Nathan Aspinall grew to become the most recent 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 gained the primary and third units, however was pegged again on each events, solely to grab management once more with a shocking 170 checkout to say the fifth set.

Nonetheless, 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 match 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 problem 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 can be his hardest check 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 dying 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 mentioned afterwards that he wouldn’t should work in 2026 after additionally confirming not less than £60,000 in prize cash.

He has climbed to a provisional 63rd on this planet rankings already and mentioned post-match he nonetheless has aspirations to open a Chinese language restaurant sooner or later.

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

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