Van den Bergh reflects on his 9 darter at such a prestigious event: "Its a beautiful moment and I always want to relive it again”

If you can cast your minds back to the Grand Slam of Darts in 2018 you'll remember a spectacular display from none other than Dimitri Van den Bergh. The Belgian was beating Stephen Bunting eight legs to six when he pulled out a nine darter to increase his lead to 9-6.

In a recent interview with the PDC Van den Bergh relives and reflects on his nine darter ahead of the tournament he hit those darts at which commences this weekend.

"If you hit that 9 darter and get 3 perfect darts the crowd are like ‘yeah!’ because they saw three perfect trebles. Then you hit another three perfect trebles and the crowd is like ‘woah!’ But just before you throw your 7th dart the crowds already going wild, so if you hit it, the crowd is jumping, you feel everybody behind you as you go for the 8th treble and you hit it, the last throw is just pure adrenaline and you just throw it. This is because you have everything going through your mind and then you’ve even got a bonus when you hit a nine darter on stage. Even when I watch the nine dart leg again the crowd goes wild and I’m just buzzing I get goosebumps all over my body. Its a beautiful moment and I always want to relive it again”

Van den Bergh followed this up how the crowd reacts so much differently when you get a 12 darter instead.

"If you’re playing short legs in like 12 you know for a fact you played a really good leg but if you’ve hit a 9 darter just look to the crowd they always react so hard with you. If you go 140, 140, 140 and then 81 checkout the crowd will be like ‘oh wow amazing darts’ but they will be a little more silent"

'The Dream Maker' then reacted to his nine darter on the PDC twitter page and can be watched in full here:

“That for me was such an incredible moment and afterwards when I came upstairs people said to me ‘we called it after your first three darts we called you were going to hit a 180’ And yeah there is no better way is there.”