Darts hero Wayne Mardle has come to the defence of Dimitri van den Bergh after Luke Humphries accused the brand new UK Open champion of intentionally enjoying too slowly.
‘Cool Hand’ was defeated by the Belgian within the deciding leg after getting back from 7-2 down. However, many consider a spectacularly tense remaining was marred by Van den Bergh slowing down the tempo of the conflict within the deciding legs of the ultimate.
Humphries basted the ‘Dreamaker’ for being “incredibly slow” whereas former darts ace Chris Mason additionally accused him of making an attempt to “take the absolute pace out of the game”. While the Belgian has been extensively criticised, Mardle, a five-time world semi-finalist, thinks Van den Bergh’s criticism has been unfair.
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Mardle took to X and stated: “This has been blown out of proportion. Sport is about discovering a technique to win throughout the guidelines.
Van den Bergh was loudly booed by followers within the later phases of the competition. The Belgian spent a number of seconds at his water desk, composing himself when he had match darts. He was additionally accused of taking far too lengthy to take his darts out of his pocket.
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Van den Bergh missed six championship darts earlier than ultimately discovering the treble eight and tops to safe a 64 checkout to win the ultimate. In his post-match press convention, a defeated and pissed off Humphries stated: “I wasn’t angry with him but I’m used to Dimitri being quite a flowy player and he’s quite a good pace to play against.
“Whereas, he’s fully totally different now, he’s in all probability one of many hardest gamers to play with as a result of he’s extremely sluggish. He takes a protracted, very long time to take his darts out.
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The darts sensation was solely 16 when he wowed Alexandra Palace on the World Darts Championship (WDC), regardless of a remaining loss to Luke Humphries.
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“That’s not what I’m used to with him. Obviously this is a new adaption for his game and is going to take a lot of getting used to for players.” Van den Bergh retorted by suggesting his fashion has advanced upon the advice of a sport psychologist.
He stated: “I understand that the crowd was turning on me but I was telling myself ‘it’s fine, I understand’. It was 10-8 and then I knew, one more leg and I’d be a world champion. So I said to myself ‘do what your sports psychologist has taught you’ and keep your mind relaxed. Because of that I chilled.”