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Netherlands’ Gian van Veen celebrates during his match against Scotland’s Gary Anderson: Adam Davy\/PA Wire.<\/p>\n
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Scotland’s Gary Anderson ahead of his match against Netherlands’ Gian van Veen: Adam Davy\/PA Wire.<\/p>\n
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Luke Littler (left) during his match against Ryan Searle do battle at Alexandra Palace: Adam Davy\/PA Wire.<\/p>\n
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Luke Littler will aim to make his third successive World Darts Championship final when he takes on Ryan Searle at the Alexandra Palace<\/p>\n
Luke Littler beat the in-form Ryan Searle 6-1 with a sensational performance in the first of the semi-finals at the World Darts Championship.<\/p>\n
Defending champion Littler posted a stunning average of 105.35 and was seven darts into a perfect nine-darter at one point in a powerful performance.<\/p>\n
“This is crazy. A few boos, a few cheers but it’s been a good crowd,\u201d said Littler after his win. \u201cBig shout out to Ryan. He’s done amazing this tournament. He can be proud.”<\/p>\n
The second semi-final was an epic battle Scottish veteran and two-time champion Gary Anderson took on 23-year-old Dutch ace Gian van Veen in a match that oozed quality throughout.<\/p>\n
Both players averaged over 102 and both took out a 170 finish in a contest that included a stunning 25 180s.<\/p>\n
“Something Gian van Veen would’ve been dreaming about since he was a boy,\u201d declared Sky Sports commentator Wayne Mardle.<\/p>\n
\u201cAn absolute worldy of a game, and it sets up a mouth-watering game against Luke Littler in the final.\u201d<\/p>\n
Van Veen also gave his verdict as he said: “To win this kind of game, Gary threw everything at me. His finishing and scoring was great.<\/p>\n
“I withstood it. Of course, the crowd was a bit against me but it’s fair play because Gary is such a fantastic human-being, such a fantastic darts player. I’m so happy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Victory for Littler and Van Veen has guaranteed them at least \u00a3400,000 of prize money and the winner of the final will receive \u00a31,000,000.<\/p>\n
This is how it happened in our liveblog.<\/p>\n
Luke Littler 6-1 Ryan Searle\u00a0
Gary Anderson 3-6 Gian van Veen<\/p>\n
Watch as Gian van Veen seals his spot in the World final<\/p>\n
GIAN VAN VEEN IS THROUGH TO THE FINALDouble 16 it is and the Dutchman is through to the World final to face Luke Littler!*(3) Gary Anderson 2-2 Gian van Veen (5)Anderson gets punished after missing bull and van Veen takes out his trusty double 8 for a break and now he throws for the match.(3) Gary Anderson 2-1 Gian van Veen (5)*Anderson takes out 121 on the bull to break the van Veen throw!*(3) Gary Anderson 1-1 Gian van Veen (5)Anderson holds throw to level in the set.(3) Gary Anderson 0-1 Gian van Veen (5)*Anderson declines the bull and and van Veen nails double 10 to hold throw.
\u00a0\u00a0 Gary Anderson 3-5 Gian van Veen – WOW! van Veen takes the set against the throwYoung man that is impressive! double tops breaks Anderson’s throw and go one set from the World Championship final.\u00a0*(3) Gary Anderson 2-2 Gian van Veen (4)van Veen misses four darts for set and he throws for the set.\u00a0*(3) Gary Anderson 1-2 Gian van Veen (4)
Anderson nails double 8 to hold throw. van Veen throws for the set.
\u00a0(3) Gary Anderson 0-2 Gian van Veen (4)*Anderson misses a dart to break back and van Veen punishes with 52 on double 16 to consolidate his break.*(3) Gary Anderson 0-1 Gian van Veen (4)\u00a0<\/p>\n
van Veen pins double 8 to break the Anderson throw.<\/p>\n
Gary Anderson 3-4 Gian van Veen – Anderson pulls a set back in brilliant fashionAnother tops and Anderson reduces the arrears further by pinning another tops to win his second set in-a-row.<\/p>\n
What a game!<\/p>\n
\u00a0*(2) Gary Anderson 2-2 Gian van Veen (4)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Anderson nails double one to hold his throw!\u00a0<\/p>\n
van Veen throws for the set. So important!<\/p>\n
\u00a0(2) Gary Anderson 1-2 Gian van Veen (4)*Anderson misses two for a break of throw and van Veen punishes to nail tops and hold throw.
\u00a0*(2) Gary Anderson 1-1 Gian van Veen (4)Anderson levels in the seventh set.*(2) Gary Anderson 0-1 Gian van Veen (4)Another double 16 to hold throw for van Veen.Gary Anderson 2-4 Gian van Veen – ANDERSON NAILS BULL TO REDUCE THE ARREARS81 on the bull for the Flying Scotsman!!*(1) Gary Anderson 2-1 Gian van Veen (4)Anderson responds with another hold of throw.\u00a0(1) Gary Anderson 1-1 Gian van Veen (4)*van Veen responds with a hold of his own on double 8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netherlands’ Gian van Veen celebrates during his match against Scotland’s Gary Anderson: Adam Davy\/PA Wire. Scotland’s Gary Anderson…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-224789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}