Preview final session Players Championship Finals 2025: Luke Littler title favourite again but Price, Aspinall and Wattimena still in the hunt in Minehead

One more session and then we will know who will walk away with the title at the 2025 Players Championship Finals. Sunday night, the four remaining players will compete in the semifinals and then the final for the prestigious title and the grand prize of £120,000.

Gerwyn Price and Luke Littler have already reached the final at this event in Minehead, but have never won the Players Championship Finals. The other two semifinalists Jermaine Wattimena and Nathan Aspinall have never been in the last eight at this tournament at all, and at least one of these two names is going to make his first final here.
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The semifinals begin with a cracker of sorts between Gerwyn Price and Luke Littler, two players who have not been shaken in the earlier rounds. Price made it to the final four with victories over Max Hopp (6-2), Sebastian Bialecki (6-1), Martin Schindler (10-6) and Daryl Gurney (10-6). Against Bialecki, 'The Iceman' played his best match by throwing an average of 105.06, which was his only 100+ average for now.

Littler did not throw below 102.67 average during this edition of the Players Championship Finals, consecutively besting Jeffrey de Graaf (6-1), Ross Smith (6-3), Ricardo Pietreczko (10-6) and Chris Dobey (10-5). In his duels against Smith and Dobey, Littler even achieved averages above 107.

It will be the eighteenth mutual meeting between Price and Littler, with the ratio being 10-7 in favor of the Englishman. Their previous confrontation was an embarrassing one for Price. The Welshman was leading 2-0 in sets against Littler in the quarter-finals of the World Grand Prix, but missed three match darts in the fourth set to eliminate "The Nuke. Littler eventually won the match 3-2 in sets and would later win the tournament as well.

Last year Jermaine Wattimena reached the final of the European Championship in sensational fashion, and Sunday evening the Dutchman gets another chance to reach the final of a major. First 'The Machine Gun' has to deal with Nathan Aspinall. In any case, there is nothing wrong with the Dutchman's form. He has already beaten Wesley Plaisier (6-3), Ryan Joyce (6-2), Ryan Searle (10-8) and James Wade (10-8), and also averaged over a hundred in three of his four matches.

Aspinall, however, is also on a roll. He opened his tournament on Friday with a 6-3 victory over Karel Sedlacek, before brushing aside Richard Veenstra 6-0. After that, 'The Asp' showed the better in crackers against both Danny Noppert (10-8) and Josh Rock (10-8). In the quarterfinal against Rock, Aspinall once again showed his status as an excellent finisher. The darter from Stockport threw a total of four 100-plus finishes and reached a finishing percentage of 55.6 percent.

Looking at the head-to-head, it does not look very positive for Wattimena. The Dutchman and the Englishman have met eleven times over the years, and nine times Aspinall stepped off the oche victorious. The last time these two players met was last month at the German Darts Championship in Hildesheim. Then the victory went 6-4 to Aspinall.