“THERE’S only one Luke Littler.”

That was the chant bellowing from the crowd as ‘The Nuke’ destroyed Martin Lukeman to win the Mr Vegas Grand Slam of Darts in Wolverhampton in record-breaking fashion.

For the 17-year-old Warrington superstar, the Eric Bristow Trophy is his first silverware success in a major ranking televised tournament but his staggering 10th title of his maiden year as a professional.

Not only does the youngest ever winner of the tournament pocket a cool £150,000 prize for his 16-3 victory, he moves up to the world number five in the rankings.

In the almost robotic process of dismantling his 39-year-old Watford opponent, he took this tournament’s total number of 180s to levels never seen before as he added his name to the likes of Phil Taylor, Raymond van Barneveld, Michael van Gerwen, Gerywyn Price, Michael Smith and Luke Humphries on the trophy.

Lukeman won the final's opening two legs in 27 darts to seize the early initiative, but then it was one-way traffic as Littler won 16 of the next 17 legs.

“I’m so glad to win this title,” reflected Littler, who averaged 107.08 to prevail in less than 35 minutes of playing time.

“I’ve been playing really well all tournament; it’s been a tough week, but the hard work has paid off!

“I’ve always got to have my scoring power with me, no matter who I play. I had a slow start against Martin, but I kicked on from there.”

Littler now joins Taylor, Van Gerwen and Peter Wright in becoming the fourth player to lift 10 PDC titles in a calendar year, which parachutes him up to fifth on the PDC Order of Merit.

Lukeman, featuring in his maiden televised final, made an authoritative start to Sunday’s decider, only for Littler to reel off three consecutive legs in 13, 12 and 11 darts to lead 3-2 at the first interval.

The Premier League champion continued his relentless pursuit towards the title with another five-leg blitz in the second session, before following up 100 and 78 checkouts with a te10-darter to lead 11-2.

Lukeman halted Littler’s astonishing sequence of 15 straight legs to get a third leg on the board, but any hopes of a revival were short-lived when Littler followed up a 12th 180 with a 14-darter on double six to seal the deal.

And all this after Littler came through an epic 16-15 battle with Gary Anderson only a few hours earlier to book his place in the title showdown.

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The semi-final:

Littler overturned a four-leg deficit to beat Gary Anderson 16-15 in a thrilling semi-final on Sunday afternoon.

Anderson hit finishes of 164, 142, 124 and 102 as he opened up a 13-9 lead, but Littler stormed back to win seven of the last nine legs.

“It frustrates me because I know I can come back and win games like this, but obviously it would be better if I went into the lead like Gary did,” said Littler, who hit 16 180s and averaged 103.81.

“When I went off for the last break I thought you’ve got to dig deep, just like the Mike de Decker game and I can’t believe I won.

“I said to myself ‘You know it’s there so do it’. This is one of the best games I’ve won.”

The quarter-final:

‘The Nuke’ was irresistible as he annihilated Dutchman Jermaine Wattimena 16-2.

The Warrington superstar thundered home a dozen 180s, hit 62 per cent of his doubles, achieved four ton-plus checkouts and went within a whisker of a magical nine-darter.

It was the highest defeat ever inflicted on a player at this stage of the Grand Slam of Darts.

The last 16:

Littler stormed back from 8-4 down against in-form World Grand Prix champion Mike De Decker, even surviving a match dart to win a deciding leg.

In all, ‘The Nuke’ won six of the last seven legs and his 38 per cent double success compared to the Belgian’s 26 per cent allowed him to advance with a 10-9 victory on Thursday night.

“It’s up there with one of the best games I’ve been involved in,” admitted Littler, who averaged 103.48 to De Decker’s 104.49.