World Series of Darts Finals: Luke Littler overcomes lively crowd to beat Danny Noppert as Gerwyn Price, Nathan Aspinall also win | Darts News | Sky Sports
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World No 1 Luke Littler came through a difficult first-round test against Danny Noppert at the World Series of Darts Finals; Gerwyn Price, James Wade and Nathan Aspinall also progressed to the second round
Friday 18 September 2026 22:25, UK
Luke Littler at the World Series of Darts Finals (PDC/Kelly Deckers)
Luke Littler battled past Danny Noppert and a lively Dutch crowd to reach the second round at the World Series of Darts Finals in Amsterdam.
Littler, who has won every major tournament this year, reacted to effectively an away crowd twice in a dramatic contest to beat Noppert 6-4 and keep his hopes of an unprecedented clean sweep alive.
It sparked memories of several nights at this year’s Premier League Darts when Littler faced whistles and jeers throughout the series on his way to winning the title, revealing afterwards he wanted to quit the invitational event.
Noppert capitalised on a slow start by Littler to break in the third leg and held a 3-1 lead but the key moment came when he made a mess of a 44 checkout in the sixth leg which allowed Littler to break back and make it 3-3.
After winning that leg, Littler let out a huge roar and put his hands to his ears, asking the crowd for more noise as they booed him loudly.
Noppert missed two darts to restore his break advantage in the next leg and Littler punished him, then the teenager took out a superb 95 checkout with tops-tops to move 5-4 ahead and broke his opponent to win the match.
Luke Littler reacted to the crowd during the match (PDC/Kelly Deckers)
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