Luke Litter celebrated his fourth European Tour title, and third Belgian victory, in Antwerp on Sunday, defeating Josh Rock 8-7 to triumph in the Blåkläder Flanders Darts Trophy.
Littler – a winner already in Belgium this year on the European Tour – continued his remarkable run of form at the Antwerp Xpo to clinch his fifth ranking title of 2025
The Englishman produced a string of dominant displays in Antwerp to add another title to his illustrious haul.
Rock got off to an almost perfect start in the final, as the World Cup champion led the World Champion 4-1 in Sunday’s showpiece, but Littler would go on to win five out of the next six legs which took him to the brink of an emphatic victory.
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Rock landed another brilliant bull finish to stop the rot, converting a 161 skin-saver in leg fourteen to preserve his slender hopes, only for Littler to wrap up proceedings via an 11-dart-leg moments later.
Luke commented after the game:
“Ever since I started playing darts, I have always loved a last-leg decider. I back myself with or without the darts, but I knew I had to go out in eleven there.”
Littler has only played eleven European Tour events since breaking onto the scene at the start of 2024, but the 18-year-old has already won four of these, three of them coming in Belgium.
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“The European tour stage, I love it. I love coming here [Belgium] and I’ve said for the past year now that we need a Premier League event here.
“They love me here, I love them, they wanted Josh to win for a bit in that game, but for myself I had to crawl back from 4-1 down, then I knew they'd get back on my side.
“This is it now. From now it’s back-to-back with tournaments, September and October are some of the craziest months of the calendar, I know how to deal with that and know what’s coming up.”
The Winamax European Tour will continue next weekend after enjoying a short hiatus since July, as we head back to Prague for the Czech Darts Open (ET11) which takes place from September 5-7.
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Sunday August 31
Afternoon Session (1300 local time, 1200 BST)
Third Round
Luke Woodhouse 6-5 Mensur Suljovic
Josh Rock 6-5 Stephen Bunting
James Wade 6-2 Leon Weber
Gian van Veen 6-3 Martin Schindler
Daryl Gurney 6-5 Krzysztof Ratajski
Danny Noppert 6-4 Mario Vandenbogaerde
Damon Heta 6-4 Ryan Joyce
Luke Littler 6-3 Ryan Searle
Evening Session (1900 local time, 1800 BST)
Quarter-Finals
Josh Rock 6-4 Luke Woodhouse
James Wade 6-4 Gian van Veen
Daryl Gurney 6-0 Danny Noppert
Luke Littler 6-5 Damon Heta
Semi-Finals
Josh Rock 7-5 James Wade
Luke Littler 7-1 Daryl Gurney
Final
Luke Littler 8-7 Josh Rock
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