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Josh Rock averaged 101.46... and had darts at double in 14 out of 28 legs Josh Rock averaged 104.14 against throw... and broke Littler's throw 4 times in 14 legs

High standard combined with incredible consistency is almost unbeatable. This is the game split in 5-leg spells. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Luke Littler 110.30 102.57 106.43 100.20 106.14 107.85 (𝗡𝗜) Josh Rock 106.92 93.35 110.54 96.13 102.37 99.4

The mission title defence is still on for Luke Littler! But he had to put on a fight after being 6-9 to Josh Rock to win 10 of the last 13 legs of the game.

Lukas Wenig was the 6th German to play in a PDC major quarterfinal. Tonight he was comfortably beaten by Germany's darts nemesis Danny Noppert, who has been responsible for their last three defeats.

Danny Noppert beats Lukas Wenig, who has won 50% of his legs with 100+ finishes, convincingly with 16-8. In his 4th major semifinal of the year the Dutchman will meet the winner of the last quarterfinal - Luke Littler against Josh Rock - tomorrow afternoon.

Three familiar faces already qualified for the World Championship this weekend. Another three will follow tomorrow. Polish Qualifier 🇵🇱 Krzysztof Kciuk Netherlands & Belgium Qualifier 🇧🇪 Andy Baetens South-East Europe Qualifier 🇭🇷 Boris Krčmar

Only impeccable finishing would have given Evans and Smith a chance against this kind of scoring power. 130-180 scores 40 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Luke Humphries (24 legs) 39 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Gerwyn Price (25 legs) 28 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ricky Evans (25 legs) 25 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Michael Smith (24 legs)

Michael Smith did well to keep the game close, but from 7-7 onwards Luke Humphries has won 9 out of the last 10 legs of the game and is now into his 3rd semifinal at the Grand Slam.

40-checkout for a 27-darter. That sounds familiar.

After 22 consecutive holds of throw Michael Smith is the first one to break Luke Humphries’ throw in this tournament. Breaks vs. Luke Humphries 1/6 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Michael Smith 0/7 🇳🇱 Jurjen van der Velde 0/4 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Nathan Aspinall 0/4 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Michael Smith 0/2 🇺🇸 Alex Spellman

180 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Michael Smith 180 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Luke Humphries 180 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Michael Smith 180 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Luke Humphries 129 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Michael Smith (D12 missed) 65 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Luke Humphries 12 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Michael Smith (10-darter)

Gerwyn Price is into his 4th Grand Slam semifinal, something only six other players achieved. 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗹𝗮𝗺 - 𝗦𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘀 8 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Phil Taylor 7 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Gary Anderson 6 🇳🇱 Michael van Gerwen 5 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 James Wade 4 🇳🇱 Raymond van Barneveld 4 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Peter Wright 4 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Gerwyn Price 🆕

Gerwyn Price makes it a 4th win in his 5th quarterfinal at the Grand Slam. 𝗚𝗦 - 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘀 2025 ✅ 16-9 vs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ricky Evans 2022 ❌ 13-16 vs 🇳🇱 R. van Barneveld 2021 ✅ 16-12 vs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Jonny Clayton 2019 ✅ 16-9 vs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Gary Anderson 2018 ✅ 16-15 vs 🇦🇺 Simon Whitlock

Three of the four quarterfinals are re-matches of the group phase: A 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Luke Humphries 5-3 Michael Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 D 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ricky Evans 5-4 Gerwyn Price 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 H 🇳🇱 Danny Noppert 5-4 Lukas Wenig 🇩🇪

Half of the eight quarterfinalists are outperforming their seasonal averages at the Grand Slam of Darts. With the biggest positive difference (+3.24) Danny Noppert is in sharp contrast to Michael Smith, who is over 4 points below the standard he showed all year.

𝗟𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝟭𝟲 - Grand Slam 𝟵𝟰.𝟰𝟱 ▪️ Average 𝟰𝟯.𝟮% ▪️ Doubles 𝟭𝟭 ▪️ Ton+ Finishes 𝟴𝟯 ▪️ 180s

Danny Noppert finally got over the last 16 hurdle at the Grand Slam. 2025 ✅ 10-6 vs 🇳🇱 Michael van Gerwen 2024 ❌ 7-10 vs (𝗡𝗜) Mickey Mansell 2023 ❌ 4-10 vs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Stephen Bunting 2022 ❌ 8-10 vs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Gerwyn Price 2016 ❌ 9-10 vs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Gary Anderson

Michael van Gerwen came out of the second break with a 11-darter to make it 6-5. After that he lost 4 out of last 5 legs and averaged 82.19.

Despite Danny Noppert averaging only 94.68 Michael van Gerwen wasn't able to break him and had only 3 darts at double.

Danny Noppert dumps out his compatriot Michael van Gerwen and is finally in the quarterfinals of the Grand Slam for the first time.