"Visiting new places and playing in front of new crowds": Luke Littler embracing World Series challenge Down Under
PDCFriday, 09 August 2024 at 18:00
Luke Littler had a successful debut at the Australian Darts Masters on Friday. In his first ever match on Australian soil, "The Nuke" was a size too strong for Rob Modra, 6-2.
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For now, the 17-year-old Englishman is the most successful player at the 2024 World Series. Just days before his seventeenth birthday, he won January's Bahrain Darts Masters, while Littler also claimed the title at the Poland Darts Masters in June.
In between, he lost in the final of the Dutch Darts Masters to Michael van Gerwen, who is missing from Australia due to his recently undergoing dental surgery. We have seen Littler's opponent Rob Modra at the World Series in the distant past. He competed at the Auckland Darts Masters in 2015 and 2017.
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Modra could only keep up with his young opponent in the beginning of the match. After four legs the score was 2-2, but then Littler definitely distanced himself from his Australian opponent. He broke his opponent in the sixth leg with an 84 finish and then made it 5-2 with a 16-darter. Littler then sealed the match with a 14-darter in the eighth leg.
His average of 90.68 shows that there is room for improvement for Littler for the final day of this tournament. "I’m just glad to drag myself over the line tonight, and hopefully I can improve tomorrow," he told to PDC.tv. "Rob missed some crucial darts at double and it could have gone either way, but thankfully I took my chances.
For Littler, Australia is another place where he may show his skills for the first time, after the PDC had already invited him to the World Series tournaments in Bahrain, the Netherlands and the United States, among others, earlier this year. ''I’m really enjoying playing in the World Series, visiting new places and playing in front of new crowds!" Littler said.
The reigning Premier League champion will take on Michael Smith in the quarterfinals on Saturday. Smith won 6-2 over Stuart Coburn in his opening match of the Australian Darts Masters.
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- What a nice comment by Wade. Top bloke.BandB15-09-2026
- He wasn't "offered £501,000 to face Luke Littler". He was allowed to audition for the chance. That's not the same. Literally like saying I was offered a no.1 single, when actually I decided not to attend an open casting for the X factor.BandB13-09-2026
- I loved Jan and loved his walk on music "Explode" by Jordan & Baker. I think if he stuck around the BDO he definitely would have been World Champion, should have won in 2014, he never really showed any of his talent in the PDC. I remembered he worked in a bank or in finance and maybe that was his priority, he was also a fan and interested in magic. Definitely should have achieved much more in darts than he did. Wherever you are nowadays Jan, hope all is well and I was always a fan.richieburnettrocks11-09-2026
- Not much of a tournament really,is it? Now they've all pulled out,it's open for everyone. I'm sure if you bought tickets,you'd be disappointed. Doesn't that seem to bother the withdrawals? Not at all!!rick6710-09-2026
- Need to see her take part in the womens tour. She'll break the inernet.medinabello08-09-2026
- If he can be bothered? He won't play darts in Germany yet he'll go over and get an award!??rick6702-09-2026
- Why is this the main story? He chose not to compete in loads of tournaments,yes he's number 1 in the world,but he does have to turn up at tournaments! Play the next world championship in Dortmund and see if he turns up!!rick6727-08-2026
- This is exactly what I mean,littler survives the 1st round,I think you'll find a lot of other players did. Can you just report on the real sport,and not just 1 person. I like Luke,but this is getting boring now,as Kevin painter once said to Taylor!! The sport is about every player,not 1 who everyone seems to have put the sport on the map.,which he hasn't,he's just got in when the money is massive. Great as he is,it seems like what's the point in anyone trying,he's going to win everything,unless it's in Germany or Australia!!!rick6726-08-2026
- I mean look, Littler's picture is first,wattimena is second and he won! Level it up. I know littler is fantastic,but the sport was here before him,and will be when he's retired. Any player in the top 64/128 can beat each other,it's not big news. Poor Jermaine,wins it,and not even the headline!!rick6726-08-2026
- I appreciate that littler is a fantastic player,but the top 3 articles are about him. Before he'd thrown a dart in the tournament. Level it out a bit, Taylor and van gerwen soon got disliked as the media could only see them,and nobody else seemed to matterrick6725-08-2026
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