Dutch Darts Masters 2025 Day Two Preview and Order of Play | Final eight do battle in Den Bosch
The 2025 Dutch Darts Masters draws to a close in Den Bosch on Saturday as the final eight face off for the title.
The second World Series silverware of the season is up for grabs at Maaspoort Den Bosch as five PDC picks and three Benelux representatives battle it out for the £30,000 top prize.
The opening night of the tournament saw a trio of top stars suffer early exits at the hands of Dutch opposition.
Saturday sees the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final take place in one bumper session, with a repeat of the World Championship final topping the bill.
Michael van Gerwen defeated Luke Littler to clinch this title 12 months ago, but it was the teenager who captured the sport’s most prestigious title at the expense of the Dutch at Alexandra Palace earlier this month.
Littler, who celebrated his 18th birthday earlier this week, saw his first competitive outing as World Champion end in a quarter-final defeat to Gerwyn Price at the Bahrain Masters a week ago despite averaging 105.
The Nuke, winner of two World Series titles in 2024, began his campaign in Den Bosch with a 6-4 win over 2022 champion Dimitri van den Bergh, firing in five 180s and a 101 average in the process.
Van Gerwen will be determined to gain a degree of revenge in his own back yard on the stage in which he claimed his only televised title in 2024.
Having returned from a family holiday in Thailand, MVG opened up his season with a 6-1 demolition of Dirk van Duijvenbode on Friday, averaging 95.5 in a routine victory.
Meanwhile, five-time World Champion Raymond van Barneveld aims to thrill the partisan crowd once again when he faces man of the moment Stephen Bunting.
Van Barneveld raised the roof with a spectacular 144 checkout to deny Chris Dobey in a deciding leg on Friday and will be out to roll back the years once again in a repeat of a famous World Championship fixture from a decade ago.
Bunting marked his long-awaited return to the World Series with a terrific triumph in Bahrain last week, and ‘The Bullet’ picked up from where he left off by narrowly defeating Gian van Veen 6-5 in a high quality contest which saw both players average in excess of 102.
Gerwyn Price, the man Bunting defeated in last week’s Bahrain Masters final, aims to continue his impressive World Series form when he faces home favourite Kevin Doets.
Price made it four final appearances on the World Series inside 12 months and notably averaged 115.3 in dethroning Littler along the way in Bahrain.
Semi-finalist here 12 months ago, Price has produced arguably his most consistent performances on the World Series over the past 12 months and averaged 101.8 in dismantling Danny Noppert 6-2 on Friday night.
Doets enjoyed a landmark run to the Last 16 of the World Championship which included wins over Michael Smith and Krzysztof Ratajski, and the heavy-scoring Dutchman was imperious in thrashing Nathan Aspinall 6-1 on this stage last night.
The fourth quarter-final sees former World Champion Rob Cross take on in-form Dutch star Jermaine Wattimena.
Cross, who was beaten by Scott Williams in Round Two of the World Championship, also suffered a shock First Round exit to Paolo Nebrida at the Bahrain Masters, but avoided an unwanted hat-trick by sealing a 6-3 success over Richard Veenstra on Friday.
Wattimena, who reached his first major final at the European Championship last October, successfully avenged his whitewash defeat at the hands of Luke Humphries here 12 months ago by pulling off a sensational 6-3 win over the world number one.
The action gets under way from 6pm GMT, with quarter-final matches to be contested over the best of 11 legs, semi-finals best of 13 and the final best of 15.
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Dutch Darts Masters 2025 Day Two Schedule
All times GMT (local time +1 hour)
Saturday January 25
6pm-10pm
Quarter-Finals
Stephen Bunting v Raymond van Barneveld
Luke Littler v Michael van Gerwen
Gerwyn Price v Kevin Doets
Jermaine Wattimena v Rob Cross
Semi-Finals
Bunting/Van Barneveld v Littler/Van Gerwen
Price/Doets v Wattimena/Cross
Final
