Nathan Aspinall turned the newest seed to fall on the PDC World Championship, however 20-year-old Charlie Manby continued his dream run by reaching the final 16.

Aspinall, who reached the semi-finals in 2019 and 2020, misplaced 4-3 in a final-set thriller towards the Netherlands’ Kevin Doets.

The fifteenth seed received the primary and third units, however was pegged again on each events, solely to grab management once more with a surprising 170 checkout to assert the fifth set.

Nevertheless, from there, Doets took over, reeling off sixth consecutive legs to seal a sixth straight win over Aspinall and arrange a last-16 tie towards world quantity two Luke Humphries on Tuesday.

Manby, who’s taking part in within the event for the primary time, overcame Ricky Evans 4-2.

The bricklayer from Huddersfield struggled on his doubles early on, taking out simply 4 of 30 makes an attempt within the first three units as he went 2-1 down.

Scoring was by no means a difficulty although and his accuracy on the checkouts improved, alongside a drop-off from Evans, as he sealed a spot in spherical 4 and a minimal £60,000 in prize cash.

He’ll face the Netherlands’ Gian van Veen within the subsequent spherical in what will probably be his hardest take a look at to date, with the tenth seed having the tournament-high match common of 108.28 in his second-round win.

After the match, Evans posted on Fb that he had acquired loss of life threats in addition to hate and fats jokes.

One other debutant additionally progressed with Somerset’s Justin Hood beating Ryan Meikle 4-1.

He raced right into a 3-0 lead earlier than Meikle pulled a set again however Hood sealed his place and stated afterwards that he wouldn’t need to work in 2026 after additionally confirming not less than £60,000 in prize cash.

He has climbed to a provisional 63rd on the earth rankings already and stated post-match he nonetheless has aspirations to open a Chinese language restaurant in the future.

He’ll face eleventh seed Josh Rock within the final 16, after the Northern Irishman overcame Callan Rydz 4-2 within the last third-round tie.

Rydz was emotional all through following the loss of life of his grandfather since his earlier match.