LUKE LITTLER fired an incredible nine-dart finish at the Players Championship as he continued his fairy tale 2025.
But Gary Anderson beat him to the punch after a hitting a golden leg just minutes before against Ryan Joyce in Leicester.
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Yet all eyes were on The Nuke after he claimed the Belgian Darts Masters on Sunday.
Littler produced his perfect finish on his way to a deciding-leg 6-5 victory over Adam Hunt in round two.
He did so to break against Hunt and go 4-2 up but he was broken straight back after the high of the perfect leg.
The 18-year-old hit 180, 180, 141 going the standard route for perfection.
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Littler had dispatched Niko Springer 6-5 in previous round.
Meanwhile, Anderson’s threw his eighth nine-darter at the PDC.
The Flying Scotsman hit it in the tenth leg in the first round against Joyce and was trailing 4-5 at the time.
In the deciding leg he threw a 16-darter, winning the match 6-5, with a 102 average.
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It comes after two-nine dart finishes were thrown on Night 5 of Premier League Darts action last Thursday.
Luke Humphries and Rob Cross rocked Brighton with two stunning 100 per cent leg check-outs.
The pair faced off in the quarter-final, which Cross won, but their perfect throws came in separate matches.
But remarkably, for all that effort, both Humphries and Cross would later bow out and go on to LOSE those matches.
Littler went onto win on the south-coast, after beating Nathan Aspinall in the final.
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