Luke Humphries earned his first Premier League Darts victory over Luke Littler at the seventh attempt in the Night Four final in Exeter, further stretching his lead at the top of the 2025 table.
Littler threw an astonishing 19 maximums over the course of his three games, albeit his level dropped in the final against the world No 1, averaging 97 after a couple of scintillating performances in the earlier rounds.
Littler started the contest with a bang, taking out 144 in the opening leg before breaking Humphries in the fourth for a 3-1 advantage.
He could, and perhaps should, have turned that into a 4-1 lead but missed darts at double 10 and double five allowed Humphries to break straight back, while those two very same doubles came back to haunt Littler as he was broken again in the ninth leg, Humphries closing things out from there.
It means that Humphries’ points tally through the first four weeks now sits at 15, seven clear of Littler in second, with the only other nightly winner in 2025, Gerwyn Price, in third on seven after his quarter-final exit in Exeter. Michael van Gerwyn makes up the top four, on six points, despite also losing his opener on Night Four. (SkySports)