World Championship

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

With the two preceding matches meandering into soap-opera excess, Littler arrived like a coiled spring finally given permission to jettison into the air...

In another white-knuckle Ally Pally classic, the sole remaining Welshman in the tournament eventually galloped home in a deciding set...

Last – but by absolutely no means least – we arrive at section four ...a section that reads less like a pathway and more like a bare-knuckle alley fight.

[A] quarter dripping in pedigree, pace and peril, headlined by the man who only recently wore the twin crowns of World Champion and world number one …

On paper, two names glow brighter than the rest. In reality, this section has teeth. Big ones...

From the original field, barely half the seeded royalty have managed to justify that comforting little number in brackets beside their name...

Legacy, lucre, immortality. Small stuff. So who’s getting the keys to darts’ most exclusive vault? The bookies didn’t wait around...

That run propelled Clemens into the world’s top twenty. Expectations followed. Majors beckoned. Whispers of Premier League selection drifted through the corridors...