Who is Ricardo Pietreczko? Darts player who squared up to Luke Littler

LUKE LITTLER picked up another title in Belgium earlier tonight – but he had to come through a fiery semi-final before doing so.

The Nuke beat Ricardo Pietreczko 7-3 in his final four clash to reach the final against Rob Cross.

Luke Littler beat Ricardo Pietreczko in the semi-finals but the German wasn’t happy

But Pietreczko wasn’t happy with something Littler did, as after the game he squared up to the 17-year-old and walked away in disgust.

Littler said on a darts Facebook group: “No idea what I did wrong, no idea what he said. He said something then don’t do it again.”

Littler went on to beat Rob Cross in the semi-finals with an epic 8-7 victory.

Who is Ricardo Pietreczko?

Pietreczko is a darts player from Germany whose nickname is ‘Pickachu’ after the Pokemon character.

The 29-year-old plays on the PDC circuit regularly and has a world ranking of 32.

The furthest he has reached in PDC’s premier events is the last 32 of the World Championship and the last 16 of the European Championship.

In the last World Championship, he was knocked out in the third round by eventual winner Luke Humphries.

As a professional, Pietreczko has won seven darts tournaments, all in his homeland Germany.

After his defeat to Littler, he wrote a message on Instagram which accused the 17-year-old of being arrogant.

“So I appreciated him a lot than you can play such a game at such an age but I hope the arrogance punishes him,” the message read.