World Championship

The charismatic and enigmatic, Peter Wright arrived at Ally Pally for the seventeenth time dressed exactly as you’d expect a man like Peter Wright...

A packed darts crowd emits a complex aerosol of carbon dioxide, ethanol vapour, skin lipids, deodorants, food aromatics, and sugary drink headspace compounds. Ethanol and simple carbohydrate volatiles can be especially salient because adult wasps rely heavily on carbohydrates for flight energy...

Bialecki didn’t so much get invited back into the match as kick the door off its hinges. The Pole seized the momentum...

Nitin Kumar — the pride of India — who delivered one of the most efficient finishing displays you’ll see all tournament. Outscored heavily by Richard Veenstra? Yes. Outplayed? Absolutely not

NO, not a mis recollection of The Cure's classic hit, instead a commonly asked question about what players do with themselves between Ally Pally...

Belgium, darling Belgium… land of waffles, fine beer, and once-promising tungsten dreams. But at this year’s Paddy Power World Championship? The Belgians haven’t so...

Humphries looked composed, compact, and chillingly in control...

If ever there was a match that captured the essence of Ally Pally chaos — dodgy doubling, gasping crowd, a Scotsman muttering at imaginary ghosts — this was it...

The real glow in North London this week comes from Alexandra Palace — the annual cathedral of noise, fancy dress, improbable hope and broken trebles — as the 2025/26 Paddy Power World Darts Championship marches into town...