Michael Van Gerwen comes from 4-1 down to beat Mervyn King 6-4 and claim his first senior major title. The Dutchman also moves up to eighth in the world which could place him further into the Premier League roster.
King blamed the crowd for his loss of concentration, despite the crowd being more partisan yesterday against Dolan, which takes away some his brilliant darts he threw at the beginning of the match. Despite losing the opening leg of the game, King took the first set 3-1 before doing the same in the second set after the pair were locked together at 1-1.
King became classy in the third set; he kicked it off with a 102-checkout and prevented Van Gerwen from making a comeback by posting a brilliant 152-checkout to win the set 3-1 to surge into a 3-0 lead. Van Gerwen's response saw him go 2-0 ahead in the fourth set before King netted a 120-checkout which didn't matter in the end as the Dutchman took the set 3-1 to finally get on the board. With momentum in hand, Van Gerwen went 2-0 ahead in the fifth set but King roared back with three straight legs to restore the three set advantage.
Van Gerwen couldn't afford to let king get to within a set of victory and that jet propelled him into action. he took the sixth set without reply and would make six consecutive legs with a 131-checkout to reduce the arrears to 4-3. After losing seven legs in a row, King finally found a finishing double but that was only pretence for Van Gerwen to level the match with a 3-1 win the eighth set.
With the match now a best of three sets, King looked likely to go within one after posting a 117-checkout to go 2-0 ahead in the crucial ninth set. But the Dutchman did to King what King has been doing all week and came back to win the 3-2. Those three legs would then transpire into six as Van Gerwen won the match in style, taking the tenth set 3-0 and winning it with a sublime 145-checkout.
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