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 within the Aberdeen ultimate.
Desk topper Littler, who leads second-placed Luke Humphries by eight factors, assured a top-four place by razing Michael Smith 6-1 within the semi-finals, a recreation through which he averaged 110 and loved a checkout success of 86 per cent with three ton-plus finishes.
The 17-year-old then defeated Cross 6-4 within the Evening 14 ultimate, the identical participant he had knocked off to triumph in Liverpool per week earlier, as he added additional to his back-to-back triumphs in Belfast and Manchester earlier within the competitors.
Humphries can also be now assured of a spot within the play-offs at London’s O2 Enviornment on Thursday Could 23, regardless of his semi-final exit to Cross, whose hopes of gatecrashing the highest 4 had been boosted as he closed to inside seven factors of fourth-placed Michael van Gerwen.
Humphries had been given a bye into the semi-finals after his scheduled opponent, Gerwyn Worth, withdrew resulting from a again harm, with Worth now not capable of make the highest 4.
The 2 factors world No 1 Humphries accrued for that walkover took him to twenty-eight for the marketing campaign and left Van Gerwen, Smith, Cross and Nathan Aspinall battling for the final two play-off berths throughout the ultimate two weeks of the common season, in Leeds on Thursday My 9 and Sheffield on Thursday Could 16.
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