World Darts Championship draw: Luke Littler could face Fallon Sherrock in opening match

The gully for the PDC’s header yearly lawsuit that takes spot implicit the festive play astatine Alexandra Palace was conducted connected Monday, with teenage sensation Littler and trailblazer Sherrock acceptable to conscionable successful the 2nd circular if the second tin successfully negociate her opening duty against Ryan Meikle.

Littler’s unthinkable travel from comparatively chartless imaginable to planetary darting improvement astatine past year’s World Championship made headlines astir the satellite arsenic helium brushed speech the likes of erstwhile winners Raymond van Barneveld and Rob Cross earlier losing an all-time classical final against Luke Humphries - since erstwhile helium has go 1 of the sport’s astir high-profile stars, winning 10 PDC titles truthful acold and each of the Premier League, Grand Slam and World Series.

Littler and Sherrock are successful the aforesaid fractional of the gully arsenic defending champion and satellite No1 Humphries, who besides defeated Littler successful different thrilling last astatine the Players Championship successful Minehead connected Sunday. Humphries volition commencement his rubric defence against either France’s Thibault Tricole oregon Australian Joe Comito, who look disconnected successful the archetypal round.

Elsewhere, 2nd effect Michael Smith volition conflict either Kevin Doets oregon Noa-Lynn van Leuven first, portion 3rd effect Michael van Gerwen is acceptable to conscionable 1 of James Hurrell oregon Jim Long. It volition beryllium either Scott Williams oregon Niko Springer up archetypal for 5th effect Cross, meanwhile. Van Leuven is the archetypal transgender subordinate ever to vie astatine the World Championship.

(1) Luke Humphries v Thibault Tricole/Joe Comito

(32) Raymond van Barneveld v Nick Kenny/Stowe Buntz

(16) James Wade v Jermaine Wattimena/Stefan Bellmont

(17) Peter Wright v Wesley Plaisier/Ryusei Azemoto

(8) Stephen Bunting v Alan Soutar/Kai Gotthardt

(25) Dirk van Duijvenbode v Madars Razma/Christian Kist

(9) Damon Heta v Connor Scutt/Ben Robb

(24) Mike De Decker v Luke Woodhouse/Lourence Ilagan

(4) Luke Littler v Ryan Meikle/Fallon Sherrock

(29) Ritchie Edhouse v Ian White/Sandro Eric Sosing

(13) Danny Noppert v Ryan Joyce/Darius Labanauskas

(20) Ryan Searle v Mensur Suljovic/Matt Campbell

(5) Rob Cross v Scott Williams/Niko Springer

(28) Gian van Veen v Ricardo Pietreczko/Xiaochen Zong

(12) Nathan Aspinall v Cameron Menzies/Leonard Gates

(21) Andrew Gilding v Martin Lukeman/Nitin Kumar

(2) Michael Smith v Kevin Doets/Noa-Lynn van Leuven

(31) Krzysztof Ratajski v Richard Veenstra/Alexis Toylo

(15) Chris Dobey v Stephen Burton/Alexander Merkx

(18) Josh Rock v Karel Sedlacek/Rhys Griffin

(7) Jonny Clayton v Mickey Mansell/Tomoya Goto

(26) Daryl Gurney v Florian Hempel/Jeffrey De Zwaan

(10) Gerwyn Price v Kim Huybrechts/Keane Barry

(23) Joe Cullen v Wessel Nijman/Cameron Carolissen

(3) Michael van Gerwen v James Hurrell/Jim Long

(30) Brendan Dolan v Chris Landman/Lok Yin Lee

(14) Gary Anderson v Jeffrey de Graaf/Rashad Sweeting

(19) Ross Smith v Jim Williams/Paolo Nebrida

(6) Dave Chisnall v Ricky Evans/Gordon Mathers

(27) Gabriel Clemens v Niels Zonneveld/Robert Owen

(11) Dimitri Van den Bergh v William O'Connor/Dylan Slevin

(22) Martin Schindler v Callan Rydz/Romeo Grbavac

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