Remarkable consistency: Gary Anderson has only gone three years without a ranking title since his PDC debut in 2009

Yesterday, the seventh Players Championship of the year took place in Hildesheim, Germany. The title went to Gary Anderson, who defeated Adam Lipscombe 8-3 in the final. For the 54-year-old Scot, it was a welcome boost after a particularly tough start to the new year.

Gary Anderson made his PDC debut in 2009. In his debut year, he also claimed his first Players Championship, beating Mervyn King 6-2 in the final in Newport.
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In the following three years, Anderson managed to win at least one Players Championship each year. During this period, he also captured his first PDC major title by winning the Premier League Darts in 2011. However, this winning streak was broken in 2013, when, for the first time since joining the PDC, he failed to win a Players Championship.

The following year, Anderson began a new winning streak, and from then until 2020, he won at least one Players Championship every year. It wasn’t just Players Championships during this period; Anderson also claimed two consecutive World Titles (2015 and 2016), the World Matchplay, UK Open, and Champions League (2018), Players Championship Finals (2014), and, for a second time, the Premier League Darts (2015).

Gary Anderson is currently the world number 16 

Anderson experienced a rough patch in his career in 2021 and 2022. Partly due to the pandemic, he lost his enjoyment and, more importantly, his motivation, which had a noticeable impact on his results. In 2021, he did make it to the World Championship final (where he lost to Gerwyn Price), but he couldn’t win a ranking tournament in those two years.

In 2023, a rejuvenated Anderson returned to the winning ways, claiming victory in the eighth Players Championship of the year by defeating Krzysztof Ratajski 8-5 in the final. Anderson won another tournament later that year by defeating Ryan Joyce in the final.

Last year, Anderson won two Players Championships, and now he has kicked off his 2025 campaign with another victory. It looks like he is well on his way to building another long-lasting streak of tournament wins.

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