Luke Littler reveals why he snubbed Stephen Bunting practice offer before World Darts Championship
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Luke Littler turned down the chance to practice with Stephen Bunting ahead of the World Darts Championship, preferring to stick to his own routine. Littler and Bunting meet in the Alexandra Palace semi-finals on Thursday night after the Nuke beat Nathan Aspinall and the Bullet downed Peter Wright on Wednesday evening.
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The two are stablemates with darts manufacturer Target and Bunting had talked up the possibility of practicing with the teenage sensation before the biggest event on the calendar. Speaking to OCHE before the World Championship, Bunting talked up practice sessions with both Luke Humphries and Littler, saying: ‘Me and Luke Humphries touched on it around six months ago.
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‘We’ll have two or three sessions before the Worlds definitely and that will put me in good stead, practicing with one of the best players in the world at the minute. ‘Me and Luke Littler have also talked about it, we’re quite close with his team and I really like Luke, he’s brought a different air to the scene of darts at the minute. Everyone is talking about him.’.
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After his 5-2 win over Wright, Bunting was asked if those practice sessions with the Nuke happened and laughed: ‘No, he didn’t ring me!. ‘I think Luke is set in his own ways. His dad did speak to me about practice but for one thing or another it just didn’t happen. I’m sure we will practice in the future. It just didn’t happen leading up to this.
