PDC World Darts Championship 2025 – Quarter 2 Tips and Betting Preview

We are continuing our look through the quarters at the PDC World Darts Championship ahead of the tournament getting underway on Sunday evening and having looked at the first quarter already, it is the time to take a look at the second quarter.

This is going to be a high profile section because it has Luke Littler in it but should he meet Fallon Sherrock in the second round it will be a quarter that breaks all numbers for attention. Plenty of others will be out to deny Littler.

Draw

(4) Luke Littler v Ryan Meikle/Fallon Sherrock
(29) Ritchie Edhouse v Ian White/Sandro Eric Sosing
(13) Danny Noppert v Ryan Joyce/Darius Labanauskas
(20) Ryan Searle v Mensur Suljovic/Matt Campbell

(5) Rob Cross v Scott Williams/Niko Springer
(28) Gian van Veen v Ricardo Pietreczko/Xiaochen Zong
(12) Nathan Aspinall v Cameron Menzies/Leonard Gates
(21) Andrew Gilding v Martin Lukeman/Nitin Kumar

Preview

Once again for ease of understanding purposes I have split the quarter up into a red and green section with the red section very much being all about the beaten finalist of last year in Luke Littler. He is the favourite to win this tournament not just this quarter and it is probably fair to say that the seeds in his section give him a favourable draw even allowing for the fact that the European champion Ritchie Edhouse is a potential third round opponent. Danny Noppert is dangerous on his day and Ryan Searle has the scoring power to be a threat. Of the qualifiers, Fallon Sherrock could cause a storm if she can set up a round two clash with Littler. Ryan Joyce, Ian White and Mensur Suljovic will be hoping for big runs.

The green section is headed up by Rob Cross who came through his quarter last year only to lose to Littler in the semi-final. Nathan Aspinall is expected to be his last 16 opponent but word is he has been suffering with flu in the lead up to the tournament and has had injury problems anyway. That could open the door for Gian van Veen to build on his decent showing at the Grand Slam. Andrew Gilding is the other seed in the green section. This is a part of the draw with some tasty qualifiers in it. The semi-finalist from last year is here in Scott Williams while Martin Lukeman made the final of the Grand Slam last month and Cameron Menzies is one of the better players in the latter part of 2024. Niko Springer is someone who is well thought of.

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Betting

We’re in the same boat in this section that we were in for the top quarter in that Luke Littler looks pretty unopposable. If I was to put up a case to oppose him in the quarter let alone the red section then it would be because the media hype around him is about to hit a frenzied level but that didn’t seem to trouble him last year so I wouldn’t really want to oppose him purely on that. Once again, I’ll look at the green section for a bet here.

We are back to that reaching the quarter final market here. Gian van Veen and Rob Cross are the favourites in this market but they are on course for a meeting in the third round and that could go either way. The other bit of the green section looks much more open with Nathan Aspinall favourite to come through to the last 16 but he has been full of flu supposedly in the lead up and is still getting back to his best after injury. Andrew Gilding is the other seed but it might be worth opposing both and taking the Grand Slam finalist Martin Lukeman here. Lukeman played really good stuff there and while he had no answer to Luke Littler in the final, we’d be paid out long before he runs into him. Only Ryan Joyce has a higher checkout percentage than Lukeman in this quarter in 2024 but he runs into Littler earlier in the competition. Lukeman has a 2024 average of 93.87 but that goes up to 95.40 since the beginning of October which shows how much he has improved. At 10/1 he’s a massive price to reach the last eight here.

Tips

Back M.Lukeman to reach quarter final for a 1/10 stake at 11.00 with Betfair