Overview
- The PDC World Series of Darts Finals are under way at AFAS Live in Amsterdam with a £450,000 prize fund and knockout matches running from 17–20 September.
- On Thursday, late call-up Daryl Gurney beat defending champion Michael van Gerwen 6–5 after van Gerwen missed six match darts, knocking the home favourite out in round one.
- Three players withdrew before the event — Man Lok Leung with illness and Lourence Ilagan and Alexis Toylo because of visa problems — and they were replaced by Dirk van Duijvenbode, Daryl Gurney and Maik Kuivenhoven.
- All sessions are widely available to viewers with free-to-air coverage on SPORT1, a free Joyn livestream and subscription coverage on DAZN, giving broad access across markets.
- The field contains no German players for the first time since 2020, a development that reduces local representation and alters regional interest as the tournament proceeds to the later rounds.