MICHAEL VAN GERWEN has been sent reeling again – as unwanted stats add up for the Dutch legend in 2025.
OutsiderDominik Gruellich inflicted MVG’ssixth first-round loss on this year’s 2025 ProTour.
Such lows are hard to take for the three-time world champion.
‘s season has not been a totalnightmare.
Most notably, he picked up his 38th Euro Tour title at the German Grand Prix in April, with a nine-darter to boot.
And the 36-year-old enters night 15 of inAberdeen on Thursday this week without a nightly win sofar.
But he’s still fourth in that table – just ahead of in the battle for a place in the Play-Offs on May 29.
So it’s his ProTour problems that will concern Mighty Mike most.
And at Players Championship 15 he slumped 6-5 to German star Gruellich in the 23-year-old’s home-country town of Hildesheim, Germany
But MVG might think he was lucky compared to English ace .
But it was due to hsi flight rather than his flights.
The 54-year olddidn’t even make it to the tournament – as his flight was held up.
Gilding’s social media team blamed “KLM’Slast flight... being delayed by two hours”;;.
They added: “Andrew would have missed his connecting flight to Hannover.”;;
Krzysztof Ratajski went on to win Players Championship 15.
The Pole defeatedDave Chisnall 8-4 to scoop the £15,000 top prize.
