World No 92 beats former world champion 3-0
Luke Littler eases past David Davies into round three
By the end, all Gerwyn Price could do was applaud. There was no snarling and no sullenness from the former champion, just a nod of recognition, an admission that sometimes the other guy just plays darts from the gods. And here the other guy was Wesley Plaisier, the world No 92 from the Netherlands, a player of rich potential, but nothing that would ever have suggested he was capable of a shock of this magnitude.
The talent has always been there: last year he joined a select group of players to have won a Pro Tour event despite not holding a tour card.
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