Luke Littler sends Snapchat message to mates 10 minutes earlier than darts last
Luke Littler confirmed little indicators of pre-match nerves forward of the Paddy Power World Darts Championship last after sending his mates a message on Snapchat.
The 16-year-old darts whizz, who has taken the game by storm over the previous couple of weeks, fell agonisingly on the last hurdle after shedding 7-4 to Luke Humphries. Despite the defeat, he put in one more spectacular efficiency, which is little shock given his social media antics earlier than the conflict.
Just 10 minutes earlier than strolling out on stage, Littler responded to a bombardment of excellent luck messages by posting a snap of himself within the apply room at Ally Pally, together with the caption: “To many messages out there, see you in 10 mins”.
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Littler and Humphries traded blows and momentum within the early levels of the bout, with Cool Hand Luke taking the primary set earlier than The Nuke hit again with two set wins on the bounce.
Littler then discovered his groove, and threatened to energy previous Humphries simply as he’d achieved towards Rob Cross, Brendan Dolan and Raymond van Barneveld in earlier rounds. But an important miss on a double two checkout within the seventh set, which might have put him 5-2 up, ended up costing him dearly.
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Humphries got here roaring again, and Littler’s confidence appeared to drop somewhat. With his tail up, and the Ally Pally crowd, who have been firmly behind Littler, hushed, Humphries started to take management, and received 4 shut units in a row to safe his maiden world title.
Despite shedding, Littler was all smiles after the bout, triumphantly telling the group: “It’s been unbelievable, the one negative was letting Luke break me too often. Every game’s been good, that one really annoyed me but fair play to Luke he deserves it. I’m happy, top 32, runner-up on my debut, Unbelievable.”
Humphries was stuffed with reward for his opponent afterwards too, noting: “Luke has been improbable, not simply on the darts however with the media, I actually hope he is within the Premier League – it might be a pleasure to play alongside him!”
