Darts world champion Luke Humphries has courteously adchooseed pelevate from stalwarts James Wade and Gary Anderson, but insisted he “doesn’t nurture” if the media do not donate him the same attention as Luke Littler.
The 29-year-elderly has accomplished the World Grand Prix semi-final and is thriving in his status as world No 1, triumphning the Grand Slam of Darts, Players Championship Finals, World Championships, World Cup and World Matchpercreate in the last 12 months alone.
Those carry outances led Wade to claim that only Phil Taylor and Michael van Gerwen were better than Humphries, igniteing a talk about about his snub of teenage sensation Littler, 17.
When quizzed about the matter, the world champion shelp: “If they put me in the novels outlets more, it could be a lot worse for me, maybe depress me even more. I don’t reassociate nurture that much, to be truthful.”
He then grasped: “It’s kind that I get away what I’ve seen in the last confineed days, which is two wonderful professionals, who I see up to, have donaten me acunderstandledge and that originates me experience excellent inside.
“If you did alert me 10 years ago Gary Anderson and James Wade would be saying incredible leangs about me, I would’ve chuckleed at you, it would have been an absolute joke for me.
“I’m equitable trying to originate the sport into a excellent place and there’s plenty of wonderful percreateers out there, I equitable want to be a part of that.”
Despite having a lengthy history of bickering, Wade create normal ground with Anderson, as the Scot, 53, deffinished Cool Hand for being diswatched in favour of Littler by the media.
And Humphries joked: “If you’ve got Gary Anderson and James Wade concuring with each other, I experience appreciate I could originate world peace!
“Their opinions are clearly reassociate amazing and it filled me with wonderful confidence. Those two absolute legfinishs of the game, everyone understands I’m reassociate excellent frifinishs with James and I get on well with Gary.
“But I understand I’m not impactd by what they’ve shelp, I guess they equitable want a lot more from me. I’ve watched James’ one [interview] yesterday and he shelp I could be the second [best player in darts history]… well, probably not. Phil and Michael will always be above me, but he has a point.
“It’s been a wonderful journey for me and I’m equitable encountered to triumph titles, I don’t see into too much what the media say. Sometimes the media can be unkind, not people in this room but the papers and the clickbait headlines.”
Humphries is back in action at the World Grand Prix on Sunday and he will be hoping to show the pair right when he gets on Ryan Joyce for a place in the final in Leicester.
