Summary

  • Third seed Gerwyn Price beats two-time winner Gary Anderson 7-3

  • Price missed 11 match darts before clinching the title and gets £500,000

  • Victory takes Price above Michael van Gerwen to world number one

Live Reporting

Michael Emons

  1. Price is twitching and misses two darts at the doubles early in the 10th set, make that three.

  2. Anderson wins set; Price missed nine darts to win the match

    Anderson 3-6 Price (3-2, ninth set)

    Price missed NINE darts to win the world title in that previous leg.

    Anderson takes the ninth set!

  3. A much-needed 180 from Price, erasing that horror last leg.

  4. Anderson 2-6 Price (2-2, ninth set)

    Anderson, somehow, keeps the match alive. Price should have this done. We continue.

  5. And another three match darts go. What's happening?

  6. He's stumbling at the line. Price misses three more match darts.

  7. Price 116 and he gets down to tops. No. That's four match darts gone.

  8. Price has the darts in this leg though. Moments from the world title?

  9. Price misses two darts to win title

    Anderson 2-6 Price (1-2, ninth set)

    Price misses two darts to win the world title. D20, missed, D10 missed.

    Anderson seals the leg. We continue. Great drama.

  10. Nope. But he has another chance.

  11. Anderson faces 88 to stay in it. No. Price could win it with a 170.

  12. Anderson 2-6 Price (0-2, ninth set)

    Anderson can't take it and Price has 52 to get rid of and a single 12 and, of course, D20 gets the job done.

    One leg more for the world title, half a million quid and the world number one spot.

  13. Anderson misses D20 to steal the throw back, but has three more chances.

  14. A 42 from Price gives Anderson a glimpse.

  15. Anderson 2-6 Price (0-1, ninth set)

    Anderson with a 121 to hold his throw, but it's no good and Price steals the break by making 66. The world title is in sight now. Hold his throw twice and the title is his.

  16. Price hits a 180 early on in set nine.

  17. Price one set from the title

    Anderson 2-6 Price (2-3, eighth set)

    Gerwyn Price needs one more set to become the 2021 world champion. For the 14th time, he seals a leg by hitting tops. That gives him the eighth set. Anderson needs to win five sets on the bounce.

  18. He takes it down to 40, but will be back for the eighth set.

  19. Price with 96 for a 6-2 lead.

  20. Anderson 2-5 Price (2-2, eighth set)

    Anderson misses tops then D10. Price for 72 to seal the set, he needs bull but hits 25.

    Anderson then hits D1. But Price to throw first in the decider.