Players Championship Finals 2025 Round-Up | Luke Littler and Nathan Aspinall fire in 100+ averages as Gerwyn Price & Jermaine Wattimena complete semi-final lineup

Luke Littler, Nathan Aspinall, Gerwyn Price and Jermaine Wattimena booked their places in the final four of the 2025 Players Championship Finals after a heavyweight Sunday afternoon session in Minehead. It had everything: monster checkouts, high drama, a Dutch comeback for the ages, and yet another “Littler doing Littler things” performance.

Luke Littler is becoming a walking inevitability at this point. Chris Dobey threw some beautiful stuff — he was floating around the 105 mark for most of the match — and still got handled 10–5.

Littler was just ruthless. Straight out the gate he landed a 13-darter, followed it with a bull finish for an 86, then started machine-gunning 180s like it was a warmup. Even when he got messy on the doubles, Dobey couldn’t capitalise often enough.

The killer punch came at 9–5: a trademark Littler special. 121 out, job done, thanks for playing. Five straight legs in the middle of the match put him in full control and he never let go.

This is the version of Littler that terrifies the field — the one that looks bored of missing, then just stops missing.

Nathan Aspinall vs Josh Rock was every bit as spicy as it looked on paper. Aspinall’s finishing was absurd — 55.6%, including four ton-plus checkouts and a cold-blooded 110 that nearly burst the roof off in Butlins.

He roared into a 5–1 lead, Rock clawed one back before the break, but the real drama came late. Rock dragged himself from 8–5 down to 8–8 with a 102 checkout.

At that point Aspinall needed something big, and he delivered. He opened the nineteenth leg with five perfect darts to regain the lead at 9–8, then held his nerve as Rock missed double 10 to force a decider. The miss proved fatal: Aspinall swept in to punish it instantly, sealing a frantic, breathless 10–8 victory that felt like it could have gone on another hour if someone hadn’t finally cracked.

This was Gerwyn Price in “grind mode” — a bit scruffy early, a bit frustrated, and then suddenly brilliant when it mattered.

A 150 checkout for 2–1 lit the touch paper. Then he promptly missed about three million doubles (slight exaggeration), allowing Daryl Gurney to stick around, break back, and lead 6–5. That’s when Price finally remembered he’s Gerwyn Price.

He levelled with a last-dart double top, went berserk on the scoring — leaving 41 after nine darts in one leg — and then ripped the match open with a brutal 108 out to go 9–6 up. One leg later, a smooth 117 checkout sealed it 10–6.

Not peak Price, but the power scoring and big finishes were back. And for Littler in the semi… that is not ideal news.

Jermaine Wattimena completed the semi-final lineup with a 10-8 win over James Wade. Wade started like Wade always does in Minehead: 116 checkout, two-leg cushion, calm as you like. Then Wattimena turned the match upside down with finishes of 114, an outrageous 108, and a run of four straight legs to lead 7–4.

Wade scrapped back to 7–7, missed bull for 8–8, then finally dragged it to 8–9. But Wattimena had the moment of his career waiting for him.

On 156 for the match he absolutely drilled it: treble 20, treble 20, double 18. Game, set, match. His reward? Nathan Aspinall.