A clash of titans awaits in the World Darts Championship final as Luke Littler and Michael van Gerwen prepare for their most high-stakes meeting yet.
Twelve matches, six wins each. Luke Littler vs Michael van Gerwen has become a box-office match over the last 12 months and the rivalry will reach its crescendo on Friday in the World Championship final. Littler 's meteoric rise at the 2024 World Darts Championship, where he finished runner-up to Luke Humphries, has been backed up with the Premier League, World Series of Darts Finals and Grand Slam of Darts final titles.
Van Gerwen, meanwhile, did not win a televised tournament in 2024, which is the first time he has not won in a calendar year since 2011. Friday's final is by far the most important meeting between the pair, as Van Gerwen seeks a fourth world title and Littler a first. So, how did we get here? Littler puts down a marker but MVG respondsTwo weeks after last year's World Darts Championship, Littler made a nine-darter in his quarter-final win against Nathan Aspinall at the Bahrain Darts Masters and met Van Gerwen in the final on January 19. It was the first of many meetings between two of darts' most talented players and Littler came out on top 8-5 to lift his first senior PDC title on his World Series debut. Van Gerwen vowed to be better for the next time the pair met; that he would 'get' Littler. He did exactly that just a week later on home soil at the Dutch Darts Masters. A thrilling final saw both players going toe-to-toe and there was nothing to separate them until the very last leg when Van Gerwen punished a missed 170 from Littler to win 8-6. 'Luke put me under so much pressure,' said Van Gerwen, who won his 16th World Series of Darts crown.'Luke has a very bright future ahead of him. We all know that, but you still want to stop him, and you have to do the right things against him, which is what I did tonight.'His scoring power is immense so you have to keep on fighting, but I am glad that I was able t
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