SCHINDLER PILES MISERY ON WRIGHT WITH BRUTAL VERDICT
10/05/2026 By Aaron Nijjar
MARTIN SCHINDLER claimed Peter Wright is throwing “more fives and ones” than him after piling more misery on the struggling Scotsman.
The defending champ dumped Snakebite out of the Austrian Darts Open with a crushing 6-2 victory.
Two-time world champion Wright averaged just 82.42 in another dismal display and looked miles off the standard that once made him one of the sport’s most feared players.
Wright crashed out of the world’s top 16 after failing to win a single title and not reaching one major semi-final in 2025.
Schindler delivered a brutal verdict on Wright’s current woes but insisted he still has the class to rediscover his best form.
He said: “Peter over the last ten years was one of the best players in the world and right now he’s not there where I think he’s expecting himself to be.
“I think he’s struggling, he’s fighting at the moment. He’s hitting I think even more fives and ones than I do which is not a good sign.
“But I’m pretty certain it’s like riding a bicycle. The game was there once, you’re never going to relearn it. It’s in him at one point but he needs to find that. If he does, everybody’s in danger.”
The German has endured a difficult season himself, reaching just one ProTour quarter-final and failing to make it past the third round on the Players Championship circuit.
Schindler returns to action in Graz on Sunday afternoon and will face Ross Smith for a spot in the quarter-final.
