Luke Humphries, ...was forced to summon his champion’s resolve to repel a thunderous late uprising from Gabriel Clemens, and in doing so, secure his passage into the last 16.

Yet popularity, for all its intoxicating volume, is not a currency that guarantees sanctuary. And after a bruising third-round exit at the PDC World Championship to James Hurrell, the Bullet now finds his 2026 Premier League destiny hanging by a silken, fraying thread...

Pedigree met momentum. Silk collided with steel. And across seven ferociously contested sets, the result was a thriller worthy of the grandest billing...