Overview
- Luke Littler beat 71-year-old Paul Lim 6-1 with a 106.5 average and a 170 checkout to reach the Bahrain Darts Masters quarter-finals against Gerwyn Price.
- Gerwyn Price defeated Motomu Sakai 6-4, while Luke Humphries, Michael van Gerwen, Stephen Bunting, Gian van Veen, Danny Noppert and Nathan Aspinall also advanced.
- The Bahrain event continues Friday with quarter-finals (best of 11), semi-finals (best of 13) and the final (best of 15), broadcast free in the UK on ITV4 and ITVX.
- Organisers unveiled the Riyadh Season Bullseye for the Saudi Arabia Darts Masters on Jan 19–20: $100,000 for a nine-darter with a single-dart bullseye to double it to $200,000, the largest nine-dart bonus in PDC history.
- ITV’s refreshed darts lineup prompted a complaint from long-time pundit Alan Warriner-Little, who said he was dropped after 20 years, with coverage now fronted by Gabbie Partington and Pete Graves and analysis from Wayne Mardle and Mark Webster.