Winning Michael van Gerwen about squabble with Gary Anderson: ‘I cried cross-eyed’ | Darts

sport">The score was tied until the break: 3-2 for The Flying Scotsman. He did that with an average of 109.6 and three 180s.

sport">The Scot then missed the chance to 4-2. Van Gerwen didn’t miss: 3-3. At 4-4 he broke Anderson again: 5-4 for Mighty Mike.

sport">However, the Dutchman missed at 6-5, after which Anderson was then given arrows for 6-6. Then there seemed to be a small altercation between the two darters.

sport">Anyway: the Scot missed, Van Gerwen didn’t after that: 7-5. The two stayed close to each other. The break in the ninth leg seemed to make the difference. At 9-7, Van Gerwen got four match darts, but the Vlijmenaar missed them all.

sport">Match dart number 5 didn’t go in after that at 9-8, but number 6 did: 10-8. He now meets Michael Smith in the quarterfinals. Van Gerwen won the Grand Slam of Darts three times: in 2015, 2016 and 2017. The top prize this year is £125,000 (EUR 148,000).

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sport">Afterwards, Van Gerwen faced RTL7 let’s talk about the affair with Anderson. “It was a fight between two great players from the darts world. I ran back after a miss and yelled ‘squint’ or something. I missed a triple. But he doesn’t do anything else all the time. At one point Gary gets a twist in his head and then he thinks I did that.”

sport">He continues: “He’s done that 30 or 40 times in his career and I made quite a lot of mistakes after that. But I think my mental power has gone up and I’m very sharp. There can only be one best and that is me.”

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