Luke Littler hits ‘beautiful’ nine-darter in Premier League Night 7 closing win
Luke Littler hit a nine-darter in the Premier League Night 7 final in Cardiff against Michael van Gerwen.
‘The Nuke’ hit his first perfect leg in the Premier League in 2025 and the competition’s third nine-darter this year, after Luke Humphries and Rob Cross achieved the feat in Brighton two weeks ago.
After hitting back-to-back 180s, Littler hit T20, T17 and pinned D15. Littler took a double glance at whether the final dart was in the double before he let out a roar and ran to the crowd to celebrate.
Van Gerwen’s face was a picture of astonishment before the two fist bumped on the stage and Littler continued to lap up the scenes with the crowd.
Littler took a 3-1 lead in the final with the nine-darter and had to use it as inspiration to hold off a resurgent Van Gerwen, eventually winning two successive legs to seal a 6-4 win and extend his lead at the top of the table.
Fans lauded Littler’s darting perfection on X, with one fan saying: “Incredible 9-darter from Luke Littler! Superb tonight.” A second added: “Luke Littler is absolutely incredible man what a bloke.” While a third echoed: “Luke Littler is remarkable. Absolutely brilliant to see.”
Littler started the night with a quarter-final win over his close ally Nathan Aspinall. ‘The Nuke’ brushed aside ‘The Asp’ again in a 6-3 victory that saw the world champ crush his opponent’s average, clocking up 102.21 compared to Aspinall’s 88.73.
The Premier League leader then took on Rob Cross in the semi-final. Littler charged into a 3-0 lead but had to take out 109 to stop Cross having the chance to level the match at 3-3. Littler then went on to reel off the next two legs to dismiss ‘Voltage’.
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Meanwhile, Van Gerwen reached his first nightly Premier League final of the year after putting in an imperious performance to beat Luke Humphries 6-4. MVG averaged 104.04 and went 54.55 percent on his doubles, seeing commentator Wayne Mardle exclaim “What year is this?” in reference to Van Gerwen producing a performance reminiscent of his late all-conquering 2010s form.
Van Gerwen then had a much easier time of it in the semi-final against Chris Dobey, beating the Geordie 6-1 in a game of far less quality than MVG’s quarter-final clash.
