Premier League Darts 2023 | Night 13 Leeds Preview and Order of Play
Premier League Darts heads to Leeds on Thursday as the battle for top four places enters the final straight.
Just four league nights remain before the top four in the league table will head to London’s O2 Arena to compete for the sport’s most prestigious invitational title.
Whilst the top two are all but assured of a place in the play-offs, it remains all to play for amongst the chasing pack, with six of the field having now picked up at least one weekly title.
Gerwyn Price moved to the top of the table for the first time this season courtesy of his run to a sixth final of the campaign last week.
Price leapfrogged Michael van Gerwen into top spot and became the first player to reach the 30-point mark, effectively clinching a play-off place for the first time in his career.
The 2021 World Champion, a winner of four weekly titles so far this term, will look to consolidate his position at the top of the pile and starts out against World Cup team-mate Jonny Clayton at the First Direct Arena.
Price has not lost a Quarter-Final fixture in each of his last six outings and has won three of his four matches against Clayton in this year’s Premier League, including a 6-1 rout in last week’s Semi-Finals.
Clayton starts the night in fourth spot after picking up back-to-back titles in Weeks Nine and Ten and is vying to reach the play-offs for the third season on the spin.
The 2021 champion has Michael Smith breathing down his neck and knows any slip-up in Leeds could see him drop out of the top four.
Smith is just one point adrift of Clayton going in to his crucial clash against Chris Dobey to kick off the night.
The world number one and World Champion slipped out of the play-off places for the first time since Night Two following his Quarter-Final defeat to Price last week.
Dobey has won all three of his televised meetings with Smith this season, two of which coming in the Premier League and the other in the Semi-Finals of The Masters – the event he went on to win to secure a Premier League debut.
Dobey, however, has gone four weeks without a win, leaving him nine points adrift of the top four and with a mountain to climb if he is to gate-crash the play-offs.
Reigning champion Van Gerwen looks to reclaim top spot at the first time of asking, and starts his quest for a fourth weekly title of the campaign with a tie against struggling Peter Wright.
Van Gerwen’s three weekly titles came in consecutive weeks (4-6), but he has reached just one final since and will be keen to regain top form at the business end of the tournament.
The Dutchman has won all three of his Premier League meetings with ‘Snakebite’ this season, as well as a 6-0 drubbing on the European Tour in Riesa earlier this month.
Wright remains rooted to the foot of the table with just four wins to show for his efforts this season, and a further Quarter-Final exit here would end his faint hopes of catching the top four.
The two-time World Champion was beaten 6-3 by Dimitri van den Bergh in Rotterdam last week, before averaging just 78 in a 6-1 rout at the hands of home favourite Mensur Suljovic in the weekend’s Austrian Open.
Nathan Aspinall begins his bid for back-to-back weekly titles with a tussle against his former nemesis Van den Bergh.
Aspinall picked up his first weekly title of the campaign in Rotterdam to strengthen his play-off push, climbing from fifth to third in the league table.
The former UK Open champion has lost ten consecutive matches to Van den Bergh prior to their meeting in Newcastle last month, and he made it back-to-back wins over the Belgian a week ago.
Van den Bergh ended a run of four straight Quarter-Final exits in Rotterdam, but remains eight points adrift of play-off qualification and in desperate need of a weekly title to throw his hat into the ring.
Night 13 of 2023 Premier League Darts gets under way in Leeds from 7pm BST, with all matches to be contested over the best of 11 legs.
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Premier League Darts 2023 Night 13 Schedule
Thursday April 27
7pm-11pm
Quarter-Finals
Michael Smith v Chris Dobey
Michael van Gerwen v Peter Wright
Gerwyn Price v Jonny Clayton
Nathan Aspinall v Dimitri Van den Bergh
Semi-Finals
Smith/Dobey v Van Gerwen/Wright
Price/Clayton v Aspinall/Van den Bergh
Final
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