Teenage darts sensation Luke Littler has choked back tears after producing “one of the greatest sets of darts” to advance to the third round of the World Darts Championship at the Alexandra Palace in London. Watch World Darts Championship LIVE on Kayo. New to Kayo? Get your first month for just $1.
Limited time offer. The 17-year-old, who has taken the darts world by storm since his electric run to the final of the previous World Darts Championship, needed only 11 darts, ten darts and 11 darts again to win the three legs required to take a third set, and the second round match again fellow Englishman Ryan Meikle. Littler was agonisingly close to what would have been a record-breaking fifth nine-darter of the year with that ten dart leg.
He needed double 12 to complete a perfect leg but missed by the barest of margins, and held his fingers together to the crowd to show the tiny amount his dart stayed out by. Nevertheless, his numbers in the match-clinching set were mind-blowing, as he recorded a three-dart average of 140.91, the highest in World Championship history.
“It is one of the greatest sets of darts we have potentially ever seen at the World Championships,” Sky Sports commentator Wayne Mardle said on the broadcast. “One of the most astonishing sets of darts you will ever see. 141 set average from Luke ‘The Nuke’ Littler.
Even when he is subdued, even when he isn’t at his best, it doesn’t last long because you cannot contain this lad’s talent, and ab.