Rob Cross reveals he had emergency surgery just hours before winning first darts Players Championship

ROB CROSS is acceptable to enactment the wound into Luke Littler aft getting his contented teeth removed!

The 2018 World Champion won the archetypal Players Championship of the twelvemonth connected Monday conscionable 48 hours aft getting exigency dentistry.

Now Cross, 34, wants to extract adjacent much symptom connected ‘The Nuke’ successful the Premier League astatine the OVO Hydro successful Glasgow connected Thursday night.

He revealed: “I had to cancel a spot of enactment past play arsenic I had a mates of contented teeth retired Saturday, they’ve been giving maine a spot of a jip.

“I don’t consciousness similar my champion astatine the minute, but I can’t truly usage that arsenic an excuse, If thing it’s a distraction for maine head, truthful I tin really play ball!

“I consciousness I’m getting better, I wouldn’t accidental my mouth’s 100 per cent astatine the minute, but look, if I tin present that erstwhile I’m not 100 per cent, that’s conscionable emblematic Bobby, innit.”

All eyes volition beryllium connected Littler aft his record-breaking tally to the World rubric astatine the crook of the year.

The teen sensation, and defending PL champ, volition beryllium anxious to get disconnected the people aft his opening week decision to Michael van Gerwen successful Belfast.

Littler admits everyone raises their crippled to bushed him but Cross doesn’t consciousness that volition fuss him.

He said: “You archer maine implicit the past twelvemonth however galore problems the boy’s had? He’s not truly had a lot, has he?

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“So I deliberation you’d beryllium naive to deliberation that it’s going to impact him massively. He volition person a target connected his backmost present much so, evidently being World Champion. I deliberation that’s a large happening successful the game.

“But he’s inactive playing great. He showed that and I deliberation he’ll transportation on. Why not? The game’s successful a bully place, he’s inactive playing precise well.

“He’s losing with large averages and sometimes you’ve conscionable got to beryllium diligent and hold for the wins.”

Cross besides believes successful himself arsenic helium aims to physique connected past week’s coagulated commencement successful Belfast wherever helium reached the semis.

Voltage besides won the Dutch Darts Masters 3 weeks ago, but was comfortably beaten successful his past TV clash with Littler astatine past year’s Players Championship Finals.

He added: “I judge I tin bushed anyone connected my day, but helium was peculiar that day. You’ve conscionable got to bask it.”