Wide-eyed in New York: Luke Littler lives the American Dream

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The teenager continues his remarkable rise in an elite field at this weekend’s US Darts Masters at Madison Square Garden

Luke Littler says he is ‘just a 17-year-old boy enjoying his darts’ before his appearance in the US Darts Masters.Luke Littler says he is ‘just a 17-year-old boy enjoying his darts’ before his appearance in the US Darts Masters.Arena, Luke Littler has found himself up against a far less forgiving opponent on Tuesday afternoon: Manhattan’s snarling rush-hour traffic.

Until Wednesday’s transpo hiccup, Littler’s first ever trip to New York had gone off without a hitch. Since touching down at JFK from Manchester on Monday afternoon, he’s made himself at home at the Times Square Renaissance hotel, a short walk from the Garden.

Littler’s domestic celebrity has fuelled reports that organisers could take the once-unthinkable step of relocating the world championship’s longtime venue at the Ally Pally – the 3,200-capacity room in north London regarded as the home of the sport – to a larger space to accommodate demand. Not only would Littler embrace the change, he tells me, but he would be willing to go even farther afield. “Imagine going to Saudi to play some darts?” he says with a smile.

 

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