Luke Humphries: World Champion thanks Gary Anderson for reward however says Luke Littler is a darts ‘celebrity’ | Darts Information

Luke Humphries has thanked Gary Anderson for his excessive reward and claims that he does not get sufficient credit score, however admits Luke Littler is the present “superstar” of darts.

Anderson said Humphries will get “overlooked” and deserves “a bit more respect” after he surged to world No 1 within the final 12 months and beat Littler within the World Championship last earlier this 12 months.

Humphries, who’s within the quarter-finals of the World Grand Prix after seeing off Ricardo Pietreczko on Wednesday evening, hopes to satisfy Anderson on this week’s last in Leicester.

Anderson performs Belgium’s Mike De Decker within the second spherical on Thursday evening, dwell on Sky Sports activities Predominant Occasion and Sky Sports activities+ at 7pm.

“Gary had some lovely words to say about me. When a legend of the game and someone you look up to says nice things about you, it makes you feel good inside,” mentioned Humphries.

“I may need to look at again what he mentioned. It is a good feeling for somebody like that to large me up.

“He is a legend of the sport and possibly he does not get the respect he deserves as a result of he is a terrific participant. In my eyes he is one of the best participant on the planet.

“He will sit here and say I am but if you’re going on stats and potential, I think Gary Anderson is the best in the world right now. Hopefully I might see him in the final because that will be a dream for me.”

Humphries’ outstanding rise to the highest of darts started 12 months in the past with the World Grand Prix title, then he went on to win the Grand Slam of Darts, Gamers Championship Finals and the World Championship later that season.

He misplaced to Littler within the Premier League Darts earlier this 12 months however received the World Cup of Darts with Michael Smith for England in the summertime and in addition received the World Matchplay for the primary time.

“I do feel like I’ve got a lot of credit. I don’t feel like the media hasn’t given me credit. I don’t feel that way,” continued Humphries.

“I just think when you’ve got a superstar [Littler], it’s hard not to go with that. Luke has grown the sport to absolutely incredible levels and he’s making the sport bigger for all of us, let’s be honest.”

Humphries: I get on rather well with Littler

Littler and Humphries have performed one another 12 instances this 12 months, with {the teenager} from Warrington main the head-to-head 8-4.

Nevertheless, seven of the matches have gone right down to deciding legs, so there may be little or no to separate the 2024 world finalists.

“If I was 17, 18 and all the attention was on him and not me, then I’d be gutted because I would be a young kid and think ‘I want all this’, but I’m an older guy now. I just want to win titles,” defined Humphries.

“Luke’s implausible and I actually hit it off with him and he is only a totally different expertise. He is 17 years previous and top-of-the-line gamers on the planet. That is an unimaginable feat. It is one thing that does not occur – not simply in darts, however any sport.

“I can see the media attention is on him. Maybe I deserve a bit more, maybe I deserve a bit more alongside with him. But the media attention he gets, he deserves and that’s no disregard to that. I do think I get a little bit of credit. I think it’s not as bad as it seems.”

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