Luke Littler
Luke Littler (born 21 January 2007) is an English professional darts player from Warrington who plays in Professional Darts Corporation events. He is the current PDC World Youth Champion, the current Bahrain Masters Champion, and the current Belgian Darts Open champion.
Littler is the youngest player to have won a match in the WDF World Darts Championship, and PDC World Darts Championship. He is the youngest player to reach the PDC World Darts Championship final, aged 16 years,[1] and both the youngest ever player to hit a televised nine-dart finish and the youngest to hit 2 televised nine darters. The first one he achieved, at the 2024 Bahrain Darts Masters aged 16, and the second, he achieved at the 2024 Belgian Darts Open aged 17. As well as this, Littler is the youngest ever player to hit a broadcast nine-darter. He achieved this at the age of 14 in 2021.
He earned more than £350,000 in prize money in the first three months of 2024. He has more than 1.2million followers on Instagram and 178,000 on X.[2]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Luke Littler tipped for the top by NI darts hero Brendan Dolan after World Championship defeat". BelfastTelegraph.co.uk. 2024-01-07. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2024-03-25.
- ↑ "Luke Littler: How darts' new star handles huge demand on and off the oche". BBC Sport. 2024-03-25. Retrieved 2024-03-25.