Gibraltar Darts Trophy - Finals Day

Rock Solid van Gerwen's Gibraltar Glory
MICHAEL VAN GERWEN continued his incredible start to 2015 with a brilliant 6-3 triumph over Terry Jenkins to win the Gibraltar Darts Trophy title.

The Dutch star picked up a second successive European Tour triumph - following February's German Darts Championship win - to add to his string of tournament victories so far this year.
The unbeaten Betway Premier League leader at present, van Gerwen has also won The Unibet Masters and the Coral UK Open on television and three UK Open Qualifiers before adding 25,000 Pound with his latest European Tour success to take his unbeaten run in broadcasted games since the World Championship to 27 games.

Van Gerwen opened the day with a third round defeat of Brian Woods, hitting two ten-dart legs and missing double 12 for a nine-darter during his 6-3 victory. He then averaged 109.92 in a 6-4 quarter-final win over fellow Dutchman Jelle Klaasen in a high-quality clash which saw the world number one record winning legs of 11, 11, 11, 13, 12 and 16 darts as he moved into the last four.
Welsh ace Jamie Lewis was then defeated 6-1 with a clinical semi-final display, as van Gerwen took out 110 and 101 and averaged 104.47 before he swept aside Jenkins 6-3 in the final with a superb 107.04 average. Van Gerwen also missed double 12 for a nine-darter for the second time on the day as he came from a leg down to lead 4-1. Jenkins replied to two 11-darters from van Gerwen with an 11-dart leg of his own before finishing a 13-darter to stay in touch at 5-3, but van Gerwen took out 112 in the next to seal the title.

Jenkins' run was his best on the PDC European Tour and included a 6-4 win over Gary Anderson in Sunday afternoon's third round. He then overcame Mervyn King 6-3 in the quarter-finals and ended James Wade's defence of the title in Gibraltar with a 6-2 semi-final triumph before having to settle for the 10,000 pound runner-up prize.

Wade had defeated Premier League rival Kim Huybrechts 6-4 in the quarter-finals to follow up a third round win over Vincent van der Voort as he sought to claim back-to-back wins in Gibraltar.
Welsh youngster Lewis also enjoyed another strong run at the Victoria Stadium, following up his run to the 2013 final by defeating Andy Smith and Gerwyn Price on Sunday to reach the last four.
Price had overcome Simon Whitlock in the third round as he reached his second European Tour quarter-final, while Norfolk youngster Nathan Derry won through to the third round on his European Tour debut before losing out to Klaasen.









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