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The Irish Sun
12-05-2025
- Sport
- The Irish Sun
Michael van Gerwen's darts woes go from bad to worse with humiliating defeat to little-known prospect
MICHAEL VAN GERWEN has been sent reeling again - as unwanted stats add up for the Dutch legend in 2025. Outsider Dominik Gruellich inflicted MVG's sixth first-round loss of this year's ProTour. 2 Michael van Gerwen's struggle went on with final-leg agony Credit: Rex Such lows are hard to take for the frustrated three-time world champion. Van Gerwen's season has not been a total nightmare. Most notably, he picked up his 38th Euro Tour title at the German Grand Prix in April, with a nine-darter to boot. But the 36-year-old enters night 15 of Premier League Darts in Aberdeen on Thursday this week without a nightly win so far. READ MORE IN DARTS Howevger, he's still fourth in the Prem table - just ahead of So it's Mighty Mike's ProTour problems that might conceern him most. And at Players Championship 15 he slumped 6-5 to German star Gruellich in the 23-year-old's home-country town of Hildesheim. Yet MVG could consider himself lucky compared to English ace Most read in Darts However, that was due to Gilding's flight rather than his flights. The 54-year old didn't even make it to the tournament - as his flight was held up. Gilding's social media team blamed "KLM'S last flight... being delayed by two hours". 2 The Dutchman crashed out to German outsider Dominik Gruellich Credit: Getty They added: "Andrew would have missed his connecting flight to Hannover." Krzysztof Ratajski went on to win Players Championship 15. The Pole defeated Dave Chisnall 8-4 to scoop the £15,000 top prize.
Daily Record
12-05-2025
- Sport
- Daily Record
Michael van Gerwen suffers more darts misery with yet another horror exit as rival grounded by airport calamity
The Dutchman has toiled all season and it wan another embarrassing exit in Germany Toiling Michael van Gerwen's torturous campaign has continued at the Euros while rival Andrew Gilding was left grounded by an airport nightmare. The three-times world champ Dutchman made another miserable early exit when beaten 6-5 by young German prospect Dominik Gruellich in Hildesheim. It was the sixth time Van Gerwen, who has yet to win a night in this year's Premier League, has been knocked out at the first stage of a darts ProTour in 2025 as he struggles to recapture his best form ahead of Thursday's Premier League night in Aberdeen. But at least the Green Machine was able to get a throw as Gilding was left marooned and absent from the event due to flight issues. Goldfinger didn't make it to Players Championship 15 following a flight botch as his social-media team explained: 'Due to KLM'S last flight yesterday afternoon being delayed by two hours. "Andrew would of missed his connecting flight to Hannover. They rebooked him on this morning 9am flight, but he will miss playing in today's Players Championship 15 in Hildesheim.' It's a sore one for Gilding who made it to the Final of the European Darts Grand Prix last week before losing 8-0 to Gary Anderson., who got through his opening match of the day with a 6-2 win over Rob Owen. You can get all the news you need on our dedicated Rangers and Celtic pages, and sign up to our newsletters to make sure you never miss a beat throughout the season. We're also WhatsApp where we bring all the latest breaking news and transfer gossip directly to you phone. Join our Rangers community here and our Celtic community here.
