Littler takes out 170 twice to beat Van Gerwen
He had the throw in the ninth but 36-year-old Van Gerwen broke back and the final looked destined for a final-leg decider. However, world number one Littler found an extra gear, producing another brilliant 170 checkout to seal his third night win in the past four weeks. Van Gerwen, who had not won a match since week two before this event, must wonder what it is about Littler, after the world champion also hit the maximum checkout against the Dutchman in Dublin last week.
The victory sees Littler climb to the top of the Premier League standings at the halfway point of the season. It continues a resurgence from the 2024 winner, who sat seventh after the opening four weeks of the campaign. "This is definitely the best I've played in a night," Littler told Sky Sports.
Littler spoke last week about chasing down Jonny Clayton at the top of the standings and, with that now achieved, he may well set his eyes on matching or beating the record for the most nightly wins that he set last year with six. Premier League Darts 2026 fixtures, results and table Northern Ireland's Josh Rock has endured a difficult debut Premier League campaign, losing in the quarter-finals in the first seven weeks. The 24-year-old had followed the trend of Stephen Bunting in 2025 and it was in Berlin where the Liverpudlian picked up his first points with a nightly win.
Rock is now off the mark with a deserved quarter-final win over Clayton, who led the standings going into the night, but he soon faltered in the semis against Van Gerwen. Rock went into the night with the lowest average of the eight players (91. 67) and checkout percentage (21.
67%) and, although he was closer to his trademark power scoring in Berlin, his finishing was again well below the required standard. He missed darts to go 3-0 up against Van Gerwen, his doubling caused problems throughout and he finished the match with an 18. 75% success rate on the checkouts.