ANDERSON DESTROYS VAN GERWEN 🤯 What a win for Gary Anderson as he reaches the last eight at the 2024 Machineseeker European Championship. He beats Michael van Gerwen 10-4 to fly through in Dortmund. 📺 bit.ly/EC24Live #ECDarts24 | R2
Awesome Anderson flies past Van Gerwen to reach last 8 at European Championship 2024
PDCSaturday, 26 October 2024 at 20:01
Gary Anderson has advanced to the quarter-finals of the 2024 European Championship in Dortmund at the expense of Michael van Gerwen. In the second round, 'The Flying Scotsman' was too strong for the four-time European Championship winner with 10-4.
'The Flying Scotsman' last played at the European Darts Championship in 2016. Back then, he lost in the first round, after which he missed as many as seven editions because he did not feel like playing Euro Tour tournaments. This year, Anderson returned for two tournaments on the Euro Tour circuit and by winning one of those tournaments he forced his spot for the European Darts Championship.
Van Gerwen gained a break lead early in the match by throwing out 107, but immediately lost the break again. With a 13-darter and a 60 finish, Anderson took over the lead. A 12-darter and a 14-darter gave Anderson a 4-1 lead going into the break. After the break, it then became 5-1 for the Scot. That margin remained in place, including after a 12-darter by Anderson for a 7-3 lead. Anderson then made it 8-3 by throwing out 64.
Van Gerwen broke Anderson in the 12th leg via double 8, but then surrendered his own throw again by not being out in six visits. With a 16-darter, Anderson extended his lead to 9-4. The two-time world champion then closed the match beautifully with a 12-darter.
On Sunday afternoon, Anderson will take on Ritchie Edhouse in the quarterfinals of the European Darts Championship. The Englishman stunned in the second round with a victory over former world champion Michael Smith. For Edhouse, it will be his first time playing a quarterfinal at a major tournament. Anderson has a lot more experience in that regard, having already won eight major titles at the PDC. Over the past two seasons, though, Anderson reached only one quarterfinal at a ranking major.
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- Agreed, thebogeyman. Remember the boxing farce at this year's Olympics... a guy posing as a woman winning the Gold Medal, grim. They should do men who think they are women (separate) competition and award a pair of tight pants for the winner.MrYnyslas197125-10-2024
- What a paltry pay day. Is the Championship going to be on TV or YouTube. I still believe the BBC sunk the BDO when they dumped it for that ridiculous champions league that also died without trace. The prize money for the girls is terrible, why can't they win the same as the boys. It will hardly entice girls to enter the sport. Although hell knows what the future is for darts with the transgender craze.richieburnettrocks24-10-2024
- "Surely darts has little to do with physicality?" If that was true, there would not be women's events for the mentally ill bloke to play in.thebogeyman24-10-2024
- My god what a clown this guy is.... So REAL women should take pills to suppress natural processes to make it equal as he does not have such symptoms? And no: you are not winning because you put in the time and money, you are winning because you have an unfair advantage. Men play better than women, it is a fact. And let's not forget he was in the top 10 of the world in the boys earlier in life!DannyJ23-10-2024