The newly elected darts world champion Luke Littler said goodbye in the quarter-finals of the newly laid out World Masters.
The 18-year-old surprisingly lost to the Welsh Jonny Clayton with 2: 4. Littler actually tied the strong performance from the previous rounds with an average of almost 109 points, but was not constant enough on the double fields.
The world’s most world ranking Luke Humphries, who, like Clayton, is among the top four in Milton Keynes/England. At the first major tournament after the World Cup, the Englishman defeated his Australian opponent Damon Heta 4-1.
With six 180s, the highest checkout of 106 and an average of 104, the world champion convinced of 2024 and now meets Danny Noppert. The Dutchman had beaten last year’s winner Stephen Bunting.
500,000 pound prize money at the World Masters
Littler-Banger Clayton meets Dimitri van den Bergh in the preliminary round, who had succeeded in the first Neundarter of ongoing competition in the round of 16 against the three-time world champion Michael van Gerwen.
In 1974 the World Masters was played out for the first time and is the oldest still held darts tournament in the world. Since then, the now dissolved British Darts organization and then the World Association World Darts Federation organizers, but since this year the Professional Darts Corporation has been organizing the event.
The World Masters takes the place of the “The Masters” in the PDC calendar. A total of £ 500,000 (around 597,000 euros) will be distributed, the prize money, unlike the predecessor, is also included in the world rankings.