Darts-EM: Rob Cross beats Michael Van Gerwen in the final
Rob Cross (31) has won the Darts European Championship for the second time after 2019. The Englishman prevailed in the final on Sunday evening in Salzburg against the World s List of Local Michael Van Gerwen (Netherlands) with 11: 8. Cross, world champion of 2018, conceded 120,000 pounds for this success (about 142,000 euros) prize money. Both players stayed far below their possibilities in the final (Average: 92.71 from Cross compared to 93.66 by Van Gerwen), but the game lived of great tension. Cross looked out at a lead of 9: 4 as the secure winner, marriage Van Gerwen, who won the tournament from 2014 to 2017 four times in series, back to 7: 9 Herankam. But Cross countered the catch-up and made the title perfectly with an excellent 11-darter in the 19th leg. Hempel causes a stir Best German became Florian Hempel from Cologne. The 31-year-old defeated the Austrian Mensur Suljovic on Saturday in the second round after a hard fight at 9:10. At the beginning on Thursday, the num...