'I'm up for the challenge' - Daryl Gurney speaks ahead of Premier League debut

Daryl Gurney will make his Premier League debut this season, this is after a stunning season for the player known as Superchin where he won his first major and climbed up into the top 5 in the world for the first time.

The World Grand Prix champion as a result secured a Premier League berth and admits while it will be hard he is massively looking forward to the challenge in an interview with the Derry Sentinel. “Whenever you get to the top ten in the world you have to be looking forward to playing in the Premier League,” he insisted. “If you aren’t looking forward to playing the best players in the world, then there’s no sense playing darts" “This year is bigger than last year and we have to try and improve from what I did last year, I know that’s going to be hard, but I’m up for the challenge. “I only won two tournaments last year so I’m kind of new to being one of the elite players, so I want to win more and winning two tournaments isn’t enough, it’s nearly like a one hit wonder. I still got a lot more practicing to do and a lot more tournaments to try and win. “It’s massive, every night there’s a 10,000 crowd and whenever you have got 10,000 people on a Thursday night at darts match, so you are doing something right. “Everything is positive and the future is bright for darts.”

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