Mixed pairs glory in Turkey for Jamie Hughes
Tipton's Jamie Hughes got his hands on the mixed pairs title at the BDO Turkish Open and proved a force in both singles competitions.
Hughes teamed up with Paula Jacklin to claim one of the honours on offer during the organisation's latest darts extravaganza,
'Yozza' also reached the final of the Open and the semi-finals of the Turkish Classic, but couldn't make it a double success in either. He also took part in the men's pairs.
Glory did come his way after he toed the oche with Jacklin, the event taking place at the Limra Hotel in the city of Antalya.
They prevailed from Group Two after a bye, first beating the tandems of Brian and Lesley MacLeod and Azadeh Ghaledar and Alineza Farahain by 3-0 whitewash.
Last leg successes, over Martin Mitchell and Michelle Williams and Carl Dennel and Sue Cusick in the board final 3-2, saw them meet the Group One winners to decide the honours.
Hughes and Jacklin came away with the spoils, after vanquishing Jeffrey Sparidaans and Danielle Ijpelaar 3-1 in the final.
Alongside Dean Alsopp, Hughes reached the last 16 of the Open men's pairs before they lost 3-1 to Mark Blackwell and Richard Selby.
Hughes and Allsopp had previously recorded 3-0 landslides over Joakim Kulan and Dennel and Mehdi Seyfi and Mokhtar Behshti.
The Black Country thrower went alone for the Open singles, where only Martin Phillips could thwart him after a 6-5 battle.
Hughes had blazed a trail to the final out of Group One, starting his challenge with a 4-2 success over Ahmet Ertugrul.
Two 4-0 whitewashes of Bendt Nielsen and Muhittin Gurbuz, the latter a group decider and quarter-final, came either side of a 4-1 verdict over MacLeod.
Hughes excelled against Sparidaans in the semis, thrashing the Dutchman 5-1 as play was upgraded to the best of nine legs. Phillips, a first to six race, went against him in the last leg.
He returned for the Masters singles and again led the way in Group One, beginning with 4-0 shut-outs of Yilmaz Patlar and Dennis Christensen.
Eser Tekin and Dennel were then dispatched 4-1. That took him out of the group and into the semis, where he came off second best to Willem Mandigers 5-2.
