World number one Luke Humphries got his first Premier League win over Luke Littler with a 6-4 victory in the final on night four in Exeter to take control at the top of the table.
After building on five perfect darts and with Littler’s scoring levels dropped, Humphries took out 92 to secure a first Premier League win over the world champion at the seventh attempt.
The 18-year-old, though, had earlier produced a clinical display to beat Stephen Bunting 6-3, landing 10 maximums with a match average of 112 – and leaving ‘The Bullet’ still in search of a first win in this year’s event – before then seeing off Nathan Aspinall 6-2 to book his place in the night’s final.
Littler had beaten Humphries to win on night two in Glasgow, but then failed to follow that up as he went out in the quarter-final stage in Dublin.
Humphries, who also won the opening night in Belfast, sits top of the table on 15 points, seven clear of Littler.
