{"id":21806,"date":"2017-12-31T02:22:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T01:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/12\/31\/debutant-rob-cross-stuns-michael-van-gerwen-to-set-up-final-with-phil-taylor\/"},"modified":"2017-12-31T02:22:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T01:22:10","slug":"debutant-rob-cross-stuns-michael-van-gerwen-to-set-up-final-with-phil-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=21806","title":{"rendered":"Debutant Rob Cross stuns Michael van Gerwen to set up final with Phil Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 No20 seed Cross beats defending champion in sudden-death leg\u2022 Taylor beats Jamie Lewis 6-1 in his final world championshipWorld championship debutant Rob Cross will face 16-time champion Phil Taylor in Monday\u2019s final after the No20 seed shocked world No1 Michael van Gerwen 6-5 in an epic semi-final.Cross held his nerve in a sudden-death leg to win the deciding set by six legs to five after Van Gerwen had missed five darts at a match-winning double. He will take on Taylor for the title after the No6 seed overcame qualifier Jamie Lewis 6-1 in his final professional tournament. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2017\/dec\/31\/pdc-world-darts-semi-finals-cross-van-gerwen-taylor-lewis\" target=\"_blank\">Debutant Rob Cross stuns Michael van Gerwen to set up final with Phil Taylor<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 No20 seed Cross beats defending champion in sudden-death leg\u2022 Taylor beats Jamie Lewis 6-1 in his final world championshipWorld championship debutant Rob Cross will face 16-time champion Phil Taylor in Monday\u2019s final after the No20 seed shocked world No1 Michael van Gerwen 6-5 in an epic semi-final.Cross held his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}