The Portuguese Jose de Sousa sensationally secured his first European Tour title on Sunday. With this, de Sousa creates a similar surprise as Devon Petersen recently did in Hildesheim. In the final he defeated the world’s number one Michael van Gerwen. De Sousa threw a total of seven 180s, a 146 high finish and played a 105 average. “Today, a dream came true. The crowd was amazing and I have no words for what I achieved today,” said de Sousa.<\/p>\n
His opponent Michael van Gerwen had to tremble a lot on the way to the final. Both in the round of sixteen against Vincent van der Voort and in the quarter-finals against Nathan Aspinall, “MvG” had to survive matchdarts. Only in the semi-final against Mensur Suljovic van Gerwen showed an appealing performance when he knocked the Austrian out of the tournament 7-1.<\/p>\n
Last year’s winner Ian White made it to the semi-finals this year, but had to admit a defeat in an exciting 6-7 match against the later winner de Sousa. De Sousa was also the one who took out Gerwyn Price in the round of sixteen. Price did not find his top game this weekend and was therefore only allowed to watch the final evening session.<\/p>\n
Michael Smith (6-2 against Ian White), Glen Durrant (6-3 against Maik Kuivenhoven) and Joe Cullen (6-2 against Darius Labanauskas) were also eliminated in the round of the last sixteen. Kuivenhoven and Labanauskas, along with de Sousa, are among the big surprises of the tournament with their quarter-final appearances.<\/p>\n
The match of the afternoon was between Austrian Mensur Suljovic and Jamie Hughes. Hughes was already leading 5-0 because Suljovic missed loads of his doubles. However, out of nowhere Suljovic managed to take his chances and won the game by six consecutive legs. Jamie Hughes in turn messed up six match darts. <\/p>\n
Suljovic continued his great run in the quarter-finals. With a 6:0-whitewash he defeated former World Champion Rob Cross, who could not hold on to his good performance from the round of sixteen (102-average). Suljovic gave the Sindelfingen crowd a great deal of praise in both games. “You got me through the match against Jamie Hughes here today. You were simply great”. Also in his match against Rob Cross the spectators loudly cheered Suljovic on. In the semi-finals, however, Suljovics journey ended. Against a strong Michael van Gerwen Suljovic had not much to oppose and lost clearly with 1:7. <\/p>\n
Here once again all results of the day at one glance:<\/p>\n
Afternoon session, last 16:
\nMaik Kuivenhoven 6:3 Glen Durrant
\nIan White 6:2 Michael Smith
\nDarius Labanauskas 6:2 Joe Cullen
\nGerwyn Price 3:6 Jose de Sousa
\nMensur Suljovic 6:5 Jamie Hughes
\nMartijn Kleermaker 1:6 Rob Cross
\nJames Wade 2:6 Nathan Aspinall
\nMichael van Gerwen 6:5 Vincent van der Voort<\/p>\n
Evening session, quarter-finals:
\nMaik Kuivenhoven 4:6 Ian White
\nDarius Labanauskas 4:6 Jose de Sousa
\nMensur Suljovic 6:0 Rob Cross
\nNathan Aspinall 5:6 Michael van Gerwen<\/p>\n
Semi-finals:
\nIan White 6:7 Jose de Sousa
\nMensur Suljovic 1:7 Michael van Gerwen<\/p>\n
Final:
\nJose de Sousa 8:4 Michael van Gerwen <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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