{"id":761450,"date":"2026-09-06T02:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T02:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/761450\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T02:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T02:50:13","slug":"luke-humphries-beats-beau-greaves-at-czech-open-as-luke-littler-also-wins-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/761450\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Humphries beats Beau Greaves at Czech Open as Luke Littler also wins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Luke Humphries and Luke Littler came through their second round matches to progress at the Czech Open on the European Tour.<\/p>\n

Humphries ended the challenge of Beau Greaves, who had become the first woman to win a match on the European Tour<\/a> with her first round win over Daryl Gurney.<\/p>\n

The world number two averaged nearly 109 as he beat the three-time women’s World Matchplay champion 6-2 in Prague.<\/p>\n

“She’s an amazing player, she pushed me all the way, it was a couple of bits towards the end of the match that got me through in the end,” said Humphries, who will play Andrew Gilding in the third round.<\/p>\n

“She’s just a great dart player. If I had lost today, I wouldn’t have been disgraced, I would have lost to a really great dart player.”<\/p>\n

World number one Littler had missed the last eight events on the European Tour and marked his return with a 6-4 victory against Germany’s Niko Springer.<\/p>\n

Littler, who won the men’s World Matchplay title in July but was beaten by Brendan Dolan in the semi-finals of a Players Championship event last month, had a 108.59 average in his win.<\/p>\n

“It’s been a while since I’ve been to a European Tour,” said Littler, who will next play Krzysztof Ratajski.<\/p>\n

“Full credit to Niko. I was 5-2 up and then suddenly it was 5-4 and he was right back in it.<\/p>\n

“I’ve just produced a 108 average, but when I was practising backstage I couldn’t hit anything.”<\/p>\n

Michael van Gerwen and Gian van Veen also reached the last 16 with respective wins against Mario Vandenbogaerde and Jeffrey de Graaf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luke Humphries and Luke Littler came through their second round matches to progress at the Czech Open on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-761450","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\/761450","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=761450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}