{"id":14563,"date":"2023-12-27T15:28:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T20:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/pdc-world-championship-2024-teenager-luke-littler-beats-matt-campbell-to-reach-last-16\/27\/12\/2023\/"},"modified":"2023-12-27T15:28:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T20:28:31","slug":"pdc-world-championship-2024-teenager-luke-littler-beats-matt-campbell-to-reach-last-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/pdc-world-championship-2024-teenager-luke-littler-beats-matt-campbell-to-reach-last-16\/27\/12\/2023\/","title":{"rendered":"PDC World Championship 2024: Teenager Luke Littler beats Matt Campbell to reach last 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-hmf8ql-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Teenager Luke Littler cruised into the last 16 of his debut PDC World Championship with a comfortable 4-1 win over Canada&#8217;s Matt Campbell.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Warrington-born 16-year-old raced into a 2-0 lead without dropping a leg at London&#8217;s Alexandra Palace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He came from behind to claim the third set but missed a bullseye to win the match in the deciding leg of the fourth as Campbell hit back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An impressive 164 checkout set Littler on his way to victory in the fifth. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He will face either Jim Williams or former world champion Raymond van Barneveld in the next round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking to Sky Sports, Littler said: &#8220;I just let my darts do the talking. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As soon as I won that first game against Christian Kist [last week], I just settled. When I went 2-0 up, I tried to calm myself down and I kept my composure and got over the line.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The furore continues to grow around the teenager, who says he has been reminding himself of his journey during the tournament&#8217;s Christmas break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have been watching my highlights every day,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;[Raymond] Barney has said nice words about me and Jimmy has beaten Peter Wright, so they are both in form, but I&#8217;ll take whoever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/darts\/67830556\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teenager Luke Littler cruised into the last 16 of his debut PDC World Championship with a comfortable 4-1 win over Canada&rsquo;s Matt<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/pdc-world-championship-2024-teenager-luke-littler-beats-matt-campbell-to-reach-last-16\/27\/12\/2023\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[107,3744,152,3743,1490,1628,3501,1764,2422,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14565,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14563\/revisions\/14565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}