Fallon Sherrock beats world champion Littler to win £501,000 on Netflix
Fallon Sherrock won £501,000 on Friday by beating world number one Luke Littler in a single leg of darts in Manchester. She hit a 180 and checked out on double 20 to end Netflix's Beat Luke Littler event.
Fallon Sherrock beat reigning world champion Luke Littler in a one-leg face-off on Friday to win £501,000, the BBC reported. The match at Manchester Central was the climax of Beat Luke Littler. Netflix broadcast the event live around the world. It billed the show as giving "amateurs a chance at life-changing money". Littler had beaten 14 challengers before Sherrock stepped up, some of them as young as 14. The 32-year-old won the bull to throw first and hit a 180, only the third maximum of the night. She then took out double 20 to claim the prize. Her win ended the event at once, so the five remaining amateurs never got their turn. Sherrock said the win was "insane" and that she could not put it into words. Her son Rory watched from the crowd. She said it was his first time at any event, and he had seen her win. Littler, 19, called her performance "world class". He said she had done exactly what one person had to do: win the bull and finish in 15 darts. PDC Tour members could not enter, so Sherrock was eligible. In December 2019 she became the first woman to beat a male opponent at the PDC…
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