Luke Humphries held off a shocking fightback from Jonny Clayton to win the revamped Winmau World Masters in a deciding-leg shootout and declare his seventh main PDC title.
Humphries opened up a 5-2 result in transfer one set from victory in Milton Keynes, just for Clayton to rally to 5-5 after which break the world No 1 within the subsequent leg to earn the possibility to throw for the trophy.
Nevertheless, Humphries – who had missed a match dart on the bullseye within the tenth set earlier than Clayton nailed D19 to make sure there can be an eleventh – broke again instantly to set-up an exciting finale.
Cool Hand then hit tops for the title and the £100,000 high prize after Clayton fluffed a end of 120 and didn’t even give himself a take a look at a match dart.
The Ferret’s comfort is the £50,000 runner-up charge, which strikes him up a spot to sixth within the PDC Order of Advantage, above Dave Chisnall.
Clayton had overwhelmed reigning world champion Luke Littler 4-2 within the quarter-finals earlier than seeing off an out-of-sorts Dimitri Van den Bergh 5-2 within the semi-finals at Enviornment MK.
Humphries fought again from 2-0 all the way down to defeat Danny Noppert 5-2 within the semi-finals – a sport by which he missed his first eight makes an attempt at a double – after breezing previous Damon Heta 4-1 within the final eight.
Premier League subsequent for Humphries after ‘lucky win’
Humphries will now flip his consideration to the opening night time of Premier League Darts in Belfast on Thursday – stay on Sky Sports activities from 7pm – after his nerve-jangling victory over Clayton.
He informed ITV after his Masters triumph: “I’m a lucky… I was fortunate there. I started to feel the nerves.
“After I was 5-2 up and lacking doubles, I used to be making an attempt too exhausting. As quickly because it went 5-5, I assumed the sport perhaps had gone for me.
Clayton’s epic fightback got here in useless in Milton Keynes
“Jonny was scoring so well. It was a really tough game. I played well in patches but Jonny was dominant at times.
“To win trophies like these is wonderful and to share a stage with Jonny is a privilege. I’m over the moon.
“I am three major titles away from the great James Wade’s 10 and to be close to someone like that, I can’t believe it.”
Clayton added: “Luke was running away with it but I dug in. He gave a me a few chances I missed and a few I took and I didn’t give up.
“I wished to present Luke a fantastic sport and I gave him a very good one. It wasn’t my day. It was Luke’s and he’s a category act. He’s a implausible particular person and implausible participant.”
Sunday’s Winmau World Masters results
Final
- Luke Humphries 6-5 Jonny Clayton
Semi-finals
- Luke Humphries 5-2 Danny Noppert
- Jonny Clayton 5-2 Dimitri Van den Bergh
Quarter-finals
- Luke Humphries 4-1 Damon Heta
- Danny Noppert 4-3 Stephen Bunting
- Luke Littler 2-4 Jonny Clayton
- Dimitri Van den Bergh 4-1 Nathan Aspinall
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