Michael van Gerwen wins at Wigan’s Robin Park Tennis Centre, as Luke Littler fails to secure a repeat title. Darts returns with the Sky Sports World Grand Prix at Leicester’s Mattioli Arena from 7-13 October
Michael van Gerwen showed his strength in beating Dave Chisnall at Players Championship 21, while Luke Littler fails to secure a repeat title.
Dutch star van Gerwen averaged just under 107 points to beat Chisnall 8-4 and claim his first ranking title of 2024 at Wigan. Littler, who has won 33 percent of the tournaments he has played this year, saw his winning streak come to an end at 15 matches when Mike Cuywenhoven ended his hopes of winning a second title with a shock 6-3 win in the round of 16.
“The most important thing is that I always continue to believe in my abilities,” van Gerwen said. “I’m happy with my performance and happy with my new darts,” he said. “I just didn’t perform well enough in these events. I just didn’t play well enough.” But I’m very happy to be back on this tour and get a win.
“I want to win, I want to perform, and I want to do what’s right for me. There is still a lot to achieve and fight for. »
After starting his challenge with a hard-fought 6-4 win over Lee Cox, van Gerwen averaged 99 points and outperformed Ryan Meikle and Karel Sedlacek.
He then recorded consecutive wins over James Wade and Jan van Veen, both 6-3, before beating Kai Wenhoven 7-2 to send another Dutchman into the semi-finals. Number -Tuesday’s semi -finals -one step after 24 hours, at the beginning of the day, we paid an impressive victory against Hosedesosa and Johnienton with a 6: 1 score.
The 44-year-old football player turned out to be too strong to survive in four games in the semifinals with his colleagues St. Helens Steven in the last eight times and Richie Dows, who was promoted from 6-2 to level. I did.
Edhaus took some big scalps at Robin Park Tennis Centre, knocking out former Lakeside champions Jelle Klaassen and Christian Kist to ignite a title fight.
He also crushed Austrian veteran Mensur Slujovic and came back from 5-2 down to fend off Damon Heta in the quarter-finals before losing to Chisnall in a dramatic final.
The 2024 PDC Pro Tour season continues with the Players Championship 22-23 in Leicester on 24-25 September.
The £600,000-a-year tournament took place at Leicester’s Mattioli Arena from 7-13 October, with 32 world-class stars competing for the coveted title, which was won by Luke Humphreys.
Humphries celebrated his first televised ranking title with a win over Gerwyn Price at last year’s tournament, but the world number one will return to defend his title later this year.
Six-time champion Michael van Gerwen is also due to star, with teenage superstar Luke Littler making his double-start debut in the East Midlands.
In a change from last year’s format, the semi-finals will be played in best-of-nine sets on Saturday, October 12, with the deciding set to be played in best-of-11 sets on Sunday, October 13.