Luke Littler suffered a shock defeat to Krzysztof Ratajski at the European Championship Darts, as he failed in his attempt to claim the one major title he's never won.

The world No 1 was beaten 10-6 in the quarter-finals on Sunday afternoon as his bid to sweep all of the PDC's major titles before his 20th birthday fell short.

Poland's Ratajski remarkably won seven legs in a row to take a 7-1 lead over the world champion before Littler rallied to pull the game back to 8-6.

But he missed bullseye to hold throw in the 15th leg and Ratajski pinned D16 to move 9-6 ahead.

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Littler then failed to take out 121 in the next leg and Ratajski hit D10 to beat The Nuke for the first time in eight meetings.

Following his defeat, Littler posted on social media to say: "Played well in the lead up to today, but just didn't click for me earlier.

"Thank you for all the support this weekend. The wait for this one goes on."

Littler produced the second-best average in the tournament's history against Nathan Aspinall on Saturday evening, but averaged less than 100 on Sunday and hit only six of 16 attempts at double.

It's the latest setback for Littler, who suffered early exits at the World Series of Darts Finals and the World Grand Prix in recent weeks.

Littler will appear on a Netflix special next Friday night when 20 amateur players will attempt to beat him over one leg to win £501,000 before he turns his attention to defending his Grand Slam of Darts title live on Sky Sports in November.

Reflecting on his victory, Ratajski said: "He started to play very well after the second break. It was 8-2 for me and I had to wait, play my game and focus on my throw.

"He won three or four legs in a row and then I took a chance when he missed a double seven. It was my chance and I took it.

"It's my biggest achievement in the European Championship."

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