"I hope the winning run keeps continuing" - Luke Humphries eases to 20th straight victory with opening round whitewash in Bahrain

Luke Humphries made an excellent start to his first official tournament since becoming world champion. 'Cool Hand Luke' was a clear 6-0 winner over Abdulla Saeed in the opening round of the Bahrain Darts Masters.

Humphries played excellently and averaged 98.02. "I'm really pleased and obviously it was a decent performance," said Humphries, who has now won 20 matches in a row. "Abdulla played really good in patches, so it was important that I put in a good performance myself."

"I felt good up there and it was a solid performance; my scoring was good, my doubling was okay and I did what I needed to do."

"I hope the winning run keeps continuing," Humphries concludes. "This is a fantastic World Series event, it's a great place to come and it would be a really nice one to put on my CV because the next thing for me is to win a World Series event."

Humphries will take on Gerwyn Price in the quarterfinals.