Luke Littler sets up Stephen Bunting clash in World Championship semi-finals

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Luke Littler volition look Stephen Bunting successful the PDC World Championship semi-finals aft the brace impressed successful their respective matches connected New Year's Day.

Luke Littler has progressed done to the PDC World Championship semi-finals with a 5-2 triumph implicit Nathan Aspinall.

In a affable - yet competitory - spirited contention betwixt friends, the 17-year-old came done yet different trial arsenic helium bids to marque a 2nd successive final.

Unlike successful his erstwhile games successful this tournament, Littler started successful imperious form, averaging 118.66 successful taking the archetypal set, and astatine 1 signifier looked similar blitzing his opponent.

To Aspinall's credit, helium much than matched the teenage prodigy implicit the adjacent 4 sets, sharing them astatine 2 apiece and threatening to instrumentality Littler into heavy waters.

However, Littler - who deed an unthinkable 10 12-dart legs successful the contention - responded to being pegged backmost to 4-2 by averaging 112.73 successful the seventh set, taking his full of 180s to 15 successful the process.

LITTLER INTO THE LAST FOUR!! ☢️

It's consecutive World Championship Semi-Finals from Luke Littler arsenic helium simply has excessively overmuch for Nathan Aspinall successful a 5-2 win.

101.54 average
15x 180s
45% connected the doubles

Scary worldly from the 17-year-old 👏 pic.twitter.com/lJlrfUElAz

— PDC Darts (@OfficialPDC) January 1, 2025

Bunting lies successful wait

Littler volition present look Stephen Bunting who withstood a revival from Peter Wright to yet station a 5-2 win.

Bunting, who is provisionally up to 5th spot successful the PDC Order of Merit, raced into a 4-0 pb with Wright a shadiness of the subordinate that disposed of defending satellite champion Luke Humphries successful the erstwhile round.

The Scot rallied successful sets 5 and six, hitting an astonishing 133 checkout with 2 treble 19s to marque it 4-2, but the emotion that came with celebrating that decorativeness took its toll successful the seventh.

Wright would mean conscionable 83.19 to let Bunting to confidently seal his spot successful the past four, and perchance a spot successful the Premier League which starts adjacent month.

Earlier successful the day, Chris Dobey and Michael van Gerwen came done 2 pulsating encounters against Gerwyn Price and Callan Rydz, prevailing by 5-3 scorelines.

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