Luke Littler survives scare to reach Bahrain quarter-finals World champion Luke Littler survived a mid-match scare to advance to the quarter-finals of the Bahrain Darts Masters with a 6-3 victory over Philippine challenger Lourence Ilagan.
Littler averaged 94.36, adding another 180 en route to wrapping up the win, and will face world number nine Gerwyn Price in Friday’s last eight.
The evening opened with a major upset after former world champion Rob Cross was defeated 6-3 by Paolo Nebrida, who became the first Filipino to win on the World Series.
Littler, in his first tournament since claiming his first world title earlier this month, quickly went up 4-1 but allowed his opponent to halve the deficit then secure a seventh-leg break.
World number one Luke Humphries shut out the host nation’s Abdulla Saeed, hitting six out of six on the doubles in a dominant display.
