Premier League Darts: Luke Littler secures fourth nightly win of season and wraps up play-off place | Darts News
Luke Littler wrapped up his Premier League Darts play-off spot by surging to a fourth nightly win of the season and second in a row as he beat Rob Cross in the Aberdeen final.
Table topper Littler, who leads second-placed Luke Humphries by eight points, guaranteed a top-four position by razing Michael Smith 6-1 in the semi-finals, a game in which he averaged 110 and enjoyed a checkout success of 86 per cent with three ton-plus finishes.
The 17-year-old then defeated Cross 6-4 in the Night 14 final, the same player he had knocked off to triumph in Liverpool a week earlier, as he added further to his back-to-back triumphs in Belfast and Manchester earlier in the competition.
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Littler shushed the crowd after sealing a 6-5 victory over Nathan Aspinall in the quarter-finals
Humphries is also now assured of a spot in the play-offs at London’s O2 Arena on Thursday May 23, despite his semi-final exit to Cross, whose hopes of gatecrashing the top four were boosted as he closed to within seven points of fourth-placed Michael van Gerwen.
Humphries had been given a bye into the semi-finals after his scheduled opponent, Gerwyn Price, withdrew due to a back injury, with Price no longer able to make the top four.
The two points world No 1 Humphries accrued for that walkover took him to 28 for the campaign and left Van Gerwen, Smith, Cross and Nathan Aspinall battling for the last two play-off berths across the final two weeks of the regular season, in Leeds on Thursday My 9 and Sheffield on Thursday May 16.
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