BRITISH darts star Chris “Hollywood” Dobey has revealed his least favourite opponent, and it is not who you might expect.
Luke Littler has taken darts by storm since breaking out in 2022, with the pair facing each other twice, but Dobey had to look further afield for his biggest rival.
Dobey is yet to beat Heta in eight attempts.PA
Heta is a larger than life character on the tourGetty
He landed on Australia’s Damon Heta, who he has failed to beat in eight attempts.
Speaking on the Tops and Tales podcast, hosted by referee Huw Ware, Dobey said “my least favourite is Heta because I’ve never beaten him!”
“I’ve gave him so many good games.”
Ware made history this year as the first openly gay man to referee a PDC World Darts Championship final.
There are evidently mind games being played between the pair.
Dobey continued: “You know it’s in your head. Especially after when he comes over to you and says, ‘oh, you still haven’t beat me’.”
The pair are tough to separate in world rankings, with Dobey in eighth place narrowly trailing Heta in seventh.
They first met at the 2020 PDC Home Tour, with Heta comfortably winning by a score of four legs to two.
Dobey, a former non-league footballer, has pushed Heta all the way in several of their matches, losing by a single leg in four of eight matches.
Their most recent match came at European Tour 8 round of 16, with Heta taking another narrow 6-5 win.
Heta, known as ‘The Heat’, turned professional in 2020, one year after moving to England, announcing himself on the international darts scene after winning at Brisbane Darts Masters in 2019.
In doing so, he became the first non-tour cardholder to win a televised PDC event since 2010.
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