Gerwyn Price denies Luke Littler to clinch Premier League Darts Night Six title in Nottingham
Gerwyn Price secured his second weekly title of the Premier League campaign courtesy of a 6-3 victory over Luke Littler in the Night Six final in Nottingham.
Price, whose initial triumph came on Night Three in Dublin, hit top form once again to clinch the £10,000 weekly bonus at the Motorpoint Arena.
The Welshman extended his remarkable winning run against Littler to six games as he defied a 103 average and seven 180s from the reigning World Champion to prevail.
Price ended a run of successive quarter-final exits by defeating Stephen Bunting, Michael van Gerwen and Littler to climb to third position in the league table.
Price condemned Bunting to a sixth straight quarter-final defeat in a high-quality opener, despite the St Helens ace averaging 102 and producing a magnificent 170 checkout in the penultimate leg.
The 2021 World Champion then powered past Van Gerwen in the semi-finals, averaging 107 in the process.
Price punished four missed darts at doubles in the opening leg from Littler to seize the early initiative, before firing in back-to-back 14-darters to race into a 3-0 lead.
Littler opened his account with a 12-darter in leg four, but after restoring his cushion with a brilliant 123 checkout on the bull, Price then produced another ton-plus finish to seal the deal.
“Luke is the best player in the world at the minute, and he’s going to be for many years,” admitted Price.
“It’s the same when you play Michael van Gerwen and Gary Anderson. You know you need to be at your best to beat these players.
“I’m just glad to get another win tonight. I have tried to be more positive this year, and it is showing on the board.
“In the last few years I’ve been quite negative, but before the World Championship I did some work with a sports psychologist trying to put my frame of mind in the right place, and it’s worked.”
Littler’s run to a fourth weekly final of the season saw him move top of the table at the expense of his great rival Humphries – whom he overcame in the evening’s opening quarter-final.
The UK Open champion recovered from 4-3 down to dispatch the world number one, turning the tide with a clutch 164 checkout in leg eight.
The 18-year-old then conjured up sensational checkouts of 167, 127 and 164 – all on the bullseye – en route to defeating Rob Cross 6-3 in the semi-finals with a 107 average.
Cross had recorded a dominant 6-2 win over Chris Dobey earlier in the night, converting six of his seven attempts at doubles to triumph with a 101 average.
Van Gerwen, meanwhile, reeled off three straight legs to overturn a 4-3 deficit against Nathan Aspinall in the evening’s other quarter-final, only to be subjected to a fifth semi-final defeat in the space of six weeks.
Premier League Darts 2025 Night Six Results
Thursday March 13
Quarter-Finals
Luke Humphries 4-6 Luke Littler
Rob Cross 6-2 Chris Dobey
Stephen Bunting 4-6 Gerwyn Price
Nathan Aspinall 4-6 Michael van Gerwen
Semi-Finals
Luke Littler 6-3 Rob Cross
Gerwyn Price 6-1 Michael van Gerwen
Final
Gerwyn Price 6-3 Luke Littler
