Luke Littler from the World Masters Darts after a 4-2 defeat to Jonny Clayton, as Stephen Bunting also comes out | News news

Luke Littler was sent by crashing outside the world-class Darts on Sunday afternoon, suffered a stunning 4-2 defeat to Jonny Clayton in the quarter-finals.

The 18 -year -old world champion was an overwhelming favorite against the world No. 7 and on average an impressive 108.5 in the match, but refused to end as Clayton hit nine of 15 darts in one double.

Loss means Littler can now turn his focus on defending his The title of the Premier League Darts, which begins Thursday night in Belfast, lives in Sky Sports.

Clayton amazed at Littler with a wonderful 138 finish to get the first set, but the 18 -year -old won the next two legs to level the race immediately.

The ferret mutes the multitude of Milton Keynes by winning the third set against the throw and then hit the D2 to claim a 3-1 lead after Littler had lost an arrow in Bullseye.

Littler was holding his nerve to win the fifth set with a checkout 81 and then seemed to have fought back when he broke Clayton with 11-Darter to get the first leg of the sixth set.

But Clayton opened the next leg with five perfect arrows before D16 to break and sealed a famous victory on the tops on what the final leg of the race turned out.

“This stage I like,” 2021 champion Clayton said to ITV afterwards.

“Luke didn’t obviously play the A-Game game but it’s a battle and got over the line. I can smile a big smile.

“It’s a shot, a big player’s arrows and has a great future ahead of him. He gave me a big lesson the last two games I played against him.

“All the jokes on the edge, went on my way. It was my day.”

Clayton will face Dimitri van den Bergh In the semifinals, after the Belgian struck a comfortable away Nathan Aspinall 4-1.

ASP showed some resistance by winning the second set, but could not match Van Den Bergh for much of the match and eventually lost a remarkable final leg.

Aspinall opened with seven perfect arrows before losing the T19 in his pursuit of nine – unarmed, but eventually lost his leg – and basically the race – when he lost three darts in double.

Van den Bergh punished him with the blows of the peaks and then the D10 to seal the victory with a 11-plow leg.

Bunting title defense ends after the last leg drama

Previously, Stephen Bunting’s Defending Masters’s title ended in a dramatic way as it lost two races darts in one last leg to lose 4-3 in Danny burst.

The Dutch had lost his own fight to give the opportunity to control 41, but loses to the D16 and D8 allowed Noppert to return and hit the D8 for an exciting victory.

After the bunting he claimed a narrow set of opening, Noppert unfolded six feet in a row to move 3-1 ahead-but the English fought back 3-3 and then 1-1 in the decisive seventh set.

Finally, the bunting was done to pay to miss 19 of 26 dives in double – including 11 consecutives in one stage – and missed the opportunity to play his friend Luke Huffris the last four.

Humphries had been impressive in the opening race of the afternoon, with an average of 104 in a 4-1 victory Damon Heta.

The top seed lost two darts for the second set, but that was the only important spot as he won each other set to reach Sunday night.

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