Luke Humphries scampers out in front thanks to some decent scoring in the opening leg - as he can afford to miss two shots at tops before returning to nail it and win in 16 darts.

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They're good friends these two, but they'll be doing everything to be the World Masters champion in the reboot of this famous old event.

Game on!

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So the World Masters is set play, just as we're used to at the World Championship, but the sets are shorter as they're just the best of three legs - rather than the traditional best of five.

It means there's still scope for big comebacks, unlike straight leg play where one player can run away with it, but there's not much room for error with just two out of three legs needed to win every set.

The format will hopefully produce another belter in the final, although not everyone is a fan, Luke Littler may not be so keen on it right now after going out earlier today.

Are you a fan of it though? Let your voting thumbs do the talking...

So here we go. As our players make their way to the stage for the third time today we're about to find out who our World Masters champion is.

World number one Luke Humphries is the favourite, although Wales number one Jonny Clayton holds the edge in the stats.

Neither played their best in the semis, with Clayton in particular way below par - something better is needed if he wants to win his first major since 2021.

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Jack Johnson claimed victory in the Triple 20 Junior Darts Corporation Super 16 final against fellow young talent Jayden Walker on Sunday in Milton Keynes.

Kent's Johnson, 13, produced some superb darts to take victory in a high-quality final against Walker - and joins an elite roll of honour for the JDC showpiece, with world champion Luke Littler and Keane Barry amongst the former winners.

Johnson and Walker, a 12-year-old from Dorset, had come through the annual event's early rounds in Coventry in November to secure their spot in the final.

Taking to the Arena MK stage ahead of the Winmau World Masters quarter-finals, Walker took out 113 to win the opening leg.

Johnson finished off 104 and 151 in a run of four straight legs, and though Walker landed a 14-darter as he took the next two to cut the gap to 4-3, double 12 sealed victory.

The pair were watched by Littler, Jonny Clayton and Damon Heta ahead of the trio's quarter-finals in the World Masters, as well as by an enthusiastic Milton Keynes crowd.

Littler was the 2022 and 2023 champion, having lost to Barry in 2020 - while Joe Westby won last year's final by defeating Cayden Smith.

So it's world number one Luke Humphries against Jonny Clayton, ranked seven, in the final.

England v Wales.

That should kick off in 15 minutes or so.

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Six maximums and an average of just 90.51 for Jonny Clayton in what in truth was a scrappy encounter with Dimitri van den Bergh.

The Belgian hit a nine-darter to beat Michael van Gerwen and was flawless against Nathan Aspinall this afternoon, but both men produced efforts well below their best.

Van den Bergh was just 26.1% on his doubles with Clayton only marginally better at 31.4% - and the Welshman will need to sharpen up if he wants to beat Luke Humphries in the final.

John Rawling
Darts commentator on ITV4

Van den Bergh just wasn't at the races and Clayton knows he will have to play very much better than that if he is going to beat Luke Humphries.

And there it is! Jonny Clayton takes out 44 to complete the victory over Dimitri van dan Bergh and he books his seventh major final where he'll face Luke Humphries.

John Rawling
Darts commentator on ITV4

It's looking most likely to be an England-Wales showdown in the final.

Jonny Clayton nails 60 this time in two darts to level the set and that means a final leg decider.

Dimitri van den Bergh throwing first to stay in the match - Clayton wins this and he's in the final.

The checkout percentages in this match make for sorry reading I'm afraid, as Jonny Clayton misses another three darts at double four, meaning he's now hit just nine of 32 attempts.

Dimitri van den Bergh is even worse with now six from 23 but he at least hits tops to get the first leg of the set on the board.

And it's Jonny Clayton who takes it! There's a sixth 180 and a 140 in there before Dimitri van den Bergh hits 180 to leave 70 and pile the pressure on Clayton's 64.

He hits treble 16-double eight though to win the leg in 14 darts and move 4-2 ahead in sets and just one away from the final.

Jonny Clayton hits his fifth 180 of the match and he's then faced with tops again to win the leg - but this time makes no mistake and nails it first time to level up the set.

Big leg coming up now for the set - Clayton has the darts.

Jonny Clayton misses another three darts at double, this time two at tops and one at double 10, which allows Dimitri van den Bergh to pinch it with a 52 outshot in 17 darts.

That one was against the throw too.

John Rawling
Darts commentator on ITV4

Where on earth did that come from!?

Wow, you've have got huge odds on Dimitri van den Bergh taking out that 158, but he does it in style with two treble 20s and double 18 hit with the minimum of fuss.

Where has that sort of quality been all game? Still, it's here now and it wins him the fifth set.

From a 21-dart leg in the last Jonny Layton takes this one in 14 after starting off 180-140 and that's a lot more like the kind of stuff we expected from this match.

We've got a decider for the fifth set.

Things start to look up as they both his 180s in back-to-back visits, but it's downhill from there as Dimitri van den Bergh misses three at double eight but Jonny Clayton follows him by missing his darts for the leg.

So it's quite fitting that Van den Bergh eventually wins it on double one...

Now that's a bit of quality we've been missing! Jonny Clayton takes out 94 with a double-double finish hitting the outer ring on 18s and tops to clinch the set.

Dimitri van den Bergh had just missed a double to take out 113 before being hit with that dagger from the Welshman.

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