{"id":28058,"date":"2025-03-31T18:48:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T18:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/players-championship-9-gerwyn-price-wins-second-title-of-2025-against-ian-white-as-luke-littler-suffers-early-exit\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T18:48:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T18:48:04","slug":"players-championship-9-gerwyn-price-wins-second-title-of-2025-against-ian-white-as-luke-littler-suffers-early-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/players-championship-9-gerwyn-price-wins-second-title-of-2025-against-ian-white-as-luke-littler-suffers-early-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Players Championship 9: Gerwyn Price wins second title of 2025 against Ian White as Luke Littler suffers early exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Gerwyn Price won the ninth Players Championship of 2025 with an 8-4 victory over Ian White in the final, as Luke Littler went out in the third round.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Price produced a superb 140 checkout in the fourth leg &#8211; the highest of the match &#8211; to take a 3-1 lead and kept his composure in the remainder of the contest at the Leicester Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Welshman Price averaged 94.67 to White&#8217;s 96.99 and had fewer 180s &#8211; three to six &#8211; but his checkout success of 34.8% versus 28.6% proved crucial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was Price&#8217;s second Players Championship tournament win of the season following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/darts\/articles\/cn57d45vgd1o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">last month&#8217;s success in Wigan.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I didn&#8217;t feel too good at the beginning of today &#8211; was a little bit up and down in games &#8211; but that will give a me boost for the Premier League next week,&#8221; Price told the PDC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was a little bit inconsistent but I battled on. In the past I probably throw those games away. There were some ragged points but I&#8217;m glad to get a win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">White, ranked 52nd in the PDC order of merit, had reached his first professional tour final in five years having knocked out world champion Littler in the last 32.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 54-year-old, nicknamed &#8216;Diamond&#8217;, had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/darts\/articles\/cx2y4wrv5veo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">given Littler a scare<\/a> in the fourth round of the World Championships earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Before that match White revealed he used to beat 18-year-old Littler&#8217;s grandfather on the pub darts circuit in Runcorn in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In his second meeting with the Warrington teenager, White triumphed 6-5 after a thrilling deciding leg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Littler failed to land a 102 checkout to give White a chance and he nailed 46, finishing with double top, to progress at the expense of his fellow Englishman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">White went on to score wins over Josh Rock and Cameron Menzies in the quarters and semis before he came unstuck against Price.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are 34 Players Championship events across the year and the second part of the Leicester double-header will take place on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The competition&#8217;s finals are held in Minehead from 21 to 23 November.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/darts\/articles\/c8eplw0yxgdo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerwyn Price won the ninth Players Championship of 2025 with an 8-4 victory over Ian White in the final, as Luke Littler went out in the third round. Price produced a superb 140 checkout in the fourth leg &#8211; the highest of the match &#8211; to take a 3-1 lead and kept his composure in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28060,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28058\/revisions\/28060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}