{"id":3071,"date":"2022-11-28T04:13:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T04:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/pdc-players-championship-finals-michael-van-gerwen-beats-rob-cross-to-win-seventh-title\/"},"modified":"2022-11-28T04:13:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T04:13:41","slug":"pdc-players-championship-finals-michael-van-gerwen-beats-rob-cross-to-win-seventh-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/pdc-players-championship-finals-michael-van-gerwen-beats-rob-cross-to-win-seventh-title\/","title":{"rendered":"PDC Players Championship Finals: Michael van Gerwen beats Rob Cross to win seventh title"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Victory has earned Michael van Gerwen the \u00a3100,000 top prize<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Michael van Gerwen beat Rob Cross 11-6 to win his seventh PDC Players Championship Finals title in 10 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The 33-year-old Dutchman threw the 2022 tournament’s only nine-dart finish – the third in its history – and a 170 checkout in the final.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Van Gerwen averaged 99.92 and made eight 180s, with his victory over England’s Cross also marking his 150th PDC title.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I’m here to win tournaments,” he told ITV Sport in Minehead.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I love winning, I love performing on the stage, and then to produce something extra, something special in a final like this, it gives me a lot of energy.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Van Gerwen had earlier beaten England’s Luke Humphries 11-5 in his semi-final, in which he won eight of the last 10 legs and averaged 101.59.<\/span><\/p>\n

He then defeated Cross to secure his fifth televised title of 2022, with the World Grand Prix, the Premier League and World Matchplay among his victories.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It’s been an amazing weekend but it was Michael’s night,” said Cross. “Mike was phenomenal.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Once I started to find my feet and find a few 180s, it could have been a little bit different but I missed chances and missed doubles.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The Players Championship is the last major tournament before the PDC World Darts Championship, which takes place at Alexandra Palace from 14 December-2 January.<\/span><\/p>\n

Van Gerwen is a three-time PDC world champion, last winning the crown in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

“If people want to beat me, they have to play well. If I play my game, they cannot beat me and they know it,” he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

“But I have to show what I can, whether it’s Gerwyn Price, Peter Wright, whoever, I want to show what I can. I’m there, I did my thing this year, I’ve won a lot of tournaments and now I have to show it also at the World Championship. That’s what it is.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Victory has earned Michael van Gerwen the \u00a3100,000 top prize Michael van Gerwen beat Rob Cross 11-6 to win his seventh PDC Players Championship Finals title in 10 years. The 33-year-old Dutchman threw the 2022 tournament’s only nine-dart finish – the third in its history – and a 170 checkout in the final. Van Gerwen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3073,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071\/revisions\/3073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}