Darts: World champion and famous person Luke Littler loses to a lady on the Youth World Championships | EUROtoday

Darts world champion Luke Littler missed his subsequent world title – and the way. The 18-year-old, who had simply received his first title on the World Grand Prix lower than 24 hours earlier in Leicester towards Luke Humphries (30), was surprisingly eradicated by his compatriot Beau Greaves within the semi-finals of the Youth World Championships in Wigan.

The youngest world champion within the historical past of darts misplaced to the 21-year-old Englishwoman 5:6. Greaves achieved one thing historic as a result of she is the primary girl to achieve the ultimate of a youth world championship (November twenty third) and can meet the Dutch defending champion Gian van Veen (23).

“I had two 10-darters, missed double 12 for a 9-darter and still couldn’t win,” Littler wrote on Instagram. He wished her good luck within the closing. It had solely just lately been introduced that Greaves can be solely the second girl in PDC historical past to obtain a tour card.

Littler’s participation within the Youth World Cup brought about criticism and incomprehension. Now he crashed out of the match.

Littler on the best way to primary

Littler solely received the World Grand Prix for the primary time on Sunday with a present of pressure. He gave the world primary and former world champion Humphries no probability at 6:1. Afterwards he confirmed his participation within the Youth World Championships – he simply needed to have a little bit of enjoyable and meet everybody.

He has now received the World Grand Prix, World Championship, World Matchplay, Premier League, UK Open, Grand Slam and World Series Finals. Of a very powerful particular person main tournaments, the one ones lacking are the World Masters, the European Darts Championships and the Players Championship Finals. Littler has solely been enjoying on the skilled tour since final yr. He has additionally moved nearer to world primary Humphries.