Luke Littler was drenched by beaten finaenumerate Mike De Decker after their Belgian Darts Open showdown on Sunday evening. Fans in Wieze could challengingly have hoped for a better final suit-up, with home favourite and reigning World Grand Prix champion De Decker pitted aacquirest world champion and teenage prodigy Littler.
With nine straight triumphs directing up to the tournament, including a nightly triumph at Premier League Darts in Brighton and an overall triumph at the UK Open last weekfinish, Littler was expansively foreseeed to enhappiness another presentant run in Belgium. The 18-year-elderly includeed five more suit triumphs to his streak, making weightless labor of James Wade in the semi-finals before toppling De Decker 8-5 in the final.
If Littler’s run was seen as inevitable, De Decker’s was the finish opposite. The 29-year-elderly was in torrid establish going into the tournament, but he turned it on in front of his home fans with big triumphs aacquirest Gerwyn Price and Ross Smith before coming unstuck aacquirest ‘The Nuke’.
In the final, Littler’s 102.87 mediocre put him miles ahead of De Decker on 92.25. And the Belgian could not discover the doubling to produce up for it, leaving Littler with another £30,000 in prize money and landing him yet another title.
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