World Darts Championship semi-final predictions and PDC darts betting tips

Free darts tips, best bets and analysis for the semi-finals of the PDC World Darts Championship at Alexandra Palace on Monday.

Where to watch

Sky Sports Main Event & Arena, from 7.45pm

Best bets

Michael van Gerwen -3.5 9.45pm
1pt 19-20 Ladbrokes

Michael Smith v Gabriel Clemens under 23.5 180s 7.45pm
1pt 23-20 Coral

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Michael Smith v Gabriel Clemens preview

Two big men grace the biggest of stages in the first of the night's PDC World Darts Championship semi-finals, though the identity of one of them certainly wasn't expected.

Michael Smith, seeded four and last year's runner-up, was expected to be here. Gabriel Clemens, however, a pre-tournament 300-1 shot, very much was not.

Clemens, the first German to get this far, has toppled William O'Connor, Jim Williams, Alan Soutar and Gerwyn Price to reach this stage, and you'll have spotted the link. None of that quartet are English and none therefore had the crowd on their side, especially Price who was forced to wear ear muffs to drown out the noise of the hostile Ally Pally natives as they roared the German to a 5-1 win.

Now Clemens plays an Englishman and a popular Englishman at that and it will be interesting to see how he copes. Indeed, it will be interesting to see how he copes with the pressure of an occasion he has never experienced before.

His doubling under pressure was never the best and always used as a stick to beat him with as the German Giant was making his way in the game. That resolve on the outer ring will be seriously tested now.

Smith needs to improve and knows that – Clemens has the higher tournament average and has hit as many 180s. Their maximum hauls aren't that high – 25 each over the competitions so far – and if the tension of the occasion gets to Clemens (and maybe even Smith, who is expected to win easily) then under 23.5 maxes at 23-20 might be a decent shout.

Michael van Gerwen v Dimitri van den Bergh preview

Michael van Gerwen couldn't have enjoyed a more incident-free run to the semi-finals of the PDC World Darts Championship, so don't be surprised if he hardly breaks sweat for his next challenge either.

Dimitri van den Bergh is next on the conveyor belt charged with the task of trying to derail the Green Machine express, and all the evidence suggests his prospects are as futile as his 9-2 match odds imply.

Van Gerwen is looking serenity itself on the Alexandra Palace stage and having only dropped three sets over the course of his four matches, culminating in a quarter-final whitewash of Chris Dobey in which he coughed up just three legs, he's pretty much impossible to oppose.

Van den Bergh's progress has been, statistically at least, just as impressive. He has dropped only four sets.

But the likes of Kzrzystof Ratajski and Kim Huybrechts were so toothless and only Jonny Clayton asked questions of the Belgian in the last eight, Van den Bergh coming from 3-2 down to win 5-3.

These two met four times in 2022 – two on the telly – and Van Gerwen won the lot. Over the course of their careers the head-to-heads stand at 11-1 to the Dutchman.

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