Michael Smith secured the final spot in next week's Premier League play-offs at the O2 Arena, But he will have a difficult task ahead of him next Thursday as he will play Luke Littler in the semi-finals, after the 17-year-old finished the league phase of his debut campaign in 1st place!
World number 33 and Belgian no.2 seed Kim Huybrechts has reportedly suffered a broken collarbone and dislocated shoulder as a result of an attack at a recent football cup final, putting his status in the World Cup and World Matchplay in great jeopardy.
Rob Cross picked up the second PDC Euro Tour title of his career this weekend, as he won the 2024 Baltic Sea Darts Open in style, defying a nine darter from the World Champion Luke Humphries to win 8-6 in Sunday night's final.
Luke Humphries was brought up in Berkshire and now lives in Oxfordshire, however last night proved that the World Champ is an adopted Leodensian. Throughout this year's Premier League, 'Cool Hand Luke' hasn't always had the crowd on his side, but after he entered the stage to a very popular Leeds United song, it was clear he had the full First Direct Arena on his side. Perhaps it was them who inspired Humphries to victory as he defeated Rob Cross, Michael Smith and Michael van Gerwen on his way to his fourth nightly win.
Two more names were added to the 2024 Pro Tour winner roll of honour this week, as Michael Smith and Brendan Dolan won Players Championship 9 and 10 respectively, as we still wait to see our first two time winner from this year’s PC events.
In the latest development of what's been a groundbreaking few years for the sport of darts, a new name is set to make her PDC Pro Tour debut at next week's Players Championship events in Germany.
In a notoriously chaotic PB & J Live Arena in Aberdeen, Luke Littler proved once again why he's the hottest prospect in darts, after beating Rob Cross in the final for the second week running. Luke Humphries also cemented his place at the O2 Arena later this month, despite not even winning a match last night.
In only his third European Tour event, 17-year-old Luke Littler won his second title as he emerged victorious in this past weekend's Austrian Darts Open in Premstätten, Austria, beating the likes of Damon Heta, Ross Smith and finally Joe Cullen en-route to victory.
Luke Littler continued his landmark Premier League debut campaign in style by picking up his third nightly win after beating Gerwyn Price, Nathan Aspinall and Rob Cross en-route to glory in Merseyside.
Over a decade after his sole event win on the European Tour, ‘The Flying Scotsman’ Gary Anderson has won the 2024 European Darts Grand Prix in (place), Germany, defeating ‘Smudger’ Ross Smith 8-6 in Sunday night’s engrossing final.
As we approach the business end of this year's Premier League, Luke Humphries and Luke Littler look to have secured their places at the O2, but the battle for third and fourth is very much on. In Rotterdam's Ahoy Arena, it was Nathan Aspinall who put himself in the driving seat as best of the rest.
Backed by a partisan German crowd in Riesa, 'The Wall' Martin Schindler proved to be too much for some of the biggest names in the PDC as he stormed to victory in this past weekend's International Darts Open, winning his very first PDC title and becoming the new German No.1 seed.
After playing in Leeds last time out, week 14 of this year's Premier League would take the short trip to Manchester. With a few local lads taking to the ochie and a jam-packed AO Arena, the stage was set for the best arrow-smiths in the world to put on a show.
As we approach the business end of this years edition of the Premier League, the race for top four is certainly hotting up. The First Direct Arena in Leeds is one of the most highly anticipated venues of the year, so the stage was set for a cracking night of tungsten tension.
Night 1 of the Darts Premier League is now only a few hours away and after the recent controversy the selection of players has now been decided. With the likes of Humphries, Cullen and Cross missing out there are new arrivals this year. Here is this years Darts Premier league line up.
Well that was a very interesting start to the World Darts Championship. Not too many surprises however it was a good start to a promising tournament to say the least. So lets delve in to the opener game by game.
We’re now only an hour away from the majority of darts fans most awaited moment of the year. The World Darts Championships kick off very soon with an exciting opener between Mickey Mansell against Ben Robb and I really can’t wait.
What an opener that was, 8 quality PDC regulars against 8 quality Dutch Internationals. What more could you want? The majority of the games looked very predictable on paper however the Dutch had something to say about that. Jonny Clayton, Fallon Sherrock, Gerwyn Price, Michael Smith and Peter Wright were all knocked out against a Dutch opponents in the last 16. Even Michael Van Gerwen was defeated by fellow World Cup playing Dutchman Danny Noppert.