The 24-player competition at the AFAS Live in Amsterdam, which will serve as the site of the 2022 Jack’s World Series of Darts Finals, begins on Friday.
Four sessions of action spread across three days, from September 16 to 18, will make up the eighth edition of the World Series of Darts Finals as the biggest names in the sport fight for £300,000 in prize money.
The eight players with the highest World Series Order of Merit rating enter the tournament on Saturday after the first round of play on Friday, including matches between the 16 invited players and qualifiers.
Four Dutch athletes will be playing on home soil this weekend, and one of them, Michael van Gerwen, will face the winner of Damon Heta vs. Gordon Mathers’ all-Australian match in the round of 16.
Last month, Van Gerwen defeated Gerwyn Price to win the Queensland Darts Masters. The 33-year-old aims to increase his impressive collection of victories by winning a fifth World Series Finals.
Quick Facts:
| Name | Michael van Gerwen |
| Age | 33 years |
| Parents | Henri van Gerwen, and Wilma van Gerwen |
| Wife | Daphne Govers (m. 2014) |
| Kids | Zoë van Gerwen, and Mike van Gerwen |
| Net Worth | $6 million |
Michael Van Gerwen Wife Daphne Govers Married For Eight Years
Growing up together in Boxtel, Netherlands, Michael and his wife, Daphne’s first meeting was in their native home. After several years of dating, the former hairdresser and darts player later got married in August 2014.
It was the same year he won his first PDC World Championship. They initially exchanged vows in Vlijmen, the Netherlands.
Additionally, his wife is active on Instagram, where she has amassed about 26K followers. Most of her Instagram posts show pictures of her family and spouse spending time with their children.
In a similar vein, she shared a photo of the couple dining in Chezz Gerdi Formentera on August 1, 2020, to commemorate their sixth wedding anniversary.
Dutch Darts Player Michael van Gerwen Is A Year Older Than His Wife
Although there doesn’t appear to be much of a difference in age between Michael van Gerwen and his wife Daphne, the dart player seems to be a year older in the portrait of the pair.
Since her exact age and date of birth are still unclear, the estimate is based on the photos she uploaded on Instagram.
On the other hand, her spouse was born on April 25, 1989, in Boxtel, Netherlands, and is currently 33 years old.
Married In 2014, Gerwen And Govers Together Have Two Children
Van Gerwen has a beautiful family shared with his wife, Daphne. The couple is parents to two adorable kids, Zoe and Mike, whom they cherish with all their hearts.
In essence, his son Mike was born in 2020 and is two years old, while his daughter was born in August 2017 and is five years old.
Similarly, Michael did a video with his daughter Zoe, where they revealed if it was a boy or a girl.
In fact, the couple announced their second pregnancy and included their first child, daughter Zoe, in the announcement with a cake that had blue cream.
Mighty Mike had previously been open about his wish to have a second child. The three-time world champion revealed to RTL Nieuws that his wife had previously experienced miscarriages.
Boxtel-Born Was Raised By Parents Henri van Gerwen And Wilma van Gerwen
Van Gerwen’s parents, Henri van Gerwen and Wilma van Gerwen are active on Instagram and have gladly publicized their son’s accomplishments.
Raised by parents in Boxtel, he played football as a defender until he was 12 and began playing darts frequently at 13. Similar to that, in 2003, when he was 14 years old, he advanced to the final of the Primus Masters Youth competition.
In 2005, he began to accumulate junior titles, including the Swedish Open, Norwegian Open, Northern Ireland Open, German Open, and Dutch National Youth Championship, which he also successfully defended in 2006.
In the following years, however, he dominated darts, taking home 18 event victories in 2015 and 25 in 2016. After Phil Taylor, Van Gerwen has had the second-most success in PDC history.
By winning Players Championship Event 3, defeating Ian 8-5 in the final, he broke Taylor’s previous record of 70 wins on the PDC Pro Tour, giving him 84 victories as of July 2022. In February 2019, he also surpassed Taylor’s previous record of 70 achievements.
Gerwen’s Whopping $6 Million Net Worth From PDC Career
Before the illustrious Phil Taylor and 2022 PDC World Darts Championship victor Peter Wright, Michael van Gerwen held the record for the highest earnings in darts history, according to Sports Bible.
The third-ranked player in the world, a 33-year-old Dutch superstar, has three World Darts Championship victories. With his impressive £8.5 million earnings, Van Gerwen outperformed darts great Taylor, who came in second with £7.6 million.
In a similar vein, Celebrity Net Worth estimated its net worth to be around $6 million.
The 33-Years-Old’s Earnings From Championships
At the age of 13, Van Gerwen picked up the game of darts, and when he turned 17, he became the youngest player to win both the 2006 World Masters and the 2007 Masters of Darts, where he threw a televised nine-darter finish.
Van Gerwen, however, struggled to maintain consistency after his initial entrance onto the darts scene until his breakout year in 2012.
He rose from being ranked 38 in the world at the beginning of 2012 to being ranked four at the start of 2013, winning his first major PDC championship at the World Grand Prix and making it to the final of the 2013 World Championship.
In addition to being one of only five players to have won the PDC World Championship more than once, van Gerwen set a record in 2014 by becoming the tournament’s youngest winner at the age of 24.
With a three-dart average of 123.4, he also holds the record for the best three-dart average in a darts match that was broadcast on television.