Definitely a great experience

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Given that he claimed the last spot in the Darts Players New Zealand qualifiers in Christchurch, his win was all the more remarkable.

Peter, who hails from Scotland, won the world titles in 2020 and last year. He has career earnings of some $NZ6 million.

“I’m absolutely thrilled,” Jonny says.

“It was definitely a great experience to share the stage with amazing darts players from around the world.

“To get the win, I couldn’t be more happier.

“It’s an amazing feeling.”

Not only did Jonny surprise viewers around the world who tuned into the World Series of Darts event “I gave myself a bit of a surprise,” he says.

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Peter led 2-1 early in the encounter, however Jonny levelled the scores with a 14-darter. He went on to win four straight legs to take a 5-2 lead.

Jonny came close to taking the encounter 6-2 but a miss at tops allowed Peter back into contention and a double 11 saw him down 3-5.

Jonny went on to take out 84 to clinch victory in the next leg.

He then followed up his first round victory by coming close to topping another former world champion Rob Cross from England.

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Rob was leading the match 5-3 when Jonny made a comeback to level the scores at 5-5 to take the match to a last leg decider.

The 2018 World Darts Champion, Rob took out the last leg, and then went on to win the New Zealand Masters Darts Title on 5 July.

Not only was his first day victory a thrill, “the second night was quite a thrill as well,” Jonny says.

“The crowd was quite rowdy.

“When they are chanting your name out, that was something.”

Jonny plays darts with the Hutt Valley Darts Association, where he began his darts career before playing for the Wainuiomata Darts Association and then moving back to Hutt Valley.

He is a driver for Gilmours who, he says, have been “really good at helping out with time off for darts”.

Next week Jonny heads to Melbourne for a big Australian darts tournament and in December he will see further international darts competition when he travels to London.

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