The 10th World Series of Darts Finals will be staged in Amsterdam this weekend, the first major in a spectacular autumn of world-class darts hosted by the PDC.
Chris Dobey to win World Series (each-way) - 25/1
There are 32 players heading to Amsterdam for the 10th World Series of Darts Finals with the eight seeds headed by 11/4 Luke Humphries.
The seedings were determined by performances at the seven World Series events staged around the globe during 2024 and resulted in Littler, Luke Humphries and Michael van Gerwen finding themselves in the same half of the draw.
Littler won two of the seven World Series qualifiers - in Bahrain and Poland - with Van Gerwen and Humphries managing a win apiece, in the Netherlands and New Zealand respectively.
Packed into the top half of the draw, clearly one of them can make the final - yet there is a case for presuming none of them will with in-form Chris Dobey real value at 25/1 to upset the established order.
Dobey is unseeded but throwing some great tungsten. The man they call Hollywood is second in the Pro Tour averages having reached three Players Championship finals, winning two of them including the most recent last month.
A World Championship quarter-finalist at the turn of the year he is now starting to believe in himself and as a former major winner - he landed the 2023 Masters - he knows what's required to land big prizes.
He opens up against Dimitri Van den Bergh which is a tough opener but no harder than Littler having to deal with Ross Smith or Van Gerwen shackling Jonny Clayton.
The top half is absolutely packed with quality and Dobey has a genuine claim to merge from it as a finalist.
Michael Smith to win World Series (each-way) - 14/1
The bottom half of the World Series draw looks wide open with question marks over many of the players, among them number two seed Gerwyn Price whose appetite for the game appears to be on the wane.
Nathan Aspinall has withdrawn as he recovers from injury with Andrew Gilding taking his place and recent European Tour winners Peter Wright and Dave Chisnall meet in round one.
Rob Cross' form is mixed and so too is Michael Smith's, though Bully Boy looks a decent price.
A favourable draw - he opens up against Jose de Sousa - should ensure he makes the quarter-finals and Smith just has to click nicely and he is almost unstoppable.
Dave Chisnall to win 3rd Quarter - 4/1
Dave Chisnall against Wright is one of the ties of round one and means a recent European Tour winner is heading home early.
Chizzy, who still believes he has a TV major in him after years of trying, is in winning form having triumphed in two ET events - the European Open and Flanders Trophy - in the past three months.
He is also a Pro Tour winner this year and in a quarter where Price and Wright are the seeds, take the Englishman to land the honours at 4/1.
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