Three-time world champion Michael van Gerwen has criticised Peter Wright’s World Darts Championship claims as “nonsense” and labelled tournament favourite Luke Littler’s form a “disappointment”.
Van Gerwen booked a quarter-final date with Callan Rydz courtesy of a 4-2 victory over Jeffrey de Graaf on Monday night and, afterwards, the world No 3 took aim at Wright’s assertion that Rydz should be favourite.
Rydz is unseeded but has produced the two highest averages of the tournament so far – 107.06 vs Romeo Grbavac in his opening match, and 105.31 in a thumping 4-0 thrashing of 11th seed Dimitri Van den Bergh in the third round.