Luke Humphries limps into Players Championship darts finals due to rivals’ results after slump to 58th in Order of Merit
LUKE HUMPHRIES and Peter Wright have squeezed into the field at next month’s Players Championship Finals.
Two of the biggest names in darts had been at risk of missing out on the final PDC TV major of 2025.
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Luke Humphries managed to limp into the Players Championship finalsCredit: Shutterstock Editorial
Peter Wright has also managed to qualify despite a senior momentCredit: Shutterstock Editorial
However, due to results going in their favour in the last ProTour event, they secured their spots in the 64-player tournament at Butlins’ Minehead – but only by a few thousand pounds.
Humphries, who could lose his world No1 spot to Luke Littler in the coming weeks, exited in the second round 6-4 to world No58 Rob Owen at the Robin Park Leisure Centre in Wigan.
Cool Hand Luke came 58th in the table with £28,000 to his name, only £1,500 above the cut-off mark for the event in Somerset.
Scottish thrower Wright, 55, fared better in the overall table in 51st with a total of £29,500 but he had a senior moment in his 6-3 first exit to Unheralded Pole Tytus Kanik.
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Snakebite, a two-time world champion, was on a score of 20 in leg five and needed double 10 but instead he kept aiming for double six, thinking he was on 12.
When he finally worked it out after a lengthy delay and a chat with the referee, he checked out on double 10 at the first attempt.
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Nonetheless, his defeat to the world No137 is one of his worst this season and does not bode well for his chances in front of the television cameras.
Reigning world champion Littler missed Tuesday’s event as he did not arrive in time for the 11am registration after being held up in a car in the backlog of a traffic fatality.
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The Warrington-born superstar made it to the third round but lost to Matt Campbell 6-5.
It was revenge for the Canadian, who was thumped 6-0 by The Nuke in New York last year, and then 4-1 in sets in their first meeting, in the third round of the PDC World Darts Championship at Ally Pally in December 2023.
Dutchman Wessel Nijman beat Englishman Luke Woodhouse 8-5 in the final of Players Championship 34 to move into second spot overall.
And this rejigging of the standings means Humphries will take on newly-crowned European champion Gian van Veen in the first round of the Players Championship Finals.
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