Heta knocks teenager Littler out of UK Open

Damon Heta won an outstanding UK Open quarter-final to end Luke Littler's hopes of a first major PDC title.

Heta and 17-year-old Englishman Littler averaged in excess of 104, with the Australian winning 10-8 in Minehead, Somerset.

Heta will play Belgium's Dimitri van den Bergh, who beat England's Martin Lukeman 10-5, in the semi-finals.

World champion Luke Humphries, a 10-2 winner against fellow Englishman Stephen Bunting, will play Ricky Evans.

The tournament will be played to a conclusion when the action resumes at 19:00 GMT on Sunday, with the semis and final played over the best of 21 legs.

English world number one Humphries, winner of the past three major PDC titles, will be a strong favourite to extend that streak following the exits of World Championship runner-up Littler and 2018 world champion Rob Cross.

Cross lost 10-7 to fellow Englishman Evans, who was ranked 46th in the world before the event and was emotional on stage after reaching his first major PDC semi.