SCOTT Mitchell insisted he was happy with his performances despite two early exits at the England Open Festival and added: “Sometimes you don’t get the rub of the green."

Mitchell, seeded number five for both tournaments he entered, won four matches across the event with 4-2 defeats to unseeded pair Glynn Wells and David Evans.

But the Bransgore ace was keen to focus on the positives from his trip to Sussex.

He told the Daily Echo: “It was disappointing but there were many, many pluses to come out of it as well.

“The worry for me is if I wasn’t playing particularly well, but I was playing really well.

“You just bump into people who are on their weekend. The guy who beat me on Friday, a guy from Devon, Glynn Wells, he went on and made the last 32, which is the furthest he’d ever been in a tournament, so you can kind of say he was in the bubble.

“And Dave Evans, the guy that beat me on Saturday, made two semi-finals.

“You can’t really argue, I played really well, just sometimes you don't get the rub of the green."

He added: “I basically lost the bull-up, that was pretty much it. I lost the bull-up and got broke early, which can happen in the short game.

“But if you over dwell on it then it stops you playing next time.

“When somebody comes in and does a 14, 12 and 14-darter against you to go 3-0 up, that’s brilliant darts.

“When you do two 14-darters and then add a 12 to break the throw then you’re not doing a lot wrong, so to over criticise yourself would be daft.”