Luke Littler is one win away from becoming the first man in a decade to win back-to-back World Championships and a familiar foe is standing in his way.
Littler sauntered through to his third successive final with a 6-1 demolition of Ryan Searle and he is looking ominously invincible on an Alexandra Palace stage where he has lost only once in 18 matches.
Few would back against him lifting the Sid Waddell Trophy and pocketing a cool £1million on Saturday, but Dutchman Gian van Veen has designs on ending Littler’s reign.
