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The PDC World Darts Championship is underway at London’s illustrious Alexandra Palace.
World No. 1 Luke Humphries will protect his title but is drag to face stiff competition from a resounding topic.
Luke Littler’s ambitions to pass one higher than his closing defeat final twelve months had been bolstered by the teen sensation storming to glory at the Colossal Slam of Darts, and he obtained his second-spherical bout towards Ryan Meikle to originate his crusade.
On Thursday, a large seed fell by the wayside as second seed Michael Smith — the most realistic likely seeded participant other than defending champ Humphries — became as soon as eliminated by Dutchman Kevin Doets who already made headlines with a first-spherical acquire over the tournament’s first-ever transgender participant, Noa-Lynn van Leuven.
We then observed feeble champ Rob Detrimental and sixth seed Dave Chisnall eliminated. Fourteen of the seeded gamers had been knocked out sooner than Christmas Day, which became as soon as a account for that stage of the tournament.
Right here’s the contrivance for the World Championship in stout, along with are residing as a lot as this level outcomes.
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World Darts Championship 2024/25 seeds Internal a 96-participant topic overall, the tip 32 gamers on the PDC Picture of Merit had been seeded and obtained byes to the second spherical.
Luke Humphries Michael Smith Michael van Gerwen Luke Littler Rob Detrimental Dave Chisnall Jonny Clayton Stephen Bunting Damon Heta Gerwyn Stamp Dimitri van der Bergh Nathan Aspinall Danny Noppert Gary Anderson Chris Dobey James Wade Peter Wright Josh Rock Ross Smith Ryan Searle Andrew Gilding Martin Schindler Joe Cullen Mike De Decker Dirk van Duijvenbode Daryl Gurney Gabriel Clemens Gian van Veen Ritchie Edhouse Brendan Dolan Krzysztof Ratajski Raymond van Barneveld World Darts Championship 2025 outcomes, scores and time desk Sunday, December 15 Match Number Round Match 1 1 Thibault Tricole 3-1 Joe Comito 2 1 Jermaine Wattimena 3-0 Stefan Bellmont 3 1 Kim Huybrechts 1-3 Keane Barry 4 2 Luke Humphries (1) 3-0 Thibaut Tricole Monday, December 16 Match Number Round Match 5 1 Wesley Plaisier 3-2 Ryusei Azemoto 6 1 Luke Woodhouse 3-0 Lourence Ilagan 7 1 Alan Soutar 1-3 Kai Gotthardt 8 2 James Wade (16) 0-3 Jermaine Wattimena 9 1 Niels Zonneveld 1-3 Robert Owen 10 1 Connor Scutt 3-0 Ben Robb 11 1 Cameron Menzies 1-3 Leonard Gates 12 2 Gerwyn Stamp (10) 3-0 Keane Barry Tuesday, December 17 Match Number Round Match 13 1 James Hurrell 3-0 Jim Lengthy 14 1 Kevin Doets 3-1 Noa-Lynn van Leuven 15 1 Ryan Joyce 3-1 Darius Labanauskas 16 2 Mike De Decker (24) 1-3 Luke Woodhouse 17 1 Jeffrey de Graaf 3-1 Rashad Sweeting 18 1 Ricardo Pietreczko 3-0 Zong Xiao Chen 19 1 Ryan Meikle 3-2 Fallon Sherrock 20 2 Peter Wright (17) 3-1 Wesley Plaisier Wednesday, December 18 Match Number Round Match 21 1 Jim Williams 2-3 Paolo Nebrida 22 1 Madars Razma 3-2 Christian Kist 23 1 Ricky Evans 3-2 Gordon Mathers 24 2 Nathan Aspinall (12) 3-1 Leonard Gates Thursday, December 19 Match Number Round Match 25 1 Chris Landman 1-3 Lok Yin Lee 26 1 Callan Rydz 3-0 Romeo Grbavac 27 1 Martin Lukeman 3-1 Nitin Kumar 28 2 Gabriel Clemens (27) 1-3 Robert Owen 29 1 Carve Kenny 3-0 Stowe Buntz 30 1 Mensur Suljovic 2-3 Matt Campbell 31 1 Scott Williams 3-1 Niko Springer 32 2 Michael Smith (2) 2-3 Kevin Doets Friday, December 20 Match Number Round Match 33 1 Stephen Burton 0-3 Alexander Merkx 34 1 Wessel Nijman 3-2 Cameron Carolissen 35 1 Ian White W/O Sandro Eric Sosing 36 2 Stephen Bunting (8) 3-1 Kai Gotthardt 37 1 Mickey Mansell 3-1 Tomoya Goto 38 1 Florian Hempel 3-1 Jeffrey de Zwaan 39 1 William O’Connor 1-3 Dylan Slevin 40 2 Michael van Gerwen (3) 3-0 James Hurrell Saturday, December 21 Match Number Round Match 41 1 Karel Sedlacek 0-3 Rhys Griffin 42 1 Richard Veenstra 0-3 Alexis Toylo 43 2 Brendan Dolan (30) 3-0 Landman/Lee 44 2 Chris Dobey (15) 3-1 Alexander Merkx forty five 2 Danny Noppert (13) 1-3 Ryan Joyce 46 2 Raymond van Barneveld (32) 1-3 Carve Kenny 47 2 Luke Littler (4) 3-1 Ryan Meikle 48 2 Damon Heta (9) 3-1 Connor Scutt Sunday, December 22 Match Number Round Match 49 2 Ryan Searle (20) 3-0 Matt Campbell 50 2 Dirk van Duijvenbode (25) 1-3 Madars Razma 51 2 Joe Cullen (23) 3-0 Wessel Nijman 52 2 Ritchie Edhouse (29) 1-3 Ian White fifty three 2 Martin Schindler (22) 0-3 Callan Rydz 54 2 Ross Smith (19) 0-3 Paolo Nebrida 55 2 Gary Anderson (14) 0-3 Jeffrey De Graaf 56 2 Dimitri van den Bergh (11) 3-0 Dylan Slevin Monday, December 23 Match Number Round Match 57 2 Krzysztof Ratajski (31) 3-1 Veenstra Toylo 58 2 Andrew Gilding (21) 3-1 Martin Lukeman 59 2 Josh Rock (18) 3-0 Rhys Griffin 60 2 Jonny Clayton (7) 3-2 Mickey Mansell 61 2 Gian van Veen (28) 1-3 Ricardo Pietreczko 62 2 Daryl Gurney (26) 3-2 Florian Hempel 63 2 Dave Chisnall (6) 2-3 Ricky Evans 64 2 Rob Detrimental (5) 1-3 Scott Williams Friday, December 27 Match Number Round Match 65 3 Damon Heta (9) 3-4 Luke Woodhouse 66 3 Jonny Clayton (7) 4-3 Daryl Gurney (26) 67 3 Stephen Bunting (8) 4-1 Madars Razma 68 3 Gerwyn Stamp (11) 4-3 Joe Cullen (23) 69 3 Jermaine Wattimena 2-4 Peter Wright (17) 70 3 Luke Humphries (1) 4-0 Carve Kenny Saturday, December 28 Match Number Round Match 71 3 Ryan Joyce 4-3 Ryan Searle (20) 72 3 Scott Williams 1-4 Ricardo Pietreczko 73 3 Nathan Aspinall (12) vs. Andrew Gilding (21) 74 3 Chris Dobey (15) vs. Josh Rock (18) 75 3 Michael van Gerwen (3) vs. Brendan Dolan (30) 76 3 Luke Littler (4) vs. Ian White Sunday, December 29 Match Number Round Match 77 3 Jeffrey de Graaf vs. Paolo Nebrida 78 3 Kevin Doets vs. Krzysztof Ratajski (31) seventy nine 3 Dimitri Van den Bergh (11) vs. Callan Rydz 80 3 Ricky Evans vs. Robert Owen 81 4 Jonny Clayton (7) vs. Gerwin Stamp (11) 82 4 Luke Humphries (1) vs. Peter Wright (17) Monday, December 30 Match Number Round Match 83 4 84 4 85 4 86 4 87 4 88 4 Wednesday, January 1 Match Number Round Match 89 Quarterfinal 90 Quarterfinal 91 Quarterfinal 92 Quarterfinal Thursday, January 2 Match Number Round Match 93 Semifinal 94 Semifinal Friday, January 3 Match Number Round Match 95 Final
Dom Farrell
Dom is the senior state producer for Carrying Data UK. He previously worked as fan brands editor for Manchester Metropolis at Reach Plc. Before that, he built bigger than a decade of expertise within the sports journalism commerce, primarily for the Stats Catch and Press Association data companies. Dom has covered indispensable soccer events on residing, in conjunction with the complete lot of Euro 2016 and the 2018 World Cup in Paris and St Petersburg respectively, along with a large need of excessive-profile Premier League, Champions League and England global fits. Cricket and boxing are his other indispensable carrying passions and he has covered the likes of Anthony Joshua, Tyson Fury, Wladimir Klitschko, Gennadiy Golovkin and Vasyl Lomachenko are residing from ringside.