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Michael van Gerwen is closing in on his fourth World Championship title after bulldozing his option to the ultimate.
The Dutchman, who final gained at Alexandra Palace in 2019, put in a masterful efficiency in opposition to Chris Dobey to earn a 6-1 win.
After a wretched 2024, the place he did not win a televised main match and slipped behind Luke Littler and Luke Humphries within the reckoning, Van Gerwen is now one victory away from re-establishing himself on the high of the game.
He was in luxurious type in opposition to Dobey, who had damaged new floor by reaching the semi-final for the primary time.
He averaged just under 100, threw eight 180s and took out three ton-plus checkouts, together with an imposing 158.
Van Gerwen is now right into a seventh showpiece occasion at Ally Pally, with solely the good Phil Taylor making extra, and he’ll face both Luke Littler or Stephen Bunting on Friday night time.
All the eye has been on the teenager sensation throughout this match, however the Dutchman is wanting ominously good and can fancy his probabilities of getting his fingers on the Sid Waddell Trophy for the fourth time.
Enjoying in his ninth semi-final, this was acquainted territory for the 35-year-old, whereas Dobey had expended a variety of emotional power in beating Gerwyn Worth within the quarter-final.
A six-minute first set in opposition to the throw put Van Gerwen on the highway to victory and when Dobey missed three darts to complete 40 he went 2-0 up.
Dobey reeled within the ‘massive fish’ 170 checkout after which completed 108 to lastly get on the board nevertheless it was a fleeting second of promise.
Van Gerwen was capable of coast by the remainder of the match, twice threatening a nine-dart end with six good darts to start out a leg, as he’s again within the last.
Not that he’s counting his chickens, with a blunt response throughout his onstage interview, the place he stated: “I’m within the last, I’ve gained f*** all but, I would like to verify I do it within the last.
“I’m right here with a mission, with a goal, you might be all the time going to have ups and downs, at the moment I confirmed maturity, even after I wasn’t at my greatest I produced some good things on the proper moments and that provides me confidence.
“To win within the semi-final means loads to me. What do I all the time say, we’re not even shut but, we’re nonetheless so distant.
“Tomorrow is one other day. The title continues to be distant, that’s what I’ve to inform myself, I don’t need to make errors, I need to maintain battling.”
