Reigning World Darts champion Luke Littler remains on course to retain the iconic Sid Waddell Trophy, with former winner Luke Humphries and three-time champion Michael van Gerwen amongst Littler\u2019s main challengers for the title.
European Champion Gian van Veen – fresh from posting the highest average of the tournament in his win over Alan Soutar – is also aiming to break new ground and claim the \u00a31M top prize when the tournament resumes later today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While all eyes are on who will win the championships title this year, there has been some impressive performances from the players. Official data partner Sportradar have followed every dart thrown at the tournament so far, and have produced the following tournament stats with 31 matches remaining before the champion is crowned on Saturday January 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Among the notable achievements was the 16 perfect 180s hit by both Justin Hood and Connor Scutt hit thus far. Most 180s <\/strong> Highest Averages <\/strong> Overall Tournament Averages<\/strong> Top Checkout Percentages (Minimum 2 games played)<\/strong> Reigning World Darts champion Luke Littler remains on course to retain the iconic Sid Waddell Trophy, with former<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-7439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsbeat","tag-darts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Luje-Littler1_compressed.jpg",2400,1600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Luje-Littler1_compressed-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Luje-Littler1_compressed-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Luje-Littler1_compressed-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Luje-Littler1_compressed-1024x683.jpg",640,427,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Luje-Littler1_compressed-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Luje-Littler1_compressed-2048x1365.jpg",2048,1365,true],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Luje-Littler1_compressed-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Luje-Littler1_compressed-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"Newsbeat<\/a>","tag_info":"Newsbeat","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Luje-Littler1_compressed.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7440,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439\/revisions\/7440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
180s Hit:\u00a0<\/strong>678
Darts Thrown:\u00a0<\/strong>45,552
Legs Played:\u00a0<\/strong>1486
Highest Finish:\u00a0<\/strong>170 – (Rob Cross, Gabriel Clemens, Brendan Dolan, Dirk van Duijvenbode, Krzysztof Ratajski, Nathan Aspinall, Joe Cullen, James Wade, Gian van Veen).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
16 – Justin Hood, Connor Scutt
15 – Gary Anderson, Danny Noppert
13 – Gian van Veen, Dave Chisnall, James Hurrell, Jonny Tata, Dirk van Duijvenbode
12 – Martin Schindler, Callan Rydz<\/p>\n\n\n\n
108.28 – Gian van Veen (v Alan Soutar)
105.41 – Gary Anderson (v Connor Scutt)
103.01 – Justin Hood (v Danny Noppert)
102.36 – William O\u2019Connor (v Krzysztof Kciuk)
102.27 – Danny Noppert (v Justin Hood)
101.54 – Luke Littler (v Darius Labanauskas)
101.33 – Josh Rock (v Joe Comito)
100.91 – Wessel Nijman (v Karel Sedlacek)
100.20 – Michael van Gerwen (v William O\u2019Connor)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
103.32 – Gian van Veen
101.97 – Justin Hood
100.08 – Danny Noppert
99.43 – Gary Anderson
99.40 – Luke Littler
98.49 – Andrew Gilding
98.02 – Luke Humphries
97.54 – Martin Schindler<\/p>\n\n\n\n
56.41% – Damon Heta
55.56% – Wesley Plaisier
54.55% – Ryan Searle
54.55% – Luke Littler
53.57% – Keane Barry
51.28% – Stephen Bunting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"