Wayne Mardle
Former World Championship semi-finalist on Sky Sports

If Humphries is allowed to get into control early, De Decker could be in trouble. If he can play like he did against Wade and Anderson, he can trouble Luke Humphries.

I'm not going to say beating Luke Humphries, because I can't see anyone beating Humphries, ever.

That statistic has aged very badly.

With his second throw of the second set, Humphries finds 180 and after 12 darts, leaves himself with 32 to take the leg.

'Cool Hand' gets six darts at a finish, but only needs three, piercing the gap between his two markers to find double eight.

How often can we say that Luke Humphries has gone an entire set of darts, which he won, without scoring a single 180.

De Decker managed one, but Humphries' 93.79 average is fractionally higher than De Decker's 92.68.

Fair to say Luke Humphries was in confident mood beforehand, telling Sky Sports: "I think when I play like I have, no one stops me.

"It's not an arrogant statement, it's an honest statement."

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De Decker gets the chance to take the set on 100, but misses out on double 10, a narrow escape for Humphries.

The defending champion fights back to break throw and take the set, finishing off 55 on double 20.

Humphries may have the set and the early advantage, but De Decker's fightback will have marked the world number one's card.

Wayne Mardle
Former World Championship semi-finalist on Sky Sports

Only Phil Taylor and Michael van Gerwen have gone back to back in the World Grand Prix.

Humphries is in the backet of being a champion week in, week out.

Luke Humphries started this opening set looking at his imperious best, but that hold of throw from Mike de Decker has turned this set around.

The Belgian gets six darts at a finish, but only needs four of them to level the set, finishing on double eight.

A roar from the crowd, who have plenty of support for challenger Mike de Decker.

He takes out 57 to much love from those watching on in Leicester.

That will settle some nerves.

Another tough start for De Decker, who needs five darts at double 16 to get into the second leg.

Humphries did not get into the leg straight away, but a 92 checkout, ending with two double 18s, doubles his advantage in this first set.

De Decker misses three darts at double 16 in this double start format and he is made to pay for it straight away.

Humphries takes out the same double for an early break.

Mike de Decker, looking to cause one more upset in this World Grand Prix final, has the darts in hand.

A few chants against Luke Humphries as we prepare to get started, although that does not seem to faze him much

De Decker to throw first, game on!

Mark Webster
Former BDO world champion on Sky Sports

I'm giving him two sets tonight, I can't see Luke Humphries losing tonight.

Wayne Mardle
Former World Championship semi-finalist on Sky Sports

If he replicates his Wade and Anderson performances, he can take three sets. I'm going 6-3.

Next up is defending World Grand Prix champion and world number one, Luke Humphries.

He was making this exact walk 12 months ago ahead of facing Gerwyn Price for what became his first major title.

Tonight, he goes in search of major number six, one of the best 12 months ever seen in the world of darts.

The two finalists are now making their way to the oche.

Mike de Decker, the story of this World Grand Prix, walks out first to his entrance song of "Three Little Birds" by Bob Marley.

Safe to say this Leicester crowd are loving it.

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Luke Humphries and Mike de Decker meet professionally for the fourth time in tonight's final.

Humphries, significantly fancied tonight on paper before a dart is thrown, has two wins over De Decker in their three meetings prior tonight.

However, De Decker's sole win came in the most recent meeting between the two in the Players' Championship in May 2023.

The two have never met in a sets format, with their longest meeting being a best of 11 legs clash.

Tonight, it is the best of 11 sets, a much longer format.

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In the 32-player tournament, the top eight ranked players were seeded. On paper, that was set to make them have more favourable paths in the competition.

But only three seeds made the quarter-finals after a series of shocks.

Former world champions Michael Smith and Michael van Gerwen were both dumped out in the first round, while Gerwyn Price, Nathan Aspinall and Dave Chisnall were second round losers.

Luke Humphries was the only seeded player to make it out of the quarter-finals, beating eighth-ranked Jonny Clayton. Fourth seed Rob Cross was knocked out at the last eight stage by Ryan Joyce.

Joyce, Mike de Decker and Dimitri Van den Bergh were the three unseeded players to join Humphries in the semi-finals.

Luke Humphries is the defending World Grand Prix champion after beating Gerwyn Price 5-2 in the 2023 final.

That was Humphries' first title in a PDC premier event. Victory tonight would see Humphries claim his sixth PDC major title.

In the 12 months since that win over Price in Leicester, Humphries has won the Grand Slam of Darts, Players Championship, World Championship and the World Matchplay.

Humphries has also been in the final of the UK Open and Premier League in that time.

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Wayne Mardle
Former World Championship semi-finalist on Sky Sports

I had the pleasure of talking to Ryan Joyce. He said 'I played really well' and he did. He didn't look shell-shocked, even though he lost 5-0. That shows you everything about Luke Humphries.

He's in the realms of Phil Taylor and Michael van Gerwen, he's the best we've seen since them. He's an unbelievable player.

Mark Webster
Former BDO world champion on Sky Sports

Mike de Decker needs to believe, he's the only one who needs to believe. He's in a big final but he needs to know getting to the final isn't it.