If being the youngest ever to compete in a world championship wasn’t sufficient, Luke Littler certain turned heads when he beat 2018 World Darts Championship winner, Rob Cross, with a stunner 6-2 on the 2024 PDC World Darts Championship semi-finals.
The win meant Littler to face Luke “Cool Hand Luke” Humphries, within the finals. Humphries beat 33-year-old Scott Williams, 6-0, within the semis. This will probably be, each Littler and Humphries’s first PDC World Dart Championship remaining.
Born on January 21, 2007, Littler was raised in Cheshire, England. He began taking part in darts professionally in 2017 and has participated in numerous championships, successful youth champion titles and gaining excessive averages in his matches. In 2019, he turned the Isle of Man Masters youth champion and proceeded to defend his win the next 12 months.
In 2021, he received his first-ever seniors title on the Irish Open which certified him to compete for the 2022 WDF World Darts Championship on the age of 14. He misplaced within the third spherical to Richard Veenstra.
Extra just lately in 2023, Littler received the PDC World Darts Youth Championship, successful the title towards 22-year-old Dutch participant, Gian van Veen, with a remaining rating of 6-4.
He debuted on the 2024 PDC World Darts Championship on December twentieth, beating former BDO World Dart Championship winner, Christian Kist, in spherical 1. Littler managed to common somewhat greater than 100 in all 4 matches he has performed thus far on this championship.
Kirk Shepard beforehand held the document of being the youngest to achieve the semi-finals within the 2008 championship, at 21 years outdated. This 12 months, Littler has an opportunity to interrupt former champion, Michael van Gerwen, a document of being the youngest winner at age 24, when he was topped his first championship win in 2014.
Luke Littler and Luke Humphries will face one another for the finals on January 3, 2024, 8 pm GMT.