Martin Lukeman vows to take wife to the Maldives after fight with cancer if he wins £150,000 Grand Slam of Darts jackpot

SHOCK leader Martin Lukeman wants to triumph the Grand Slam truthful helium tin instrumentality his Big C-battling woman to the Maldives.

"Smash" takes connected Mickey Mansell successful his archetypal ever large semi-final successful Wolverhampton connected Sunday, having stunned World No 4 Rob Cross successful the quarters. 

Now Lukeman, 39, insists helium is not bothered with the trophy, helium conscionable wants to dainty woman Mel who has been warring the dreaded illness for 2 years. 

The Watford ace revealed: “My woman has been done truthful overmuch implicit the past 2 years and she’s inactive got a batch much to spell through. 

“She hasn’t got crab anymore, it’s each prevention operations now. She’s a trooper, she isn’t going to permission me. 

“She had six months of chemo until past March. There were a mates of operations. I didn’t privation to play darts but she kicked my a**e out. 

“She besides inactive drove maine to play arsenic good adjacent though she was having treatment. I said I’d get the bid but she insisted connected driving me. 

“She told maine to get my caput connected and conscionable play darts. 

“I’m not bothered astir winning the money. All I privation is simply a representation of my woman Mel and I connected that signifier with the trophy. 

“The wives and girlfriends spell done truthful overmuch s*** with america players. It’s conscionable crap with america losing, winning, atrocious moods. 

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“My woman drives miles for maine conscionable truthful I tin support practising. I privation to triumph it for her. 

“We are going to Thailand successful January but I privation to dainty her to the Maldives the January aft truthful she tin bask herself.”

World No 41 Lukeman had already beaten Peter Wright but delivered again to KO an out-of-sorts Rob Cross 16-11. He’s already promised to instrumentality his garment disconnected if helium wins connected Sunday night. 

He added: “If I triumph I’m doing a belly creation connected stage. I did it earlier and I thought I’d get fined by Barry Hearn but I didn’t, truthful I anticipation I don’t again! 

“It volition beryllium a bonus if Luke Littler goes out. It’s not an casual draw. I’ve conscionable got to bash my occupation connected Sunday afternoon. 

"The standards are getting better. There’s not that one, two, oregon 3 players that are dominating nary more, and the large boys I deliberation are starting to realise it.

“Littler mightiness spell for 1 competition, play great, and past 2 competitions, he's gone.

“Luke Humphries, Michael van Gerwen, Gerwyn Price, the same. They’re realising america boys we’re present to springiness them a crippled now.”