Emotional Luke Humphries overcame “bad news” to fight his way through at the Australian Darts Masters. ‌

The World No.1 was forced to dig deep to defeat Jonny Tata and set-up a last-eight clash against World Series debutant Mike De Decker. ‌

After hitting the winning shot, Humphries made a gesture of appearing to kiss his hand before pointing a finger to the sky. ‌

Humphries didn’t not want to expand on the private moment straight after the match as he said: “Yeah, I can’t talk about it right now. You’ll find out. It’s just bad news today.”

Cool Hand did have little hesitation in admitting he’s let his form slip in recent times due to lack of sufficient practice and added: “I’ve been on holiday and stuff, a lot of other things have been on my mind.

"When I lost [at Matchpl

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