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Luke Littler is looking to beat Phil Taylor's record-breaking spell at top of darts rankings

Luke Littler is looking to beat Phil Taylor's record-breaking spell at top of darts rankings

Luke Littler wants to surpass the number of days Phil Taylor spent as darts world number one.

'The Nuke' secured his second PDC World Championship last week and is now targeting overhauling arrows icon Taylor's 3,343 days at the summit of the rankings.

Littler – who first became world number one last November – told Sky Sports News: "It's crazy what I've done. I'm in the clear for world No 1. Phil Taylor had, I don't even know, three or four thousand days at world No 1.

"That's another bit of history I want to create, beat Phil at the No 1 and stay there for as long as possible and get all these other darts players chasing me."

The 18-year-old star needs to win the World Masters and the European Championship to complete a full set of major triumphs and is looking to dominate on the oche for years to come.

Littler said: "I want to dominate everything. Obviously, I want to try and win everything. But, the Masters, the Europeans, they're the two ones that I really want to go for this year. I'm going to come hunting them down.

"I want to be remembered for the titles that I win, the nine-darters I hit and I want to put down a legacy here (at the World Championship). I want to win so many trophies. There's so many years left."

However, the two-time world champion insists that he won't be changing either on or away from the oche.

Littler said: "I'm just me. As you see me outside darts, inside the darts, I'll never change.

"I won't change for anyone. This is how I am. Even my mum and dad from the first Worlds were saying to me, 'Just don't change anything, just be yourself', and that's how it's going to be."

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