The query on everybody’s lips is who would be the subsequent Luke Littler, however one Scottish teenage sensation has emerged as a contender.
Mitchell Lawrie, 15, will turn into the youngest participant ever on the WDF World Darts Championship this November, a report beforehand held by Littler when he competed again in 2022 and made it to the final 16.
In addition to his debut look at Lakeside, Lawrie will even be in attendance at Alexandra Palace, having certified for the JDC World Remaining which is able to happen amidst Littler’s PDC world title defence.
Lawrie nicked one other report from Littler simply a few weeks in the past when he turned the youngest participant to win three senior males’s titles after profitable the British Open, Welsh Open and Irish Basic within the WDF aged 15 years and 4 days previous.
Littler was 15 years, 5 months and 4 days previous when he picked up his third title on the WDF, that means Lawrie has overtaken his report by 5 months.
As he seems to be to assert the WDF title, {the teenager} begins with a match-up towards Tomoya Maruyama within the first spherical, with second-seeded Jason Brandon ready.
For Littler, Lawrie is an apparent thrilling expertise and he has been maintaining a tally of his information that he has been chasing down.
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“He’s a very, very good player at such a young age like myself. Obviously, I think about my record for winning a WDF Open,” Littler stated.
“So that’s another one he has taken off me but he’s a very good player.
“It’s loopy. He is bought to attend years for the event tour.
“But for now, he’s just got to keep at it because he’s got to wait.
“However there’s loads of alternatives on the market for now for tournaments to go and win.”
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Luke Humphries says his arch-rival Luke Littler is in his personal league because the world primary and two gamers in darts put together for the World Championships in December.
So, what’s Littler’s recommendation for Lawrie? He believes he simply must hold going, taking his alternatives, and ensuring his sport is the very best it may be for when he has the prospect to attempt to be part of the Improvement Tour at 16 years of age.
“You have just got to keep your head down. You still have got to keep going,” he added.
“Because I think at 14, 15, I was like ‘oh it’s another year till I can go on the Development Tour’.
“He is positively considering the identical the way in which he is been taking part in. So simply hold his head down and yeah you will be on Tour.”
The following Beau Greaves?
Paige Pauling is making waves within the girls’s sport (Photograph courtesy of Tamas Kovacs/Hungarian Darts Federation)
The WDF additionally has the thrilling Paige Pauling who, at 17 years of age, is the WDF women world No 1 and solely the second participant ever to qualify for the Women and Girls’s WDF World Championships.
The primary was Sophie McKinlay, who did it final yr and made each finals.
If Pauling had been to drag off victory, she would turn into the youngest-ever Girls’s World Champion and overtake the report set by Greaves who accomplished it at 18 years, three months, at some point in 2022.
Pauling could be 17 years, eight months and 23 days on this yr’s finals day.
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