Luke Littler destroys rival so badly at Players Championship he begs teen darts ace to SWAP sports

LUKE LITTLER'S hostile Mike De Decker called connected the teen to permission darts for different athletics aft being thrashed 10-3.

The Nuke, 17, has been successful sensational signifier astatine the Players Championship Finals this week, days aft claiming the Grand Slam of Darts title successful Wolverhampton.

He began the Minehead tourney with a destructive 6-0 triumph implicit erstwhile satellite champion Rob Cross.

Littler past dispatched Ritchie Edhouse 6-2 and Danny Noppert 10-3 with immoderate much exhibition-style darts.

And De Decker, who lost 10-9 to Littler successful a classical past week, could bash small to dilatory down the Warrington youngster's momentum connected Sunday day arsenic helium slumped to a 10-3 decision successful their quarter-final.

The brace embraced aft Littler sealed his spot successful the past four.

And the satellite title runner-up revealed pursuing his emphatic triumph that De Decker joked helium should "take up bowling".

Littler, who averaged 103.73, said: "We some had slack darts but I had a amended game.

"He did accidental 'do you privation to instrumentality up bowling oregon thing alternatively of darts'.

"But nary I'll instrumentality to darts."

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Littler is the bookies' favourite for the PDC World Darts Championship - which gets underway connected December 15.

The gully for the archetypal circular takes spot connected Monday.

Last year, Littler broke onto the country successful scintillating manner arsenic helium reached the last connected his Ally Pally debut, earlier losing to Luke Humphries.

Littler and Humphries could conscionable successful the Players Championship Final connected Sunday evening.