Evetts twice reaches latter stages of PDC Challenge Tour events
The double-header weekend featured four events at the Robin Park Tennis Centre in Wigan, with the Stockton thrower, who won Event Eight, reaching the quarter-final in Events 10 and 11.
The weekend got off to a slow start for Evetts, who lost out in the second round at Event Nine to Kevin Garcia (5-1) on the back of a superb 5-0 whitewash of Glenn Gibson in the round of 256.
Advertisement
Hide AdAdvertisement
Hide AdSuperTed then went all the way to the semi-finals on Saturday afternoon, enjoying successes over Nathan Richards (5-0), Jamie Hughes (5-4), Kevin Edwards (5-0), Marko Kantele (5-2), Kim Viljanen (5-1) and Barry Lynn (5-3) before he was defeated 5-1 by 2012 BDO World Championship quarter-finalist Martin Atkins.
Atkins, in his first season on with the PDC, then suffered a 5-1 defeat to Michael Barnard in the final.
Evetts’ took the momentum from that last-four appearance through to Sunday’s opening event, going on to reach the quarter-finals with victories over Jon Jukes (5-0), David Pallett (5-3), Carlo van Peer (5-1), Ben Burton (5-4) and Rhys Griffin (5-3).
He then suffered a 5-3 defeat to 2007 PDC World Championship semi-finalist Andy Jenkins who went on to reach the final where he lost to an in-form Barnard.
Advertisement
Hide AdAdvertisement
Hide AdThe final event of the weekend saw Evetts edged out 5-4 by Andy Boulton who went on to reach the quarter-final.
After 12 PDC Unicorn Challenge Tour events, Evetts, who is down in 148th on the PDC Order of Merit, currently has a three-dart average of 87.24.
He has also fired in 37 maximums in 29 matches.