Madars Razma reacted to an incident at the World Darts Championship (Image: Getty)
Madars Razma has fired a message to a rival darts player after a bizarre incident at the PDC World Darts Championship. The tournament is underway but the action at Alexandra Palace was brought to an unexpected halt on Monday.
A first-round match between Scotland’s Alan Soutar and Kai Gotthardt was paused at 2-1 in the first set as the latter was left with just two working darts. Unusually, the German was as he had not brought spare darts with him to the oche.
The break in play briefly benefitted Soutar, who sealed the first set once the match resumed, but Gotthardt rallied to win the next three sets and book his place in the next round. Despite the victory, Gotthardt was reminded of his earlier mishap by Razma, who was baffled by the unexpected break in play at the .
Kai Gotthardt showing his broken dart (Image: Taylor Lanning/PDC)
Razma quipped on social media: “How it is possible that a pro player doesn’t have an extra set of darts on stage? Some players have 2 different sets of darts in case.”
Providing context on the incident, Sky Sports pundit Laura Turner said: “Players will take spare bits, but depending on what’s happened to the barrel itself, some people don’t have duplicates for their own barrels, they have one unique set.
“I know players who have had the same set for 20, 30 years. It could just be that he needs to find another barrel. He needs to find one quickly.”
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How it is possible that a Pro player doesn’t have an extra set of darts on stage???????♂️ Some players have 2 different sets of darts in case??????
— Madars Razma (@MadarsRazma)
Razma will hope to avoid any similar misfortune as the Latvian prepares to take on Christian Kist in his first-round tie on Wednesday night. “Razmatazz” reached the third round last year, and a victory over Kist would see him face Dirk van Duijvenbode in the next phase.
Meanwhile, Gotthardt’s victory has set up a match with number eight seed Stephen Bunting. Both Gotthardt and Razma are on the same side of the tournament bracket and will meet in the third round if they manage to win their respective ties.