Saturday 18th April: What Sport Is On?
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There’s plenty more sport on the way this weekend,including Racing, Darts and Esports.
And you can check it all out with our What’s On guide.
Horse Racing
We’ve got a Saturday treat coming up with a quartet of cards on the way in America. Tampa Bay Downs and Gulfstream get underway at 17:28 and 17:45 respectively, before an early morning double header from Remington Park and Los Alamitos.
And even before that, early birds can enjoy 15 cards fromAustralia, including Randwick, Forbes, Pioneer Park and Toowomba, which commencesat a slightly more UK-friendly time of 06:28.
There’s also early-morning meetings from Fukushima andNakayama in Japan, plus events in Sweden at Umaker, Vaggeryd and Farjestad.
Darts
Darts fans are in for a treat this weekend with the PDCDarts at Home Tour. It’s 32 nights of PDC excellence, and you we’ve got a handyone-stop guide to it here.
Gerwyn Price is the big name in action from his home on Saturday night. The Iceman is 1/7 to beat Rowby John Rodriguez in his first group game. Price is also odds-on at 2/9 to defeat Luke Woodhouse and 1/5 to beat Ted Evetts.
Sunday’s group includes Dave Chisnall and former BDO World Champion Scott Waites. The duo opening proceedings for the tournament’s third night, with Chizzy 2/5 to beat 9/5 shot Waites.
And that’s joined by the Modus Icons of Darts, whichcontinues through the weekend, plus there’s more from Modus’ ‘A Night at theDarts’ too.
Football
The Belarusian Vysshaya League continues with four games on Saturday, including BATE Borisov (2/5) who seek a third win on the spin at home to Zhodino (13/2).
That’s joined by a pair of games from Turkmenistan’s Vyschaya League at lunch-time, and five clashes in the Nicaraguan Premier League in the evening, including Managua FC (17/20) at home to CD Walter Ferretti (27/10).
Esports
Of course there’s more from Esports, including no less than seven League of Legends divisions to get stuck into on Saturday.
The pick of the bunch includes the League of Legends European Championship contest between MAD Lions (9/2) and G2 Esports (1/6), plus three clashes in the Legends Pro League.
There’s also action from DOTA’s CDA Pro League, with Newbee(1/2) versus Keen Gaming (3/2) and Vici Gaming (5/6) against PSG.LGD (5/6).
And we’ve got a number of matches in the Overwatch League,including Hangzhou Spark (11/4) versus Shanghai Dragons (1/4) in afirst-to-three contest at 11:00.
eMotorsports
It’s a busy weekend ofeMotorsport action. Getting us underway at 15:30 on Saturday, we have theinaugural ‘Race at Home’ and then ‘The Race’ at 17:00.
After that comes theLegends race, featuring Formula One champions Jenson Button, Jacques Villeneuveand Emerson Fittipaldi.
Then comes the next roundof the Indycar iRace from Japan’s Twin Ring Motegi circuit. 33 drivers will takepart, including Scott McLaughlin and Simon Pagenaud.
And there’s the VersusChallenge at 20:00, featuring Lando Norris, Charles Leclerc, George Russell andmore. Races go head-to-head over one lap, in a quick-fire knockout format.
The big one comes on Sundaywith the return of the Virtual F1, this time in the shape of the Chinese GrandPrix at 18:00. Charles Leclerc won last time out, can the Ferrari ace winagain?
And wrapping up a hecticweekend of eMotorsports is NASCAR at Richmond Raceway. William Byron starts asfavourite for the 150-lap showdown.
What else is on?
The Armenian Snooker Championship continues and will be traded live withthree matches starting from 07:00 each day.
Chess fans are in for a treat with the inaugural Magnus CarlsenInvitational getting underway on Saturday. Seven of the best players in theWorld join Magnus to compete online for the title.
The 1st stage is a round-robin format with the top 4 players qualifying for the knock-out stages with the Final May 2nd. Magnus kicks off the event, going up against Hikaru Nakamura at 15:00.
All odds and markets correct as of date of publication
