World Grand Prix darts: Saturday's quarter-final predictions, odds, betting tips, accas, order of play & TV times

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Eight players remain in pursuit of double-start glory including defending champion Michael van Gerwen, world number three Gerwyn Price, the legend that is Gary Anderson and two players who hadn't qualified for the event! Who will make it one step further into the semi-finals?

Here's the verdict of our darts expert Chris Hammer, who has put up winning match tips of 3/1, 5/4, 1/1, 7/2, 4/1, 13/8, 11/10, 2/1, 1/1 and 2/1 from a total of 19 suggested across the opening four days and a treble of almost 8/1.

World Grand Prix: Saturday October 10

• TV Coverage: Sky Sports (1900 GMT)
• Quarter-finals: Best of five sets

SUGGESTED ACCA

• Anderson (-1.5), Cullen, Whitlock (+2.5) & Price at 5.65/1
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Dirk van Duijvenbode (7/2) v Gary Anderson (1/5)

• Career PDC titles: 0-47 (TV: 0-15)
• Titles this season: 0-1 (TV: 0-0)
• PDC Order of Merit: 73rd - 9th
• ProTour Order of Merit: 24th - 14th
• World Grand Prix best: QFs (2020) - RU (2016)
• World Grand Prix Wins/Losses: 2/0 - 18/10

No disrespect to Dirk van Duijvenbode - even though it does seem that way - but if you'd offered Gary Anderson a match with the Dutchman for a place in World Grand Prix semi-finals before a dart had been thrown, he'd have chomped your non-throwing arm off.

His other likelier options were Michael Smith, the man who beat him in the World Matchplay final - Dimitri Van den Bergh - or a three-time semi-finalist Mensur Suljovic.

Debutant van Duijvenbode was the rank outsider to win this quarter of the draw and while he produced a poor display during his victory over Suljovic in the worst match of the competition by a country mile, he was far better in defeating Van den Bergh.

He averaged almost 90 and hit 55% of his finishing doubles but he'll need to raise that even further to challenge Anderson at this stage of a major competition.

The Flying Scotsman averaged the same in a relatively below-par 2-0 win over Rob Cross before raising the bar in a classy whitewash over Danny Noppert, in which he averaged 93 despite missing 14 of his 23 darts at finishing doubles.

Anderson is desperate to win this title for the first time and he's not the sort of player who'll be complacent when such a huge opportunity has presented itself.

Prediction: 1-3

Suggested bet: Gary Anderson to win the match, score over 2.5 180s and checkout over 100.5 at 1/1

Dave Chisnall (8/13) v Joe Cullen (5/4)

• Career PDC titles: 15-3 (TV: 0-0)
• Titles this season: 0-0 (TV: 0-0)
• PDC Order of Merit: 10th - 21st
• ProTour Order of Merit: 12th - 18th
• World Grand Prix best: RU (2013, 2019) - QF (2020)
• World Grand Prix Wins/Losses: 18/9 - 3/4

I wrote during yesterday's preview about why Dave Chisnall's double-start prowess must not be overlooked by his reputation as one of the sport's big 180 hitter - although he needed to survive seven match darts to reach his fifth World Grand Prix quarter-final.

After edging out Ryan Joyce 3-2, he said: "I should be packing my bags to go home but I didn't give in and I waited for my chance to come, and it's nice to have a bit of luck. I keep scraping through but I'll have to play a lot better than I did today. My starting doubles were awful."

That they were, missing 35 of them, but it shows how well he scored - and doubled at the other end of legs - that he still managed an average of 91.37.

Joe Cullen spurned 27 at the start of legs during his own 3-2 thriller over Jonny Clayton but it's crucial to mention that eight of those came in the penultimate one of a match that went the full distance.

For him to immediately bounce back and complete a match-winning 14-darter that seals his place in a first World Grand Prix quarter-final takes some character.

The Rockstar's impressive performances on the PDC circuit in the weeks leading up to this major suggested he's more than ready to show his star quality on the big stage for the first time since 2018, and I think he'll take it up another level tonight.

He averaged 92 against Clayton, hit seven 180s and pinned 12 of his 18 finishing doubles. I am tempted by the Player Performance bet for him to win, score over 2.5 180s and have a checkout of over 86.5, but I'm just wary of Chizzy's dangers.

Prediction: 2-3

Suggested bet: Match to have over 14.5 legs, highest checkout to be over 114.5 and over 6.5 total 180s at 11/10

Michael van Gerwen (1/6) v Simon Whitlock (4/1)

• Career PDC titles: 131-22 (TV: 54-1)
• Titles this season: 4-0 (TV: 1-0)
• PDC Order of Merit: 1st - 17th
• ProTour Order of Merit: 3rd - 34th
• World Grand Prix best: Winner (2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019) - RU (2017)
• World Grand Prix Wins/Losses: 28/9 - 13/10

We all know about Michael van Gerwen's strange season, but what about Simon Whitlock's?

Despite failing to come close to winning title for well over 12 months and suffering a slump of form that almost caused him to miss his first World Matchplay since his first season back in the PDC in 2010, he thrashed MVG en route to reaching the quarter-finals.

Mediocre form on the circuit then continued, meaning he dropped out of the world's top 16 and subsequently failed to qualify for the World Grand Prix for the first time.

But after earning a tournament reprieve due to Adrian Lewis testing positive to Covid-19, he's turned up with no pressures on his shoulders and treated the opportunity as a bonus free shot, averaging over 101 in a 2-0 victory over Chris Dobey, before showing different qualities in a gruelling 3-2 triumph against Mervyn King.

I do feel that if Whitlock had played that latter match in his usual situation - which is trying to cling onto his spot in the world's top 16 and trying to prove to doubters that he deserves to be there - he may have lost that incredible deciding leg.

They'd already played every leg possible in the previous four sets and there he was needing to take out 56 with King waiting on 32 after his 12 darts. Like a ruthless man who'd have no issues mercilessly assassinating a fly, he nailed it in two and now - after all that - he's back in the world's top 16.

His job won't feel complete and he'll be hungry to have another crack at MVG, but we know how the world number one tends to deal with revenge missions.

Having suffered a 6-0 humiliation to Devon Petersen in a recent Players Championship event, MVG showed the African Warrior just who's boss during their second-round encounter on Thursday night.

The five-time champion, who is aiming to win this title for a third year in a row, followed up his 98 average that he achieved in a tense battle with Krzysztof Ratajski with another impressive mark of 96 while there was just one opening visit where he failed to score.

He's visibly growing in much-needed confidence and is more fired up than at any point since the restart - but it's been that much of a rollercoaster season for him, I wouldn't really be shocked if Whitlock beat him again for aforementioned reasons.

In terms of my suggested bet, Whitlock has hit 10 180s so far and should be able to reach three if we can get at least four sets out of this one - although MVG needs to raise his maximum hitting having only managed three.

Prediction: 3-1

Suggested bet: Both players to hit 3+ 180's each at 11/10

Gerwyn Price (2/7) v Jeffrey de Zwaan (13/5)

• Career PDC titles: 14-2 (TV: 3-0)
• Titles this season: 5-0 (TV: 1-0)
• PDC Order of Merit: 3rd - 25th
• ProTour Order of Merit: 1st - 31st
• World Grand Prix best: QF (2018, 2020) - QF (2020)
• World Grand Prix Wins/Losses: 5/5 - 4/2

Anyone who backed a third major televised final between Michael van Gerwen v Gerwyn Price in less than 12 months must be feeling pretty confident now that they both find themselves short-priced favourites to reach the last four.

Having battled past Jermaine Wattimena in match that was closer than the 2-0 scoreline suggested, the two-time Grand Slam of Darts champion, upped his game considerably to sweep aside Kim Huybrechts 3-0 with an average of 95.

That performance including two 100+ checkouts, including a big 148, and 45% on his finishing doubles - but he did failed to get away on four opening visits, spurning 20 starting doubles in total. Put that right, and he'll be very hard to stop.

Jeffrey de Zwaan, like Whitlock, is making the most of his fortuitous World Grand Prix spot and after scraping past Jamie Hughes, he blitzed Gabriel Clemens for the loss of just two legs and finished it off with a stunning 10-darter.

He hit six 180s in just 11 legs so you might want to consider the 9/4 that's available on Price to win but De Zwaan hitting the most maximums.

However, Price could easily scupper that part of the bet so a safer option would be to look at the Welshman's Player Performance targets, which look pretty tame to me if you think he'll win any best-of-five set match. Let alone one which may go four or five.

Prediction: 3-1

Suggested bet: Gerwyn Price to win the match, score over 2.5 180s and checkout over 97.5 at 5/4

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