Ryan Searle secured his sixth ProTour title with an emphatic victory over Cameron Menzies in Gamers Championship 4, as Michael van Gerwen sat out the occasion on dwelling soil.
Searle produced a number of top-quality shows on the Autotron on his option to the ultimate, the place he thrashed Menzies 8-3 to change into the primary non-Premier League participant to win a rating title in 2025.
A primary-round whitewash over Florian Hempel was adopted by convincing victories over Mensur Suljovic and Owen Bates, with Searle persevering with his cost with hard-fought wins over Irish pair Mickey Mansell and William O’Connor.
Searle got here by way of a final-leg decider to edge Stefan Bellmont 7-6 within the semi-finals, then transformed eight of his 12 makes an attempt at double to beat Menzies within the ultimate with a 100.7 common.
“I’ve been playing really well in practice, so to prove it this week is fantastic,” Searle stated. “To win six PDC titles is superb, particularly while you take a look at the record of sensible gamers that by no means received a PDC title.
“Winning a title six years running is a great achievement for me, and if I can win another one this year, that will be another boundary crossed.”
Van Gerwen opted to not compete in Tuesday’s occasion, a day on from a shock loss to newbie Michael Flynn at Gamers Championship 3, with Luke Humphries, Luke Littler and Gary Anderson among the many different Tour Card Holders not in motion.
How Searle beat Menzies to Dutch victory
Menzies kicked off proceedings with an excellent 145 outshot – sparking a sequence of 4 consecutive holds – earlier than Searle registered legs of 13 and 12 darts to determine a 4-2 buffer.
Following back-to-back holds, Searle then adopted up a vital 110 kill with an excellent tops-tops 100 end to maneuver to the brink of victory, which he sealed through his trusted tops in leg 11.
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Ryan Joyce fought off a Ryan Searle comeback as he received 4-3 to undergo to spherical 4 of the PDC World Darts Championship
Menzies loved a breakthrough 12 months on the PDC ProTour in 2024, and the Grand Slam of Darts quarter-finalist impressed on Dutch soil to achieve his third Gamers Championship ultimate.
The Scot fought again from 5-2 to disclaim Jose de Sousa in a dramatic first-round tie, with Menzies recording successive 6-3 victories over Stephen Bunting and James Wade throughout his run to a runner-up end.
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