Luke Littler’s hopes of including to his Gamers Championship success suffered a blow at Leicester’s Mattioli Area on Monday with a quarter-final exit to Callan Rydz.
World Youth champion Littler, who gained Gamers Championship 1 on debut final week, headed into the occasion having misplaced to Gerwyn Value within the quarter-finals of Premier League evening three in Glasgow on Thursday.
The Warrington ace took on Rydz, who produced an astonishing comeback from 5-0 all the way down to defeat Daryl Gurney 6-5, surviving 4 match darts within the course of to arrange a last-eight assembly with the 17-year-old.
‘The Riot’ continued the place he left off by surging right into a 3-1 lead with Littler showing visibly pissed off.
An unconventional 113 within the seventh leg stored Littler within the contest however an 11-darter from Rydz put him on the cusp of victory.
Littler survived a match dart earlier than touchdown a haymaker of a 158 end to make Rydz serve it out, however his opponent duly obliged thanks to a different beautiful 11-darter to finish a 6-4 win, firing in 5 180s and averaging over 103.
Littler recovered from 5-3 down in his opening match to disclaim Keane Barry, after the Irishman spurned 5 match darts in a dramatic final leg.
He was removed from his greatest in opposition to Cameron Menzies as nicely, with ‘The Nuke’ profitable 6-3 regardless of lacking 13 darts at doubles.
Littler went 2-0 up then 3-2 down, earlier than he reeled off 4 legs on the spin to shut out the win in opposition to Scotland’s Menzies.
He eased into the final 16 after upping his common to 95.25 in a 6-2 success in opposition to Dutchman Kevin Doets to arrange a mouth-watering encounter in opposition to Dirk van Duijvenbode, who noticed off Chris Dobey 6-1 to progress.
Nevertheless, it was Littler who gained by way of 6-4 because of a surprising 145 checkout in opposition to ‘Aubergenius’, averaging 101.34 within the course of earlier than bowing out to an impressed Rydz.
The place does the Premier League head subsequent?
Premier League Darts now heads to the Newcastle’s Utilita Area subsequent Thursday evening.
Value stars on Evening 4 as he takes on Michael van Gerwen in a repeat of final 12 months’s last, whereas Littler faces Peter Wright, Michael Smith goes up in opposition to Nathan Aspinall and Rob Cross battles world champion and No 1 Luke Humphries.
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