Defending champion Luke Littler strolled into the World Matchplay last with a 17-5 demolition of unseeded Dirk van Duijvenbode successful Blackpool.
The satellite fig 1 raced successful an 8-2 vantage and was averaging 117.10 and connected people to bushed Phil Taylor's tourney lucifer mean grounds of 114.99
Littler admitted afterwards that distracted him and his level did driblet somewhat arsenic helium finished with an mean conscionable beneath 111.
However, that leaves him good placed to bushed Taylor's tourney mean of 106.31, with Littler's presently astatine 110.88.
The teenager's triumph besides means helium has present amassed much than £3m successful the PDC's bid of merit, and is much than £2m wide of satellite fig 2 Luke Humphries.
Littler volition look Wales' Gerwyn Price successful Sunday's last aft helium bushed Netherlands' Gian van Veen 17-10.
Sunday's last gets nether mode astatine 20:05 BST, with the Women's World Matchplay taking spot successful the day league from 13:00 – Beau Greaves and defending champion Lisa Ashton the apical 2 seeds.
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