Luke Littler hits sensational nine-darter in first competition since World Championship heroics
BIC/PDCDarts sensation Luke Littler has fired in a stunning nine-dart finish in his first competition since taking the PDC world championships by storm.
The 16-year-old fired in the perfect leg during the first leg of his quarter-final clash with Nathan Aspinall at the Bahrain Darts Masters as he announced himself on to the World Series of Darts in some style.
‘The Nuke’ crashed in back-to-back 180s before taking out the 141 checkout to achieve the perfect leg of darts in front of a jubilant crowd at the Bahrain International Circuit.
Littler went on to win the match 6-3, averaging an incredible 104.5, and will face Gerwyn Price in tonight’s semi-final.
Littler hype shows no sign of slowing down
Littler’s meteoric rise in the world of darts has been incredible, going from a new tour card holder to a World Championship finalist and being chosen for this year’s Premier League darts, a weekly league for darts’ elite eight players, in the space of a month.
The reigning PDC World Youth Champion and two-time Junior Darts Circuit World Champion’s pedigree in the youth game was frightening but the question remained whether he could translate that to the senior circuit.
But he has taken to the step up like a duck to water and he will rightly enter the Premier League as one of the favourites to win the competition.