{"id":534916,"date":"2026-04-16T22:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T22:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/534916\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T22:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T22:50:09","slug":"premier-league-darts-2026-results-jonny-clayton-beats-luke-littler-to-secure-fourth-nightly-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/534916\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League Darts 2026 results: Jonny Clayton beats Luke Littler to secure fourth nightly win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jonny Clayton delighted the Rotterdam crowd as he beat Luke Littler 6-4 to extend his lead at the top of the Premier League table.<\/p>\n

The Welshman kept his cool during an early blitz from Littler in the final and came through to claim back-to-back nightly wins and his fourth of the year.<\/p>\n

Littler was booed throughout the night following his exchange with Dutch number one Gian van Veen<\/a> in Manchester two weeks ago but shrugged it off to reach the final.<\/p>\n

But having beaten Gerwyn Price in the quarter-finals and held off a fight back from world number two Luke Humphries to win a thrilling semi-final 6-5, Clayton proved a challenge too far.<\/p>\n

Clayton is now five points clear of second-placed Littler but the world champion has an 11-point buffer to fifth and both men are all-but assured of a place at the O2 Arena for finals night on 28 May.<\/p>\n

“I don’t watch many games back but I watched last week’s game against Michael [van Gerwen] back and it hurt a little bit when someone said I was favourite to finish bottom – that really hurt and annoyed me,” Clayton told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n

“That really hurt. I’ve been here three times before and I’ve done finals night so hopefully I can prove them wrong.<\/p>\n

“Definitely [it has given him some fuel]. They might be looking at some other people. They’ve got the wrong person.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonny Clayton delighted the Rotterdam crowd as he beat Luke Littler 6-4 to extend his lead at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-534916","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\/534916","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=534916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}