Niko Springer ensures a real surprise on the Players Championship 7. Ryan Searle also plays a big highlight.
What a coup for Niko Springer! The German surprisingly beat Michael van Gerwen 6: 3 at the Players Championship Seven in Hildesheim.
For van Gerwen, who was the only Premier League player in Hildesheim, it is already over in the first round. In doing so, he actually wanted to take on momentum for the seventh evening in the Premier League on Thursday in Cardiff (from 8 p.m. live on TV and stream on Sport1 ).
Michael van Gerwen lost to Niko Springer
But the Dutchman missed too many chances for the doubles and only met 20 percent of his attempts (3/15). In addition, MVG also had surprising problems in scoring and only scored 89.91 points on average.
Springer was enough to perform a good performance to beat the favorite van Gerwen. The 24-year-old tour newcomer played an 88.94 average and met 35.3 percent for the doubles (6/17).
Darts: Searle ensures highlight with a nine-darter
But that’s not all: Springer also tied his success from round one in the second round and hit the Schotten William Borland 6: 3.
In addition to Springer, six more games survived the first round. Ricardo Pietreczko, Max Hopp, Martin Schindler, Gabriel Clemens, Lukas Little and Tim Wolters all won their opening game.
Ryan Searle, who played a 9-darter in his first leg in the tournament, also provided another highlight. Also strange: the caller was so pleased with this highlight that he incorrectly declared Searle as the winner of the match.
Ultimately, Searle also won the game 6: 3 against Joshua Richardson.