Brisbane father Ray Smith will be joined by son Ky in competing at the World Darts Championships, in a first for the sport.
Ky Smith, 19, started playing darts at the age of six and won his first title at 14The teenager hopes to become a regular on the PDC circuit
Ray, 42, qualified for this year's event by winning the DPA Satellite Tour, while Ky, 19, clinched the Oceanic Masters in October to book his ticket to London."Everything kind of clicked for me as it went on. I was averaging mid-80s in the finals and I was averaging 94 in the final."He won his first title at 14, and the long-term aim was to enter the PDC's Q School for emerging players."I would've been 25 when I started to get into it," Ray explained.
Those changes made the difference and led to Ky securing his ticket to the first round where he will face Dutchman Maik Kuivenhoven on Sunday . Both he and Ky would need to reach the third round to stand a chance of recuperating any of the money they spent on flights, COVID tests and travel insurance, most of which was cancelled after the detection of the Omicron variant, and hotel quarantine on their return to Australia.
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