Wonderful Whitlock beats Wade for Pro-Tour Title in Coventry

Simon Whitlock clinched his first PDC title of 2014 by winning Players Championship 12 in Coventry on Sunday, with a superb display of darts.

Whitlock defeated the back in form James Wade 6-3 in the final, which included a 154 checkout from ‘The Wizard’, as he picked up the £10,000 winner’s check.

The Australian Ace kicked off his winning run with strong wins over Matt Clark and Matt Padgett before despatching the streetwise and tough competitor Kevin Painter by 6-2.

The world number four who has been playing well, has not seen results go his way this year, but when he saw off Jamie Bain to reach the quarter-finals, you could sense a victory was on the cards.

Ian White was The Wizards next game, and the very strong Diamond White took this game all the way with the wizard holding on for a 6-5 victory in an epic match.

In the last four, Whitlock showed his true bottle and won yet another last-leg decider to overcome the challenge of the very in-form Brendan Dolan, before claiming his 11th Pro Tour triumph with his victory against Wade.

Wade reached the final by defeating world number one Michael van Gerwen in the semis, with ‘The Machine’ missing double 12 for a nine-darter in the process.

Simon said "I’m really happy to get my first win of 2014 under my belt, I’ve been working really hard and my form has been really good, that was a really strong field today and it feels great to have come through with a win”.