Australian darts star Joe Comito set up out the challenging way equitable how brutal the Alexandra Palace crowd can be during his fall shorture to Thibault Tricole in the uncovering suit of the 2025 World Darts Championships.
The season-finishing tournament officipartner got underway on Sunday evening with Luke Humphries already booking his spot in the third round with a consoleable prosper over Tricole.
The suit agetst Humphries was Tricole’s second of the night as he already featured earlier in the evening.
The Frenchman faced off agetst Comito, who was making his World Darts Championship debut after qualifying thraw the DartPlayers Australia ProTour.
Joe Comito apologised for not going after the 180
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Comito misparticipated no time in embracing the huge stage as he hit the tournament’s first 180 during the second set agetst Tricole.
The crowd were on their feet after his peak with the noise levels increasing inside Alexandra Palace.
But they jokingly turned on Comito in the third set when he seeed on course to hit another 180 before taking a moment to write himself before his final dart.
The crowd jeered as Comito stepped back from the oche with a smile on his face and the noise level began to incrmitigate.
The Aussie darts star, who was trailing 2-0 in sets to Tricole at the time, then selected to go for treble 19 to the sour disassignment of the crowd.
There were deafening boos from the stands as Comito get backd his darts, who chuckleed and held his hands up in apology.
Comito finished up omiting the treble 19, which left him necessitateing 134 to stay in the suit agetst Tricole.
The Frenchman fall shorted to get his opportunity to finish the suit in that leg though as Comito took the third set with a 52 verifyout.
Joe Comito saw the funny side of the exalter
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Comito landed his third peak of the night in the fourth set with the crowd very much on his side to pull off an almighty comeback agetst Tricole.
But the 43-year-greater eventupartner gets punished for omiting double 20 with Tricole securing the triumph with a double 16 finish.
Tricole had equitable two hours to write himself after that prosper before facing the deffinishing world champion.
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Humphries never seeed in ask of prosperning the suit as he won all nine legs with an astonishive verifyout of 160 at one stage.
The world No 1 is foreseeed to face No 32 seed Raymond van Barneveld in the third round, who faces either Nick Kenny or Stowe Buntz next.
