Durrant looking for revival of fortunes during Premier League: "I found the love again for practice and for darts"

Glen Durrant goes into next week's Premier League Darts as the defending champion but this time around, he is touted to potentially be relegated on Judgement Night.

This comes from Durrant's woes following his triumph last year where he caught Covid-19 and his game slumped from there and he will aim for a revival next week in Milton Keynes.

"After the Premier League final it all went badly wrong," said Durrant.

"I got ill and maybe rushed myself back too soon by playing in the Winter Series ahead of the Grand Slam, and technically my throw wasn't quite right either.

"I went into the Worlds with my confidence at nil percent. I was trying to talk a good story, but inside I knew I was struggling.

"I took two weeks off after the World Championship and didn't pick up my darts. It was difficult, but it worked and I found the love again for practice and found the love again for darts."

He admitted that his woes nearly saw him pull out of the Premier League if there were fans in and it would have started in its usual February slot.

"I possibly would have pulled out of the Premier League had it been a February start and I was still in a slump," Durrant continued.

"I don't want to play in front of millions of people on Sky Sports and get walloped 7-0 every week.

"That's not my style, so that might give an example of where my mindset was.

"It's ridiculous to even think that now, but that's gone.

"I've got to remember what a fantastic two years I've had in the PDC. I've still got ambitions to win a European Tour event, the World Matchplay and, of course, the burning desire is to win the World Championship.

"And nobody can ever take winning the Premier League away from me."