Stephen Bunting secures his maiden World Series title with an 8-4 victory over Gerwyn Price in the final of the Bahrain Masters.

Stephen Bunting won the opening event of the new season by defeating Gerwyn Price in the Bahrain Darts Masters final.

Premier League stars Stephen Bunting and Chris Dobey face-off in a quarter-final, whilst Scotland’s Peter Wright meets Philippines ace Paulo Nebrida, who stunned Rob Cross on the opening night. Price wasn’t able to maintain the pace of his Littler win, but he had enough. Wright was too loose too often and paid the penalty. Or Price, if you like.

In other news, World number one Luke Humphries narrowly secured a victory over Nathan Aspinall, edging it out 6-5 in a heart-stopping opening match of the day. Humphries is now set for a clash with Stephen Bunting, who came out swinging to comprehensively defeat Chris Dobey 6-0.

Newly crowned world champion Luke Littler starts his Bahrain Masters title defence with a 6-3 victory against Lourence Ilagan in Sakhir.

Luke Littler claimed victory in his first match since winning the PDC World Darts Championship on Thursday, beating Lourence Ilagan in the opening round of the Bahrain Masters.

World champion Luke Littler was knocked out of the Bahrain Masters quarter-finals after a 6-2 defeat to Gerwyn Price. The 2021 world champion delivered a superb performance to surge into the last four,

Luke Littler has unexpectedly crashed out of the Bahrain Masters after being beaten by former PDC World Champion Gerwyn Price. The 6-2 loss was Littler's first defeat since winning the PDC World Championship title as he exited at the quarter-final stage.

Luke Littler started his title defence at the Bahrain Masters with a comfortable 6-3 victory. This tournament in 2024 was his maiden PDC victory, which started only 13 days after becoming the World Champion.