First round (pictured in 2024) achieved the highest
three-dart average in World Grand Prix history, averaging 106.47 despite losing 2–0 to
Luke Littler. The first round was played on 6 and 7 October. World number one and
2023 World Grand Prix champion
Luke Humphries began his campaign with a victory against
Nathan Aspinall by 2–0 in sets. Aspinall achieved a
170 checkout in the second leg of the match but went on to lose the first set 3–2. Humphries opened the next set with a 156 finish before claiming the next two legs to win the match. Humphries commented afterwards that his starting
doubles helped him, as his scoring was "a bit strange" and his darts "just didn't want to drop in".
Krzysztof Ratajski set up a meeting with Humphries in the second round by defeating 16th seed
Martin Schindler 2–0, only dropping one leg during the match. Debutant
Wessel Nijman also missed a match dart to progress to the next round as he lost a
deciding leg to
Rob Cross. Despite only winning two legs, Van Veen broke the record for the highest
three-dart average in tournament history by averaging 106.47 in defeat, besting
Alan Warriner-Little's 106.45 average at the
2001 event. On the match, Littler said that Van Veen "played his part in a brilliant game" and that getting his first win at the event "feels amazing". World number three and six-time champion
Michael van Gerwen exited in the first round for the second year in a row, losing 2–0 to
Dirk van Duijvenbode. Defending champion
Mike De Decker came back from one set down to beat 15th seed
Peter Wright 2–1, while
2017 champion
Daryl Gurney defeated 14th seed
Ross Smith 2–0. Luke Humphries advanced to the quarter-finals by defeating Krzysztof Ratajski 3–1. Despite the scoreline, Humphries revealed that he went off stage at the interval unhappy with how he was playing and started throwing slower, which helped him improve. He explained: "On the practice board I am hitting everything and then I am going out there and not so I needed to change something." Cameron Menzies took the first set in his match against ninth seed Rob Cross in a deciding leg and whitewashed Cross in the second. Menzies missed a total of eight match darts before winning the match 3–1 with his ninth. Progressing to his second major quarter-final, having previously reached the last eight of the
2024 Grand Slam of Darts, Menzies lamented that his missed match darts "weren’t really badly thrown. They were all on the wire". Luke Littler ended Mike De Decker's reign as World Grand Prix champion as he defeated the defending champion 3–0, winning the match with a 170 checkout. De Decker missed 41 doubles in 11 legs, resulting in Littler calling the match "a bit boring at times" as he "expected something from the reigning champion". Gerwyn Price, who won eight consecutive legs and completed a 10-dart leg, beat Josh Rock 3–0 to set up a quarter-final tie with Littler. Price opted to start on double 13 during the match, explaining that he hit it "all the time" in practice and thought it, or double 6, was easier than going for double 20. Gerwyn Price took a 2–0 lead against Luke Littler to go one set away from eliminating the pre-tournament favourite. At 2–1, Littler landed a 154 checkout with Price on the brink of victory, with Price also missing three match darts to win the match, allowing Littler to level at 2–2 and send the match into a deciding set. Price left a two-dart combination to win, but Littler converted a 152 checkout to triumph and complete his comeback. Littler described the contest as "very, very strange", adding: "I just thought 'It’s now or never' after going 2–0 down. I had to switch on." Price responded to the defeat on
Instagram, stating that Littler played "great in patches" while also bringing attention to crowd behaviour: "This is why we need to play majors in neutral venues/countries." Humphries appeared in his third consecutive World Grand Prix semi-final, while Noppert and Clayton reached the last four for the first time since the 2021 edition. Littler competed in his first semi-final. Clayton's run meant that he had reached the semi-finals of every televised ranking event up to that point, after also reaching the final four of the
World Masters, the
UK Open and the
World Matchplay. Noppert earned his first set in a deciding leg and responded to Humphries going 4–1 ahead by winning the next two, pulling the score back to 4–3 and sparking a potential comeback, having won three of the last four sets. However, Humphries opened the eighth set with a 135 checkout to
break throw, followed by a 110 finish to hold, before eventually winning the match 5–3 by pinning double 12. Humphries contested his third consecutive World Grand Prix final, after winning the 2023 tournament, his first PDC major title, and losing the
2024 final to Mike De Decker. Littler entered the match having won 14 of the pair's 24 previous meetings.
(pictured with the trophy) won the event for the first time in his second appearance. Littler opened the final by winning the first leg with a hold of throw, but struggled to double in during the second, beginning his scoring with his 13th dart. The pair exchanged breaks of throw in the third and fourth but Littler took the opening set in a deciding leg. In the second set, Humphries went 2–0 down but found his way back with legs of 13 and 11 darts, only for Littler to score 177 to leave a 64 checkout, which he would take out to establish a two-set lead. Humphries avoided a complete whitewash in sets as he converted a 154 checkout to make it 4–1. Littler won the World Grand Prix for the first time, marking his fourth major title won in 2025—after the
2025 World Championship, UK Open and World Matchplay—and his seventh PDC major title overall, while Humphries finished as runner-up for the second straight year. Littler, who revealed that he would be taking part in the
PDC World Youth Championship the following day, expressed that he was "very happy to tick [the World Grand Prix] off" his list of achievements, leaving only the
European Championship,
Players Championship Finals and
World Masters for him to win to complete the set of major singles titles in the PDC. Commenting on the race for world number one, Littler noted that £70,000 was "not a lot of prize money" to make up and that Humphries will know he would be "behind his back now". "Double 16 was my friend for the last three years and tonight it wasn’t," Humphries stated disappointingly, striving to practice harder to match his opponent's levels in the future. ==Schedule==