Luke Littler v Rob Cross live stream | World Darts Championship 2025/26 Preview
Luke Littler continues the defence of his World Darts Championship title with a Last 16 clash against Rob Cross at Alexandra Palace on Monday.
Top seed and reigning champion Littler puts the world title on the line once again as he comes up against former champion Cross in a mouth-watering tie.
Littler is vying to join Phil Taylor, Gary Anderson and Adrian Lewis as only the fourth player to retain the PDC world title and cap off an extraordinary year of dominance which has seen him add a further five major ranking titles including the UK Open, World Matchplay and Players Championship Finals.
The teenage sensation put down an immediate marker and avoided a huge potential banana skin when he overcame Lithuania’s Darius Labanauskas in straight sets on opening night.
The Nuke had a ten-day break between rounds before brushing aside Welsh debutant David Davies in three sets with a 97 average in the Last 64 and going on to whitewash Mensur Suljovic 4-0 with a 107 average to take his unbeaten run to 15 matches in major ranking competition.
Cross has seemingly put a torrid run of form behind him to reach the Third Round at Ally Pally for the sixth time, dropping just one set in dominant wins over Cor Dekker, Ian White and Damon Heta.
Provisionally ranked world number 20, Cross has not reached a major ranking quarter-final in a calendar year for the first time since his PDC career began in 2017.
Littler won all five of his meetings with Cross in this year’s Premier League and also prevailed 6-2 when the pair met in the semi-finals here two years ago.
All the stats point towards a landslide win for Littler – who is yet to drop a set and has a tournament average of 102 to Cross’ 92.2.
The match gets under way from around 10pm GMT and will be contested over the best of seven sets, with either 25th seed Luke Woodhouse or Polish number one Krzysztof Ratajski awaiting the winner in the quarter-finals on New Year’s Day.
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