LUKE LITTLER has dropped out of the ProTour top ten rankings.
The world champion reached the World Series of Darts final on Sunday, losing to Michael van Gerwen.
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He was one of eight seeded players for the tournament but has now slipped out of the top ten rankings.
Littler, 18, even won two Masters competitions to qualify, in Australia and New Zealand, but he narrowly misses out.
That is mainly because the darts wizard has skipped some tournaments this year, like the Players Championship.
One darts chief suggested the youngster was “carefully managing” his schedule.
As a reuslt, he has picked up £136,500 in prize money, ranking him in 11th place.
He is only narrowly behind Wessel Nijman in tenth place, with the Belgian earning just £2,500 more than Littler.
Stephen Bunting leads the way after an impressive year – he won the Bahrain Masters and the Nordic Masters to help him to a total prize pot of £192,000.
Martin Schindler and Gerwyn Price make up the top three in second and third respectively.
However Littler still occupies second spot in the PDC Order of Merit, behind Luke Humphries.
He is closing on his rival too and a good end to the year could see him overtake Humphries, who has been No.1 since January 2024.
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