"You can never be happy with only a point. I can blame myself in a couple of legs there but overall I think Dimitri played a good game as well," said Van Gerwen to Sky Sports post match.
"On my own legs, I have to do some more scoring power and if you don't do that, you can only blame yourself for that. But overall I can't be too unhappy with my game, I played ok but of course there's more in the tank, there's more to come."
"I feel I'm starting to do some good damage with my new darts and I start to play well with them but you have to show it on the stage. You aren't allowed to afford any mistakes."
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