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Beat Luke Littler: 'Queen of the Palace' Sherrock defeats darts world champ and wins $670,000

The Independent·Steve Douglas·about 1 hour ago
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Luke Littler beat, among others, an Australian jockey, a trash collector and a restaurant manager.

He couldn't beat the "Queen of the Palace."

A one-off Netflix broadcast called “Beat Luke Littler” offered a prize of 501,000 pounds (around $670,000) to anyone deemed a darts amateur who could defeat the 19-year-old prodigy over a single leg.

Littler, the defending world champion, needed to see off 20 opponents and had already dispatched 14 of them when he met Fallon Sherrock , who shot to fame in late 2019 when she became the first woman to beat a man at darts’ flagship world championship (in fact, she beat two men) at Alexandra Palace .

Sherrock got closer to the bullseye than Littler to earn the first shot, before a maximum 180 helped to leave her on 43 while Littler was stranded on 142.…

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