{"id":110477,"date":"2025-10-29T14:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/110477\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T14:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:44:09","slug":"luke-littler-misses-players-championship-33-because-of-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/110477\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Littler misses Players Championship 33 because of traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World champion Luke Littler was denied entry to Wednesday&#8217;s Players Championship 33 event in Wigan after he arrived late because of traffic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 18-year-old was set to play in the penultimate Players Championship event of 2025 at Robin Park Leisure Centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But he had to withdraw after missing the 11am registration deadline for players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He posted on Instagram: &#8220;Back to bed it is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Littler was replaced by fellow Englishman Charlie Manby, who is ranked 174th in the PDC&#8217;s order of merit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Littler can play in event 34, the final event of the year at the same venue on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World champion Luke Littler was denied entry to Wednesday&#8217;s Players Championship 33 event in Wigan after he arrived&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-110477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}