Gerwyn Price was involved in a heated exchange on the Winter Gardens stage following his 10-7 win over Daryl Gurney in the opening round of the World Matchplay.

Price booked his place in the round of 16 after a fiery encounter, with things starting to boil over in the ninth leg of the match.

With the match in the balance the Welshman's notorious roars clearly became too much for Gurney, who began to imitate Price's celebrations.

Gurney also appeared to direct an insult at Price, with fans online convinced he said "f****** a******", while taking a sip of water.

Despite Gurney's best efforts to get in Price's head the Premier League lived up to his 'Iceman' nickname to see out the win, but finally let his emotions out after the winning dart.

Price let out the biggest roar of the night while celebrating with the crowd, but things turned sour when he turned to shake hands with his opponent.

The 2021 World Champion gave a rather forceful handshake and seemed to say 'well played buddy' to Gurney which the Northern Irishman looked far from impressed by.

Gurney was seen shaking his head at Price while he continued to celebrate.

Gerwyn Price reacts to Daryl Gurney clash

"To be honest, I thought I was struggling for that game, but I came off and seen the stats and I averaged around 100 I think, which is decent," Price said.

"I felt like I was pretty poor in our game in patches and didn't play particularly well, and there's a lot more in the tank.

"I just felt like I needed to keep myself composed.

"Sometimes I was forcing not to let my emotions get the best of me and sometimes that's what happens and I can let out the emotions out and then the next leg is not so good, so sometimes I try and control it and I did in that game.

"I think possibly that's what got me over the winning line is just trying to keep everything intact and then let it go at the end.

"For a lot of legs I was beating myself up, missing opportunities, I did a big score and I did absolute rubbish and just sort of kept him in the game.

"I went to the table and I felt like the 150 was going out and it did, and it just gave myself a kick up the backside as well to just break him here now and get the match done. And I did.

"I have learnt to keep my emotions intact and I think I did today in two or three legs where my head was going to blow off, but I just had to keep it in."