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 residence soil.
Searle produced a bunch of top-quality shows on the Autotron on his technique to the ultimate, the place he thrashed Menzies 8-3 to develop 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 have been taking part in very well in observe, so to show it this week is unbelievable,” Searle mentioned. “To win six PDC titles is superb, particularly if you take a look at the record of good gamers that by no means gained a PDC title.
“Profitable a title six years operating is a superb achievement for me, and if I can win one other one this 12 months, that can be one other boundary crossed.”
Van Gerwen opted to not compete in Tuesday’s occasion, a day on from a shock loss to novice 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 a superb 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 an important 110 kill with a superb tops-tops 100 end to maneuver to the brink of victory, which he sealed by way of his trusted tops in leg 11.
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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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