DARTS legend John Lowe is celebrating the 30th anniversary of his historic nine-dart finish.

THE penultimate PDC ProTour weekend of 2014 will see two Players Championship events held at the K2 Centre in Crawley on October 18 & 19.

A FURTHER four players have been invited to compete in the 2014 SINGHA Beer Grand Slam of Darts, with winners of European Tour events qualifying to compete in Wolverhampton next month.

ADRIAN LEWIS will begin the defence of his European Championship title against Jelle Klaasen when the £250,000 tournament is held in Muelheim from October 24-26 - schedule of play now online.

MICHAEL VAN GERWEN won the partypoker.com World Grand Prix for a second time with a superb 5-3 win over James Wade on Sunday night.

JAMES WADE won through to his third partypoker.com World Grand Prix final with a stunning comeback from 3-1 down in sets to defeat Gary Anderson 4-3, and will take on Michael van Gerwen in Sunday's final in Dublin after the Dutchman's straight sets triumph over Stephen Bunting.

JAMES WADE caused a sensation at the partypoker.com World Grand Prix by knocking out reigning champion Phil Taylor in the quarter-finals, as Michael van Gerwen progressed to the last four alongside Gary Anderson and Stephen Bunting.

RAYMOND VAN BARNEVELD has issued an apology following his defeat to Mervyn King at the partypoker.com World Grand Prix on Thursday night.

MICHAEL VAN GERWEN will take on Mervyn King in the quarter-finals of the partypoker.com World Grand Prix in a repeat of the 2012 final on Friday night, as Stephen Bunting and Richie Burnett joined them in the last eight in Dublin.

PICTURES from the partypoker.com World Grand Prix second round - including nine-darters for James Wade and Robert Thornton!