Dutch Darts Masters order of play day two: schedule and start times as Luke Littler and Michael van Gerwen face epic clash
Luke Littler and Michael Van Gerwen face an epic Ally Pally rematch tonight at the 2025 TOTO Dutch Darts Masters.
The Nuke’s quarter-final with the Dutch hero headlines the last-eight action on his home turf on Finals night at Maaspoort Den Bosch. Van Gerwen won the title 12 months ago and now must overcome Littler to repeat the feat and win the second World Series event of the year having missed the opening tournament in Bahrain last week.
Van Gerwen's compatriot Raymond van Barneveld will get a rapturous reception from the home crowd after his magnificent win over Chris Dobey set up a meeting with in-form Stephen Bunting, who won in the Kingdom eight days ago. Rob Cross, Jermaine Wattimena, Gerwyn Price and Kevin Doets are also gunning for glory in front of a sell-out crowd. Record Sport takes you through the games, times and where you can see the action on a scintillating day two.
Session Two - Saturday 6pm
Stephen Bunting vs Raymond van Barneveld
The Bullet is riding the crest of a wave. Kept up his momentum with success last week in Bahrain to kick-off his World Series campaign in style and was excellent in taking care of Gian van Veen, the World Youth champion in round one. Barney rolled back the years to dump Chris Dobey. The Geordie had to handle the partisan home crowd and the Dutch legend fluffed his lines at one point by busting his score with a chance to go 5-4 up. That looked like being costly, but not a bit of it. Barney took it all the way and finished the job in staggering fashion with a 144 to win. He’s a huge crowd favourite.
Luke Littler vs Michael van Gerwen
Littler turned 18 this week and, hoping to banish the memories of Bahrain when he was dumped out at the last-eight stage by Gerwyn Price. showed grit and class to see-off Dimitri Van Den Bergh in a tight contest. Van Gerwen, on the other hand, had no trouble in hammering countryman Dirk van Duijvenbode in his first match back since the Ally Pally Final loss to the teenager. This promises to be a cracker as MVG eyes revenge and Littler aims to shatter him in his own backyard in an arena which is seven minutes drive from his house.
Gerwyn Price vs Kevin Doets
The Iceman was really strong against Danny Noppert on night one and a fully deserving winner. He’s looking more like his old self with each passing game having displayed glimpses of his World title best when dismissing Luke Littler in Bahrain and making it all the way to the Final in the Kingdom before losing out to Stephen Bunting. Doets gave the home crowd an early celebration on night one as the Dutchman was miles too strong for an out-of-sorts Nathan Aspinall. The display was quality from the home man as he continues to shine having knocked Michael Smith out of the Worlds.
Jermaine Wattimena vs Rob Cross
Wattimena was simply superb in taking apart World No.1 Luke Humphries in a night-one shock. The Dutchman, who reached his first-ever ranking TV Final at the Euros just four months ago, was too strong for Cool Hand and rates a huge threat to Cross. The Londoner recovered from his nightmare beginning to the World Series when becoming the first-ever PDC rep to lose an opening-round game when he was beaten by Paulo Nebrida and also a sticky start against Richard Veenstra to progress.
Semi-Finals - Approx 8pm
Bunting/Van Barneveld v Littler/Van Gerwen
Price/Doets v Wattimena/Cross
Best of 13 legs
Final - Approx 9pm
Best of 15 legs
WHERE TO WATCH: ITV4, ITVX and PDCTV.
