THE first senior darts title won by Luke 'The Nuke' Littler is on the line on Friday.

The 2025 Bahrain Darts Masters will resume in the afternoon with the quarter-finals, before the semi-finals and final conclude matters in the evening.

Littler defeated Michael van Gerwen 8-5 in last year's final but has some work to do to retain his crown in this first World Series of Darts event of the year.

He wasn't at his best as he disposed of Lourence Ilagan 6-3 in the last 16 and 'The Nuke' will need to improve to get the better of Gerwyn Price in the quarter-finals, with the pair expected on stage around 5.15pm UK time.

The winner will go on to meet either Paulo Nebrida or Peter Wright in the semi-finals, thus avoiding the half of the draw featuring world number one Luke Humphries and defeated World Darts Championship semi-finalists Chris Dobey and Stephen Bunting.

UK viewers can watch all the action on ITV 4 and ITV X.

2025 Bahrain Darts Masters schedule of play:

Friday, January 17 (1900 local time, 1600 GMT)

Quarter-finals x 4

Luke Humphries v Nathan Aspinall - 4.10pm

Stephen Bunting v Chris Dobey - 4.45pm

Luke Littler v Gerwyn Price - 5.15pm

Paulo Nebrida v Peter Wright - 5.45pm

Semi-finals to follow:

Luke Humphries/Nathan Aspinall v Stephen Bunting/Chris Dobey

Luke Littler/Gerwyn Price v Paolo Nebrida/Peter Wright

Final to follow.

2025 Bahrain Darts Masters results:

First Round x8

Rob Cross 3-6 Paolo Nebrida

Gerwyn Price 6-3 Lok Yin Lee

Stephen Bunting 6-2 Nitin Kumar

Chris Dobey 6-0 Basem Mahmood

Luke Humphries 6-0 Abdulla Saeed

Luke Littler 6-3 Lourence Ilagan

Peter Wright 6-3 Alexis Toylo

Nathan Aspinall 6-2 Xiaochen Zong

2025 Bahrain Darts Masters format:

First Round - Best of 11 legs

Quarter-Finals - Best of 11 legs

Semi-Finals - Best of 13 legs

Final - Best of 15 legs

2025 Bahrain Darts Masters prize fund:

Winner - £30,000

Runner-Up - £16,000

Semi-Finalists - £10,000

Quarter-Finalists - £5,000

First Round Losers - £1,750

Total - £100,000

Bahrain Darts Masters roll of honour:

2023 - Michael Smith

2024 - Luke Littler

Bahrain Darts Masters nine-darters:

2024 - Luke Littler v Nathan Aspinall, Quarter-Finals

2025 World Series of Darts Schedule:

Bahrain Darts Masters, January 16-17, Bahrain International Circuit

Dutch Darts Masters, January 24-25, Maaspoort, Den Bosch

Nordic Darts Masters, June 6-7, Forum Copenhagen

US Darts Masters, June 27-28, The Theater at Madison Square Garden, New York

Poland Darts Masters, July 4-5, PreZero Arena, Gliwice

Australian Darts Masters, August 8-9, WIN Entertainment Centre, Wollongong

New Zealand Darts Masters, August 15-16, Spark Arena, Auckland