Jonny Clayton delighted the Rotterdam crowd as he beat Luke Littler 6-4 to extend his lead at the top of the Premier League table.

The Welshman kept his cool during an early blitz from Littler in the final and came through to claim back-to-back nightly wins and his fourth of the year.

Littler was booed throughout the night following his exchange with Dutch number one Gian van Veen in Manchester two weeks ago but shrugged it off to reach the final.

But having beaten Gerwyn Price in the quarter-finals and held off a fight back from world number two Luke Humphries to win a thrilling semi-final 6-5, Clayton proved a challenge too far.

Clayton is now five points clear of second-placed Littler but the world champion has an 11-point buffer to fifth and both men are all-but assured of a place at the O2 Arena for finals night on 28 May.

“I don’t watch many games back but I watched last week’s game against Michael [van Gerwen] back and it hurt a little bit when someone said I was favourite to finish bottom – that really hurt and annoyed me,” Clayton told Sky Sports.

“That really hurt. I’ve been here three times before and I’ve done finals night so hopefully I can prove them wrong.

“Definitely [it has given him some fuel]. They might be looking at some other people. They’ve got the wrong person.”