Luke Littler is into the fourth round of the World Darts Championship (Image: Getty)
Luke Littler will not get the opportunity to settle any lasting anomisity between himself and Ricardo Pietreczko at the World Darts Championship.
German thrower Pietreczko squared up to Littler after their Belgian Darts Open semi-final in March. A cocky attempt at tops and the bullseye to take out 90 by Littler appeared to irk Pietreczko in that match, and frosty words were exchanged during a tense post-match handshake.
After the match, which Littler won comfortably, Pietreczko wrote on : “Well, I really appreciated him being able to play a game like that at such an age, but I hope his arrogance punishes him.”
Littler and Pietreczko have not met in a competitive setting since, and they were on course to face off in the quarter-finals at the Ally Pally later this week.
However, ‘Pikachu’ could not hold up his end of the bargain as he was thrashed by Nathan Aspinall in the final match of Monday’s afternoon session. Pietreczko – normally a fiery character on the oche – went down smiling but with a whimper, averaging just 78.46 and taking only two legs compared to Aspinall’s 12.
The result means that Littler will face ‘The Asp’ in the last eight if he defeats Ryan Joyce, and his settler with Pietreczko will have to wait for another day.
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