The most recent nine-darter at the PDC World Championship was earlier on Friday by Australia's Damon Heta against Luke Woodhouse. He went on to lose, though. It was the second of this year's tournament after Christian Kist's (pictured above) on 17 December.

A darts star leaked his payslip from the PDC to show just how payment works when participating in the World Darts Championship. Pay packets for the tournament vary on performance, with the overall winner collecting a whopping £500,000 for going all the way - and second-placed scooping £200,000.

LUKE LITTLER STRUGGLED to hit top form but still did enough to ease into the last 16 of the World Darts Championship with a 4-1 win over Ian White at Alexandra Palace. The 17-year-old survived a series of errant doubles and had set darts against him in the first and fourth sets before finding his range when it mattered to sink his veteran opponent.