Gerwyn Price proud of composure during fiery clash with Daryl Gurney as Wayne Mardle says: There was a lot of machismo | Darts News
Gerwyn Price said he focused on “not leaving his emotions” during his fiery confrontation with Daryl Gurney who ended with the pair exchanging stretched words and an angry handshake in the match match.
The price has passed A bad mood competition as winner 10-7With the catalyst for their friction to come in the ninth leg while Gurney has become furious with the great roars and the reactions of Price and began to imitate the Welsh.
From this moment, Price kept his emotions under the Wraps until he hits the winning dart of D12 and lets escape a massive roar and gave a huge celebration to the crowd, an icy conversation that followed while the couple shared what was a very hostile handshake at the end of their match.
This is not the first time that Gurney and Price have come up on the big stage, the pair exchanging blows and words in 2019 after a first league meeting.
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Daryl Gurney left 150 when he reduced the gap on Gerwyn Price during the match match.
“To be honest, I thought I was fighting for this match, but I went out and I saw the statistics and I have an average of 100 I think, which is decent,” said Price.
“I felt like I was quite poor in our game in patches and I was not particularly well played, and there is much more in the tank.
“I just felt like I had to stand in composed. Sometimes I forced not to let my emotions take over on me and sometimes that’s what happens and I can let the emotions come out and then the next leg is not so good, so sometimes I try to control it and I did it in this game.
“I think that may be what made me pass the winning line which simply tries to keep everything intact, then let it go at the end.
“For many legs, I was fighting, lacking opportunities, I made a big score and I made absolute garbage and I kept it in the game.
“I went to the table and I felt like the 150 was coming out and he did it, and it also kicked me in the back to break it here now and make the match. And I did it.
“I learned to keep my emotions intact and I think I did it today in two or three legs where my head was going to explode, but I just had to keep it.”
Mardle: Everything is childish … a lot of machismo!
For Sky Sports Darts’ Wayne Mardle, the confrontation between Price and Gurney was only another demonstration of the exhausting nature of “professional sport”.
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Daryl Gurney left 150 when he reduced the gap on Gerwyn Price during the match match.
And Mardle has “no problem” with such angry interactions on stage.
“Daryl Gurney did not like a reaction from Gezzy, so he has somehow imitated the reaction of Gezzy. Gezzy did not like his imitation of his reaction, and the children will be children,” he said.
“Everything is childish. At the end, when he has a sort of a physical handshake, I think it’s better than hugs to be fair. It is a professional sport. I have no problem at all.
“There was a lot of machismo up there.”
“These are fiery characters, aren’t they?”
Mark Webster, from Sky Sports Darts, said:
“Gerwyn Price took [issue with] The Daryl Gurney building of him. They are fiery characters, aren’t they?
“Let’s not remove what was a brilliant game.
“This is the type of characters they are. I think Price said” well played, my friend “.”
What is the next step in the world matchplay?
The world matchplay continues on Tuesday July 22, when the second round begins in Blackpool, live on Sky Sports Action and Main Event from 7 p.m.
The session sees Gian Van Veen face Danny Noppert, Wessel Nijman against James Wade, the game of Stephen Bunting Gary Anderson and Jonny Clayton against Mike de Decker.
Watch the matchplay World live on Sky Sports from July 19 to 27 or running without contract.
