Darts World champion Luke Littler has misplaced in Bahrain after being comprehensively crushed by Welsh star Gerwyn Value
Luke Littler misplaced to Gerwyn Value (Picture: OfficialPDC)
Luke Littler has crashed out of the Bahrain Darts Masters 2026 after falling to defeat towards Gerwyn Value 6-2. The Nuke made a swap from his new Goal darts again to his previous faithfuls, however to no avail, as he was unable to show issues round.
The loss marked Littler’s first defeat since profitable his second PDC World Darts Championship earlier this month. That noticed a three-month unbeaten run in televised competitors dropped at an abrupt finish.
The Iceman rattled off 5 legs on the bounce to make sure Littler couldn’t catch him and took a dominant victory. Littler just lately secured a record-breaking £20million cope with his dart provider, Goal, after renewing his phrases. It’s set to be essentially the most worthwhile within the historical past of the game.
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The teenage celebrity had new darts on show in his first spherical win over paul Lim. A 6-1 victory adopted as Littler beat the 71-year-old with a brand new set, adorned with a nuke image engraving, in hand.
Littler was much less convincing with the arrows in his second outing on Friday afternoon. A sluggish begin and an early break of throw, noticed the teen swap out his darts after heading again to his desk to say his extra conventional setup.
Defeat means Littler waves farewell to a £30,000 prize that was on provide on the Bahrain Darts Masters, out of an total £100,000 prize pot.
Littler had been on a profitable streak along with his World Championship win (Picture: Getty)
Littler had taken the primary leg towards Value, after the Welshman missed out on a break after being unable to take out double one. Value was relentless from there and rattled off the subsequent 5 legs, taking out 112 and 115 on his manner.
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Littler then held his personal throw to drag one again, however couldn’t stop his opponent claiming victory on his personal throw. Value is joined by Michael van Gerwen in a single semi-final after he dispatched Stephen Bunting 6-4 to place out final yr’s champion, who missed 16 doubles.
Nathan Aspinal takes on Luke Humphries and World Darts Championship runner-up Gian van Veen takes on Danny Noppert within the remaining quarters.
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