{"id":6329,"date":"2024-04-27T15:17:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T15:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/\/pdc2.fw-web.space\/?p=6329"},"modified":"2024-11-01T21:11:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T21:11:10","slug":"anderson-ends-ten-year-wait-for-european-tour-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pdc2.fw-web.space\/news\/anderson-ends-ten-year-wait-for-european-tour-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson ends ten&shy;year wait for European Tour title"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6332\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6332\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6332\" src=\"https:\/\/pdc2.fw-web.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ET4_Final_R_Smith-v-Anderson-21-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pdc2.fw-web.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ET4_Final_R_Smith-v-Anderson-21-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/pdc2.fw-web.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ET4_Final_R_Smith-v-Anderson-21-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pdc2.fw-web.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ET4_Final_R_Smith-v-Anderson-21-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pdc2.fw-web.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ET4_Final_R_Smith-v-Anderson-21-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pdc2.fw-web.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ET4_Final_R_Smith-v-Anderson-21-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/pdc2.fw-web.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ET4_Final_R_Smith-v-Anderson-21-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/pdc2.fw-web.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ET4_Final_R_Smith-v-Anderson-21-1400x933.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6332\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">European Darts Grand Prix 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>Gary Anderson ended his ten-year wait for a European Tour title in Sindelfingen on Sunday, defeating Ross Smith 8-6 in the final of the NEO.bet European Darts Grand Prix.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Competing in just his fourth European Tour event since bringing a seven-year hiatus from the circuit to an end in 2023, crowd favourite Anderson was a popular winner at the Glaspalast.<\/p>\n<p>The Scot began Finals Day with an eye-catching last 16 win over Gerwyn Price, before coming through a last-leg decider with Josh Rock in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson overcame Rob Cross 7-5 in the semi-finals before seeing off Smith to double his European Tour title tally.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It&#8217;s been a very long time [since winning a stage title],&#8221; <\/em>reflected Anderson, who rises three places to 21st on the PDC Order of Merit.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Many years ago when I played in the European Tour the crowd was just starting to grow and since then it&#8217;s just got bigger and bigger.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Wherever you go now, people want to play darts and watch darts; these crowds are incredible.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know how I&#8217;ve won it tonight; my last three games I&#8217;ve never been as lucky in darts.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A hard-fought final saw both players struggling to find top form and looked to be going the distance as Anderson levelled at 6-6.<\/p>\n<p>The turning point came in the following leg as the two-time World Champion struck a 121 checkout to break throw and move within a leg of victory.<\/p>\n<p>Smith missed seven darts to break back, allowing Anderson to tidy up 43 and deny the former European Champion a maiden European Tour title.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I can&#8217;t complain, I&#8217;m gutted but I&#8217;ll be back on the practice board and keep working hard,&#8221; <\/em>said Smith, who defeated Michael van Gerwen 7-6 in a thrilling semi-final.<em>&#8220;Congratulations to Gary, everyone knows how good he is; he&#8217;s just Gary Anderson!&#8221;I&#8217;ll take getting to the final all day long and hopefully will go one better next time.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The PDC European Tour resumes next weekend &#8211; April 26-28 with the NEO.bet Austrian Darts Open in Graz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Anderson ended his ten-year wait for a European Tour title in Sindelfingen on Sunday, defeating Ross Smith 8-6 in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":6332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[943,109,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-pdc-europe","category-results"],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":6329,"de":6327},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdc2.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdc2.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdc2.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdc2.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdc2.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6329"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pdc2.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6334,"href":"https:\/\/pdc2.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6329\/revisions\/6334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdc2.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdc2.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdc2.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdc2.fw-web.space\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}