Luke Littler, the 17-year-old darts sensation, has advanced to the semi-finals of the Paddy Power PDC World Championship after defeating Nathan Aspinall. He's on track for a potential £500,000 prize and a place in the pantheon of sports' greatest teenagers.
Luke Littler is into the semi-finals of the Paddy Power PDC World Championship after a 5-2 win over Nathan Aspinall booked a showdown with No.8 seed Stephen Bunting on Thursday night. If Luke Littler’s rivals were envious of his earning power before, another £100,000 pocket money for a 17-year-old won’t cure their jealousy. Luke the Nuke began 2025 just as he spent the whole of 2024 - raking it in and making a sniper’s precision look ridiculously easy.
Littler is already guaranteed a minimum £100,000 prize money from this tournament, to add to the £1 million he banked in his debut season on the Professional Darts Corporation hamster wheel. And the champion’s £500,000 jackpot his still his for the taking. But it’s not money which motivates the finest marksman since William Tell’s arrow took an apple off his son’s head. In the next 36 hours, he could join the pantheon of sport’s greatest teenagers, from Pele winning the World Cup to Boris Becker conquering Wimbledon or Lester Pigott riding his first Derby winner. Littler, who averaged 101.54 on the night, took his stockpile of maximums to 51 for the tournament, making him front-runner for the title sponsor’s Ballon d’Art for the most 180s. And of the 19 legs he won, 10 occupied him 12 darts or fewer. In other words, he’s bang in form. Any pretence that Littler’s magic carpet ride to the final 12 months ago was a flash in the pan went out of the window in his next game - against Aspinall in Bahrain. The boy wonder hit a nine-darter with his first set of arrows, the young rascal, and three more perfect legs followed in 2024. Ultimately, if he was miffed not to break Gerwyn Price and Michael van Gerwen’s record of four nine-darters in a calendar year, he hid his disappointment wel
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