Darts

As I said before.....early days though
Littler has recovered well to take the lead with Rock dropping his level a touch. Still time for it to swing back the other way though.

Anybody's game.
Great 170 shot out from Rock to pull back to 12-14.

Luke Littler makes the final for the first time and wins 17-14.

Excellent quality match.
From 0-5 down Littler won 17 of the next 26 legs. Impressive fightback.

Luke Littler is through to his First World Matchplay Final defeating Josh Rock 17-14.

Fascinating clash of the darting generations tonight. Hoping for a real classic final .

Clinical James Wade wins the first 5 legs. Luke Littler turns on the after burners and wins the next 5 legs.
Bit of cat and mouse.
Littler edges clear at 8-7 at the third break with a couple of breaks to his opponents one. Nip and tuck in the next few legs as Wade hangs tough but Littler leads 11-9 after 20 legs.
Leg 23 a potential crippler for Wade. Had numerous darts at a double to hold but ultimately broken and Littler now looking for the finish line at 13-10 with 2 breaks advantage. But wait a minute. Wade breaks back.
Can he consolidate to get back to within one leg? No. It's 14-11 Nuke heading into the next break. Wade returns and breaks back again. See saw stuff.
Consolidates the break with a 101 checkout and it's 14-13 Littler. The Nuke gets a crucial hold for 15-13 and breaks for 16-13.
Finishing line in sight. Littler powers towards it. 17-13. One away.

Luke Littler is the World Matchplay champion for the first time with an 18-13 victory over James Wade.

Luke Littler wins the World Matchplay for the first time defeating 2007 World Matchplay Champion James Wade 18-13.

Wow we Chisnall finally won a first round game at a major for the first time in ages , 6-2 against Aspinall , all be it Aspinall has been a bit injured again , that's not to take anything away from Chisnall.

Michael Van Gerwen rolls back the years and wins the World Series Of Darts Finals for a sixth time defeating Defending Champion Luke Littler 11-7.

Great match between Littler and Price at the World Grand Prix last night.
Price surged into a two set lead but Littler reeled him in and eventually won 3-2.
The last leg went from the ridiculous to the sublime .

Semi finals:

Luke Littler v Jonny Clayton

Luke Humphries v Danny Noppert

It's a Luke off in the final.

Littler v Humphries

Luke Littler roared into a 4-0 set lead to leave Luke Humphries with a mountain to climb. All four sets went to a deciding leg. Humphries clawed it back to 4-1 with a clinical 154 finish only for Littler to storm through the 6th set to leave himself one away from the line. Could Cool Hand pull off the epic fightback?

Nope.
Luke Littler is the World Grand Prix Champion for the first time after beating Luke Humphries 6-1 in Leicester. More clinical player won in the end with so many sets going to a deciding leg.