Luke Littler breaks silence after shock Bahrain Masters defeat to Gerwyn Price in first event since becoming world champ

LUKE LITTLER has breached his soundlessness aft being eliminated from the Bahrain Darts Masters.

The PDC Darts World champion was dumped retired of the contention astatine the quarter-final signifier acknowledgment to a stunning show from Gerwyn Price.

Welsh wizard Price thrashed the teen 6-2 to beforehand to the next circular of the tournament.

And Littler took to societal media precocious connected Friday nighttime to bespeak connected his exit and springiness the erstwhile satellite champion his flowers.

He wrote: "Not my nighttime but large crippled @gerwynpriceiceman180.

"Heading location for a fewer days past looking guardant to the Dutch Darts Masters."

Price couldn't physique connected the momentum helium gained by beating Littler, losing the last to Stephen Bunting.

Littler became the youngest-ever victor of the World Championships earlier period with a thrashing of Michael van Gerwen.

And the 17-year-old hopes to extremity 2025 with much silverware, arsenic good arsenic the rubric of World No.1

'The Nuke' told Sky Sports: "When you're playing truthful good, you tin consciousness the 9 coming.

"I americium present conscionable going to recharge the batteries and chill but radical are going to spot that I'm going to beryllium bare for much titles this year.

"And hopefully I tin spell 1 amended and triumph 11 oregon adjacent 12 onwards.

"Obviously if I tin adhd immoderate much money to the rankings.

"We each cognize however overmuch [Luke] Humphries is defending, it is simply a hellhole of a batch of money.

"But different thing, I can't hold to play successful the World Cup with him.

"Maybe astatine the extremity of 2025, I tin spot myself fig one."