Very interesting day at the darts yesterday. For non darts nuts, there was a small tournament in Denmark, but as it was an invitation event all the top players were there.
Peter Wright beat Gerwyn Price 11-5 in the final showing signs he's getting back to his best after a poor year last year due to health problems for him and then his wife.
But it was something Price said in the interview after that was interesting. He said "I don't know what hapened, I had nothing, no fight in me at all"
But it made sense in hindsight. What Price was referring to, I think, was an andrelainin dump. They'd both played in the afternoon and had a break. Price played first in the evening against his good friend and rival Johnny Clayton. It was a brilliant game with all the thing you want in a darts match, some high scoring, great checkouts and a very close game.
Wright, on the other hand had a run of the mill win over Michael Smith, playing some great darts and some average darts.
So all the commentators plumped for Price to win, and gun to head I'd have picked him too. The bookies were betting 1.72 Price, 2.1 Wright. I'd have had Wright a bit closer, but nothing dramatic.
Now Wright was brilliant in the final, and it would have taken Price at his best to give him a game, or beat him. But it's something I'll be looking for in future.
I think that 2.1 on Wright if you factored that in, was a good price.
