Damon Heta claimed his first PDC title of 2025 with victory at Players Championship 13 in Rosmalen on Monday.
Heta defeated in-form Nathan Aspinall 8-6 in the final to take his PDC career title tally to 11, almost eight months on from his last silverware.
The Australian number one - who had not gone beyond the quarter-finals of a PDC event in 2025 - moves up one place to seventh on the PDC Order of Merit.
"I didn't know when my next win was coming, so I'm really stoked to win today," said Heta.
"For some reason in darts you sometimes get wins when you're not playing great and don't get what you deserve when you are playing well.
"I've been working on a few things to do with my darts set-up, I'm looking for those one per cents to take my game to the next level.
"I'm a hard worker, I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully turn up at the big events and get my rewards."
Heta began the day with wins over Adam Hunt, Berry van Peer and Andy Baetens to reach the last 16, where he overcame Jermaine Wattimena to seal a fourth quarter-final berth of the year.
The 37-year-old defeated Karel Sedlacek and Andrew Gilding in the quarter-finals and semi-finals respectively, before getting the better of Aspinall in the final.
Aspinall, winner of Premier League Night Ten in Manchester last Thursday, beat Jonny Clayton, Dirk van Duijvenbode and Jonny Clayton on his way to a first Players Championship event final since August 2022.
Players Championship 13 also saw Wessel Nijman hit a nine-dart finish in his 6-0 first round win over Rob Owen, while Michael van Gerwen and Gerwyn Price suffered first and second round defeats respectively.
2025 Players Championship 14 results
Last 16
- Martin Lukeman 6-3 Leon Weber
- Nathan Aspinall 6-4 Dirk van Duijvenbode
- Martin Schindler 6-4 Mike De Decker
- Jonny Clayton 6-5 Mario Vandenbogaerde
- Karel Sedlacek 6-5 Josh Rock
- Damon Heta 6-4 Jermaine Wattimena
- Wessel Nijman 6-5 Ricardo Pietreczko
- Andrew Gilding 6-5 Gian van Veen
Quarter-Finals
- Nathan Aspinall 6-2 Martin Lukeman
- Jonny Clayton 6-5 Martin Schindler
- Damon Heta 6-2 Karel Sedlacek
- Andrew Gilding 6-4 Wessel Nijman
Semi-Finals
- Nathan Aspinall 7-4 Jonny Clayton
- Damon Heta 7-2 Andrew Gilding
Final
- Damon Heta 8-6 Nathan Aspinall
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