Luke Littler produced a remarkable comeback from 5-0 down to beat Gerwyn Price in a last-leg decider and win night seven of the Premier League in Dublin.<\/p>\n
Littler had coasted past Stephen Bunting 6-3 in Thursday’s opening match at the 3Arena, hitting an average of 105, to record a first win in Dublin.<\/p>\n
The world champion, though, then had to dig in to fight back and battle past Michael van Gerwen in a last-leg decider at the end of a high-quality contest which saw both players hit 170 finishes as the Dutchman squandered a couple of match darts.<\/p>\n
In the final, it looked like Price was set for a second successive victory in Dublin after the Welshman roared into a 5-0 lead.<\/p>\n
However, after Littler finally got a leg on the board, turning to gesture jokingly in celebration to the crowd, the momentum swung as Price crumbled.<\/p>\n
Five match darts came and went as Littler continued to eat into the deficit before setting up a final-leg shootout, which the world champion clinched when taking out 81 on double 15.<\/p>\n
“I have no idea how I have done that,” Littler said on Sky Sports.<\/p>\n
“I was gone, but after getting my first leg, I had a bit of fun and waved him goodbye, because when Gerwyn Price is on double top, he doesn\u2019t usually miss.”<\/p>\n
Littler added: “I was so gone I may as well have been off the stage, but this is darts, things happen.”<\/p>\n
Price had seen off Luke Humphries 6-1 in a one-sided semi-final, averaging 109 with five maximums, having earlier whitewashed Josh Rock.<\/p>\n
Littler moves up to second in the table on 16 points, three behind Jonny Clayton, with Price sitting third.<\/p>\n
World number two Humphries had inflicted a first quarter-final defeat on Clayton in this year\u2019s tournament as he closed out a 6-3 win, making up for last week\u2019s 6-1 final defeat by the gout-troubled Welshman in Nottingham.<\/p>\n
Rock\u2019s miserable debut campaign continued as the Northern Irishman was thrashed 6-0 by Price in the quarter-finals, leaving him still yet earn a point so far.<\/p>\n
Van Gerwen received a bye to the semi-finals after fellow Dutchman Gian van Veen withdrew earlier on Thursday after being diagnosed with kidney stones, which saw him need hospital treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luke Littler produced a remarkable comeback from 5-0 down to beat Gerwyn Price in a last-leg decider and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-355336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355336","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=355336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}