Luke Littler says he’ll retire at 27 “if he’s had enough” of life as a darts famous person.
The teenaged wunderkind, who shot to fame by reaching the ultimate of the World Darts Championship earlier this 12 months, has propelled the game into a brand new stratosphere of mainstream recognition.
Such is his prodigious expertise that followers and pundits are satisfied he has the potential to blitz each darts document going, together with Phil Taylor’s mammoth 16 world titles tally, however he might solely have a decade left to take action if his newest feedback are something to go by.
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Speaking to The Times, Littler, 17, stated he may name it a day in “10 or 15 years” as a result of he is already been enjoying darts week-in and week-out since 2017.
“I’ve been playing a long time in the juniors, in the old British Darts Federation,” he stated. “I might just do 10 or 15 years and retire, if I’ve had enough.”
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For those that bear in mind being 17, turning 27 looks like a lifetime away, so Littler’s phrases must be taken with a pinch of salt. That stated, given the teen’s worldwide enchantment, and the truth that darts is on the crest of a serious monetary wave, the notion of him hanging it up in 10 years’ time is not all that loopy.
Littler has been in respectable kind since his defeat to Luke Humphries on the Ally Pally showpiece final month. He received the Bahrain Masters two weeks later and is at the moment third within the Premier League standings behind runaway chief Michael van Gerwen and Michael Smith.
He’s but to win an evening, however has reached a last and two semi-finals to date. On Thursday (Feb 22) throughout Night 4 in Newcastle, he beat Peter Wright earlier than getting eradicated by MVG for the second time on this 12 months’s competitors.