Peter Wright thinks it is ‘a little bit too soon’ for Luke Humphries to win the World Darts Championship, although he reckons Cool Hand will lift the Sid Waddell Trophy in the future.
Humphries has long been one of the coming men on the oche and in recent months he has certainly arrived, winning the World Grand Prix, Grand Slam and Players Championship Finals since the start of October.
Such have been the performances of the 28-year-old that he heads to Alexandra Palace as the bookmakers’ favourite to win the title, ahead of the likes of Wright, defending champion Michael Smith and former winners Michael van Gerwen and Gerwyn Price.
Snakebite has been very impressed with Humphries, as everyone has, but he does not think the three-time quarter-finalist is quite ready to go all the way.
‘He is favourite because he has won three out of the last four majors, and I won the other one,’ two-time champion Wright told PA.
‘I was the only other person to get close to him. It’s my fault, I created a monster because I had three darts at the Grand Prix to beat him and that was his first major. If I’d done that things would have been different.
‘He’s a great darts player but I think it is a little bit too soon. Yes, I think he will win the worlds but just not yet.’
