{"id":12988,"date":"2026-01-16T18:35:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T18:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=12988"},"modified":"2026-01-16T18:35:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T18:35:40","slug":"bahrain-masters-luke-littler-knocked-out-by-gerwyn-price-luke-humphries-beaten-by-nathan-aspinall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=12988","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain Masters: Luke Littler knocked out by Gerwyn Price &#038; Luke Humphries beaten by Nathan Aspinall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">World champion Luke Littler was knocked out of the Bahrain Masters quarter-finals by Gerwyn Price for the second year in a row.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Littler was in eye-catching form on Thursday when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/darts\/articles\/c9dv06qwqp1o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">thrashed veteran Paul Lim<\/a> on his first trip to the oche since retaining his world title earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the 19-year-old Englishman missed darts at key moments in the last eight on Friday, finishing with an average of 94.04 to Price&#8217;s 97.43 in a 6-2 loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Price, 40, broke the world number one for a second time with a bullseye finish to establish a 4-1 advantage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales&#8217; Price narrowly missed a third 100-plus checkout to wrap up victory in the eighth leg before hitting double 10 to progress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former world champion Luke Humphries also exited the exhibition tournament at the quarter-final stage as he was beaten 6-3 by Nathan Aspinall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Price will play Michael van Gerwen in the semi-finals while Aspinall faces World Championship runner-up Gian van Veen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Bahrain #Masters #Luke #Littler #knocked #Gerwyn #Price #Luke #Humphries #beaten #Nathan #Aspinall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World champion Luke Littler wa&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}