'It's unsustainable' Luke Littler's manager warns as he reveals 17-year-old dart sensation's brutal schedule | EAK1VL7 | 2024-03-31 09:08:01
Warrington's 17-year-old sporting sensation left faculty last summer time and only turned a full-time darts player
LUKE LITTLER'S management claim his darts schedule is being managed rigorously to avoid any probability of burnout.
Warrington's 17-year-old sporting sensation left faculty last summer time and only turned a full-time darts player in January.
Since his epic run at Ally Pally to the final of the World Darts Championship, Littler has earned £357,000 in prize cash on the oche.
The PDC circuit is relentless, notably with the added complication of normal journey around Europe, and Littler is already down for a trip to New York in late Might.
Additionally it is probably he can be concerned within the World Collection events in Australia and New Zealand in August.
Off the stage, he's a lad in demand and lately appeared on BBC's Comic Relief, ITV's Jonathan Ross Show and Sky Sports activities' Fantasy Soccer League.
But whereas Littler has shelved driving classes in the intervening time resulting from a scarcity of free time, manager Martin Foulds of ZXF Sports Management insists the teenager is being intently taken care of.
Foulds, 40, informed the BBC: "He's just about in each TV event for the rest of the yr with out throwing another dart.
"There's no off-season in darts. You've received to journey to these occasions – you don't just time-warp and you're in Belfast, Graz, Munich, Rotterdam.
"It's unsustainable for any player to journey and play all of these events.
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"If you're enjoying within the Premier League especially, travelling can take its toll on anybody.
"He's nonetheless a young person, nonetheless 17 – if he wasn't enjoying darts, he'd be doing an apprenticeship or still be in class.
<!-- End of Brightcove Player --> "So there are duties of care we now have to comply with to look after Luke as greatest as we will.
"The opposite day he had to are available, do some paperwork, some shirt signings.
"He's sat in my assembly room and he's received two telephones on with two totally different streams of the Gamers Championship.
"He's not at the darts however he's still watching it – he just loves the sport."
Littler will probably be next in action on Thursday night time towards Luke Humphries within the quarter-finals of the Premier League Darts in Belfast as he searches for a first nightly win within the £1milllion invitational event.
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