Littler wins Grand Slam

Next up for Littler it was a Semi Final matchup against Gary Anderson, who has started to roll back the years in recent months. The first ten legs were breathtaking, so many big scores and big finishes. Littler won the tenth leg, taking out 124 to go into the second break 6-4 up. Anderson managed to get the game back to 7-6 with a brilliant 164 checkout, this match was really living up to its expectations. Then just two legs later Gary hit another massive checkout. He took care off 142, to put himself 8-7 against Luke, going into the third break. Anderson continued to play incredible darts and created a four leg gap between him and Littler, with the score being 11-7 to Anderson. Now the 27th leg saw something special happen. Anderson hit three bullseyes in one visit in the middle of the leg. The crowd absolutely loved it, however Littler went on to wrap up the leg to put himself one away from Anderson, the score being 14-13 in a race to sixteen. The standard of darts was out of this world for how much pressure these two were under. THe game went all the way to a last leg decider, Luke started it off with a 180. Anderson kept himself in it by hitting two, two treble visits in a row. It was Luke Littler who managed to pin double 12 to win an absolute classic, what a treat it was for that crowd in Wolverhampton. See match stats below.