World number one Luke Littler won his fifth night of the Premier League Darts season to return to the top of the table.<\/p>\n
The 19-year-old backed up his win in Liverpool last week with another impressive performance in Aberdeen to climb above Jonny Clayton. <\/p>\n
The pair are already guaranteed a place at the season-ending play-offs at London’s O2 Arena on 28 May, but it was a big night for the chasing pack with world number two Luke Humphries reaching just his second final of the season. <\/p>\n
He took Littler to a last-leg decider – the fourth between the pair in 13 weeks – but the teenager came out on top.<\/p>\n
Humphries broke in leg seven, capitalising on Littler missing on bullseye, and then held to move within one leg of a first night win of the year.<\/p>\n
But Littler, who is now one night win away from matching his record-breaking tally of six last year, claimed three legs on the spin. <\/p>\n
He broke in leg 10 set up the decider and despite missing three match darts on his favourite double 10, he wrapped victory with his fourth. <\/p>\n
In a high-quality affair, Littler averaged 104.11 to Humphries’ 103.10. <\/p>\n
“I always want to be on the top and I think Jonny [Clayton], I don’t know if he’s much bothered about it,” Littler told Sky Sports. <\/p>\n
“He just wants to get to the O2 and, obviously, we’ve both got Qs next to our names.<\/p>\n
“Now it is just time to chase and hopefully break my own records.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World number one Luke Littler won his fifth night of the Premier League Darts season to return to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-405788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}