England’s newest sports sensation is a 16-year-old on the doorstep of winning arguably the world’s most prestigious darts tournament in his first try.
Luke Littler mowed down another accomplished veteran Tuesday in a semifinal match at the Professional Darts Corporation’s World Darts Championship. If he wins Wednesday’s final against Luke Humphries — a 28-year-old Brit whose own semifinal victory made him the new top-ranked player — Littler will have translated success at the junior level into sudden dominance at the highest tier of his sport in a way that has already drawn comparisons to Tiger Woods.
