Crazy weekend in Budapest

After beating Gabriel Clemens, Josh Rock and Ross Smith, Michael Van Gerwen came up against another Dutchman, Gian Van Veen in the final. MVG started with a nice 12 dart leg, taking out 170 to have another brilliant start to a match this weekend. In the fifth leg, Van Veen capitalized on a missed dart, at tops, from Van Gerwen, to pull the game back to 3-2 and break Michael’s throw. Both players continued to battle away and the game was sat at five legs a piece. Van Veen stepped up and kept his cool to pin double eight, this then broke Van Gerwen’s throw and put him 6-5 up in a race to eight. It was MVG keeping his cool in the next leg, as he hit double four with his last dart to break straight back and make the game 6-6.

Both players failed to hold their throws with Van Veen missing a dart at the bullseye for the match. This took the game all the way to a last leg decider. It was a brilliant last leg decider! Van Veen kicked it off with a 180 before a few dodgy visits, without a treble, gave MVG a chance to take out 110, and he did just that. You could see the emotion from Van Gerwen when he took it out as I think he feels, just like alot of us, that he is starting to get back to his best. See match stats below.