A year after Luke Littler became the youngest winner of the PDC World Darts Championship, 71-year-old Paul Lim became the oldest winner of a match in the tournament’s history.
Roared on by the usual raucous Alexandra Palace crowd on Saturday, the Singapore veteran stunned Dutch-born Swede Jeffrey de Graaf.
The previous oldest player to win a round was Northern Ireland’s John MaGowan in 2008 when he was 67.
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Lim could face former world champion Luke Humphries next, a player he beat at the tournament five years ago.
“So I hope on a given day it can happen again [if I play him] but I never give up. He is good but he can be beaten,” Lim, known as the Singapore Slinger, said after his 3-1 win.
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Lim’s longevity has made him one of the most iconic names in darts and in 1990 he became the first player to hit a world championship nine-darter at the BDO tournament.