"It would boost him for another decade" - John Part sees potential win over Luke Littler extending Michael van Gerwen's darting career

The 2025 PDC World Darts Championship comes to a conclusion tonight at the Alexandra Palace in London. With the Sid Waddell Trophy on the line, Luke Littler and Michael van Gerwen are set to do battle in one of the most eagerly anticipated World Championship finals in darting history.

With an air of Van Gerwen's first world final, when he took on the legendary Phil Taylor back in 2013, the roles are reversed this time for the Dutchman. From the new kid on the block over a decade ago, Van Gerwen is now the seasoned legend looking to push back the charge of a new darting powerhouse. Taylor managed it against MvG in 2013, prevailing 7-4. Can Van Gerwen delay Littler's seemingly inevitable crowning for another year?

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According to John Part, himself a three-time World Darts Championship winner, a 4th world title and the circumstances around it for Van Gerwen, could be the sweetest victory of the Dutchman's career. "It's a big dream of Van Gerwen's. It's been a long time he's been trying to get a fourth world title," the Canadian legend analysed for Sky Sports. "He hears a lot of negative talk and that drives him, inspires him to be in a position to actually silence every critic. He's been in the game a long time and I think it would boost him for another decade. It would mean the world to him."

With Van Gerwen and World Darts Championship finals, fireworks are normally a certainty too, as Part notes. "We are waiting for a nine-dart game and finals are good for that!" 'Darth Maple' smiles. "We saw that a couple years ago with Michael Smith and Michael van Gerwen."

In Van Gerwen's way though, it the tricky task of 17-year-old darting sensation Luke Littler, already in his second PDC World Darts Championship final after losing out to Luke Humphries twelve months ago. "Littler has got better with every match and will be hoping for the ultimate performance in the final," Part adds on 'The Nuke'.

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