Jonny Clayton moved eight points clear at the top of the Premier League table with his second nightly victory of the season in Nottingham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Clayton has performed superbly on his return to the Premier League fold, and he continued his dream start to the campaign with another hat-trick of victories at the Motorpoint Arena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Welshman defeated Michael van Gerwen, Stephen Bunting and Luke Humphries to claim the \u00a310,000 nightly prize, dispatching Humphries 6-1 in Thursday’s Night Six showpiece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Clayton kicked off proceedings with a 6-3 success against seven-time champion Michael van Gerwen, winning six of the last seven legs to maintain his 100% record in quarter-finals this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 2021 Premier League champion then defeated Bunting by the same scoreline in the semi-finals, pinning 55% of his attempts at double to cap off a clinical display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This set up a winner-takes-all showdown against reigning champion Humphries, and Clayton produced another ruthless display to stretch his lead at the Premier League summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Humphries defied a quick-fire start from Clayton to halve the deficit with a 121 on the bull in leg three, only for Clayton to respond with a bruising 146 checkout in leg five to race into a 4-1 lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That proved to be the defining blow, as Clayton followed that up with a 14-dart hold to move to the cusp of victory, which he duly sealed after Humphries squandered four darts at double to prolong the contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I wasn’t expecting much to be honest. I was suffering from gout in my ankle,”\u00a0revealed Clayton, who played through the injury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“It was a little bit difficult, but my arm was okay and that’s all that counts!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I didn’t expect to be on top of the league after Night Six – I was expecting to have eight points in total!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I know what it’s about, getting the points in early. It’s not a bad start, and hopefully it can carry on.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“It’s my favourite tournament, I love it. Hopefully I’m proving why I should be in it, and my darts are doing the talking.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Humphries’ run to a first nightly final of 2026 featured impressive wins over Gian van Veen and Luke Littler, catapulting the world number two up to fifth in the league table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 31-year-old kicked off Thursday’s play with a hard-fought 6-4 win over Van Veen \u2013 just his second victory over the Dutch number one in nine meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Humphries then edged past Littler in a captivating semi-final between the world’s top two, averaging almost 106 and converting 130 and 128 finishes in the latter stages of the tie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Littler moved up to second in the table with a spectacular quarter-final win over Gerwyn Price, defying consecutive 151 and 152 checkouts from the Welshman by averaging a whopping 108.66 and landing and ten 180s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bunting, meanwhile, ran out an emphatic 6-1 winner against Josh Rock in the evening’s opener, extending the Northern Irishman’s winless run to six matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Night Seven of the darting roadshow will take place at Dublin’s 3Arena next Thursday, as Dutch duo Van Veen and Van Gerwen collide in the evening’s opener.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bunting takes on Littler, Rock goes up against Price for the first time in this year’s Premier League, while table-topper Clayton meets reigning champion Humphries in a repeat of Thursday’s final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Quarter-Finals<\/strong>
Stephen Bunting 6-1 Josh Rock
Jonny Clayton 6-3 Michael van Gerwen
Luke Humphries 6-4 Gian van Veen
Luke Littler 6-5 Gerwyn Price<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jonny Clayton 6-3 Stephen Bunting
Luke Humphries 6-5 Luke Littler<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jonny Clayton 6-1 Luke Humphries<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a> <\/td> NW<\/td> MW<\/td> L<\/td> +\/-<\/td> Legs Won<\/td> LWAT<\/td> Pts<\/td><\/tr> Jonny Clayton<\/td> 2<\/td> 11<\/td> 4<\/td> +25<\/td> 79<\/td> 31<\/td> 19<\/td><\/tr> Luke Littler<\/td> 1<\/td> 5<\/td> 5<\/td> -3<\/td> 47<\/td> 16<\/td> 11<\/td><\/tr> Gerwyn Price<\/td> 1<\/td> 5<\/td> 5<\/td> -2<\/td> 51<\/td> 19<\/td> 9<\/td><\/tr> Gian van Veen<\/td> 0<\/td> 6<\/td> 6<\/td> -2<\/td> 57<\/td> 16<\/td> 9<\/td><\/tr> Luke Humphries<\/td> 0<\/td> 5<\/td> 6<\/td> -2<\/td> 51<\/td> 14<\/td> 9<\/td><\/tr> Michael van Gerwen<\/td> 1<\/td> 5<\/td> 4<\/td> -2<\/td> 42<\/td> 18<\/td> 8<\/td><\/tr> Stephen Bunting<\/td> 1<\/td> 4<\/td> 5<\/td> +4<\/td> 41<\/td> 16<\/td> 7<\/td><\/tr> Josh Rock<\/td> 0<\/td> 0<\/td> 6<\/td> -23<\/td> 13<\/td> 3<\/td> 0<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"