Luke Littler and Luke Humphries will meet in a World Darts Championship last rematch after each reached the TOTO Dutch Darts Masters quarter-finals.
The 17-year-old Littler, who claimed his first senior tv title finally week’s Bahrain Darts Masters, cruised into the final eight in Den Bosch with a 6-2 victory over Dirk van Duijvenbode of their first-round encounter.
Reigning world champion Humphries then confirmed his place within the subsequent spherical as he breezed previous Jermaine Wattimena with a 6-0 win, organising one other showdown with Littler after their epic last at Alexandra Palace.
No 1 seed Littler set the tone towards Van Duijvenbode with a 180 first up within the opening leg of the first-to-six encounter and went double 20, double 10 to take out 60 and set up an early lead.
A break of throw after ending on double high noticed {the teenager} go 2-0 up, however Van Duijvenbode broke straight again within the third leg with a double 10 end to get on the board.
A 15-dart leg within the fourth noticed Littler transfer two legs clear once more together with his second break of throw and that was adopted by a maintain to go 4-1 up.
Van Duijvenbode confirmed he was not achieved simply but as he held his throw in leg six to attract inside two as soon as extra, however it proved a brief revival as Littler gained the subsequent leg and clinched victory with a trendy 150 checkout.
Humphires, in the meantime, barely gave Wattimena a look-in throughout their blink-and-you’ll-miss-it encounter as he raced to one-sided win.
Earlier within the evening, Raymond van Barneveld gave the Dutch followers one thing to cheer about because the five-time world champion edged out Rob Cross 6-5 in an exhilarating contest.
Gian van Veen, who was runner-up to Littler in final 12 months’s PDC World Youth Championship last, dumped Michael Smith out of the event with a 6-3 win, whereas Kevin Doets defeated Peter Wright 6-2.
Gerwyn Worth additionally booked his place within the quarter-finals with a routine 6-2 win over Dimitri Van den Bergh, and Michael van Gerwen rounded the evening off with a 6-1 win over fellow Dutchman Vincent van der Voort.
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