Gerwyn Price lost the Czech Darts Open semi-final and still banked £10,000, Jonny Clayton £8,000 for the quarter-finals

Two Welsh darts players came away from the Czech Darts Open in Prague with £18,000 between the pair on Sunday: Gerwyn Price £10,000 for reaching the semi-final and Jonny Clayton £8,000 for the quarter-final. Neither reached the final, which Luke Littler won. It was the deepest Welsh weekend of the European Tour, a 15-event series of weekend tournaments held around Europe and run by the Professional Darts Corporation, the sport's governing body. Price, from Markham in Caerphilly, lost the semi-final 7-4 to Luke Humphries. Clayton, from Pontyberem in Carmarthenshire, had already gone out, beaten 6-3 by Michael van Gerwen. Reaching the last 16 was worth £5,000 to each player. Clayton won one more match and took £8,000. Price won two more and took £10,000.

Darts is scored down from 501 to zero, a leg is one race to zero, and a match is a race to a set number of legs. A player's three-dart average is the points scored with each three darts thrown, and anything over 100 is a strong night. Price scored 102.16 points per three darts to Humphries' 97.41 in the semi-final and still lost it 7-4, because he hit four of his eleven darts at a double to Humphries' seven of seventeen. Finishing a leg means hitting an exact double, and that is where the match went. He had beaten Cameron Menzies 6-1 averaging 89.39, needing nineteen darts at a double to close six legs, and Ross Smith 6-4 averaging 100.50. Clayton scored fewer points per three darts than his opponent in both Sunday matches. He won the first anyway, 96.94 to Keane Barry's 98.25. He lost the second, 88.84 to van Gerwen's 97.79, with van Gerwen hitting four maximums of 180, the highest score three darts can make, to Clayton's one. On Saturday Price had averaged 103.86 in beating Callan Rydz 6-2, four maximums to none, and Clayton 93.83 in beating Damon Heta 6-2, twice finishing from a high score, 156 and 124. Humphries, who beat Price, had won this tournament last year. He lost the final 8-6 to Littler.

The European Championship in Dortmund next month takes the top 32 on the European Tour money list, which ranks players by prize money won across the 15 European Tour events. Prague's money is in it for both Welshmen: the list put Price on £60,000 and Clayton on £51,000 when Cover read the PDC rankings page at 08:53 on Monday. Ross Smith, the player Price beat in the quarter-final, leads it on £133,000. The 32nd and last qualifying place was Joe Cullen's on £29,500. Price is 11th, where he was before Prague, and Clayton has climbed from 17th to 15th on his £8,000.

Littler took the £35,000 winner's prize out of a pot of £230,000. Prague was the twelfth of the 15 European Tour events, and the thirteenth, the Flanders Darts Trophy in Antwerp, starts on Friday. The World Grand Prix, a televised tournament in Leicester, opens on 28 September. Its 32-player field is decided by prize money won up to and including Antwerp, so both Welshmen have one more weekend to secure a place.

Updated on Sunday 6 September and again on Monday 7 September. This piece was filed on Saturday morning as a preview and rewritten twice as the tournament finished. Earlier versions also misstated the prize for Saturday's ties, which were worth £5,000 and a place in the last 16, and said neither man's seeding matched his world ranking, when only Price's two figures differed.

Correction, 7 September 2026: an earlier version said the PDC published no scoring figures for Sunday's matches. The PDC published every one, and this piece carries the full set. Earlier versions also gave Price's home town as Newport and Clayton's as Carmarthen; the two are from Markham and Pontyberem.