Luke Littler averaged 104.70 as he began the defence of his Belgian Darts Open title with a convincing 6-2 win over Boris Krcmar on Saturday.Two days after coming from 5-0 down to beat Gerwyn Price 6-5 to win the latest round of Premier League action in Dublin, Littler had more of a routine evening at the Oktoberhallen in Wieze.
Littler moved 4-0 ahead against Krcmar, taking out double 19 twice, although the two-time world champion did not have it all his own way after missing five match darts in the seventh leg against his Croatian opponent.
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Highlights of the final between Littler and Gerwyn Price on Night 7 of the Premier League in Dublin
He rebounded with back-to-back 180s to start the eighth leg and though he was unable to finish with a nine-darter, the 19-year-old wrapped up the win to set up a last-16 tie against Niels Zonneveld, who edged out last year’s runner-up Mike De Decker 6-5 earlier in the second round.”I love it here,” said Littler, who also landed six 180s en route to victory. “My first European Tour event was here. I want to win it again, and performances like that will put me up there.
“Coming off the back of that [Premier League] win in Ireland, it’s set me up well, and I can’t wait to go again tomorrow.”
Humphries survives scare but Bunting, Rock, Wade and Aspinall all outElsewhere, world No 2 Luke Humphries was given a major scare before seeing off Dirk van Duijvenbode 6-4.
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Luke Humphries came through a scare in the second round against Dirk van Duijvenbode
Humphries had raced into a 4-0 lead but his Dutch rival hit back and missed a dart to level at 5-5, allowing the Englishman to capitalise and close out victory with a 100.25 average.Michael van Gerwen was also a 6-4 winner against Mickey Mansell, while Jonny Clayton had few alarms in beating Sebastian Bialecki 6-3.But James Wade and Stephen Bunting were early casualties as they lost their second-round matches to Cristo Reyes and Andy Baetens respectively.
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