![]() Jose De Sousa and Devon Petersen are two prime examples of players who are considerably better than their team-mates who the casual darts fans won't have heard of. No team can really afford to have a player that’s carried too much. In pairs you often need one player to be in blockbuster form and the other to chip in with the odd ton. We must make sure the pairs element is more crucial. If they make it 2-2 with a doubles win, then we have a sudden death doubles leg. Therefore, if it’s 1-1 after the singles then the doubles is the decider, and if it’s 2-0 after the singles then the losing team still has a chance to level it up. One solution would be to make all matches a longer doubles rubber such as best-of-19 but I would prefer to see two singles matches as usual, followed by a guaranteed doubles rubber which is worth two points. The singles gets some teams without chemistry out of jail and that’s why we do see big names reaching the latter stages so frequently. He knows the complexities of it and makes that chemistry happen. I was always very lucky when it came to pairs because Simon Whitlock is one of the best pairs players the world has ever seen and it doesn’t matter who he plays with. Having played in the tournament myself, it gives you that element of doubt and you need chemistry with your partner. It’s the most exciting format of the World Cup and gets the juices going for fans and players alike. ![]() Phil Taylor and James Wade crashed out in the very first edition to Spain while Scotland have only won it once with their obvious strength and in 2017 they famously lost to Singapore, who then dumped out Wales a year later. Even though the big nations like England (x4), Netherlands (x4), Scotland and Wales are the only ones to win this event, it doesn’t mean they’ve breezed it or never suffered early exits in the doubles. ![]() The doubles format has always been seen as a leveller. But apart from that, the second round, quarter-finals and semi-finals could all be decided by a team winning both singles matches. The only certainty of a doubles rubber comes in the first round – when matches are decided by one best-of-nine leg encounter – and in the final, where it precedes the reverse singles rubbers. I’m not even sure why that hasn’t come into force yet. There’s no question about it – there should be doubles rubbers in every single match at the World Cup. They took it all in their stride and were ultimately that much better than everybody else and won it. However, last year they looked relaxed and almost as though they were having a laugh with each other. However, if you don't get along with your partner, don't feel comfortable with them or don't feel comfortable with the rhythm of pairs, you're going to come a cropper.Ī few years ago, Peter Wright and Gary Anderson weren’t on each other's Christmas card list and suffered some disappointing results together. The first round is nerve-wracking and if you can go backstage and hammer out a really good bond with your partner before you play your first game, that's half the battle won. The first round is always the worst game unless you get embroiled in some sort of sudden death leg in a semi or final - which I know lots about (!) - but if you can come through it with confidence and chemistry you can go very, very far. Therefore, I think whoever goes deep in this is going to have previous experience of playing in a World Cup or pairs tournaments. Having more people on stage is also difficult for some players to get used to, while there’s also the pressure of having the national shirt on your back. Your usual playing rhythm goes out of the window as you obviously have to wait a lot longer between your own visits, and this means you have to be even more focused on the fewer darts that you do get to throw. It’s a completely different type of game to singles. The pairs format of the first round is incredibly cut-throat and shocks can happen anywhere.
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