Luke Littler becomes new Premier League record holder after pulling off incredible feat...

DESPITE missing out on a second nightly win in the Premier League Luke Littler left Exeter with yet another record to his name.

The 18-year-old sensation narrowly lost 6-4 in Thursday night's final to world number one Luke Humphries.

Littler beat both Stephen Bunting and Nathan Aspinall en route to the final, sweeping his competitors aside with relative ease.

And it was his quarter-final match-up with Bunting that saw Littler performing at his highest level, setting a new record in the process.

Littler hit a phenomenal TEN 180s against Bunting, marking a new record for the most maximums ever registered by a single player in the current Premier League format.

Bunting wasn't giving up either as he hit six 180s himself, taking their combined total for the match to 16 during Littler's 6-3 win.

That in itself is another record with the pair's return the highest combined maximums in a Premier League match.

Littler even took to Instagram to give a self-confident reaction to breaking yet another record.

On his story, he wrote: "This is what he does... another record broken".

Littler was on fire as he advanced to the semi-final too, putting up a sensational 109.67 average during his 6-2 win over Aspinall.

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The teenager had done well to calm his emotions and perform to such a high level following an incident during his walk-on at the start of the night.

Littler flared up at a fan who appeared to push his mum Lisa out of the way as she was trying to give her son a hug from the VIP section.

Now the world champion has his eyes on the UK Open this weekend in Minehead.

Taking to X, Littler wrote: "Happy with how I played across my games tonight and good to get more premier league points after making the final.

"Ready for the UK Open".

The event, which has been likened to darts' version of the FA Cup, throws up a tasty £110,000 prize for the winner.

Littler was knocked out in the quarter-final by Aussie Damon Heta last year and will be hoping to go all the way this time round.

As one of the top 32 seeded players in the world, Littler will enter the competition in the fourth round.