{"id":20850,"date":"2024-01-20T01:24:35","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T22:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/20850\/luke-littler-beats-van-gerwen\/"},"modified":"2024-01-20T01:24:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T22:24:36","slug":"luke-littler-beats-van-gerwen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=20850","title":{"rendered":"Luke Littler beats Van Gerwen in final on World Series debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Littler beats Van Gerwen in final on World Series debut\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Luke Littler beat three-time world champion Michael van Gerwen 8-5 to win the Bahrain Masters in his World Series of Darts debut.<\/p>\n<p>Littler, 16, made global headlines during his run to the 2023-24 World Championship final in January, where he ultimately lost to Luke Humphries.<\/p>\n<p>But all eyes were on the England teenager again on Friday after he became the youngest player to throw nine darts in the World <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/series\/\"   title=\"Series\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">Series<\/a> in his quarter-final victory over Nathan Aspinall and his momentum grew. continued until the final.<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m happy to <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/win\/\"   title=\"win\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">win<\/a>, I played well yesterday and I played well again tonight,&#8221; Littler told ITV4.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one probably believes me but I haven\u2019t thrown a dart since the world final.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMichael is one of the best and I\u2019m happy to win on my debut.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been an incredible <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/week\/\"   title=\"week\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">week<\/a> and I\u2019m happy to come out on top.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data- media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data- media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Luke Littler&#39;s run to the World Championship final made global headlines. <cite>Photo by Tom Dulat\/Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Van Gerwen admitted he wasn&#39;t at his best in the final as he became the latest big name to fall to Littler.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will never be a good week if I don\u2019t win, but Luke put in a fantastic performance,\u201d Van Gerwen told ITV4.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone knows what he is capable of: let him grow, let him do what he wants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I couldn&#39;t produce what I produced in the previous matches and you get punished and that&#39;s how sport works. Of course I&#39;m disappointed but you win some, you lose some.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll get it, don\u2019t worry!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Littler and the World Series return to Europe on January 26-27 for the Dutch Masters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Littler beats Van Gerwen in final on World Series debut\u060c Luke Littler beat three-time world champion Michael van Gerwen 8-5 to win the Bahrain Masters in his World Series of Darts debut. Littler, 16, made global headlines during his run to the 2023-24 World Championship final in January, where he ultimately lost to Luke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20851,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1806,100,1372,9477,8487,1996,57,1423,39],"class_list":["post-20850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-beats","tag-debut","tag-final","tag-gerwen","tag-littler","tag-luke","tag-series","tag-van","tag-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20850","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=20850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20852,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20850\/revisions\/20852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}