{"id":263478,"date":"2025-11-15T01:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T01:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/263478\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T01:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T01:46:11","slug":"grand-slam-of-darts-luke-humphries-into-semi-finals-after-16-8-win-over-michael-smith-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/263478\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Slam of Darts: Luke Humphries into semi-finals after 16-8 win over Michael Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Luke Humphries saw off a spirited fightback from Michael Smith as he booked his place in the semi-finals of the Grand Slam of Darts with a 16-8 victory. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number one Humphries raced into a 4-0 lead in the best of 31-leg match but Smith battled back to level it at 7-7 all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Humphries won nine of the next 10 legs as the 30-year-old ruthlessly closed out the contest against his fellow Englishman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Humphries, the 2023 Grand Slam champion, averaged an impressive 104.98 with a checkout percentage of 44.4% <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He will face Gerwyn Price in the last four after the Welshman chalked up a 16-9 win over England&#8217;s Ricky Evans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The remaining two quarter-finals at the WV Active Aldersley centre in Wolverhampton take place on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World champion Luke Littler faces Northern Ireland&#8217;s Josh Rock while Germany&#8217;s Lukas Wenig takes on Dutchman Danny Noppert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luke Humphries saw off a spirited fightback from Michael Smith as he booked his place in the semi-finals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-263478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}