{"id":17361,"date":"2023-12-31T14:10:03","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T11:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/17361\/teenager-luke-littler-beats-raymond\/"},"modified":"2023-12-31T14:10:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T11:10:04","slug":"teenager-luke-littler-beats-raymond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=17361","title":{"rendered":"Teenager Luke Littler beats Raymond Van Barneveld to reach World Darts Championship quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teenager Luke Littler beats Raymond Van Barneveld to reach World Darts Championship quarterfinals\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Luke Littler, 16, continued his dream run at the World Darts Championship with a 4-1 victory over five-time world champion Raymond Van Barneveld in the last 16 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Littler, born 21 days after Van Barneveld, 56, won his last world title in 2007, completed nine 180s to defeat the veteran Dutchman.<\/p>\n<p>The Englishman became the youngest player to reach the quarter-finals of the World Championship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unbelievable! My average showed it, my double percentage showed it \u2013 I don&#39;t know what to say!,&#8221; Littler told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He [Van Barneveld] said &#8220;you can go all the way, I hope you can go all the way&#8221;.  I said &#39;thank you&#39;, he&#39;s a real gentleman and I respect Raymond.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Littler will face Northern Irishman Brendan Dolan in the round of 16.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teenager Luke Littler beats Raymond Van Barneveld to reach World Darts Championship quarterfinals\u060c Luke Littler, 16, continued his dream run at the World Darts Championship with a 4-1 victory over five-time world champion Raymond Van Barneveld in the last 16 on Saturday. Littler, born 21 days after Van Barneveld, 56, won his last world title [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8489,1806,2157,8490,8487,1996,41,8488,867,7742,1423,39],"class_list":["post-17361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-barneveld","tag-beats","tag-championship","tag-darts","tag-littler","tag-luke","tag-quarterfinals","tag-raymond","tag-reach","tag-teenager","tag-van","tag-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17363,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17361\/revisions\/17363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}