Luke Littler edges World Championship thriller with Ryan Joyce, Michael van Gerwen marches on

Luke Littler has remained connected people for a archetypal satellite rubric with a thrilling 4-3 triumph implicit Ryan Joyce successful the past 16.

Last year's runner-up was successful enactment to look Luke Humphries successful the semi-finals successful what would person been a repetition of the 2024 last earlier the defending champion mislaid to Peter Wright connected Sunday.

However, the 17-year-old volition proceed to absorption connected his ain performances having been pushed each the mode by Joyce, who came backmost from 2-0 and 3-2 down to unit a deciding set.

While Littler missed 31 darts astatine a double, helium was inactive capable to mean successful excess of 103 crossed the people of the lucifer and 110.89 successful the last acceptable erstwhile up against it.

Joyce averaged 97.73 successful what was an absorbing contest, yet the powerfulness scoring of the teen proved excessively overmuch arsenic helium acceptable up a quarter-final showdown with Nathan Aspinall.

Van Gerwen marches into past eight

Michael van Gerwen is besides done to the past 8 having recorded a 4-2 triumph implicit a spirited Jeffrey de Graaf.

Despite coasting into a 2-0 lead, Van Gerwen was pegged backmost by his inspired hostile who averaged 112.73 successful taking the 3rd and 97 successful the fourth.

Nevertheless, that lone instigated a effect from Van Gerwen who had been superb throughout, the satellite fig 3 taking the last six legs without reply and ending the lucifer with a 101.98 average.

In the archetypal crippled of the evening, Stephen Bunting breezed done to the quarter-finals by easing past Luke Woodhouse by a 4-0 scoreline.

Bunting did not person to get retired of archetypal cogwheel against an hostile who recorded conscionable 1 maximum arsenic good arsenic taking conscionable 3 of his 14 treble attempts.

By comparison, Bunting deed six 180s and was implicit 40% connected his doubles arsenic the Liverpudlian acceptable up a gathering with Wright connected New Year's Day.

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