Newly-crowned Grand Slam of Darts champion Luke Littler continued his red-hot kind with a surprising six-leg blitz of world No 4 Rob Cross within the first spherical of the Gamers Championship Finals in Minehead.
The 17-year-old was in imperious kind to dispatch of Cross 6-0, averaging 112 to start his marketing campaign.
Littler can be joined in spherical two by defending world champion Luke Humphries who cruised previous Gabriel Clemens with a 6-2 win.
Nonetheless many huge names is not going to function within the subsequent spherical after a raft of shocks on Friday noticed family names together with Michael van Gerwen, Gerwyn Value, Stephen Bunting and Chris Dobey knocked out.
Littler has proven little signal of slowing down after wining his tenth title of his debut 12 months on the PDC Tour, absolutely setting a marker to be thought-about one of many favourites for subsequent month’s World Championships.
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