Players Championship 29 Round-Up | Classy Cameron Menzies doubles up, defeats home hero Gian van Veen in Den Bosch

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Tuesday, 22 September 2026 at 19:00
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Cameron Menzies has doubled up for the year, with the brilliant Scot managing to beat Gian van Veen 8-4 in the final of Players Championship 29 after initially going 5-0 up on the home hero in Den Bosch.
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Menzies has now won titles every year since 2024 and has for the first time won two in a year in another new milestone and pays credence to the work he has been putting in on and off the oche.

Classy Cammy comes to the fore

For Van Veen as the best player in the field by ranking, it is a missed chance, and he seemed to be left frustrated throughout the tie. It was stopped towards the end due to a basketball game ongoing next door which annoyed him, while Menzies, who has been seen as tempestuous in the past, managed ironically to weather it better than his opponent.
Menzies en route to the final saw off Kevin Doets, Jeffrey de Graaf, top seed Wessel Nijman, Benjamin Pratnemer, Jim Long and Nick Kenny, respectively. He did it while averaging around 93-94, with only one tonne plus average en route to the final.
Cameron Menzies holds a dart.
Another title for Cameron Menzies.
Van Veen in reaching the final saw off William O'Connor, Chris Dobey, Nathan Aspinall, Darius Labanauskas, Daniel Klose and Tommy Morris. The best of his day was 104 against Labanauskas, winning 6-4. So certainly not the wildly massive averages.
Menzies led the final early against Van Veen, eventually pinning double eight with Van Veen way back. 81 after nine for Menzies. He pinned double 13 to claim it and break for 2-0.
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Menzies hit double eight for 3-0, then the same target for 4-0. Finally Van Veen got on the board with a 41 checkout and then broke with Menzies unable to hit 143.
Van Veen was 5-2 down and staring down the barrel at defeat. Van Veen held for 5-3 down after that break. He missed the first chance at double 16, giving a thumbs up to the board before returning for 5-3 down. Menzies missed 146 for 6-3. Van Veen couldn't punish with a 170, and Cammy returned for double eight to make it 6-3.
Van Veen missed golden chances to hold. But Menzies did too to break on double 20. GVV returned for double eight to make it 6-4 as he still fought. But that fight started to get expunged. Menzies hit double 14 to seal the impetus again as he went one away from the title, and it was soon his.
A beautiful 162 to leave 140 from Menzies. He missed 80 to seal the title. Van Veen drifted inside the five for double five and then missed double one, and Menzies backed for double five for the win.

Bad day for big names

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In terms of the other big names, it was a mixed bag. Michael van Gerwen was defeated in the opening round by Benjamin Pratnemer as his suspect form on the ProTour continues.
Nathan Aspinall also played, but he was defeated by Gian van Veen 6-5. While Beau Greaves was defeated by Danny Noppert 6-4 in the Last 32 after averaging 101 and 109 in her opening games. But it was a 94 instead as she lost to Noppert.
Perhaps the display of the day, though, came from Kevin Doets, who averaged nigh on 114 as he saw off Henry Coates, who averaged nearly 106 in defeat 6-4 in the Last 32.
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