Luke Humphries warmed up for his Premier League Darts showdown with Luke Littler by hitting his second nine-darter in per week on the Participant Championship 6.
The 2024 world champion hit 9 good darts in a 6-3 first-round victory over Andy Boulton on Wednesday.
It sparked Humphries’ run all the best way to the ultimate in Leicester, with Jitse Van der Wal (6-5), Luke Woodhouse (6-5), William O’Connor (6-3), Damon Heta (6-5) and Ross Smith (7-5) all crushed earlier than an 8-3 defeat to Gian van Veen within the last.
Humphries’ good set got here six days after his final nine-darter in opposition to Rob Cross on Evening 5 of the Premier League Darts.
Humphries discovered perfection within the second leg of the match with the seventeenth nine-darter in Premier League historical past and first since Littler’s within the 2024 last, taking out T20, T19, then D12 to ship the Brighton crowd right into a frenzy.
It was additionally Humphries’ first televised nine-darter, fifth general in his profession and second in opposition to Cross after 4 in 2023.
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Humphries faces Littler within the quarter-finals of Evening Six of Premier League Darts on Thursday as the highest two on the earth go face to face at Nottingham’s Motorpoint Area.
Humphries and Littler have received 4 of the opening 5 nights between them, with Humphries at present occupying a two-point lead over the teenage world champion on the prime of the desk.
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The Premier League continues on the Motorpoint Area, Nottingham on Thursday, March 13 as Luke Humphries and Luke Littler conflict in a titanic encounter. Watch Evening Six of Premier League Darts, in Nottingham, dwell on Sky Sports activities Fundamental Occasion and Sky Sports activities Motion from 7pm – stream with NOW.
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