{"id":754257,"date":"2026-08-30T05:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T05:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/754257\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T05:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T05:34:14","slug":"luke-humphries-suffers-early-hungarian-darts-trophy-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/754257\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Humphries suffers early Hungarian Darts Trophy exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Top seed Luke Humphries suffered a shock 6-3 defeat by Dirk van Duijvenbode in the second round of the Hungarian Darts Trophy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 31-year-old world number two, who entered the tournament in this round, averaged just 92.67 in Budapest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Van Duijvenbode, 34, ranked 21st in the world, hit a superb 140 checkout when leading 4-3 to claim the victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three-time world champion Michael van Gerwen recovered from a 3-1 deficit to beat James Hurrell 6-4 and avoid an early exit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 37-year-old will now face Nathan Aspinall, who defeated Ryan Joyce by the same scoreline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jonny Clayton and Gary Anderson also comfortably won their matches to progress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gian van Veen, Dave Chisnall, Josh Rock, Stephen Bunting, Chris Dobey, Danny Noppert, Ryan Searle and Ross Smith all advanced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rob Cross, who narrowly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/darts\/articles\/czjz78lwjzzo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">beat Beau Greaves<\/a> on her European Tour debut in the first round, beat Luke Woodhouse to go through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top seed Luke Humphries suffered a shock 6-3 defeat by Dirk van Duijvenbode in the second round of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-754257","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\/754257","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=754257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}