{"id":629956,"date":"2026-09-19T22:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T22:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/629956\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T22:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T22:18:13","slug":"world-series-of-darts-finals-2026-results-luke-littler-beats-nathan-aspinall-10-9-to-reach-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/629956\/","title":{"rendered":"World Series of Darts Finals 2026 results: Luke Littler beats Nathan Aspinall 10-9 to reach quarter-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

World champion Luke Littler beat Nathan Aspinall in a dramatic finale to reach the last eight of the World Series of Darts Finals in Amsterdam.<\/p>\n

Littler, 19, trailed 9-8 in a best-of-19 contest that had been close throughout and he held throw in the 18th leg to force a decider.<\/p>\n

Needing to break Aspinall’s throw to win, Littler started the leg with his seventh 180 of the match and checked out 58 for a match-clinching 12-darter.<\/p>\n

The two Englishmen had been involved in a World Matchplay classic in July, when Littler threw a nine-darter<\/a> in the opening leg of an 11-8 victory.<\/p>\n

“The pace of the game suits us both, we’re good friends and we bring the best out of each other,” said Littler, who has a chance to complete a clean sweep of the PDC’s premier events in 2026.<\/p>\n

“I only played well in the last session [from 6-6 onwards]. In the first two sessions, I didn’t feel confident but I managed to get it to 6-6 and I was very good in the third.”<\/p>\n

The world number one will meet former Premier League champion Jonny Clayton in the quarter-finals on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Clayton beat Japan’s Motomu Sakai 10-8 and is one of two Welshmen in the last eight, with Gerwyn Price also progressing courtesy of a 10-5 win against Canada’s Jim Long.<\/p>\n

England’s James Wade was the other winner in Saturday’s evening session, defeating Wessel Nijman of the Netherlands, and will face Price next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World champion Luke Littler beat Nathan Aspinall in a dramatic finale to reach the last eight of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-629956","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\/629956","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=629956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}