Luke Humphries saw off a spirited fightback from Michael Smith as he booked his place in the semi-finals of the Grand Slam of Darts with a 16-8 victory. <\/b><\/p>\n
World number one Humphries raced into a 4-0 lead in the best of 31-leg match but Smith battled back to level it at 7-7 all.<\/p>\n
However, Humphries won nine of the next 10 legs as the 30-year-old ruthlessly closed out the contest against his fellow Englishman.<\/p>\n
Humphries, the 2023 Grand Slam champion, averaged an impressive 104.98 with a checkout percentage of 44.4% <\/p>\n
He will face Gerwyn Price in the last four after the Welshman chalked up a 16-9 win over England’s Ricky Evans.<\/p>\n
The remaining two quarter-finals at the WV Active Aldersley centre in Wolverhampton take place on Saturday.<\/p>\n
World champion Luke Littler faces Northern Ireland’s Josh Rock while Germany’s Lukas Wenig takes on Dutchman Danny Noppert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luke Humphries saw off a spirited fightback from Michael Smith as he booked his place in the semi-finals…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-571056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115551216883258867","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}