2024 Bahrain Darts Masters

The 2024 Bahrain Darts Masters was a professional darts tournament that was held at the Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir, Bahrain from 18–19 January 2024. It was the second staging of the tournament by the Professional Darts Corporation and was the first event in the 2024 World Series of Darts. The tournament featured 16 players (8 PDC representatives and 8 Asian representatives).

Michael Smith was the defending champion, having defeated Gerwyn Price 8–6 in the 2023 final. However, he lost 7–6 to Michael van Gerwen in the semi-finals.

On 19 January, two days before his 17th birthday, Luke Littler became the youngest player to hit a televised nine-dart finish, achieving the feat in the first leg of his 6–3 quarter-final win over Nathan Aspinall. The previous record of 17 years and 298 days had been set by van Gerwen at the 2007 Masters of Darts. Littler also became the second player, after Phil Taylor, to hit a nine-darter in the World Series.

Littler went on to win the tournament, and capture his first PDC senior title, by beating Gerwyn Price 7–3 in the semi-finals and Michael van Gerwen 8–5 in the final. He became the third player, after van Gerwen and Nathan Aspinall, to win a World Series title on his debut.

Prize money

The total prize fund is at £60,000.

Qualifiers

The PDC announced the 16-man line-up on 8 January 2024.

  1.  Luke Humphries (quarter-finals)
  2.  Michael van Gerwen (runner-up)
  3.  Michael Smith (semi-finals)
  4.  Nathan Aspinall (quarter-finals)
  5.  Gerwyn Price (semi-finals)
  6.  Peter Wright (quarter-finals)
  7.  Rob Cross (quarter-finals)
  8.  Luke Littler (champion)

The Asian representatives consisted of six invited players, alongside two Bahrain qualifiers that were decided in a qualifier. Christian Perez couldn't enter due to visa issues.

Draw

The draw was announced on 17 January 2024.

First round
(best of 11 legs)
18 January
Quarter-finals
(best of 11 legs)
19 January
Semi-finals
(best of 13 legs)
19 January
Final
(best of 15 legs)
19 January
            
1 Luke Humphries 98.026
 Abdulla Saeed 68.830
1 Luke Humphries 95.394
  Gerwyn Price 90.486
  Gerwyn Price 92.136
 Reynaldo Rivera 94.864
  Gerwyn Price 92.883
  Luke Littler 95.867
4 Nathan Aspinall 97.206
 Lourence Ilagan 84.355
4 Nathan Aspinall 100.483
 Luke Littler 104.506
  Luke Littler 97.926
 Man Lok Leung 90.563
  Luke Littler 95.158
2 Michael van Gerwen 87.805
2 Michael van Gerwen 106.096
 Hasan Haji 60.180
2 Michael van Gerwen 105.976
  Rob Cross 99.534
  Rob Cross 94.666
 Tomoya Goto 94.693
2 Michael van Gerwen 100.027
3 Michael Smith 91.586
3 Michael Smith 98.286
 Paolo Nebrida 88.055
3 Michael Smith 95.526
  Peter Wright 93.651
  Peter Wright 91.696
 Haruki Muramatsu 87.115

References

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