisnall.
Cullen had claimed a maiden televised win over Van Gerwen with a 10-7 quarter-final win, and was an 11-8 victor against De Sousa in the last four.
He then held off Chisnall’s fightback from 5-2 down in a dramatic final, as legs of 12, 14 and 12 darts saw Cullen take command.
Chisnall, though, took three in a row to hit back before Cullen sandwiched an 82 finish between 14-darters to regain command at 8-5, before taking out 126 to move to the brink of victory at 10-7.
He missed ten match darts across the next two legs as Chisnall kept his hopes alive and pulled back to 10-9, but Cullen pinned double 18 in the next to write his name into the history books.
Sunday January 30th
QUARTER FINALS (19)
Dave Chisnall 10-8 Michael Smith
Gerwyn Price 8-10 Jonny Clayton
Simon Whitlock 9-10 Jose de Sousa
Michael van Gerwen 7-10 Joe Cullen
SEMI FINALS (21)
Dave Chisnall 11-7 Jonny Clayton
Jose de Sousa 8-11 Joe Cullen
FINAL (21)
Dave Chisnall 9-11 Joe Cullen
Prize Fund
Winner £60,000
Runner-Up £25,000
Semi-Finalists £17,500
Quarter-Finalists £10,000
Last 16 £5,000
Last 24 £2,500
Total £220,000
Results:
Friday January 28th
FIRST ROUND
Krzysztof Ratajski 6-5 Gabriel Clemens
Dave Chisnall 6-0 Stephen Bunting
Ryan Searle 6-1 Mervyn King
Rob Cross 6-2 Brendan Dolan
Dimitri Van den Bergh 6-1 Ian White
Joe Cullen 6-2 Daryl Gurney
Dirk van Duijvenbode 2-6 Simon Whitlock
Devon Petersen 1-6 Luke Humphries
SECOND ROUND
Jose de Sousa 10-7 Rob Cross
Gary Anderson 1-10 Joe Cullen
Michael Smith 10-6 Krzysztof Ratajski
James Wade 4-10 Dave Chisnall
Jonny Clayton 10-9 Dimitri Van den Bergh
Gerwyn Price 10-8 Ryan Searle
Peter Wright 8-10 Simon Whitlock
Michael van Gerwen 10-9 Luke Humphries
