Luke Littler lifted the Sid Waddell Trophy for the first time on Friday evening in a moment we will surely look back on in the years and decades to come.
After a meteoric rise during the 2024 World Darts Championship, Littler delivered under the pressure over the last month to become the youngest world champion in the sport's history at 17 years, 11 months and 13 days old. He dismantled a man who nearly everyone would have in their top three darts players of all time - and who was the previous youngest world champion at 24 years old - in Michael van Gerwen on the biggest stage and underlined the impact he's had on darts.
'When he has had these little first-round defeats like in the World Matchplay and people have thought 'Is he the real deal?' It is his family who are there to pick him up,' said Webster. Littler has been brought up very well and remains humble, so much so that he refuses to state he's the best darts player in the world. He's earned £1.3m on the PDC Tour over the last 12 months, with £500,000 for becoming world champion this year.
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