"I would die from crying if I win this trophy" - Jermaine Wattimena continues resurgence with stunning win over Luke Humphries at Dutch Darts Masters 2025
PDCSaturday, 25 January 2025 at 15:30
Jermaine Wattimena's stock continues to rise over the past few months. After ending 2024 in arguably the form of his life, the Dutchman has kicked off his 2025 campaign in style by dumping world number one Luke Humphries out of the Dutch Darts Masters.
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Wattimena, who reached the European Championship final at the back end of 2024, halted 'Cool Hand Luke' 6-3 with a solid 98.8 average, four 180's and a high checkout of 153, setting up a quarter-final showdown with another former world champion, Rob Cross later tonight in Den Bosch.
"I'm happy with it to be honest. No words needed, I'm just happy, really happy with it," a beaming Wattimena told TalkSport in his post-match press conference. "I started a little bit nervous, but after two down I was not nervous. Then when I got 5-2 up, I was a little nervous again, but I'm happy that I manged to win the match and it's my second win in a row against him!"
Given his prior success over Humphries, Wattimena came into the match with no fear. "I know Luke is the number one in the world, but I know I'm playing really good since the last time we met. And we know we have a difficult game, because always we have a good game against each other," the Dutchman explains.
In Den Bosch, Wattimena also has the backing of a vocal Dutch crowd, a factor that could be key in his quarter-final against Rob Cross later tonight and the potential rounds beyond. "I would die from crying if I win this trophy," he admits in conclusion. "This trophy would really mean a lot."
If Wattimena can get past Cross in the last eight, either Gerwyn Price or Kevin Doets awaits in the semi-final.
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Kieran WoodDarts Journalist
Kieran Wood is a sports journalist based in Wales and has been active in journalism since 2022. He contributes to DartsNews.com, where he covers professional darts through news, match reports, analysis, and live coverage across the PDC calendar and major tournaments.
A key part of his work is on-site reporting from leading events. Kieran has covered the PDC World Darts Championship in person, reporting daily from the venue and providing first-hand insight from the tournament. During his coverage, he has conducted interviews with leading players including Luke Littler, Luke Humphries, and Gerwyn Price.
He is also one of the leading voices of the English-language Dartsnews Podcast, contributing regular analysis and discussion on developments across the professional darts circuit.
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- Need to see her take part in the womens tour. She'll break the inernet.medinabello08-09-2026
- If he can be bothered? He won't play darts in Germany yet he'll go over and get an award!??rick6702-09-2026
- Why is this the main story? He chose not to compete in loads of tournaments,yes he's number 1 in the world,but he does have to turn up at tournaments! Play the next world championship in Dortmund and see if he turns up!!rick6727-08-2026
- This is exactly what I mean,littler survives the 1st round,I think you'll find a lot of other players did. Can you just report on the real sport,and not just 1 person. I like Luke,but this is getting boring now,as Kevin painter once said to Taylor!! The sport is about every player,not 1 who everyone seems to have put the sport on the map.,which he hasn't,he's just got in when the money is massive. Great as he is,it seems like what's the point in anyone trying,he's going to win everything,unless it's in Germany or Australia!!!rick6726-08-2026
- I mean look, Littler's picture is first,wattimena is second and he won! Level it up. I know littler is fantastic,but the sport was here before him,and will be when he's retired. Any player in the top 64/128 can beat each other,it's not big news. Poor Jermaine,wins it,and not even the headline!!rick6726-08-2026
- I appreciate that littler is a fantastic player,but the top 3 articles are about him. Before he'd thrown a dart in the tournament. Level it out a bit, Taylor and van gerwen soon got disliked as the media could only see them,and nobody else seemed to matterrick6725-08-2026
- The two-point Lucky Loser qualifiers are Ross Smith, Robb, Whitlock, Sakai, Ilagan and Toylo. Jermaine is not on the entries list on Dartconnect for the TCH qualifier so the four from the main OoM are probably Searle, Nijman, Dobey, Wattimena.Scoobedybop24-08-2026
- The two-point Lucky Loser qualifiers are Ross Smith, Robb, Whitlock, Sakai, Ilagan and Toylo. Jermaine is not on the entries list on Dartconnect for the TCH qualifier so the four from the main OoM are probably Searle, Nijman, Dobey, Wattimena.Scoobedybop24-08-2026
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