Dirk van Duijvenbode

Luke Humphries walked into Budapest as the man everyone expected to still be standing on Sunday. He wasn't. This piece explains how a player fresh off a title win can still lose, and why the survivors from a…

Luke Littler's semi-final win looked routine on the scoreboard, but a separate figure attached to it changes how the rest of his year should be read. This article explains what that number means, what Littler…

Gerwyn Price says he has the game to end Luke Littler's World Matchplay title defence, but his results against the world No 1 this year raise an obvious question. This article weighs Price's confidence against…

Luke Littler produced one of the great World Matchplay nights in Blackpool, flirting with a second nine-darter after landing his first - yet the scoreboard tells a different story of how hard Nathan Aspinall…

Michael van Gerwen's victory at Players Championship 15 in Leicester was not merely a title win - it was a signal that one of the sport's most decorated competitors has found top gear again at precisely the…

Kevin Doets arrived in Hildesheim having twice fallen at the semi-final stage the previous week. This piece examines how the 27-year-old Dutchman finally converted that near-miss momentum into a first PDC…