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Michael van Gerwen got off to a good start on Saturday at Darts' Grand Slam. The world's number one in Brabant was too strong for Gary Robson in his first group match at 5-1
Van Gerwen seemed to be heading for a super-fast whitening (5-0 win), but he had to take the third place.
De Vlijmenaar finally scored 112.66 points on average, ranking behind Phil Taylor (114.65) and Geert de Vos (113.86) in third place for the players with the highest score. number of points by three arrows on the Grand Slam or the dart board.
Van Gerwen will play Sunday in his second group game against Joe Murnan, then, if all goes well, the places for the playoffs.
"Mighty Mike" has written the Grand Slam of Darts over the last three years in the final, successively Phil Taylor (16-13), James Wade (16-8) and Peter Wright (16-12) to be defeated.
Van Barneveld begins. bad
Raymond van Barneveld started badly at the Darts Grand Slam. In his first group match, the Zuid-Hollander was surprised by a 5-3 loss against Krzysztof Ratajski.
Van Barneveld kept his first three legs relatively easily against Ratajski, but was broken in seventh and was not touched mentally.
De Hagenaar still scored a reasonable average of 92.30, but the double percentage (only thirty) was far behind.
Van Barneveld rebounded Sunday in his second group game against Michael Smith and is likely to win. have a chance in the round of 16
No chance against Wade
The five-time world champion won the Grand Slam of the Darts in 2012 at the expense of Van Gerwen and reached the semifinals once since, in 2015 his multiple had to be recognized by Phil Taylor.
Winners of the PDC and BDO television tournaments as well as the finalists of the majors and the winners of the Grand Slam Darts The Euro Tour tournaments of the PDC have received a departure license.
The third Dutchman, Wesley Harms, enjoyed, like Van Barneveld, a very disappointing start to the Grand Slam of Darts. The Noord-Hollander beat James Wade 5-0.
Harms is to win Sunday his second group game against Mark Webster to maintain his chances of qualifying in the last sixteen games.
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