Darts star Gerwyn Value is aiming to win the game’s largest titles.
Value has earned enormous sums of prize cash all through his darts profession (Picture: Rahaf Abdullah/Getty Photographs)
Gerwyn Value believes that clinching the biggest prize cash in darts wouldn’t remodel his life. The current World Darts Championship noticed the winner’s share double to a whopping £1million, a sum that Luke Littler secured at Alexandra Palace.
Value, who was seeded ninth on the event, suffered an surprising second spherical defeat to Wesley Plaisier. Nonetheless, ‘The Iceman’ bounced again by reaching three consecutive semi-finals, together with his loss to Littler on the World Masters earlier this month. The 2021 World Champion has claimed seven main PDC titles throughout his distinguished profession, along with his most up-to-date victory coming on the World Sequence of Darts Finals in 2022. Regardless of the watch for his subsequent main win, Value is adamant that securing the brand new seven-figure prize on the World Championships would not change his character.
“It’s large however I’ve constructed a platform now the place £1m is some huge cash, it’s, however it would not change something about me,” Value declared on the Tops and Tales Darts podcast. “It could simply go into the pot and simply make me have the ability to keep it up doing what I am doing for slightly bit longer.
“I would not go and purchase one thing for £1m. My life wouldn’t change. Clearly, it is what we’re in it for, we’re in it to earn a dwelling and earn as a lot cash as attainable however as a lot as it is a good prize, it simply would not change.
He continued: “Cash makes issues simpler. It does change lots of people however I wish to suppose that it hasn’t modified me anyway.”
Gerwyn Value has spoken in regards to the prize cash in darts (Picture: Morgan Harlow/Getty Photographs)
Value at the moment sits twelfth on the PDC Order of Benefit with £551,000 in prize cash. A piece of this whole comes from his performances on the World Masters, the place he pocketed £30,000.
There was earlier hypothesis in regards to the Welshman probably retiring from darts within the close to future. Nonetheless, Value has quashed these rumours by outlining his plans for the subsequent decade.
“I’ve signed with Purple Dragon now for the subsequent 10 years, which I’ve fortunately simply signed, till I am 50,” he revealed on the Tops and Tales Darts podcast. “So I am undoubtedly enjoying for one more 10 years.
Value grew to become world champion in 2021 (Picture: Luke Walker/Getty Photographs)
“I say, ‘Oh, I will retire after I’m 50’, however issues would possibly change and I won’t wish to try this. However I will by no means, ever put the darts down utterly, I do not suppose.”
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In January, Value was unveiled as one of many eight opponents in Premier League Darts. He suffered defeat in his opening match towards Luke Humphries in Newcastle earlier this week, with Michael van Gerwen rising victorious on the primary night time.
The Premier League motion continues in Antwerp subsequent week, the place Value shall be hoping to safe his first win of the season. He is set to go head-to-head with current world championship runner-up Gian van Veen.
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