At the ongoing World Darts Championship in London, only 16-year-old Luke Littler (PDC 164th) defeated former world champion Rob Cross (PDC 8th) in the first semi-final.
The real sensation of this tournament lost the opening set, but won the next three. At the start of the fifth Cross fell behind with a break, but got out of a difficult situation and reduced the deficit to two or three. However, he was unable to match the young athlete’s score and Littler won the next three sets.
Littler, who turns 17 in a few weeks, was slightly superior to his opponent in every element: he scored 180 points 16 times and was also better than his opponent in the 140+ and 100+ scores, and he also took slightly more shots head-on (46.8% vs. 41.7%) and was also above the three-arrow average (106.05 vs. 102.77 points).
Littler, who was crowned world junior champion last year, qualified for the tournament via the lower division PDC Development Tour, but has since eliminated six opponents from the competition. Besides Cross, he also destroyed the back of former world champions Raymond van Barneveld from Holland.
2024-01-02 21:43:00
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