Teenager Luke Littler beat Michael van Gerwen 8-5 to win the Bahrain Masters title.
It is Littler’s first senior PDC title after arising brief towards Luke Humphries in the PDC World Darts Championship final earlier this month.
He broke three-time world champion Van Gerwen in legs eight and 12.
“No-one believes me however I hadn’t thrown a dart because the world final till yesterday,” Littler instructed ITV4.
“MVG is the easiest and I’m simply very pleased to win on my debut. It’s been unbelievable this week.”
England’s Littler, 16, was making his debut on the World Series competitors – and threw a nine-darter in a quarter-final win towards Nathan Aspinall.
He noticed off Hong Kong’s Man Lok Leung 6-3 in his opening match on Thursday earlier than getting previous Aspinall and Gerwyn Price on Friday to succeed in the final.
Littler heads again to Europe subsequent to characteristic in the Dutch Masters on 26 and 27 January at Maaspoort Den Bosch.
“I’ve not likely set any targets for this 12 months – I did not even anticipate to choose up this trophy,” Littler mentioned.
“I’m simply going to need to see what my darts do.”
Littler’s win in Bahrain means he takes dwelling the highest prize of £20,000, including to the £200,000 he earned for ending as runner-up on the World Championship.
He has loads on the horizon after being chosen because the youngest individual to participate in the eight-player Premier League, which begins on 1 February.
World champion Humphries, who beat English compatriot Littler 7-4 in the final at Alexandra Palace on 3 January, was on observe to satisfy {the teenager} once more in Bahrain however he got here up brief in his quarter-final towards Price.
The Welshman sealed a 6-4 in the opening match of the day to finish Humphries’ 20-match profitable streak.
