Littler admits he makes changes to stop boredom after Euros win

LUKE LITTER insists darts is not easy as a fresh way to kill boredom helped him stylishly kick-off his European Championship campaign.

And the Nuke reckons a nine-darter on a scoring app helped convince him changes would work a treat in Dortmund.

Littler began his quest of completing the clean sweep of major honours in the game with a strong showing against William O'Connor.

The back-to-back World Champion averaged over 105 as he clipped the wings of the The Magpie to set-up a last 16 clash against Nathan Aspinall in Dortmund.

Littler revealed after the game that he had changed his grip and throw during a lengthy recent lay-off from competitive action to stave off a feeling of boredom in practice.

However, when the 19-year-old was asked if needs to do such things because the game is becoming too easy and he needs to find fresh things to challenge him, he replied: "I woudn't say it's easy. I think it's just having so much time off. I had loads of weeks to prepare for this, so I can just go to the practice board at home and just kind of change it, really. I hit a nine-darter the other night on DartCounter as well, so I was like: I think I will stay with this until something does go wrong! But, yeah, it is all going well so far."

Littler was at ease on his big-stage return against O'Connor and made sure there was no disquiet from the German crowd because of his excellence.

Victory set-up a clash with Aspinall and the pair have locked horns regularly in recent times. Littler joked: "I think Nathan is more sick of meeting me than I am of him! I think Target put out a funny meme the other day as well when the draw did come out, but, yeah, that's just what happens.

"I know Nathan's not done many Euro Tours, I didn't do many either, just got a few wins, but I think it just makes us two better, even better than each other, because I know he always wants to beat me and I always want to beat him, so, hopefully, it's another good game tomorrow."