Luke Littler secured his place in the Premier League Darts play-offs by beating Rob Cross in the Aberdeen final to win for the fourth time this season and second successive time.
Leaders Littler, who are eight points clear of second-placed Luke Humphries, secured a place in the top four by beating Michael Smith 6-1 in the semi-final. In that game, he averaged 110 and had a checkout success rate of 86 percent with three tone-plus executions.
The 17-year-old then defeated Cross 6-4 in the Night 14 final, the same player he had defeated in Liverpool a week earlier, adding to his back-to-back triumphs in Belfast and Manchester Competition.
Humphries has now also secured a place in the play-offs at London’s O2 Arena on Thursday May 23, although he was eliminated in the semi-finals by Cross, whose hopes of cracking the top four were only boosted when he came within seven points of fourth place. placed Michael van Gerwen.
Humphries had received a bye into the semi-finals after his scheduled opponent Gerwyn Price withdrew due to a back injury and Price was unable to finish in the top four.
The two points that world No. 1 Humphries picked up in that run took him to 28 for the season, leaving Van Gerwen, Smith, Cross and Nathan Aspinall in contention for the final two in Leeds’ final two weeks of the regular season Play-off places fight on Thursday, My 9 and Sheffield on Thursday May 16th.
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