Live Darts on Sunday | Players Championship Finals 2025 Day Three Preview and Order of Play
The final eight face off for the season’s penultimate major title at the Players Championship Finals in Minehead on Sunday.
The frenetic weekend of action at the Butlins Minehead Resort has seen 64 players whittled down to just eight as they vie for the £120,000 top prize.
Only one former champion remains in the running for glory, while the remaining seven aim to etch their name onto the trophy for the first time.
World number one Luke Littler continues his pursuit of a sensational sixth major title of 2025 with a quarter-final clash against fellow Premier League star Chris Dobey.
Only the Players Championship Finals, World Masters and European Championship titles are missing from Littler’s CV, and the 18-year-old will be determined to continue his pulsating run of form and go one better than last year’s runner-up spot.
Littler has picked up from where he left off at the Grand Slam a week ago by extending his unbeaten run to ten matches in all competitions courtesy of routine wins over Jeffrey De Graaf, Ross Smith and Ricardo Pietreczko with a tournament average of 104.4.
Dobey has banished his recent deciding-leg heartbreak against Michael Smith at the Grand Slam by reaching his first major ranking quarter-final since last season’s World Championship.
The number five seed brushed aside Keane Barry 6-1 before defying a 101 average and a match dart from Cam Crabtree to prevail in a decider and going on to dispatch James Hurrell 10-5.
Daryl Gurney is the only former champion left standing in the competition, and the 2018 winner faces a familiar opponent in Gerwyn Price.
The pair notably contested a fiery encounter at the World Matchplay in July which saw Price comfortably prevail, before Gurney gained his revenge in last month’s European Championship.
Price, runner-up in this event in 2019, is through to the quarter-finals for the fourth time in his last five televised ranking tournament appearances courtesy of comfortable victories over Max Hopp, Sebastian Bialecki and Martin Schindler.
A resurgent Gurney is appearing in his second major quarter-final in as many months, following on from the European Championship, and has seen off Brendan Dolan, Stephen Bunting and Adam Lipscombe despite a tournament average of just 89.7.
Two-time major winner Nathan Aspinall and reigning World Cup champion Josh Rock go head-to-head for the second time in a major quarter-final this year.
The pair met at this stage of the UK Open at this venue back in March, with Rock coming out on top 10-7 to reach his first major ranking semi-final.
Since then, the Northern Irishman has also made the semi-finals of the World Matchplay and World Series Finals, and has put Gabriel Clemens, Scott Williams and Krzysztof Ratajski to the sword this weekend with a checkout success rate of 45 per cent.
Aspinall is into his fifth major quarter-final of 2025 and a first at this event, having bounced back from his recent Group Stage exit at the Grand Slam by defeating Karel Sedlacek, Richard Veenstra and in-form Danny Noppert.
The final match of the afternoon sees ten-time major winner James Wade take on former European Championship finalist Jermaine Wattimena.
Wade is bidding to reach the semi-finals of this event for the first time since the inaugural staging back in 2009, and this year’s UK Open and World Matchplay finalist has swept aside Mickey Mansell, Peter Wright and Andrew Gilding with a modest tournament average of 90.2
The mercurial left-hander will be eyeing revenge over Wattimena – who romped to a straight sets victory in their Last 64 meeting at the World Championship last December.
Wattimena has maintained the form which has led him to a brace of Players Championship titles this season, advancing to a fourth major ranking quarter-final courtesy of wins over Wesley Plaisier, Ryan Joyce and Ryan Searle.
The Dutchman’s 108.94 average in his 6-2 second round win over Joyce remains the highest match average of the tournament so far.
The evening session plays host to the semi-final ties, before the World Youth Championship final takes place between reigning European Champion Gian van Veen and three-time Women’s World Champion Beau Greaves.
Van Veen is vying to become the first player since Dimitri van den Bergh in 2018 to successfully retain the title, while Greaves is out to make history by becoming the first woman to win the title and the £12,000 top prize.
The action gets under way from 1pm GMT, with quarter-final ties to be contested over the best of 19 legs and semi-finals and final best of 21.
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Players Championship Finals 2025 Day Three Schedule
Sunday November 23
Afternoon Session (12.45pm-5pm)
Quarter-Finals
Gerwyn Price v Daryl Gurney
Luke Littler v Chris Dobey
Nathan Aspinall v Josh Rock
James Wade v Jermaine Wattimena
Evening Session (7pm-11pm)
Semi-Finals
Price/Gurney v Littler/Dobey
Aspinall/Rock v Wade/Wattimena
Winmau World Youth Championship Final
Beau Greaves v Gian van Veen
Final
