{"id":628114,"date":"2026-09-18T02:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T02:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/628114\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T02:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T02:48:10","slug":"world-series-of-darts-finals-2026-champion-michael-van-gerwen-beaten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/628114\/","title":{"rendered":"World Series of Darts Finals 2026: Champion Michael van Gerwen beaten"},"content":{"rendered":"

Defending champion Michael van Gerwen fell to a 6-5 defeat by Daryl Gurney in the opening round of the World Series of Darts Finals in Amsterdam.<\/p>\n

Northern Ireland’s Gurney raced into a 3-0 lead before the Dutch top seed reeled off five consecutive legs to put himself on the brink of victory. <\/p>\n

However, Gurney, who was drafted in as a late replacement when Lourence Ilagan withdrew from the 32-man field, responded by taking the ninth leg.<\/p>\n

And when Van Gerwen missed six match darts, he was able to level the match at 5-5 and win the decider with the throw.<\/p>\n

Gurney will now take on England’s Ross Smith in the last 16 on Saturday after he advanced past Kevin Doets 6-3. <\/p>\n

World number one Luke Littler will get under way on Friday against former UK Open champion Danny Noppert, having recently whitewashed the Dutchman 6-0 on his way to winning the Czech Darts Open.<\/a><\/p>\n

World number two Luke Humphries also emerged victorious in another England versus Netherlands encounter, progressing 6-4 against Jermaine Wattimena.<\/p>\n

Dutch number one Gian van Veen gained a measure of revenge for the home fans with a 6-2 triumph over Chris Dobey. <\/p>\n

Dirk van Duijvenbode fought back from 4-1 down to defeat Sweden’s Viktor Tingstrom 6-4, while Ryan Searle threw four 180s as he dispatched former world champion Rob Cross 6-2. <\/p>\n

Searle goes on to play Josh Rock, who won the last three legs to edge out Stephen Bunting 6-5.<\/p>\n

Karel Sedlacek marked his debut at the tournament with a 6-4 win over New Zealander Ben Robb and will take on Van Veen next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defending champion Michael van Gerwen fell to a 6-5 defeat by Daryl Gurney in the opening round of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-628114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}