Luke Littler edged out Beau Greaves earlier than shedding to Rob Cross at Gamers Championship 24 in Milton Keynes.
Littler was pushed to the brink by Greaves as he booked a spot within the final 16, the pair pressured right into a deciding leg of their first assembly earlier than the world champion squeezed to a 6-5 win.
Greaves, a three-time WDF girls’s world champion, averaged 102 in comparison with Littler’s 96 and the pair break up eight 180s throughout their absorbing conflict.
Having superior, Littler was undone by Cross within the subsequent spherical, shedding 6-4.
The 21-year-old Greaves had already sealed a memorable victory within the earlier spherical when she claimed a 6-4 win over five-time world champion Raymond van Barneveld.
Jeffrey de Graaf secured his maiden PDC rating title on the occasion, defeating Stephen Bunting 8-7 in an exciting remaining.
The Dutch-born Swede, who had reached the ultimate of Occasion Eight in March, produced one degree higher to turn out to be the primary Swedish participant to win a PDC rating.
Regardless of Bunting racing to a 4-1 lead within the remaining, De Graaf gained 4 consecutive legs to take a 5-4 lead, and clinched a last-leg decider.
Bunting had produced a string of nice performances throughout the day, averaging over 99 in all seven of his matches.
The world No 4 started with a 6-3 win over Adam Hunt, following this with victories over Cam Crabtree and Sebastian Bialecki.
Greaves beat Raymond van Barneveld earlier than her shut match with Littler
He then defeated Brett Claydon 6-4, adopted by a 6-1 victory over Rob Cross.
De Graaf squeezed via the opening spherical 6-5 in opposition to Adam Paxton, adopted by a 6-4 win over Ryan Searle and one other last-leg deciding win in opposition to Jose de Sousa.
The Swede then defeated former World Champion Michael Smith 6-2 within the final 16, earlier than snug 6-1 and 7-2 wins in opposition to Alan Soutar and Scott Williams respectively put De Graaf in simply his second Gamers Championship remaining.
Michael van Gerwen was additionally eradicated within the final 16 by the hands of Scott Williams, regardless of recording a mean of 107.97 in his 6-3 defeat.
