Darts Championship: Anderson wins final thriller against Taylor – THE WORLD

After the last arrow, there was no stopping them. Gary Anderson shook his fists towards his family and grimaced for an enjoyable grin. Then, the third Scottish champion of darts history received the sincere congratulations from the record dethroned champion Phil Taylor. When he put his 20-pound trophy in the shower of confetti, he had tears in his eyes

“I am incredibly win Ironically, Phil.. – madness, “Anderson said:” Phil and I had so many great battles in recent years. ” The most spectacular lay back a few moments. Both had the audience at London’s Alexandra Palace delivered a great show.

challenger Anderson caught in his second World Cup final the clearly better start and almost punished every mistake Taylor’s ice cold. And there were more than enough to start. Especially the double fields prepared the 54-year-old problems. The highlight was the fourth sentence in which nine arrows Taylor sat in a row next to the outer rectangles. “It was clearly my weak point today,” the Briton said then.

Anderson arrows do not hold

Anderson, however, met regularly and consistently led with 3: 1 sets. Taylor, who had said “my possibly last chance for the title” in the run-up to left, shaking his head stage.

When he came back, he looked like a different person , Taylor’s average score grew up almost 110 points – a world-class value. Anderson was truly impressed and was not playing as accurate as at the beginning. Three sets in a row won Taylor, two of them with smooth 3: 0th In no time the multimillionaire had a 1: 3 4: 3 made.

But Anderson hit back – although at a score of 4 was equal to double in the ninth sentence pitch 4. It was not until his third arrow tore the first two others from the Triple-20 field – instead of 180 points was the 44-year-old credited with a single counter. A little later disturbed him unsportsmanlike catcalls from the audience in his throwing motion. Nevertheless, the Scot won the set and then launched his hand a small run.

Taylors desperate counterattack fizzles

With the score at 6: 4 saw Anderson already like the winner from – but Taylor launched a last desperate counterattack. The 16-time world champion threw for the first time in the tournament eight perfect arrows. “So I thought that I can maybe turn,” he later admitted, “But I’m still happy with my tournament Gary is a great player, he deserved to win.”.

In the deciding set 13 the man from Eyemouth held his nerve. The final throw in the double-twelve-field then sealed his victory.

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