Chisnall identifies darts participant who’ll observe Luke Littler and breakout in 2024
With Luke Littler fever taking up the world of darts, one of many sport’s fan favourites has thrown one other identify into the hat of darting prospects.
Dave Chisnall is without doubt one of the most gifted gamers by no means to style main success, and has all the time been met by a few of the biggest gamers to chuck a dart at any time when he will get to a ultimate.
The 180-hitting machine has tipped a Dutchman to maybe sooner or later be a type of darting greats and have a 12 months to recollect in 2024.
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When requested who’ll be the “breakthrough player on the Pro Tour this season?” – Chizzy replied, saying: “I think Gian van Veen is a proper talent – he’ll have a good year.”
That European Championship run in 2023 was not dissimilar to Littler’s run in the world, bar it being a much lower stakes tournament, and Van Veen was many people’s dark horse to make a Nuke-like run at Ally Pally.
Alas, a red hot Man Lok Leung bested Van Veen, just as Littler did in the JDC World Championship final up on stage in Minehead a month prior.
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Speaking on his expertise at Ally Pally, the Chizz added: “The World’s this year was a bit mixed for me. I was pleased to get to the quarter-finals, and thought I had played well in the earlier rounds (beating Cameron Menzies and Gabriel Clemens), and played much better when beating Daryl (Gurney) to get through to the last eight.”
“I’m not sure what happened between then and New Year’s Day, but I didn’t finish at all well against Luke, and it was a bit of a struggle. I had a bit of a temperature and think a few of the lads might have also caught a bug, but it’s no excuse and I still love the Ally Pally stage. I’ll be there again next Christmas and hopefully give it another good go.”
Now, Chizzy has tipped Van Veen to recoup the aptitude he confirmed us all in the course of the European Championships, the place he took out Josh Rock, Daryl Gurney and the mighty Michael van Gerwen on his strategy to a semi-final wherein he was thwarted by James Wade.
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The darts sensation was solely 16 when he wowed Alexandra Palace on the World Darts Championship (WDC), regardless of a ultimate loss to Luke Humphries.
The Nuke will proceed enjoying in opposition to seven of the perfect dart gamers on this planet — Humphries, Michael van Gerwen, Gerwyn Price, Michael Smith, Nathan Aspinall, Rob Cross and Peter Wright — in a mini-tournament in a unique metropolis each Thursday till the ultimate in May.
Van Veen’s begin to the 12 months has been stellar; he beat former world champ Michael Smith, in addition to Danny Noppert, on the Dutch Masters in January earlier than MVG received revenge, after which headed to the primary ProTour occasions in Wigan, the place he performed exceptionally.
The first occasion noticed the Dutchman make the semi-final along with his pathway consisting of wins in opposition to Ross Smith, Kim Huybrechts and Brendan Dolan earlier than crashing out to Ryan Searle.
Dutch legend Raymond van Barneveld chucked the 24-year-old out of the second occasion, however nonetheless Van Veen has proven he has the expertise, so now simply must convert that into main wins.
Chizzy himself hasn’t had the perfect begin to the 12 months, along with his ProTour occasions being sub-par and a good Masters run ended by Van Gerwen but once more, however he is tipped Van Veen to be the one who steps up in 2024 and who is aware of, possibly the younger Dutchman may pip Chisnall to a serious crown?
