Overview
- Luke Littler crushed Ryan Searle 6–1 after losing the opening set, reeling off 11 straight legs and averaging 105.35.
- Gian van Veen beat Gary Anderson 6–3 in a high-quality semifinal that included 170 finishes from both players and averages around 103.
- The final is set for Saturday at 21:00 in London’s Alexandra Palace, with a record £1,000,000 going to the champion.
- Littler has reached a third consecutive world final, a rare run previously managed only by Phil Taylor, Dennis Priestley and Gary Anderson.
- Searle’s hereditary optic-nerve condition prompted a venue-wide awareness push, with blurred ‘180’ signs and matched donations reported to lift fundraising into the tens of thousands of euros.