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Teenager Luke Littler continued his sensational maiden nonrecreational twelvemonth by winning the Grand Slam of Darts with a 16-3 thrashing of qualifier Martin Lukeman successful Wolverhampton.
The 17-year-old trailed 2-0 aft his propulsion was breached successful the archetypal limb but past won an unthinkable 15 legs connected the rotation to pb 15-2.
Lukeman broke the series and celebrated emphatically, with the assemblage cheering and singing for the satellite fig 45, who had to triumph 4 qualifying games conscionable to scope the tourney proper.
Littler past broke Lukeman's propulsion successful the 19th limb to triumph the Eric Bristow trophy and his archetypal large ranking title.
He was serenaded successful the warm-up - the assemblage singing 'walking successful a Littler wonderland' - and offered an apology aft cheers turned to boos erstwhile spectators realised helium had thrown 140 alternatively than 180 successful 1 visit.
The triumph sees Littler determination to 5th spot successful the PDC's Order of Merit, having been ranked 164 a twelvemonth ago.
Littler takes location £150,000 for winning the title, positive £3,500 for winning this group, taking his prize wealth to £558,500 for the Order of Merit.
He has picked up £355,000 for winning the Premier League of Darts and World Series finals but, arsenic those are invitational events, they bash not number towards the rankings.
2023
3 March: Made elder debut astatine 2023 UK Open, reaching the circular of 64, earning a PDC merit ranking
26 November: Won the PDC World Youth Darts Championship final
17 December: Retained JDC World Darts Championship
20 December: Wins connected elder World Championship debut, beating Dutchman Christian Kist, averaging 106.12
2024
3 January: Beats erstwhile champions Raymond van Barneveld and Rob Cross connected his mode to reaching the World Championship final, wherever helium lost 7-4 to Luke Humphries successful final
19 January: Hits archetypal televised nine-darter during World Series darts debut against Nathan Aspinall
19 January: Beats Michael van Gerwen to triumph Bahrain Darts Masters and gain his archetypal PDC elder title
12 February: Hits a nine-darter against Michele Turetta and beats Ryan Searle to win PDC Players Championship final connected debut
20 March: Wins Belgian Darts Open, beating Cross successful the final, hitting his 3rd nine-darter of the year
18 April: Won archetypal Premier League Darts nighttime successful Belfast, beating Aspinall 6-4 successful the final. Later went connected to triumph successful Manchester, Liverpool and Aberdeen
28 April: Wins the Austrian Darts Open, beating Joe Cullen successful final
16 May: Ended the 2024 Premier League regular play with a record-equalling 40 points to apical table
23 May: Wins the Premier League Darts title with an 11-7 triumph implicit Luke Humphries for his archetypal large PDC title
15 June: Wins Poland Darts Masters, beating Cross successful final
15 September: Wins the World Series of Darts title, with a 11-4 triumph implicit Michael Smith
October: Knocked retired of Grand Prix successful archetypal circular by Cross earlier an opening-round exit successful the European Championship
17 November: Wins Grand Slam of Darts astatine archetypal effort to determination into apical 5 successful world
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