Luke Littler will miss the upcoming Nordic Darts Masters following considerations his ruthless schedule will trigger the star to ‘burnout’.
The 17-year-old burst onto the scene in 2023 as he progressed all the way in which to the World Championship last on debut, ultimately shedding to world primary Luke Humphries.
Littler’s success has seen him fast-tracked into the world {of professional} darts as he has been included within the Premier League line-up, requiring {the teenager} to play the world’s finest as soon as per week.
Regardless of not successful a Premier League evening as of but, he has gained titles on the Bahrain Masters, Gamers Championship and Belgian Open already in 2024.
Littler has been on fireplace in each competitors he has entered, nevertheless it has been introduced that he might be withdrawing from the Nordic Masters in June on account of ‘household commitments.’
Newly-crowned UK Open champion Dimitri Van den Bergh will as a substitute take his place within the Danish capital in the summertime.
PDC chief govt Matt Porter has revealed that the Littler’s schedule is being monitored day-by-day on account of his excessive quantity of occasions.
He informed the Love The Darts podcast: “The media calls for are excessive, nonetheless getting quite a lot of requests for high-end content material.
“We noticed him on The Jonathan Ross Present, he is doing Comedian Reduction, there are quite a lot of A-list folks that wish to communicate to Luke which is nice for him and nice for darts and it is essential that’s managed correctly.
“His supervisor Martin (Foulds) is superb, his household are very supportive, we’re concerned and it is a workforce effort actually simply to verify every little thing is geared round giving him the optimum alternative to be the most effective he can on the oche and simply get sufficient relaxation and time to himself to be a traditional 17-year-old as finest he can away from that.
“It is early days, it is onerous to assume we’re solely three months into the Luke Littler story however who is aware of how lengthy it would final?”
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