Gian van Veen won his first PDC ranking title at Players Championship Six in Leicester on Wednesday, defeating Luke Humphries 8-3 in the final.

Having lost to Joe Cullen in Tuesday's Players Championship Five final - in which he missed six match darts - Van Veen bounced back to go one better at the Mattioli Arena.

Van Veen defeated world number one Humphries in his fifth ProTour final, having previously come runner-up in four Players Championship events and a European Tour event.

"After what happened yesterday, this feels amazing," said reigning World Youth Champion Van Veen.

"I've had two incredible days here; I felt a bit hard done by yesterday and I was heartbroken after I lost the final, so to rectify that today is unbelievable.

"I've been playing well so far this year and my goal was to win a title; I knew I was the highest-ranked player without a ranking title.

"I've achieved that now and this win will give me massive confidence going into a busy next few weeks."

Van Veen's run to the title began with comfortable wins over Steve Lennon and Krzysztof Ratajski before coming through a last-leg decider with Connor Scutt to reach the last 16.

There, he defeated fellow-Dutchman Jermaine Wattimena and backed it up with further convincing wins over James Wade and Madars Razma to reach the final.

The final saw Van Veen race into a 3-0 lead, and the Dutchman kept his composure to deny Humphries a route back into the contest.

Elsewhere, World Champion Luke Littler lost a last-leg decider to Dom Taylor in round two, while Michael van Gerwen fell at the same stage to Ryan Meikle.

Wednesday's action saw two nine-dart finishes hit in the first round by Humphries and Alan Soutar in their matches against Andy Boulton and Littler respectively.