2026 World Darts Championship semi-final: Live rating and set-by-set updates as Ryan Searle stands in the best way of Luke ‘The Nuke’ Littler reaching a 3rd straight closing as Gary Anderson comes up towards new Dutch no.1 Gian van Veen

Curtis, an electrician from Wrexham, can’t quite believe his luck. Thanks to PaddyPower, the keen darts player will get a chance to strut his stuff on stage tonight, and if he bags a score of more than 180 across nine darts, he’ll win £180,000!

He’ll feature before the main event. Good luck to the lad!

This is a really exciting night for Ryan Searle, 38, from Holcombe Rogus in Devon.

He’d never been beyond the fourth round of the world championship before this year. Now he’s hours away from a potential final place.

Quite remarkably, the world No 20 has formed himself a credible darts career despite suffering from an incurable sight condition called Autosomal Dominant Optic. Someties, when his darts land on the board, he can’t even see where they have hit and has to ask for clarification. Good luck to him. What a night.

There are two match-ups on tonight, with a chance to be in the final. If you win the whole thing you earn yourself a handy million quid – being the losing runner-up is worth £400,000.

• Luke Littler vs Ryan Searle (7.40pm)
• Gian van Veen vs Gary Anderson (after that!)

Littler has beat Darius Labanauskas (3-0), David Davies (3-0), Mensur Suljovic (4-0), Rob Cross (4-2), and Krysztof Ratajski (5-0) to get to this stage.

That’s right, he’s only dropped two sets throughout the entire tournament, and it took 2018 world champion Cross to nick those off him.

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It’s the greatest show in town, and in the next few hours we’ll find out if Luke Littler will get a shot at earning a second world title tomorrow night… or if his dream will come crashing down.