After a missed match dart by Littler, a deciding leg was needed to separate the English rivals.<\/p>\n
Against the throw, with defending champion Humphries down to a one-dart finish, Littler landed his final arrow in double 20 to end an epic showdown and lift the title for a second time after his 2024 success.<\/p>\n
Littler explained how he had also questioned his future after his earlier struggles as he added: “After Brighton, I think I came off stage and the incident in Manchester [argument with Gian van Veen], I was sat at home saying to Faith [his partner], ‘I don’t want to do it anymore, just the crowd every week’. <\/p>\n
“I said to her, ‘I’m down bad’.”<\/p>\n
But from that low, he was on a high after the 36th, and perhaps best, meeting with Humphries, who will be Littler’s partner for England in June’s World Cup.<\/p>\n
He wins \u00a3350,000 in prize money for winning the event and claims an extra \u00a360,000 for his six night wins in the league phase. <\/p>\n
Already a two-time world champion, the teenager has gone from strength to strength in 2026 as he added the Premier League to his world title, World Masters and UK Open this year. <\/p>\n
Littler holds seven of the eight ranking titles that the Professional Darts Corporation have, plus now the Premier League. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a missed match dart by Littler, a deciding leg was needed to separate the English rivals. Against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-472086","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\/472086","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=472086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}