Luke Littler’s hopes of completing the set of major tournaments ended for another year as Ross Smith won the European Championship in Germany.

Littler is vying to become just the second player after Michael van Gerwen to win all major televised events and the tournament in Dortmund is the only missing piece.

And that remains the case as the 19-year-old was well below par in a shock quarter-final defeat to Krzysztof Ratajski in what is one of the worst results of his fledgling career.

He posted on Instagram: “Played well in the lead up to today, but just didn’t click for me earlier.

“Thank you for all the support this weekend.…