{"id":350491,"date":"2026-01-03T19:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T19:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/350491\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T19:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T19:53:09","slug":"world-darts-championship-final-live-luke-littler-vs-gian-van-veen-score-result-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/350491\/","title":{"rendered":"World Darts Championship final LIVE: Luke Littler vs Gian van Veen &#8211; score, result &#038; updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Van Veen is the real deal&#8217;published at 19:39 GMT<\/p>\n<p>19:39 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-16yshci-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Littler v Van Veen<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-kkut0v-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/fcbd3b99-5c25-4057-b4f4-eba2b6a1cce0.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Matthew Edgar<br \/>Former PDC professional on BBC Radio 5 Live<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">I was excited about Gian van Veen a couple of months ago. We were asking &#8216;where is he going to go, what is his career going to do?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If we go back a couple of years he was losing in the first round of Challenge Tours and struggling to throw his darts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">What a journey he&#8217;s been on where he&#8217;s accelerated to catch the eye.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The big question is: Can he take those big steps? The victory over Luke Humphries at the World Matchplay was the moment where you say right, Gian van Veen is the real deal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He backed it up with a win over Luke Littler on the European Tour as well, and then the big coming-of-age moment was picking up the European title. That was the moment we should have all taken note and said &#8216;this is a serious contender&#8217;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Van Veen is the real deal&#8217;published at 19:39 GMT 19:39 GMT Littler v Van Veen Matthew EdgarFormer PDC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-350491","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350491","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=350491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}