James Wade produced a vintage display to put a hold to Luke Littler's hopes of taking over from Luke Humphries as world No 1 this weekend to reach the European Championship quarter-finals.

Wade punished costly missed doubles to stun the world champion 10-7 and secure his first win over Littler on a TV stage and seal a quarter-final date with Humphries.

'The Machine' averaged 97.75 and took out three ton-plus checkouts - 121, 110 and 108.

It's the first first time Littler has failed to make the quarter-finals of a ranked major TV event since last year's European Championship (nine events in a row).

Wade, the 2018 champion, told ITV : "I don't think Luke played very well in comparison. I should have run away with it a little bit more than I did. I'm not lucky actually, I played better

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