Gerwyn Price

Gerwyn Price
Personal information
Nickname The Iceman
Born (1985-03-07) 7 March 1985
Wales
Home town Markham
Wales
Darts information
Playing darts since 2012
Laterality Right-handed
Walk-on music Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice
Organisation (see split in darts)
PDC 2014–
Current world ranking 11
PDC premier events - best performances
World Ch'ship Last 16: 2018
World Matchplay Quarter Finals: 2015
World Grand Prix Quarter Finals: 2018
Grand Slam Last 16: 2016
Premier League 10th: 2018
European Ch'ship Last 16: 2016, 2017
UK Open Runner Up: 2017
Players Ch'ship Finals Last 16: 2015
The Masters Quarter Finals: 2018
Other tournament wins
Worthingtons Darts Champion of Champions 2015

European Tour Events

International Darts Open 2018

Players Championships

Players Championship (BAR) 2016
Players Championship (COV) 2016
Other achievements

2015 Breaks into the top 64 on the PDC Order of Merit for the first time
2016 Breaks into the top 32 on the PDC Order of Merit for the first time

2017 Breaks into the top 16 on the PDC Order of Merit for the first time

Gerwyn Price (born 7 March 1985) is a Welsh darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation events. He broke into the top 32 on the PDC Order of Merit in 2016 and soon afterwards won his first Pro Tour title. In 2017 he was the runner-up at the UK Open, Price's first major event final. Price has also played rugby union for Welsh Premier Division sides.[1]

Rugby

Price has played as a hooker for Welsh Premier Division sides Neath, and Cross Keys as well as rugby league with South Wales Scorpions. He also had a brief spell at Pro12 side Glasgow Warriors as injury cover for their first choice players.[2] He ended his rugby career in 2014 in order to concentrate on playing darts full-time.[3]

Darts

Price began playing darts for his local side Markham Welfare, before playing in the Super League for Aberbargoed. Welsh darts professional Barrie Bates advised him to enter Qualifying School to join the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) in January 2014 and Price was successful in the second event.[4] He won six matches on the day concluding with a 5–3 victory over Rowby-John Rodriguez to earn a two-year tour card.[5] He qualified for the 2014 UK Open, and lost 5–2 to Aden Kirk in the second round.[6] He twice reached the last 16 stage of Players Championship events during the first half of 2014, losing to Michael van Gerwen, and Stephen Bunting. In July, Price averaged 98.32 in beating former world number one Colin Lloyd 6–2 at the European Darts Open. In the second round he led Gary Anderson 2–0 but went on to lose 6–3.[7] At the 13th Players Championship, Price saw off Lloyd, Kirk, James Wade, and Wayne Jones to advance to the quarter-finals for the first time, where he was edged out 6–5 by Adrian Lewis.[8]

Price qualified for the European Darts Trophy in Leipzig during mid September. There, he beat Bernd Roith 6–3 in the first round to face Steve Beaton in the second round. Thanks to a great performance, which included the tournament's highest finish of 167, he saw off Beaton 6–3 and won against Vincent van der Voort in the following round. He nearly qualified for the 2014 World Grand Prix, for which a place in the semi-finals was needed, but was beaten 6–3 in the quarter-finals by Andy Hamilton.[9] Price's impressive start to his darting career continued by reaching his first semi-final at the 19th Players Championship where he lost 6–3 to Ian White.[10]

2015

The £12,750 he earned in Pro Tour events during 2014 saw him finish 39th on the Order of Merit to claim the eighth of sixteen places that were on offer to non-qualified players for the 2015 PDC World Championship.[11] Price missed one dart at tops to level at one set all against Peter Wright in the first round and was beaten 3–0.[12] His successful year saw him start 2015 ranked world number 59.[13]

Price was knocked out of the preliminary round of the 2015 UK Open 5–2 by Matt Padgett.[14] On his way to his first quarter-final of the year, Price eliminated Adrian Lewis 6–4 with an average of 105.78 at the second Players Championship event, but he went on to lose 6–2 to James Wade.[15] At the Gibraltar Darts Trophy, Price defeated two top 16 players in Robert Thornton, and Simon Whitlock to play in his second career European Tour quarter-final, where compatriot Jamie Lewis narrowly won 6–5.[16] In total during the first half of 2015 Price lost in four quarter-finals on the Pro Tour, and reached the semi-finals of the eighth Players Championship where he lost 6–4 to Adrian Lewis.[17] These results sealed his qualification for the World Matchplay through the Pro Tour Order of Merit with Price seeing off Michael Smith 10–4 in his début in the event. He then produced the performance of his career to date as he defeated two-time world champion Lewis 13–10, but could only average 88.17 in his first major quarter-final during a 16–7 loss to Peter Wright.[18] Price met Smith again in the first round of the World Grand Prix with the tie going to a deciding set in which Price established a 2–0 leg lead. He would miss two match darts as Smith levelled and in the final leg Price was unable to score a point as he missed a total of 15 darts at doubles in the double-start event.[19] He led Ian White 9–8 in the second round of the Players Championship Finals, but went on to lose 10–9.[20]

2016

Andrew Gilding won each set in the first round of the 2016 World Championship by three legs to one in beating Price 3–0.[21] In February at the fifth UK Open Qualifier, Price defeated Mark Webster 6–1 and Mensur Suljović 6–3 to reach his first PDC final, but he was denied the title by world number one Michael van Gerwen who triumphed 6–2.[22] In the seventh Players Championship, Price won through to another final and this time took the title by coming back from 3–0 down against Peter Wright to win 6–3.[23] He also took the eighth event as he averaged 108 in the final during a 6–1 victory over Jamie Caven.[24] After knocking out Kim Huybrechts 10–8 at the World Matchplay, Price would face Adrian Lewis in the second round for the second year in a row. Before the match Lewis stated that Price's win over him 12 months ago was lucky and that Price was a "big mouth who's never won anything and never will win anything".[25] The pre-match tension seemed to affect both players as both averaged in the 80s with Lewis prevailing 11–5.[26] Price lost 2–0 in the first round of the World Grand Prix to Benito van de Pas, and 10–2 to Michael van Gerwen in the second round of the European Championship. Wins over Scott Waites, and Robert Thornton saw him top his group on his début at the Grand Slam of Darts.[27] He missed one match dart against Brendan Dolan in the last 16 in a 10–9 defeat.[28]

2017

After taking the opening set against Jonny Clayton in their first round match at the 2017 World Championship, Price lost three in a row to be beaten 3–1.[29] He was ranked 20th on the Order of Merit afterwards.[30] He defeated Justin Pipe 10–5, David Pallett 10–4 and Paul Hogan 10–6 at the UK Open to reach the quarter-finals. Ian White was on 20 to win 10–9, but hit a double 15 to burst his score and Price stepped in with a 160 checkout to progress through to the semi-finals where he was locked at 9–9 with Alan Norris. Norris missed three darts to take the 19th leg and Price finished 100 with two double tops, before breaking throw in the next to win 11–9. In his first major final he was 7–2 down to Peter Wright, before reducing his deficit to 8–6. However, Price then lost the last three legs to be beaten 11–6.[31][32]

Victories over Finland, Ireland and Russia helped Price and Mark Webster into the semi-finals of the World Cup. A pair of 4–2 wins over the Belgian team of Kim, and Ronny Huybrechts saw them play in the final, where their only point came courtesy of a Webster win over Raymond van Barneveld as they went down 3–1 to the Dutch.[33]

2018

In the 2018 World Championship Price won in the first round of the World Championship for the first time when he beat Ted Evets 3–0. In the second round Price beat Ian White 4–1. In the third round Price faced the defending World Champion Michael van Gerwen. Van Gerwen won the first two sets but then Price won seven legs in a row to go two sets all and ahead in the fifth set. Van Gerwen won the fifth and sixth set which meant Price lost the match 2–4.

World Championship results

PDC

Career finals

PDC major finals: 1 (1 runner-up)

Outcome No. Year Championship Opponent in the final Score[N 1]
Runner-up 1. 2017 UK Open Scotland Peter Wright 6–11 (l)

PDC team finals: 1 (1 runner-up)

Outcome No. Year Championship Country Teammate Opponents in the final Score[N 1]
Runner-up 1. 2017 World Cup of Darts  Wales Mark Webster  Netherlands (Michael van Gerwen, and Raymond van Barneveld) 1–3 (m)

Performance timeline

Tournament20142015201620172018
PDC World Championship DNP 1R 1R 1R 3R
The Masters Did not qualify QF
UK Open 2R Prel. 3R F QF
Premier League Darts Did not participate 10th
World Matchplay DNQ QF 2R 1R 1R
World Grand Prix DNQ 1R 1R 2R QF
European Championship DNQ 1R 2R 2R
Grand Slam of Darts DNQ 2R RR
Players Championship Finals DNQ 2R 1R 2R
Performance timeline legend
DNP Did not play in the event #R lost in the early rounds of the tournament
(RR = Round robin)
(Prel. = Preliminary round)		 QF lost in the quarter-finals
SF lost in the semi-finals F lost in the final W won the tournament

Personal life

In 2010, Price was punched outside a pub in Bargoed which required 42 stitches to his forehead and five to his chin, as well as suffering a brain haemorrhage and nerve damage to an eyebrow. His attacker received a 12-month jail term. Price also received a suspended sentence for assaulting another man in a related incident.[34]

Notes

  1. 1 2 (l) = score in legs, (s) = score in sets.

References

  1. ↑ "Gerwyn Price has left Cross Keys to join Neath". South Wales Argus. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
  2. ↑ "Scorpions snap up former Neath hooker Gerwyn Price". South Wales Evening Post. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  3. ↑ "PDC World Championship: Gerwyn Price drops rugby for darts". BBC Sport. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
  4. ↑ "Keys hooker Gerwyn Price on target to become darts pro". South Wales Argus. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  5. ↑ "2014 PDC Qualifying School Day Two". PDC. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  6. ↑ "Coral UK Open - Friday Afternoon". PDC. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  7. ↑ "European Darts Open Second Round". PDC. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  8. ↑ "Six Of The Best For Anderson". PDC. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
  9. ↑ "European Darts Trophy Final Day". PDC. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
  10. ↑ "Diamond Dazzles To Seal Coventry Crown". PDC. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
  11. ↑ "William Hill World Championship Field". PDC. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  12. ↑ "William Hill World Championship Day Two". PDC. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  13. ↑ "Order of Merit on 5 January 2015". PDC. Archived from the original on 8 January 2015. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  14. ↑ "Coral UK Open - Friday Afternoon". PDC. Archived from the original on 8 March 2015. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  15. ↑ "Barnsley Win For Wondrous Wade". PDC. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  16. ↑ "Rock Solid van Gerwen's Gibraltar Glory". PDC. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
  17. ↑ "Brilliant Brown's Maiden ProTour Win". PDC. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  18. ↑ "2015 World Matchplay Results". Darts Database. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
  19. ↑ "partypoker.com World Grand Prix - Sunday". PDC. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  20. ↑ "Cash Converters PCF - Day Two". PDC. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
  21. ↑ "William Hill World Championship Day Seven". PDC. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
  22. ↑ "Van Gerwen Continues Winning Run". PDC. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
  23. ↑ "Gerwyn Price beat Peter 'Snakebite' Wright to win Players Championship Seven". Sky Sports. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
  24. ↑ "Coventry Win Seals Price's Second Title". PDC. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
  25. ↑ "Adrian Lewis sparked a verbal battle with Gerwyn Price at the World Matchplay". Sky Sports. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
  26. ↑ "Adrian Lewis defeats Gerwyn Price at World Matchplay and continues war of words". Sky Sports. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
  27. ↑ "Gerwyn Price 2016". Darts Database. Archived from the original on 17 December 2016. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
  28. ↑ "SINGHA Beer Grand Slam - Wednesday". PDC. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
  29. ↑ "William Hill World Championship Day Two". PDC. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
  30. ↑ "Order of Merit on 3 January 2017". PDC. Archived from the original on 3 January 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  31. ↑ "Coral UK Open Joy For Wright". PDC. Archived from the original on 5 March 2017. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  32. ↑ "UK Open: Peter Wright beats Gerwyn Price in Minehead". BBC Sport. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  33. ↑ "Dutch Delight In Betway World Cup of Darts". PDC. Archived from the original on 12 June 2017. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  34. ↑ "Rugby player hospitalised after brawl outside Bargoed pub". Wales Online. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
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