Gerwyn Price said he focused on “not walking his emotions” during his fiery clash with Daryl Gurney who ended with the couple that exchanged tense words and an angry handshake at the World Matchplay.
Price passed A poorly suspended game like the 10-7 winnerWith the catalyst for their friction in the ninth leg when Gurney became furious with the big roaring and reactions from Price and the Welshman started to mimic.
From that moment on, Price kept his emotions under wrappers until he hit the winning arrow of D12 and played a huge roar and gave a huge party to the crowd, an icy conversation that followed when the couple shared which was a very unfriendly handshake at the end of their competition.
It is not the first time that Gurney and Price have been crashed on the big stage, the few exchanged shocks and words back in 2019 after a Premier League meeting.
“To be honest, I thought I was struggling for that game, but I came off and saw the statistics and I was about 100 on average, I think, which is decent,” said Price.
“I felt that I was pretty bad in our game in patches and did not play particularly well, and there is much more in the tank.
“I just felt that I had to compose myself. Sometimes I forced my emotions not to get the best of me and sometimes that is what happens and I can let the emotions out and then the next leg is not so good, so sometimes I try to control it and I did it in that game.
“I think that might have brought me about the winning line, just try to keep everything intact and then let it go at the end.
“For many legs I was beaten myself, missed opportunities, I made a big score and I absolutely did waste and just kept him in the game.
“I went to the table and I felt that the 150 went out and it did, and it just gave myself a kick -up the back to just break him here and do the game. And I did it.
“I learned to keep my emotions intact and I think I did it today in two or three legs where my head would blow away, but I just had to keep it inside.”
Mardle: it’s all childish … lots of machismo!
For Sky Sports Darts’ Wayne Mardle, the confrontation between price and Gurney was simply a demonstration of the extracting nature of “professional sport”.
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Daryl Gurney skillfully took 150 out when he closed the gap on Gerwyn Price at the World Matchplay.
And Marardle has “no problem” with such angry interactions on stage.
“Daryl Gurney did not like a reaction from Zzy, so he copied the reaction of Zzy.
“It’s all childish. At the end when it got a kind of physical handshake, I think it’s better than cuddling to be honest. It’s professional sport. I have no problem with it at all.
“There was a lot of machismo above that.”
“They are spicy characters, right?”
Sky Sports Darts’ Mark Webster said:
“Gerwyn Price took [issue with] Daryl Gurney’s mimits from him. They are spicy characters, right?
“Let’s not take away what a brilliant game was. The prize kept it under control until he got that winning leg and Gerwyn Price gets the last smile.
“That is the type of characters they are. I think Price said” played well, buddy. “
What is the next step at the World Matchplay?
The World Matchplay continues on Tuesday 22 July, while the second round in Blackpool starts, live on Sky Sports Action and Main Event from 7 p.m.
Gian van Veen sees the session against Danny Noppert, Wessel Nijman against James Wade, Stephen Bunting Play Gary Anderson and Jonny Clayton Face Mike De Decker.
View the World Matchplay Live on Sky Sports from 19-27 July or Stream without a contract.
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