Luke Littler dumped out by BUS DRIVER as darts sensation suffers shock loss at Players Championship O2 in Wigan

LUKE LITTLER’s PDC title hopes hit a road block – caused by a BUS DRIVER!

The teen sensation was unable to make it back-to-back successes this week on the Players Championship circuit in Wigan.

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The surprise defeat came in the second round of the darts tournament, just one day after Littler hit a nine-darter on his PDC ProTour debut.

Things started out well for Littler as he took the opening leg of the match.

However, Littler was never able to forge a two-leg lead as Polish-Irish thrower Radek Szaganski kept pace with the Nuke.

The pair went leg for leg up to 3-3 before Littler was broken by the 44-year-old.

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Szaganski then threatened to blow his 17-year-old rival out of the water after moving to 5-3 on legs.

Littler bit back by breaking Szaganski before levelling up the score to 5-5.

However, Szaganski held his nerve to break Littler's serve once more and claim a shock 6-5 victory.

Szaganski is one-time Polish darts champion and lives in Cork, Ireland, where he supplements his income by driving buses.

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He was in action at this years PDC Darts World Championship at Alexandra Palace, where he defeated ranked Finn Marko Kantele before falling to a second-round defeat to Raymond van Barneveld.

No1 rank darts star Luke Humphries was another shock casualty, in the first round of the tournament.

Other eliminated big hitters include Rob Cross, Michael Smith and Dave Chsinall.

The round of 32 also saw Nathan Aspinall eliminated, leaving Peter Wright and Gary Anderson as two of the biggest names left.

Littler will have another shot at victory on Thursday when the Premier League returns in Glasgow.

He currently sits third in the table behind Michael van Gerwen and table-topper Smith.

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