Luke Littler and Luke Humphries both made winning starts to the Grand Slam of Darts, as Michael van Gerwen defeated Beau Greaves in a final-leg thriller in Wolverhampton.

All 32 players featured on the opening day of the round-robin group stage at WV Active Aldersley in Wolverhampton, held across two sessions, where Greaves threatened a huge upset in a high-scoring match against the three-time Grand Slam champion.

Greaves capitalised on some wayward finishing by Van Gerwen to hold in the opening leg, with the next three going with throw, only for the Dutchman to pull ahead in the contest by following a 11-dart break by winning the next to move 4-2 up.

The contest was dragged into a decider after Greaves produced a 13-dart hold and fired successive 180s on her way to a 12-dart break in t

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