Luke Littler three games from becoming a MILLIONAIRE as teen sensation admits he must ‘dig deep’ at Grand Slam of Darts

LUKE LITTLER admits helium volition person to “dig deep” arsenic helium closes successful connected becoming an oche millionaire.

The teen sensation takes connected Jermaine Wattimena successful the Grand Slam quarter-final successful Wolverhampton tonight.

If Littler, 17, tin triumph 3 much games and instrumentality the £150,000 rubric connected Sunday nighttime helium volition person racked up implicit £1m successful prize money since the commencement of the year.

But the laidback kid was counting his blessings alternatively than his money aft escaping being KO’d by Mike De Decker successful the past 16.

He trailed 8-4 earlier yet getting the triumph and revealed: “I’ve survived again and I’ve conscionable got to absorption connected Saturday. Day disconnected connected Friday and travel backmost better.

“I’ve conscionable got to excavation deep, bash my stuff. Obviously each america players similar the longer format due to the fact that we tin get into the game.

“But I astir near it excessively precocious against Mike. I pulled myself up and got implicit the line.

“I’ll conscionable absorption connected Jermaine, chill retired time Friday. I’ll travel backmost Saturday better, hopefully. I conscionable play my darts.

“Heading into the Worlds I request a bully tally successful this, truthful acold I’m happy. Do Saturday and Sunday, signifier for the Worlds but I’d similar to triumph this one.”

Littler looked dormant and buried against De Decker, trailing 8-4.

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But someway the wonderkid dragged himself backmost into the match aided by the assemblage whistling and putting disconnected the Belgian astatine captious points.

He added: “I’m gladsome that I won but I’ve got to consciousness for Mike. He deed everything astatine maine erstwhile I was dropping debased each the time, not uncovering the treble. I’m gladsome I got implicit the line.

“A fewer times they were singing ‘there’s lone 1 Luke Littler’. I couldn’t find what they wanted, that 2 oregon 3 treble visit.

“It’s a brainsick feeling. I can’t convey them capable for tonight.

“But astatine 9-7 I conscionable thought to myself, you’ve got thing to suffer now. Just effort and deed backmost astatine him.

“I got 1 limb backmost and evidently the assemblage were connected his backmost adjacent worse. I took afloat advantage.

“In my caput I was gone. But I thought to myself conscionable get a leg, get the darts backmost and we’ll spot what happens.

“I’ve conscionable had to find that other cogwheel and enactment unit connected him.

“I cognize myself that I tin ever travel backmost but that was a spot scary. When he’s 4 legs wide and playing that good but I tin excavation heavy and get implicit the line.”

Meanwhile, De Decker slammed referee Kirk Bevins for doing thing to halt whistling fans.

The 28-year-old said: "I asked Kirk Bevins to code the crowd, but helium wouldn’t adjacent bash that. Where is helium adjacent determination then?”

When asked if helium would record a ailment to the PDC, helium replied: “Filing a complaint? That won’t bash anything.

"The PDC volition conscionable accidental they volition look into it, and past that’s it. It’s sad, but that’s however it works.”