Dutch darts Masters: Luke Littler and Michael Van Gerwen set the final rematch of the World Cup Championships while Luke Humphries collapsed | News Darts
Littler Littleler set the final rematch at the Darts World Cup against Michael Van Gerwen on the Dutch Darts Masters, as World No 1 Luke Humphries collapsed in the first round.
After starting in 2025 by becoming the world’s youngest champion in the history of sports, Littler suffered a quarterfinal exit in the hands of Gerwyn Price, while trying to defend his title Bahrain Masters earlier this month.
He will now watch how he will go a step further with the Dutch masters Darts, where he lost 8-6 from Van Gerwen in 2024, and the two will meet again on Saturday night.
Littleler, who turned 18 on Tuesday, was in the battle with ‘The Dreamed’ Dimitri Van Den Bergh, which eventually won 6-4, both of them constantly breaking.
After a great 134 check-up in the second leg of Littler, the decisive moment came when he scored 102 to posture throwing to move to 4-4 before breaking once again.
He then finished the competition in a style, and two maximums placed it at 51, which scored at her favorite D10.
Van Gerwen, in his first show, since his World Championship in Darts Championship against Littler in Alexandra Palace, began a good start to defend his Dutch Darts Masters’ title by dominated by colleague Dutch Dirk Van Duijvenbode in a comprehensive 6-1 victory.
After breaking his opponent to move 3-1 in front, Van Gerwen won five feet in a row to cruise up to the 14th match with the ruling world champion. Victorys were 7-6 in Littler’s benefit, and the victory in the world brought him to the lead.
Wattimen, Barney, Doets strike in Night of Sets
Jermaine Wattimen Drop a quick and fiery performance to return and trigger a 6-3 win against World No 1 Humphrs.
The 2024 World Champion ran into a 2-0 lead, but from there all Wattimen, who took five amazing legs in a row, rammed 153 and 111 offsing on the road.
The Dutchman will face now Plunder the cross In the quarterfinals, which declined from an early exit to Bahrein by winning 6-3 over Richard Veenstra, 100 check-out plus three key breaks that help him in the line.
In the night of the fold, the hometown Raymond Van Barneveld He also shocked Chris Dobey in the last leg to break through to the quarterfinals.
In a tense conflict with ‘Hollywood’ by hitting the maximum for fun, Van Barneveld gathered with a crowd behind him and won in a spectacular way, obtaining a sensational 144 delay.
Dobey missed the match and was punished, the five -time world champion visibly emotional after winning.
The Dutchman will face now Stephen Buntingwho survived the last shooting against Gian Van Veen to win 6-5.
Bunting entered the tournament at the top after picked up in Bahrein by Maiden World Series in Bahrein and showed: “Big” found a key break in his sixth leg and scored more than 100 on average.
Van Veen also threw some high quality darts, although even after a foot of 11 tickets to break up a bungo, he took the match all before Bunting scored 70 on D16 to wrap things up.
Kevin Does He also scored his mark as he cried next to Nathan Aspinall to arrive by Saturday with the Dutch masters Darts.
Doets, who shocked former world champion Michael Smith at the Darts World Championships, was lit in a competition is a huge 138 sign-off, 60 percent in pairs, plus three throwing breaks sealed a huge 6-1 victory.
Now he is facing Gerwyn Price who went with a comprehensive 6-2 victory over Danny Noppert, ‘Iceman’ continuing his form from Bahrain with a huge 124 check-off and 101.85 average to put on top.
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