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23:29 GMT - Catch up on all the action from night one with our round-up of every match right here.
Join us again tomorrow for the first full day's play, featuring big names like James Wade and Gerwyn Price taking to the oche. Night!
22:49 GMT - World number one Luke Humphries wasn't at his best, but he can enjoy his Christmas now.
The reigning world champion steamrolls through Tricole without dropping a leg to win 3-0.
He could be facing Barney in the next round... but it won't be until after Christmas Day.
22:01 GMT - Keane Barry - just 22 years of age - overcomes a big scoring Kim Huybrechts.
Ten 180s en route to the win, not too shabby. He'll face Gerwyn Price in the next round.
It's Humphries versus Tricole up next!
21:06 GMT - Wattima whitewashes Bellmont 3-0 to comfortably make his way into the next round.
The Dutchman averaged a solid 98.54 en route to the win.
20:26 GMT - Jermaine Wattimena faces Stefan Bellmont next on the oche with Wattimena looking to reach the third round for the first time in 11 attempts.
20:21 GMT - Thibault Tricole has beaten Joe Comito in the opening match of the world championship and will face Luke Humphries later tonight for a place in the third round.
Tricole fell 1-0 down before winning three legs on the bounce to overcome the Australian 3-1 in an error-strewn match.
The Frenchman, ranked 79 in the world, hit an average of 80.61 and narrowly avoided a huge scare against Comito, who was on the verge of staging an unlikely comeback.
19:00 GMT - We're 10 minutes away from the first match of the 2025 PDC World Championship, with France's Thibault Tricole taking on Joe Comito of Australia. The winner will face last year's champion Luke Humphries in the final match of the night.
You can follow all the action between Tricole and Comito by clicking here.
At 21:10 Jermaine Wattimena faces Stefan Bellmont, and an hour later Kim Huybrechts goes head-to-head with Keane Barry.
Stay with us for all the key updates from the opening day!
16:45 GMT - A star-studded field of 96 players from around the world has descended on the UK's capital ahead of Sunday's opening night, all competing for a slice of a huge prize pot worth £2.5 million.
Will it be Luke Humphries, Luke Littler or someone else?
We've picked our five favourites to take home the trophy in January.
13:53 GMT - Ahead of appearing in tonight's curtain raiser, Flashscore's French editors spoke to Thibault Tricole about the rigours of preparing for darts' great showpiece as an unseeded player.
13:15 GMT - Want to give it the biggun to your mates by pouring out your superior knowledge of the darts ahead of tonight's curtain raiser?
No worries! Here's everything you need to know about the latest edition of the PDC Darts World Championship.
13:10 GMT - The show opens at 19:00 GMT tonight, with the first match between Thibault Tricole and Joe Comito scheduled for 19:10 GMT.
Then there's Jermaine Wattimena taking on Stefan Bellmont followed by Kim Huybrechts against Keane Barry.
After that, reigning world champion Luke Humphries will take to the oche to face the winner of the night's opening match, as is tradition at the World Championship.
13:00 GMT - Hello and welcome to Flashscore's Darts Tracker!
We hope you're as excited as we are for the next few weeks of action from London. OI OI OI.