Alexis Toylo boosted his hopes of Paddy Power World Darts Championship qualification after securing a brace of PDC Asian Tour titles last weekend.
The year’s fifth weekend of Asian Tour action saw Events 17-20 take place in Singapore on July 5-6, as Filipino thrower Toylo took centre stage.
The 33-year-old made his World Championship debut last year, and he looks poised to make an immediate return to Alexandra Palace after winning 23 of his 25 matches across the weekend.
Toylo kicked off proceedings with Event 17 success on Saturday, sealed with a hard-fought 5-3 victory over his fellow countryman John Marco Lumilang.
This was preceded by wins over Hong Kong’s Man Lok Leung and Chinese Taipei’s Pupo Teng-Lieh, while he also averaged 107.36 in his opening round demolition of Lihao Wen.
Toylo’s bid for back-to-back titles was curtailed by Japan’s Motomu Sakai, who recorded a 5-3 win in the Event 18 decider to extend his lead at the top of the Asian Tour Order of Merit.
Sakai also edged out his compatriot Ryusei Azemoto and top seed Lourence Ilagan in the latter stages, having dumped out former PDC Asian Championship winner Christian Perez in the last 16.
Toylo would then defeat Perez in Sunday’s Event 19 showpiece, wrapping up his third Asian Tour title of the campaign with a comprehensive 5-1 victory.
The former World Cup star conceded just eight legs in his seven matches, sweeping aside Ryuta Arihara, China’s Xiaochen Zong and former World Championship qualifier Noel Malicdem along the way.
Malicdem, meanwhile, averaged a staggering 115.62 in his Event 20 whitewash of Jing Hann Dane Tan, registering winning legs of 14, 14, 11 and 13 darts to cap off a sensational display.
However, the Event 20 title was clinched by Malicdem’s fellow countryman Paolo Nebrida, who edged out Singapore’s darting icon Paul Lim in a last-leg shoot-out to triumph.
Nebrida overturned a 4-3 deficit to deny Lim a title on home soil, having also won through deciding-leg ties against John Louie Curacha, Jemel Modesto and Wen earlier in the event.
Nebrida’s sixth Asian Tour title catapults him up to seventh on the Asian Tour Order of Merit – just £400 adrift of Azemoto in fifth position.
The top five players on the final Asian Tour Order of Merit will feature at London’s Alexandra Palace, with eight events remaining before the qualification cut-off.
Sakai boasts a slender lead over Toylo at the summit, with Lim currently occupying third spot. Leung and Azemoto also remain in the provisional qualification places, in fourth and fifth respectively.
The 2025 PDC Asian Tour continues with Events 21-24 in the Philippines on August 2-3, before the season concludes with Events 25-28 in Qingdao, China on September 11-12.
Coverage from each PDC Asian Tour event will be broadcast live on PDCTV from the last 16 onwards.
2025 PDC Asian Tour
July 5-6, Singapore
Event 17
Semi-Finals
John Marco Lumilang 5-4 Motomu Sakai
Alexis Toylo 5-2 Man Lok Leung
Final
Alexis Toylo 5-3 John Marco Lumilang
Event 18
Semi-Finals
Motomu Sakai 5-4 Lourence Ilagan
Alexis Toylo 5-3 Tomoya Goto
Final
Motomu Sakai 5-3 Alexis Toylo
Event 19
Semi-Finals
Christian Perez 5-4 Lourence Ilagan
Alexis Toylo 5-1 Ryuta Arihara
Final
Alexis Toylo 5-1 Christian Perez
Event 20
Semi-Finals
Paul Lim 5-4 Christian Perez
Paolo Nebrida 5-3 Boldbaatar Bayarmagnai
Final
Paolo Nebrida 5-4 Paul Lim