Live Darts on Saturday | Australian Darts Masters 2026 Day Two Preview and Order of Play
The final eight face off for the right to be crowned 2026 Australian Darts Masters champion in Wollongong on Saturday.
Seven PDC representatives and one Oceanic qualifier will battle it out for the £30,000 top prize at the WIN Entertainment Centre as they bid to claim World Series silverware.
The opening day of the season’s final World Series tour event saw the big names prevail largely unscathed, with the exception of debutant Ross Smith – who was dumped out in a last-leg decider for the second week running.
Brody Klinge continued the form which has led him to eight ADA tour titles in 2026 as he pulled off a memorable scalp on home soil, defying eight 180s and a ton-plus average from Smith.
Klinge, who has also effectively sealed his spot in next month’s World Series Finals as a result, now comes up against world number two Gian van Veen in the quarter-finals.
Van Veen is vying for his first World Series title, having finished runner-up in January’s Bahrain Masters, and opened up with an efficient 6-3 win over last week’s semi-finalist Raymond Smith.
Meanwhile, Jonny Clayton resumes his quest for back-to-back World Series titles Down Under when he faces Aussie number one Damon Heta.
Clayton claimed the New Zealand Darts Masters crown last Saturday and stretched his unbeaten run to five matches courtesy of a 6-3 success over Ben Robb.
Heta will be out to avenge his first round defeat to Clayton at the World Matchplay last month and pick up from where he left off in an impressive 6-2 win over Joe Comito with a 102.4 average on Friday.
James Wade produced the stand-out performance of the opening round with a blistering 112.7 average in a 6-0 demolition of Tim Pusey, and the ten-time major winner continues his pursuit of an elusive maiden World Series tour title with a tie against Stephen Bunting.
Wade comes up against Bunting on a World Series stage for the first time, with ‘The Bullet’ having won seven of their 12 previous meetings across all competitions.
Bunting battled past Australia’s Mal Cuming 6-3 on Friday with an average of 89 despite squandering 17 darts at doubles in the process.
Gerwyn Price, the 2024 champion and runner-up in Auckland last week, takes on former World Cup of Darts winner Josh Rock.
Top seed Price was far below his brilliant best in the opening round but did enough to dispatch Aussie icon Simon Whitlock 6-2 with an 87 average.
The Welshman is bidding for a seventh World Series title and has won three of his last four meetings with Rock inside the last 12 months.
Rock is yet to progress beyond the quarter-final stage of a World Series event in 2026 and will be eyeing a marked improvement on his first round display which saw him average 86.7 in a 6-3 success over Adam Leek.
The action gets under way from 10am BST (7pm local time), with quarter-final matches to be contested over the best of 11 legs, semi-finals best of 13 and the final best of 15.
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Australian Darts Masters 2026 Day Two Schedule
All times BST (local time +9 hours)
Saturday August 22
10am-2pm
Quarter-Finals
Gerwyn Price v Josh Rock
James Wade v Stephen Bunting
Gian van Veen v Brody Klinge
Jonny Clayton v Damon Heta
Semi-Finals
Price/Rock v Wade/Bunting
Van Veen/Klinge v Clayton/Heta
Final
