Durrant looks back on maiden year in PDC during World Grand Prix run: '2019 has confirmed to me that I am a good player and I belong'
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Glen Durrant has had a whirlwind first year in the PDC and that has continued into the Quarter-Finals at the World Grand Prix and he has summed it up in an interview with the Darts Show podcast.
He said that while before he had the scrutiny now he doesn't and that when he had no-one watching him during his match with Simon Whitlock and then he knew he'd made it in the PDC.
'Duzza' added that he doesn't see himself as only the BDO champion any more and that he feels part of the family now.
"There was a moment a couple of weeks ago on the Pro Tour," he tells The Darts Show podcast.
"Against Simon Whitlock I turned around at one each, and there wasn't one person watching, and it was the best moment of the PDC so far.
"In the early time at the Q School the scrutiny was on me and there was a game against Barrie Bates where three quarters of the people in there were watching my game. I didn't really appreciate the fact that Jamie Hughes, Mark McGeeney, nearly [BDO] champions, had one or two people watching and I had 200.
"I feel part of the family. I'm not walking in now with people saying 'there's the BDO champion, I wonder what he's up to? Is he any good?'
"When I spoke to managers before I signed they were all about year two as they were invested in someone over years two and three," he says.
Potential Top 32 and belonging in PDC
Durrant also spoke about his future goals and that a clash with Michael van Gerwen as the final seed would be what dreams would be made of. He added that he now feels that he belongs after a brilliant 2019.
"To be in the top 32, if I'm 32nd seed that's a potential clash with Michael van Gerwen at Ally Pally, that's what dreams are made of - that's why I lift the BDO to come to the PDC.
"I am enjoying Pro Tour, European Tour and now I am in TV tournaments, I am not working any more so I want to work on my fitness.
"I get the opportunity to play the best, Rob Cross, Michael van Gerwen, Gary Anderson," he says. "It's a dream but 2019 has confirmed to me that I am a good player and I belong."
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