Gerwyn Price won the Australian Darts Masters with an 8-1 win over Luke Littler to claim his second World Series title of the year, while also denying his teenage opponent a third title.
Price, from Wales, averaged just under 100 in Wollongong and took five legs in a row at the start of the final before Littler secured the first and only leg of the match.
Price's victory follows his success at the Nordic Masters in June, while Littler was frustrated in his bid to add the Australian trophy to the silverware he won in Bahrain in January and in Poland earlier this summer.
Both players went through to a shootout in the semi-finals, with Price beating Peter Wright 7-6 after his opponent wasted a dart to go up 4-0.
Littler put in a quality performance to beat Dimitri van den Berg by the same score, while Nook checked out on 146 to tie the game at 5-5.
Price, Littler, Wright and van den Berg will all compete in the New Zealand Darts Masters next week (August 16 and 17), along with Damon Hetta, Luke Humphries, Rob Cross and Michael Smith.
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Eight Oceania representatives will join the 16-man squad, including New Zealand's Haupai Puha, who pushed his cross all the way to the finish in the first round of the Australian Darts Masters, and Australia's Simon Whitlock, the 2010 PDC World Championship runner-up.
Day two of the Australian Darts Masters began with the quarter-finals, with Littler beating Smith 6-4, van den Bergh beating world number one and current world champion Humphries 6-2, Wright beating Cross 6-4 and Price beating home favourite Hetta 6-4.
Australian Darts Masters – Saturday Results
critical
Gerwin Price 8-1 Luke Littler
semifinal
Luke Littler 7-6 Dimitri van den Berg
Gerwin Price 7-6 Peter Wright
Quarterfinals
Luke Littler 6-4 Michael Smith
Dimitri van den Berg 6-2 Luke Humphries
Peter Wright 6-4 Rob Cross
Gerwin Price 6-4 Damon Hetta
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