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On Wednesday evening, for the first time in the history of the PDC, a player named Luke will lift the Sid Waddell Trophy, the World Cup trophy. The only question is which one.
While Luke Humphries was fully expected to be a finalist for the tournament, Luke Littler is the big sensation at Ally Pally. The 16-year-old plays at a consistently high level, puts players and experts into a trance and mercilessly blows every player away. His latest victim: Rob Cross, 2018 world champion.
The 33-year-old played a strong match against the teenager and finished with a very good average of 102.77 points. And yet he falls short: the score is ultimately 2:6. For his part, Littler has an average of 106.05, the fourth highest grade point average ever by a semi-final winner. The 14-time world champion Phil Taylor (63) also lags behind with his best score of 106 points.
A stroke of fate for Littler’s girlfriend
We are slowly but surely running out of superlatives to describe the young man from Warrington. But ‘The Nuke’ (the atomic bomb) remains very modest. The reason for this is also his environment, which keeps the 16-year-old grounded. Like his girlfriend Eloise Milburn, for example.
The 21-year-old is a passionate amateur darts player and football fanatic, but unlike Man Utd fan Littler, she supports London club Crystal Palace. The story behind how they found each other is fitting: according to “DailyMail,” the two met through the computer game FIFA. A friend told the newspaper: “They are the perfect couple because Luke is interested in the same things. She is very proud of his achievements.”
No matter how well the World Cup went for the beauty consultant and her boyfriend, the weeks leading up to it were not easy. Milburn was diagnosed with a tumor in her leg, which she had to have surgically removed. The procedure went well, “healing was difficult, but things are moving forward,” she wrote on Tiktok.
Is his namesake holding him back?
Now her friend is just one win away from the big coup, the biggest entry in the history books of darts. Only his namesake Luke Humphries, who will become the new number one in the world by participating in the final, can stop him.
The 28-year-old gave Scott Williams, who eliminated top favorite Michael van Gerwen in the quarter-finals, a 6-0 victory. Littler should also be warned. Humphries is looking forward to the final: “It will be a spectacle.”
Source : Blick
I’m Emma Jack, a news website author at 24 News Reporters. I have been in the industry for over five years and it has been an incredible journey so far. I specialize in sports reporting and am highly knowledgeable about the latest trends and developments in this field.
