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Luke Littler celebrates with the Sid Waddell trophy after victory against Gian van Veen after the final of the World Darts Championship at the Alexandra Palace: John Walton\/PA Wire.<\/p>\n
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Luke Littler celebrates victory against Gian van Veen after the final of the World Darts Championship at the Alexandra Palace, London<\/p>\n
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Gian van Veen in action against Luke Littler in the final of the World Darts Championship at the Alexandra Palace: John Walton\/PA Wire.<\/p>\n
Luke Littler overcame the Ally Pally wasp to thrash Gian van Veen and cement his position as one of the greats of the sport after winning back-to-back World Championship titles.<\/p>\n
The 18-year-old joins Phil Taylor, Adrian Lewis and Gary Anderson in winning successive crowns and he is the new king of Alexandra Palace.<\/p>\n
Littler burst onto the scene with an epic debut run to the final two years ago and has not lost on that stage since after a masterful 7-1 win over Van Veen, which earned him a record \u00a31million prize cheque.<\/p>\n
With an average of almost 106, 15 maximums and a \u2018Big Fish\u2019 170 checkout, this was one of the great final performances.<\/p>\n
He has become the first man to retain his Ally Pally title since Gary Anderson a decade ago and reflected on his win with impressive maturity.<\/p>\n
“I started playing better from the second set,\u201d said Littler. \u201cThe first set, I wasn’t happy going into the break but I had to kick on from there.<\/p>\n
“I said to myself, ‘give it time, you will find it’. I started off from the left of the oche and moved over to the right. It all came to plan.<\/p>\n
“Gian, what a tournament, he can be very happy. Every set he was there and behind me. I had to take my chances.”<\/p>\n
The 18-year-old won \u00a31million for his second world title win, with that windfall hard for him to comprehend.<\/p>\n
“It is life-changing. Even for this tournament, the first round was doubled.<\/p>\n
“This win has increased that gap from Luke Humphries and I’m in the clear for No 1.”<\/p>\n
Here is how he did it in our live blog.<\/p>\n
Luke Littler 7-1 Gian van Veen<\/p>\n
That’s all for tonight folks. Luke Littler is your back-to-back World Champion\u00a0Legendary! Goodnight!<\/p>\n
Watch as Luke Littler lifts the Sid Waddell Trophy<\/p>\n
Watch as Littler wins the World title\u00a0<\/p>\n
Luke Littler 7-1 Gian van Veen – LUKE LITTLER IS THE WORLD CHAMPION\u00a0It’s a magical finish. 147. T20 T19 D15 and he is the World Darts Champion.*(6) Luke Littler 2-1 Gian van Veen (1)Littler holds throw and moves to within one of the World title.*(6) Luke Littler 1-1 Gian van Veen (1)van Veen levels and let’s out a sarcastic smile.(6) Luke Littler 1-0 Gian van Veen (1)*Littler holds his throw and moves another step closer to glory.Luke Littler 6-1 Gian van Veen – LITTLER PUNISHES VAN VEEN TO MOVE A SET AWAY FROM GLORYLittler pins double tops to win the seventh set, and he is now one set away from back to back World titles.(5) Luke Littler 1-0 Gian van Veen (1)*Littler nails double 10 to break the van Veen throw.<\/p>\n
Luke Littler 5-1 Gian van Veen – LITTLER WINS SET SIX TO MOVE CLOSER TO VICTORY<\/p>\n
*(4) Luke Littler 1-0 Gian van Veen (1)
Littler pins double 10 to hold throw in the sixth set.<\/p>\n
Watch as the Ally Pally wasp strikes!<\/p>\n
Luke Littler 4-1 Gian van Veen – :Littler romps the fifth set to take full control
Double 10 for Littler as he goes 4-1 ahead in this final. He is clinical!<\/p>\n
(3) Luke Littler 2-1 Gian van Veen (1)*Littler breaks the van Veen throw on tops to take control and throw for the set.*(3) Luke Littler 1-1 Gian van Veen (1)That is clinical from Littler despite the attempts of the Ally Pally wasp.(3) Luke Littler 0-1 Gian van Veen (1)*Brilliance from van Veen as he pins t-19-tops-tops to hold throw.This set is huge!van Veen has the darts.Luke Littler 3-1 Gian van Veen – LITTLER EXTENDS HIS LEAD\u00a0Brilliance from Littler as he goes 3 sets to 1 ahead, and he is currently in control.(2) Luke Littler 2-0 Gian van Veen (1)*Littler breaks the van Veen throw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luke Littler celebrates with the Sid Waddell trophy after victory against Gian van Veen after the final of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,898,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-226268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226268","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=226268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}