Michael van Gerwen says Peter Wright should retire after his emphatic defeat in the second round of the PDC World Championship. Two-time world champion Wright won just two legs and averaged below 80 as he was surprisingly beaten by debutant Arno Merk on Tuesday. Another two-time world champion, Gary Anderson, said players cannot play well all the time and that Wright is having a "blip". We've seen Michael van Gerwen do that for probably the last decade. Wright, who became world champion in 2020 and 2022, has not made it past the quarter-finals of any televised ranking tournament in the past two years.

Source: BBC December 24, 2025 15:16 UTC