As the youngest ever, 17-year-old Luke Littler has won the World Cup of Darts with a final victory over Michael van Gerwen.
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Luke Littler has taken the world by storm, and now the 17-year-old Englishman can add darts’ finest title to his CV.
That much is clear after Littler defeated three-time world champion Michael van Gerwen on Friday night and won the World Cup final 7-3 in sets.
Before the WC, Littler had won ten tournaments in his first year as a professional and earned over nine million kroner in prize money.
With the triumph at Alexandra Palace in London, two thick lines were once again underlined that the young lad is an extraordinary phenomenon.
Dutch Van Gerwen did not get a foot on the ground and could not find any answers against Littler, who took the first four sets of the match quite superbly.
Van Gerwen found a bit more footing and reduced to both 1-4 and 2-5, but then the Dutchman was paralyzed again.
Littler thus left nothing to chance as he took a 6-2 lead and just needed to win a single set to be able to call himself world champion.
Van Gerwen put pressure on Littler in the seventh set and reduced again, but in the eighth set Littler did not look back.
The 17-year-old Englishman thus took a clean set and is thus the youngest winner of the World Cup ever.
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Source: politiken.dk
