Saturday's Champions League of Darts as it happened

Summary

Michael van Gerwen beats Adrian Lewis 10-4
Phil Taylor beats Raymond van Barneveld 10-6
Mensur Suljovic through to semi-finals after 10-8 win over Peter Wright
Gary Anderson wins 10-7 against Dave Chisnall
Group games best of 19 legs

Live Reporting

Jay Freeman and Gary Smee

get involved
Get Involvedpublished at 13:22 British Summer Time 16 September 2017
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Ladies and gentlemen, you can get involved in today's Champions League of Darts as well! Good news, I know.
Send us your thoughts as the matches unfold, or any thoughts on darts in general to #bbcdarts on Twitter.
Nicholson answers your questionspublished at 13:19 British Summer Time 16 September 2017
Ahead of the tournament we asked you guys to send in any question you had about darts.
The majority needed a bit of inside knowledge - so we asked PDC star and BBC pundit Paul Nicholson to sift through them.
You can see what he had to say here.
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The afternoon line-uppublished at 13:17 British Summer Time 16 September 2017
Play starts at 13:30 BST
- Peter Wright v Dave Chisnall (Group A)
- Gary Anderson v Mensur Suljovic (Group A)
- Phil Taylor v Adrian Lewis (Group B)
- Michael van Gerwen v Raymond van Barneveld (Group B)
BBC coveragepublished at 13:14 British Summer Time 16 September 2017
Jason Mohammad will present live coverage of each session on BBC One and Two.
Things are just about to get under way on BBC One now.
Paul Nicholson, Mark Webster and Alan Warriner-Little will be providing in-depth analysis of each match.
There will also be live text coverage, social media, analysis and in-play clips on the BBC Sport website and app on every game.
How it works...published at 13:11 British Summer Time 16 September 2017
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- The Champions League of Darts features the top-eight players in the world
- Two groups of four - matches played on Saturday & Sunday afternoon
- Semi-finals & final on Sunday evening
- Phil Taylor won the inaugural title last year after beating Michael van Gerwen in the final
- Mensur Suljovic, Dave Chisnall and Raymond van Barneveld are the new faces in 2017
- Robert Thornton, Michael Smith and James Wade drop out from the 2016 line-up
Taylor back to defend titlepublished at 13:08 British Summer Time 16 September 2017
Plenty of people had written Phil Taylor off heading into the first-ever Champions League of Darts tournament last September.
But how wrong they were. The 16-time champion of the world was in dominant form throughout the weekend and thumped Michael van Gerwen in both the final and the group stage.
Here are some of the highlights from his victory in 2016...
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Champions League of Darts: Dominant Phil Taylor wins Champions League - highlights
Postpublished at 13:05 British Summer Time 16 September 2017
Mix it all together with four more arrow-slinging superstars, muppets and marios - and what have you got?
The perfect cocktail of darting drama of course!
The Champions League of Darts is back folks...
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And a squeeze of power scoring...
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A dash of colour...
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A teaspoon of the best on the planet...
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Take a pinch of the greatest ever...
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