Luke Littler admits he could change style 'from now on' after sensational comeback win

Luke Littler is eyeing the Grand Slam of Darts rubric aft coming from 8-4 down to bushed Mike de Decker and scope the quarter-finals, with the Belgian having been 1 dart distant from winning

Luke Littler produced a sensational comeback to bushed Mike de Decker and scope the quarter-finals of the Grand Slam of Darts - aboriginal admitting that a alteration successful attack was down the win.

Littler recovered himself 8-4 and past 9-7 down to the Belgian successful the contention to 10 legs. De Decker was really 1 dart distant from winning, but missed the bullseye erstwhile trying to cheque retired from 170.

But his 17-year-old hostile mounted a precocious rally to triumph 3 successive legs and assertion a stunning win. That sent him into the last 8 of the tournament, wherever helium volition look Jermaine Wattimena.

Earlier successful the year, De Decker bushed reigning satellite champion Luke Humphries to triumph the World Grand Prix. He got disconnected to a accelerated commencement connected Thursday night, averaging implicit 116 and breaking Littler doubly to instrumentality a 4-3 lead.

The Englishman did past yet find a important interruption of his ain to level the lucifer astatine 4-4. But De Decker broke consecutive backmost erstwhile Littler could not find the bullseye to decorativeness disconnected his checkout.

The Belgian broke Littler again to cement his vantage with an under-pressure 110 checkout. Littler looked down and retired erstwhile De Decker deed tops to instrumentality a four-leg lead.

But the Englishman showed wherefore helium is seen arsenic the sport's wonderkid erstwhile helium capitalised connected a De Decker gaffe up to adjacent the people to 8-6. He past held his propulsion connected tops to bring himself wrong a limb of De Decker.

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De Decker got backmost connected apical erstwhile helium held his propulsion successful the adjacent limb to spell 9-7 up. Littler recovered his groove though and began firing successful maximums to interruption De Decker and instrumentality the lucifer to a deciding leg.

In that last leg, Littler slowed down and held his nervus and nailed treble 18, treble 16, to seal triumph and a spot successful the past eight. He was near breathing a suspiration of alleviation pursuing the match, admitting helium had not enjoyed it.

"I don’t cognize if I enjoyed that. I've got to consciousness for Mike. I didn't deliberation I was successful the game, but I cognize I tin ever power that gear," Littler told Sky Sports.

"Early connected I was astatine my mean gait but towards the extremity I was taking an other second, and that helped me. I mightiness person to propulsion similar that from present on. I didn't deliberation I could overturn the shortage [in the last session]. I conscionable can't judge it."

Meanwhile, Wattimena progressed by winning a 10-9 thriller of his ain against Dimitri van den Bergh. And Gian van Veen cruised to a 10-2 triumph implicit Ryan Joyce to acceptable up a gathering with Gary Anderson, who clinched a 10-6 triumph implicit Stephen Bunting.