{"id":1724,"date":"2026-02-13T09:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T09:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/1724\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T09:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T09:51:09","slug":"gerwyn-price-wins-night-2-in-antwerp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/1724\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerwyn Price wins Night 2 in Antwerp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"advert has-text-align-left has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color has-background\">Support quality, independent, local journalism\u2026that matters<br \/>From just \u00a31 a month you can help fund our work \u2013 and use our website without adverts. <a href=\"https:\/\/membership.caerphilly.observer\/join?mtm_campaign=member_appeal&amp;mtm_source=website&amp;mtm_placement=article_top\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Become a member today<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Gerwyn-Price-Premier-League-Darts-2026-Antwerp-JennySegersPDC.webp.webp\" alt=\"Gerwyn Price celebrating during his Premier League Darts Night 2 win in Antwerp\" class=\"wp-image-1056907\"\/>Gerwyn Price celebrating during his Premier League Darts Night 2 win in Antwerp<\/p>\n<p>Gerwyn Price saw off Michael van Gerwen to clinch his first Premier League Darts night win of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Price, from Markham, beat the Dutchman 6-3 in the Night 2 showpiece on Thursday February 12 to secure maximum points and the \u00a310,000 prize.<\/p>\n<p>Opening what was the first-ever Premier League night held in Belgium, Price beat Gian van Veen in the deciding leg to set up an all-Welsh semi-final encounter with Jonny Clayton.<\/p>\n<p>Price again sealed victory in the deciding leg, before facing Van Gerwen in the final in Antwerp.<\/p>\n<p>The Iceman took a two-leg lead against Van Gerwen, who won last week\u2019s opening night and was until that point unbeaten in this year\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>But the world number four responded to draw the game level at 2-2.<\/p>\n<p>Price then won three legs in a row to take a 5-2 lead, but squandered three match darts to allow Van Gerwen to pin double four to reduce the arrears to two legs.<\/p>\n<p>However, Price didn\u2019t have to wait long to seal victory, finding his fourth 180 before pinning double 20 to run out a 6-3 winner \u2013 averaging upwards of 104 in the process.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started off really slow this evening, I felt really edgy. Losing last week, you want to get off to a good start,\u201d\u00a0reflected Price, who was beaten 6-5 in the first round by <a href=\"https:\/\/caerphilly.observer\/sport\/1056394\/premier-league-darts-fixture-list-revealed-as-price-to-face-humphries-in-opener\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Humphries last week in Newcastle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know I\u2019m playing well, but you still have to do it on the big stage. Gian [van Veen] had a shot at the bull to beat me, and I could of been going home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I\u2019m playing some of the best darts I\u2019ve ever played, I\u2019m just not winning tournaments, but that will come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cIf I keep playing the way I am, there\u2019s no way I won\u2019t pick up a major title.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Premier League Darts heads to Glasgow for Night 3 on Thursday February 19, where Price takes on Clayton once again in the opening round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"advert has-text-align-left has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color has-background\">Support quality, independent, local journalism\u2026that matters<br \/>From just \u00a31 a month you can help fund our work \u2013 and use our website without adverts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/membership.caerphilly.observer\/join?mtm_campaign=member_appeal&amp;mtm_source=website&amp;mtm_placement=article_bottom\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Become a member today<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jenny Segers\/PDC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Support quality, independent, local journalism\u2026that mattersFrom just \u00a31 a month you can help fund our work \u2013 and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19,1665,1517,1521,1666,1667,1668,1359],"class_list":{"0":"post-1724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-antwerp","8":"tag-antwerp","9":"tag-argoed","10":"tag-darts","11":"tag-gerwyn-price","12":"tag-jonny-clayton","13":"tag-markham","14":"tag-pdc-darts","15":"tag-premier-league-darts"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}