News 2019
30. December
Both semi-finals ended with the same result - Peter Wright and Michael van Gerwen progressed with 6:3 wins over Gerwyn Price and Nathan Aspinall into the World Championship final. After a one day break the final will be played on 1. January 2020. All in all it was not a gripping semi-finals night and the Alexandra Palace crowd was not electrified. Gerwyn Price played disappointing and Michael van Gerwen looked jaded. He only threw three 180s in the match, scored poor in patches and was not too clinical on his doubles even though Nathan Aspinall was often not able to use his chances. Peter Wright showed with a 98.39 average the best performance of the night but his double hitting rate leaves room for improvement as well.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
29. December
The World Championships was carried on today with the quarterfinals. Nathan Aspinall defeated in the first quarterfinal Dimitri van den Bergh with 5:3 and for the second time in a row progressed into the semi-finals. He will meet tomorrow Michael van Gerwen who won a scrappy match against Darius Labanauskas with 5:2. Peter Wright progressed to the semi-finals as well after a high class win over Luke Humphries. His opponent will be Gerwyn Price who won the last quarterfinal against a disappointing Glen Durrant with 5:1.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
Today in the Alexandra Palace the fourth round was played to the end - in an afternoon- and an evening-session each time three matches took place. Darius Labanauskas, Luke Humphries and Gerwyn Price didn't have many problems with their opponents Steve Beaton, Kim Huybrechts and Simon Whitlock and won with 2:4 respectively 1:4. The other three matches were closer - Dimitri van den Bergh defeated Adrian Lewis with a comeback 4:3, Peter Wright escaped 4:3 over the finishing line after Jeffrey de Zwaan drew with a comeback 3:3 and Glen Durrant prevailed with the same result over Chris Dobey.
Results
Statisticsnew
27. December
Christmas break is over and today in the Alexandra Palace the last four third round matches and the first two fourth round matches were played. Fallon Sherrock was back on stage in her third round match but lost to a dominant Chris Dobey with 2:4. The other three third round matches were won by Simon Whitlock, Glen Durrant and Gerwyn Price. While Michael van Gerwen whitewashed Stephen Bunting who showed a weak performance today, Gary Anderson - who made a few vital mistakes - lost 2:4 to Nathan Aspinall. Both players showed a strong performance.
Results
Statisticsnew
24. December
Again in the Alexandra Palace six third round matches were played - three of them were really close. Most thrilling was the match between Gary Anderson and Ryan Searle in which Anderson was already 1:3 behind. But Anderson didn't give in and while Searle was less strong as at the start of the match the Scotsman managed to improve and win 4:3 with an almost 110 average. The best performance of the day showed Jeffrey der Zwaan who won a close match against Dave Chisnall with a 106.09 average. Beside Anderson and de Zwaan Adrian Lewis, Luke Humphries, Dimitri van den Bergh and Peter Wright progressed into the fourth round.
Results
Statisticsnew
22. December
Today in the Alexandra Palace the first six matches of the third round were played - the format is now best of seven sets. Max Hopp, Jonny Clayton, Danny Noppert, Ricky Evans and James Wade were eliminated form the tournament. With Kim Huybrechts and Darius Labanauskas two unseeded players reached the fourth round. Reigning champion Michael van Gerwen continued his campaign with a 4:0 win over Ricky Evans. In the best match of the day Nathan Aspinall defeated Krzysztof Ratajski in a close encounter with 4:3.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
The match of the day to be sure was the match between Fallon Sherrock and Mensur Suljovic which delighted the crowd. Sherrock won it with another good performance 3:1. Suljovic was not the only seeded player who was eliminated today - Steve West was demolished 0:3 by an outstanding Ryan Searle who played with 101.54 the second highest average of the day and Keegan Brown lost a close match against Japanese Seigo Asada. The highest average of the day played Dimitri van den Bergh in the last match of the night against Josh Payne with 103.81. Josh Payne had no chance at all despite playing well himself. As well 3:0 wins had Simon Whitlock, Daryl Gurney and Glen Durrant. Adrian Lewis had to give all against Cristo Reyes but in the end won 3:2. He narrowly missed in the match the double 12 for a níne-darter.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
21. December
Young Irishman Keane Barry defeated in the final of the JDC International Junior World Championship Adam Gawlas from the Czech Republic with 5:3.
The final of the JDC World Championship was played today on the stage Alexandra Palace on which Barry only a few days ago played his first round match against Vincent van der Voort.
Report
20. December
The last two first round matches were won by Justin Pipe and Jan Dekker - both were close matches. After that in the afternoon-session followed two second round matches which were both won
by the seeded players John Henderson and Steve beaton without problems. The four second round matches of the evening session were won by the seeded players as well though some were hard faught wins especially the last one
between Gerwyn Price and William O'Connor which Price might be only won because O'Connor made a mistake.
Results
Statisticsnew
Canadian Matt Campbell qualified this year by the CDC ranking for the PDC World Championship. He played first round against Mark McGeeney but lost the match
1:3. In the interview he talks about himself, the CDC Tour and the Canadian darts scene.
To the Interviewnew
19. December
Today is my last day at the Alexandra Palace. And of course it is raining again... The last two first round matches will be played and six second round matches. I am looking
forward especially to the last two matches tonight when with Dave Chisnall and Gerwyn Price two Top 10 players will stand at the oche!
The seventh day of the tournament - "I wish you a Merry Christmas..."new
Of the two German players in the evening session only Nico Kurz won his match, Gabriel Clemens lost a close match against Benito van de Pas. The two seeded players Stephen Bunting and
James Wade progressed in the best matches of their sessions. The other winners were Ron Meulenkamp, Seigo Asada, Harry Ward, and Josh Payne.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
18. December
Tonight is German night in the Alexandra Palace. So the song "O Tannenbaum" is a must despite there can't be found a Christmas tree anywhere in Alexandra Palace. Might be I even will have recovered a little bit from
yesterday when Nico Kurz and Gabriel Clemens will come in stage...
The sixth day of the tournament - "O Tannenbaum"new
The outstanding match of the day was the match between Fallon Sherrock and Ted Evetts which Sherrock won with 3:2 and it was a good match as well. Krzysztof Ratajski and Jeffrey de Zwaan were the two
seeded players and both won their matches against Zoran Lerchbacher and Darin Young. Damon Heta and Noel Malicdem won both 3:0
Results
Statistics, Report new
17. December
Due to ill health Trina Gulliver - who till now took part in every women's World Champion and won it ten times - will have to miss out this year. She will be replaced by Australian Tori Kewish.
Participants, Schedule
The next long day of the tournament with an afternoon and an evening session is ahead of us. Players from around the world will stand at the oche today - among them the second female
player Fallon Sherrock. Appropriate to Polish player Krzysztof Ratajski I picked the Polish Christmas song "Bog sie Rodzi" as song of the day.
The fifth day of the tournament - "Bog sie Rodzi"new
Gary Anderson is the second seeded player who survived the second round - he defeated with a solid performance Brendan Dolan with 3:0. The only Irishman who survived this night is William O'Connor,
who won with 3:0 but was far from happy with his game. Impressed tonight have especially the two young players - Englishman Callan Rydz who defeated Steve Lennon and the young Irishman
Keane Barry despite he lost to Vincent van der Voort
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
16. December
On the fourth day of the tournament only an evening session will be played and
it will be really something special as in all four matches an Irish player will stand on stage. Appropriate the musical part deals with Christmas songs from Ireland -
first of all "Fairytale of New York".
The fourth day of the tournament - "Fairytale of New York"new
For the seeded players with the exception of Michael van Gerwen the tournament so far is a disaster - with Ian White and Michael Smith againm the seeded players
were eliminated from the tournament. Beside there were some very close matches which were won by Kyle Anderson and American Danny Baggish and just, really just lost by Mikuru Suzuki.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
15. December
Today is already the third day of the World Championship. And outside the sun is shining. What a pity. Today the musical part deals with an English Christmas song
- "Good King Wenceslas". Many different countries will stand at the oche today, but the two seeded players are from England.
The third day of the tournament - "Good King Wenceslas"new
After a not really interesting afternoon session - with the exception of the match between Jermaine Wattimena and Luke Humphries which Humphries won in a Sudden Death Leg -
followed an evening session with two big upsets.
Raymond van Barneveld was celebrated by the crowd but lost to Amrican Darin Young. Not a nice farewell for the Dutch legend...The last match of the night ended with an upset as well
- Rob Cross who was at all sea was demolished
0:3 by a delighted Kim Huybrechts.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
14. December
The second day of the tournament lies in front of me. It will be a long day of darts... Today the musical part of the article centers around an American
Christmas song - "White Christmas" - as two players from North America will stand on the Alexandra Palace stage!
The second tournament day - "White Christmas" new
13. December
The first night of the PDC World Championship was an interesting evening. In the first match Jelle Klaasen started tense but won in the end deserved against
Kevin Burness. The second match between Kim Huybrechts and
Geert Nentjes was a very close affair and Huybrechtsin the end a delighted winner. PDC Wold Youth Champion Luke Humphries got a solid win over Devon Petersen. In the second round match of
the night reigning champion Michael van Gerwen became shaky against Jelle Klaasen but won 3:1.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
13. December
Today in London the PDC World Championship will begin and Global Darts will be there for almost a week. Again every day
an article will be published - beside a "musical" part it will consists of a preview of the darts day. Today the "musical" part will have a look on
the walk-on songs while over the
next days musically appropriate it will get festive.
The first tournament day!new
This year my idea was a slightly different competition under the motto : "Who wears that shoe" and which will run through both the PDC and the BDO World Championship.
The winner will get a set of Triumph Performance Darts.
To the Competition
9. December
Actually we had planed to publish the interview in the forerun to the WDF World Cup - but somehow we all didn't bring in about. But now it is finally finished and as an alternative program to the PDC World Championship it is interesting when a DDV players has a view on darts in Germany.
To the Interview
Gabriel Clemens will this year stand for the second time during the PDC World Championship on the stage of the Alexandra Palace. Since 2018 Clemens has a Tour Card and he during this almost two years played himself up to the 42. place in the PDC Order of Merit. His highlights this year were the final German Darts Masters and the Last 16 of the Grand Slam of Darts were this interview came into being. In the first round of the World Championship Clemens will play against Benito van de Pas. Should he win his second round opponent will be his fellow country man Max Hopp.
To the Interview
6. December
This year again for the PDC World Championship some additions in the Who is Who were necessary.
Added were: Harry Ward, Ritchie Edhouse, Ryan Meikle, Noel Malicdem, Ciaran Teehan, Callan Rydz, Robbie King, Damon Heta, Nico Kurz, Jose Justicia, Benjamin Pratnemer, Xiaochen Zong, Keane Barry, Danny Baggish and Yuki Yamada.
At a time when the future of the BDO World Championship looks more doubtful than ever we have a closer look at the first BDO World Champion, the first Darts World Champion altogether Welshman Leighton Rees.
Linked to the short article are several of the many Leighton Rees' videos you can find in the internet. Among others you can find the link to the last leg of the first World Championship final between Leighton Rees and John Lowe.
Leighton Rees
2. December
How better to attune to a World Championship than with a Coaching Clinic about a World Champion? In this Darts Performance Centre blog the first ever World Champion Leighton Rees occupies centre stage. Even today you can still learn from him...
We take you back to the late 70's for coaching advice from Welsh legend Leighton Rees
28. November
By now the PDC published the detailed schedule for the first three rounds of the tournament.
The match between Jelle Klaasen and Kevin Burness will open the World Championship on 13. December. Reigning champion Michael van Gerwenwill play in the last match of the first night against the winner of that first round match. The second round will be played till 21. December when the match between Dimitri van den Bergh and the winner of the match Josh Payne v Diogo Portela will end the first round. The third round will be played till after the Christmas break and will end on 27. December.
Schedule
Winners of the Finder Italian Grand Masters were Scotsman Ross Montgomery and Laura Turner from England. The Open Italia was won by Tony Martin and Aileen de Graaf.
The Korea Open were won by Kwang-Hee Cho and Hye-Jin Choi. Winners of the Latvia Open were Andrey Pontus from Belarus and Fin Kirsi Viinikainen. The youth event won Latvian Ralfs Laumanis.
26. November
By the PDPA Qualifier qualified Benito van de Pas, Kevin Burness and Matthew Edgar for the World Championship. The UK/Ireland Women's Qualifier was won by Fallon Sherrock. Now the field of participants is complete.
Yesterday the draw for the first and second round was made as well. In the first round all qualifiers and the players who got their place in the World Championship by the Pro Tour Order of Merit will participate. First round winners than will meet in the second round the 32 seeded players. Reigning champion Michael van Gerwen will open his tournament against the winner of the first round match between Jelle Klaasen and Kevin Burness. The two female qualifiers Mikuru Suzuki and Fallon Sherrock will play in the first round against James Richardson and Ted Evetts.
Participants, Draw
The PDC already announced first dates and host cities of the World Series of Darts 2020. Next year the World Series again will visit the USA but the U.S Darts Masters will not take place in Las Vegas but in New York from 5. - 6. June. Already one week later the World Series for the first time wil come to Copenhagen for the Nordic Darts Masters. Retained will be the event in Hamilton in New Zealand which will take place on 21. and 22. August. The final will be played next year already in September might be in Salzburg in Austria.
World Series of Darts
On Saturday only a few days after his 90. birthday the founder of the BDO - Olly Croft - passed away. Croft founded the BDO in 1973 and till his voting out in 2011 stayed in the board. Croft was many years honorary president of the WDF. Due to his attitude 1994 the now PDC spilt off the BDO. Even though Croft rulings in later years were often not really wise he nevertheless was a big influence in the development of the sport of darts which probably would not even exist without him in today's from.
PDC Rankings
25. November
After the Players Championship Finals at the weekend the seeded players and the players who qualified by the Pro Tour Order of Merit for the World Championship are known.
Today in Wigan the UK and Ireland Women's Qualifier and the PDPA Qualifier will be played by which the last four tournament places will be filled.
PDC World Championship
24. November
With a very close 9:11 win - Gerwyn Price narrowly missed the 10:10 - Michael van Gerwen won the Players Championship Finals. Before both players had won their semi-finals 11:8 and especially for Gerwyn Price it had been hard work against Chris Dobey.
The afternoon quarterfinals were with the exception of the match between Ian White and William O'Connor all more one-sided matches. Raymond van Barneveld disappointed with a quite weak performance against Chris Dobey.
Statistics
Report Finals Day
Luke Humphries had no problems at all with his opponent and won with a 6:0 whitewash against Adam Gawlas the PDC Unicorn World Youth Championship title. One could see that Humphries has a lot more experience on stage than the with 17 years a lot younger Gawlas who beside only started to play darts this February.
Report, Statisticsnew
Today is the last day of the Players Championship Finals and the tournament will be played to the end.
In the afternoon the quarterfinals will be played, tonight semi-finals and final. Between the semi-finals and the final the final of the PDC Unicorn World Youth Championship between Luke Humphries and Adam Gawlas will take place.
Schedule, Results
23. November
On the first day of the Players Championship Finals with Peter Wright, reigning champion Daryl Gurney, Nathan Aspinall and Jonny Clayton several top players already were eliminated. Gerwyn Price schowed the best performance of the day while Raymond van Barneveld won with a strong display against Nathan Aspinall.
Today in the afternoon-session the second round will be played and in the evening-session the third round.Both session will again be played on two stages.
Schedule, Results
Statisticsnew
22. November
Today in Minehead the Players Championship Finals will begin - the last PDC event before the World Championship. Last year Daryl Gurney won it. He defeated Michael van Gerwen in the final.
Today the first round will be played in an afternoon- and an evening-session on two stages.
Previewnew
Just in time before the next PDC tournament - the Grand Slam of Darts Gallery!
Gallery
21. November
Here is a fifth and last article from Wolverhampton as I still was there on the first day of the knockout phase. Of course the main topic are the dasrts of the day but beside you'll find the very sad story of a young football player...
"Black by Day and Red by Night" - 3new
20. November
The PDC amended the tournament calendar and in addition published a new structure of qualification for the European Tour.
The amended tournament calendar you can find her:
Tournament Calendar 2020new
The new qualification structure of the European Tour you can find here:
European Tournew
19. November
Winners of the Czech Open were Ross Montgomery and Lisa Ashton. The youth events were won by Tomas Houdek and Denisa Feklova from the Czech Republic.
Winners of the Ted Clements Memorial in New Zealand were Darren Herewini and Desi Mercer. The Hong Kong Open were won by FbLeung and Yi Hong Li. Winners of the Taiwan Darts Open were Yeng Chou Liao and Angelyn Detablan.
Winners of the Colorado Open were Bruce Robbins and Paula Murphy. The youth titles won Ronan Miller and Rianna December.
PDC Rankings
18. November
Beside the Superleague final in Hildesheim at the weeken the "Rest of the World Women's Qualifier" for the PDC World Championship took place with far less participants then last year. In an all Japanese final Mikuru Suzuki defeated Kasumi Sato with 6:3 and will take part in the World Championship for the first time.
PDC World Championship
On saturday the qualifier for the new Superleague season took place. Three places were on offer.
Kai Gotthardt, Jens Kniest and Daniel Klose qualified. For all three it will be the first Superleague season.
On sunday to end this year's season the play-offs were played with the winner getting a place in the PDc World Championship. Nico Kurz won the final against Martin Schindler and will give his debut in Alexandra Palace.
Superleague
17. November
An outstanding Gerwyn Price defeated in the Grand Slam final Peter Wright with 16:6 and defended the title. Peter Wright throughout the match couldn't keep up with Price who had an average of 107.86 and threw 11 180s in the final.
In the afternoon first Peter Wright progressed into the final with a win over Glen Durrant. After that Price defeated in the thrilling and high class second semi-final Michael van Gerwen with 16:12. Price was always in the lead in the match.
Results
Report, Statisticsnew
Today the Grand Slam will be played to the end. In the afternoon-session the semi-finals between Peter Wright and Glen Durrant and Gerwyn Price and Michael van Gerwen will take place. In the evening-session the final will be played.
Schedule
16. November
Tonight both quarterfinals were one-sided affairs and Gerwyn Price and Michael van Gerwen progressed deservedly and without problems into the semi-finals.There they will play against another tomorrow afternoon.
Neither Gary Anderson nor Adrian Lewis were good enough to keep up with their opponents and so Anderson lost 9:16 to Gerwyn Price and Lewis 6:16 to van Gerwen.
Results
Bericht, Statisticsnew
Tonight the other two quarterfinals will take place. First Gerwyn Price will play against Gary Anderson - a repeat of last year's controversial final. After that Michael van Gerwen and Adrian Lewis will meet who already played against each other in the group phase. There van Gerwen won 5:2.
Schedule
On the fourth day of the tournament the group phase ended with the last gruop matches of the Groups A-D zu Ende and it was an interesting evening. Beside we present an interesting person out of the history of the Black Country - Dudd Dudley.
"Black by Day and Red by Night" - 2new
Peter Wright and Glen Durrant prevailed in the first two quarterfinals and will now meet on sunday afternoon in the semi-finals.
Peter Wright defeated Dave Chisnall with 16:12. Wright - who changed his flights in the second break - had to come from 5:8 behind. He won eight legs in a row. Then his lead was just too big - despite a fightback from Chisnall Wright won. With the same result Glen Durrant defeated Michael Smith. Durrant was in a rather evenly matched game far more clinical on his doubles.
Results
Report, Statisticsnew
15. November
Tonight the first two quarterfinals will be played. First Dave Chisnall will play against Peter Wright. In the second match Glen Durrant will meet Michael Smith.
Schedule, Results
Despite all rumours about problems in the BDO now the schedule of the World Championships were published - they will be played from 4. - 12. January in London.
The men's tournament will be opened by the match between Marion Vandenbogaerde and Sebastian Steyer. In the women's event Fallon Sherrock and Corrine Hammond will be the first at the oche. The men's number one seed Wesley Harms will play in the afternoon session on Monday against the winner of the match between Andreas Harrysson and World Masters winner John O'Shea while the reigning women's champion Mikuru Suzuki will play in Monday's evening session against Maria O'Brien.
Schedulenew
With a great fightback Adrian Lewis defeated James Wade and progressed into the quarterfinals. Michael van Gerwen and Gary Anderson had some problems but progressed as well. An easy win had reigning champion Geryn Price over Darren Webster - Price won with 10:1.
Results
Report, Statisticsnew
14. November
German Gabriel Clemens started strong in his match against Glen Durrant but lost the close match in the end with 9:10. Beside Durrant Dave Chisnall,
Michael Smith and Peter Wright were tonight winners. While Chisnall and Wright had no problems with their opponents Ryan Harrington and Rob Cross Smith had no easy match
against Daryl Gurney.
Results
Statistics
Of course the darts of the third day of the tournament play their part in the third article but beside we have a view on the region around Wolverhampton, - the "Black Country", which is represented in the event by Jamie Hughes.
"Black by Day and Red by Night" - 1
13. November
On the fifth day of the tournament the knockout phase begins and four matches will be played. Among others Peter Wright and Michael Smith will stand at the oche.
Schedule, Results
While by the last group matches not much did change in the group tables of Groups A-D there were nevertheless some surprinsing
results.James Wade and Gary Anderson lost their last group matches against Steve Lennon and Darren Webster and Webster played a really great match.
Though Robert Thornton won he really had to fight against Mikuru Suzuki. Dave Parletti defeated Williem O'Connor. Reigning champion Gerwyn Price won his match against Dinitri van der Bergh as well.
For the knockout phase qualified in the end beside Michael van Gerwen Ian White,
James Wade, Robert Thornton, Gerwyn Price, Darren Webster, Gary Anderson and Adrian Lewis.
Results, Tables
Report, Statistics
12. November
As the second day of the event was another long day of darter artcle two is more or less only about darts as well...All participants played their second group matches.
Day Two and most is about Darts!!!
Today another thrilling evening of darts awaits us - out of the groups A - D only Michael van Gerwen is already through to the knockout phase. So seven more places are still on offer.
Schedule
The last group matches of the groups E-H didn't cause real upsets. Gabriel Clemens, Michael Smith and Dave Chisnall were already through to the next round and won
their third group matches as well. Peter Wright got his third win as well and progress into the next round. Thanks to their second wins the following players will take part in the knockout phase
as well:
Daryl Gurney, Rob Cross, Glen Durrant and Ryan Harrington.
Schedule, Results
Report, Statistics
11.November
For some time I feared I couldn't Brexit visit the Grand Slam this year but luckily for me the no deal Brexit was
postponed. So I traveled to Wolverhampton to watch the group phase of the event once again live.
The first article deals more or laess only with the darts of the first tournament day.
I am back...
Tonight the last group matches of the Groups E - H will take place. Only Dave Chisnall, Gabriel Clemens and Michael Smith are already through to the next round so it will be an exciting evening.
After the second day with group matches Michael van Gerwen, Dave Chisnall, Gabriel Clemens and Michael Smith
are already qualified for the k.o phase of the tournament while Ross Smith, Lisa Ashton, Wayne Warren, Richard Veenstra and Martin Schindler
are already out.
On a day with many highclass performances Michael Smith played an outstanding 113,62 in an impressive match in which Nathan Aspinall despite an over 100 average as well had no chance at all. Jim Williams got the till now only win for a still BDO player of the event.
Schedule, Results, Tables
Report, Statistics
10. November
On the second day of the tournament again an afternoon - and an evening session will take place. In the afternoon session the first the losers of yesterday's first group
matches of the Groups E-H will play another and afterwards the winners. In the evening session the same will happen with the losers and winners of the Group A-D.
On the first day of the Grand Slam all groups played their first group matches.All eight BDO players involved lost their matches including the two women
Lisa Ashton and Mikuru Suzuki though Suzuki impressed against Gerwyn Price. All fovourites won their matches - the only surorise winners were
Ryan Harrington against Danny Noppert and Robert Thornton
against Dimitri van den Bergh.
Schedule, Results
Report, Statistics
9. November
The PDC today announced thecompleted line-up of the European Tour 2020. The first event of the European Tour will be played from 28. February to 1. March in Hasselt in Belgium.
The 13. and last event will take place from 16. - 18. October in Prag in the Czech Republic.
European Tour
Today in Wolverhampton the Grand Slam of Darts will begin.
In an afternoon - and an evening session all participants will play their first group mantches.
Preview
7. November
The PDC now published the schedule for the first group matches on Saturday. As in the last years in the afternoon session Groups E-H will play and in the evening session Groups A-D.
The match between Nathan Aspinall and Martin Schindler will open the tournament. Reigning champion Gerwyn Price will open his campaign in the second match of the evening session against Japanese Women's World Champion Mikuru Suzuki.
Schedule first group matches
Not every holiday paradise is a darts paradise as well. Dartoid had this experience in Puerto Vallarta in Mexico...
Darts in Paradisenew
Deta Hedman won in Hungary both the ladies singles of the and of the Masters. The men's event of the Hungarian Classic won Hungarian Janos Vegso and Romanian Gabriel Pascaru the men's event of the Hungarian Masters. Tamara Kovacs won both girl's titles while Zsombor Budvari won the boys Classic and Rajmund Papp the boys Masters. All youth are from Hungary.
Winner of the Turkish Open were Turk Emirhan Kan Gunduz and Iranian Zahra Rajabi. The youthtitles won Isa Furkan Cos from Turkey and Iranian Mashad Avazzadeh. The titles of the Turkish Masters went to Iranian Hossain Arabi Karagani and Turkish woman Merve Erden. Isa Furkan Kos won this boy's event as well while Iranian Ayse Bodur won the girl's title.
The Alan King Memorial in New Zealand was won by Darren Herrewini and Patience Te Moananui. Winners of the Canadian Bob Jone Memorial were David Cameron and Maria Mason.
5. November
After the PDC Unicorn Youth World Championship yesterday in Wigan the Grand Slam Qualifier took place in which eight places in the tournament were on offer. Ryan Harrington, Robert Thornton, Brendan Dolan, Jamie Hughes, Ross Smith, Adrian Lewis and Gabriel Clemens qualified. Clemens, Smith and Harrington will take part in the tournament for the first time.
By now the PDC published the group draw for the tournament. The number one seed Michael van Gerwen is joined in Group A by Adrian Lewis, Ross Smith and Jim Williams while reigning champion Gerwyn Price builds Group C together with Dimitri van den Bergh, Robert Thornton and Mikuru Suzuki.
Participants, Group Drawnew
Yesterday in Wigan the 17 years old Czech Adam Gawlas and Luke Humphries reached the final of the PDC Unicorn World Youth Championship. The final will take place on 24. November on the finals day of the Players Championship Finals in Minehead. Ryan Meikle and Keane Barry reached the semi-finals.
PDC Unicorn World Youth Championship
4. November
At the weekend the last four events of the Development Tour were played. On both days Ted Evetts and Luke Humphries won one of the events and hold steady on the first and second place of the ranking. Both are at the moment already qualified by the Pro Tour Order of Merit for the PDC World Champion - Geert Nentjes and Ryan Meikle will move up for them. As Meikle is at the moment already qualified as well the fifth ranked Ciaran Teehan probably will have the chance to take part in his first World Championship.
During the last event of the Development Tour Keane Barry threw a nine-darter.
After the end of the development tour the field of participants of the PDC Unicorn World Youth Championship - which will take place today in Wigan - are known.
Development Tour
PDC Unicorn World Youth Championship
At the weekend the last two events of the Nordic and Baltic Tour took place in Latvia. Madars Razma and Darius Labanauskas both won one of the events. So Razma sits on the first place of the ranking and will take part in the PDC World Championship. Darius Labanauskas - who sits in second place - is already qualified by the Pro Tour Order . So Marko Kantele will move up to the qualification place.
Before the two events the Qualifier for the second European Tour event 2020 took place. Latvian Mindausgas Barauskas won it and will take part for the first time in the European Tour.
Nordic and Baltic Tour
PDC Rankings
3. November
At the end of an interesting day of darts stood a completely one sided final in which Michael van Gerwen defeated Danny Noppert with 11:2 and won the title.
In the afternoon session we could see three close matches which were won by Mensur Suljovic, Dave Chisnall and - surprisingly - Danny Noppert. Dave Chisnall had prevailed with 10:8 over Raymond van Barneveld. Michael van Gerwen won his last eight match with 10:6 against Jonny Clayton and afterwards demolished Mensur Suljovic in the semi-finals with 11:4 while the second semi-final between Dave Chisnall and Danny Noppert was a highly compatitive match. Might be that was the reason Noppert had no chance at all to keep up with van Gerwen in the final.
Results
Report and Statistics, Finals Day
In an afternoon and an evening-session the tournament will be played today to the end. After the second round Michael van Gerwen to be sure starts into the final day as favourit. But should Raymond van Barnevld by able to keep up his second round performance he will have a chance on the win as well.
Schedule
The second round of the tournament turned out to be a surprise round - six of the eight seeded players lost their matches and were elimnated. That means from those players who really played in one or several World Series events only Michael van Gerwen and Raymond van Barneveld are still in the tournament. Michael van Gerwen had some problems to get rid of Gerwyn Price and needed a last leg decider to do so. Raymond van Barneveld played last night the highest average and probably his best match of the year and progressed with a 6:4 win over Jermaine Wattimena into the quarterfinals.
Results
Report and Statistics, Second Round
2. November
Tonight the second round of the event is played and the seeded players join the tournament.
Yesterday's first round was without upsets. Michael Smith lost to Gerwyn Price, Mensur Suljovic won a from both sides not good match against Kyle Anderson and today meets Damon Heta. Jermaine Wattimena prevailed over Gabriel Clemens and will play tonight against Raymond van Barneveld. In the best first round match Krzysztof Ratajski won the close encounter against Nathan Aspinall.
Schedule, Results
1. November
Today the draw for the first and second round of the men and of the first round of the women took place.
The number 1 seed Dutchman Wesley Harms will play in his second round match against the winner of the first round match between Andreas Harrysson and the World Masters winner John O'Shea. The reigning women's champion and number two seed Japanese Mikuru Suzuki will begin her campaingn against unseeded Maria O'Brien.
Participants, Draw
Tonight in Amsterdam the final of this year's World Series of Darts will begin. For the Dutch legend Raymond van Barneveld it will be the last televised PDC tournament in front of his Dutch fans.
But tonight in the first round only the sixteen unseeded players will stand at the oche and van Barnevelds opponent will be decided in the match between his fellow country man Jermaine Wattimena and German Gabriel Clemens.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
Preview
29. October
After the draw the PDC today published the detailed schedule of the event which will be played from 22. - 24. November in Minehead. The first and the second round again will be played on two stages.
Reigning champion Daryl Gurney will begin his title defence during Friday's evening session on the main stage before the world's number one Michael van Gerwen will play on the same stage against Luke Humphries.
Participants, Schedule
Yesterday on the last day of the World Masters the Play-Offs for the BDO World Championships took place. On offer were four places in the men's event and two in the women's world championship.
For the men's tournament qualified Justin Hood, Nick Fullwell, Scott Williams and Ben Hazel. All four will give their world championship debut. For the women's event qualified Kirsty Hutchinson and Corrine Hammond. For Hutchinson it will be as well the first world championship.
World Masters 19
28. October
The PDC now published the draw and the schedule of the first and second round of the event which took place last night during the European Championship in Göttingen.
In the first round qualifiers and invited players will meet. The seeded players will join the event in the second round. Reigning champion James Wade will open his tournament in the second round either against Wayne Jones or against Jonny Clayton.
The final of the World Series of Darts will begin on Friday.
Participants, Draw, Schedule
PDC Rankings
27. October
With a convincing 11:6 win over Gerwyn Price Rob Cross won the European Championship title, after the World Masters title his second major title of the year. Gerwyn Price looked rather tired and more and more frustrated in the final and couldn't keep up any longer after the second break.
Cross before elimated in the quarterfinals Ricky Evans and then prevailes in a close semi-final over Daryl Gurney. Price defeated on finals day in the quarterfinals a persistent Vincent van der Voort and in the semi-finals a once again luckless Michael Smith.
Results
Report Finals Day
Statistics
As last year Lisa Ashton won the women's event of the World Masters. In a high class final she defeated Anastasia Dobromyslova with 5:4. Before she prevailed in the semi-finals with 5:1 over Japanese Kasumi Sato. Dobromyslova defeated in her semi-final Lorraine Winstanley as well with 5:1.
In the men's event Irishman John O'Shea was a surprise winner over Scott Waites in the final. The Irishman never before won a tournament outside of Ireland but in 2011 he took part in the UK Open. O'Shea won on finals day in the quarterfinals against Neil Duff from Northern Ireland and in the semi-finals against Belgian Mario Vandenbogaerd. For Waites the way in the final went over a win against Carl Hamilton in the quarterfinals and a win over Welshman Michael Warburton in the semi-finals.
World Masters 19
Today in Göttingen the tournament will be played to the end. In the afternoon the quarterfinals will take place - in the evening semi-finals and final.
Looking at the performances in the tournament so far Dave Chisnall and Gerwyn Price go into finals day as the favourites while Ricky Evans, Jeffrey de Zwaan and Vincent van der Voort to be sure are the underdogs.
Finals day at the World Masters in London as well and here as well an afternoon session and an evening session will be played. In the afternoon session the ladies play their semi-finals and the men their quarterfinals. In the evening the men's semi-finals and final and the women's final will be played. While out of the men's field the best known player - Scott Waites - will be the favourite probably all four women could win the tournament.
The youth finals were already played on Friday and Irishman Keane Barry won the boy's title while Katie Sheldon from Ireland won the girl's title.
World Masters 19
26. October
On the third day of the tournament in an evening session the second round will be played to the end. Again four matches will take place and with Michael Smith and Gerwyn Price two favourites on the win will stand at the oche. But their opponents Stephen Bunting and Nathan Aspinall could make it hard work for them to progress.
Results
Report Third Day
Statistics
25. October
The second day of the event started with the last eight first round matches in an afternoon-session. With Peter Wright another favourit was eliminated from the event - he lost with 4:6 against Jeffrey de Zwaan. In the best match of the afternoon - in which both players had an over 100 average - Michael Smith defeated Ian White with 6:1.
By yesterday's winners tonight in the evening-session the first four matches of the second round will be played.
Participants, Results
Report Second Day
Statistics
Though it looks the World Masters are in parts rather chaotic of course darts is played as well and there are first results. The men's last 32 are known and the quarterfinals of the women as well. Today beside the men's last 32 - in an afternoon and an evening session - the boys final between Irish Keane Barry - who recently won the Irish Matchplay and qualified for the PDC World Championship - and English Charlie Manby will take place. As well today in the girls final Irish Katie Sheldon will meet Scottish Sophie McKinlay.
World Masters 19
24. October
The European Championship started with two big upsets on the first evening - both reigning champion James Wade and the favourite to win the event Michael van Gerwen were elimnated tonight. James Wade looked not really motivated and failed to win a single leg against Jonny Clayton who showed the outstanding performance of the night. Michael van Gerwen played well but couldn't get rid of Ross Smith who won the close match with 6:5. Compared with that is was only a small surprise that Ricky Evans won 6:5 over Glen Durrant.
Participants, Results
Report First Eveningnew
Statistics
Today in the Lokhalle in Göttingen this year's European Championship will begin for which the Top 32 of the Euorpean Tour Order of Merit are qualified. No German player managed to qualify. After his recent achievements Michael van Gerwen will enter the event as the favourit.
Tonight the first eight matches of the first round will be played.
Preview
Next Monday the PDC Unicorn World Youth Championship will take place in Wigan.
The 23 international participants are known by now. They will be joined by Max Hopp and Jeffrey de Zwaan - who are among the Top 32 of the Order of Merit - and 71 players from the Development Tour Order of Merit which will be known on Sunday night after the last four events of the Development Tour will have been played on Saturday and Sunday in Wigan.
PDC Unicorn World Youth Championship
23. October
Today the World Masters will begin - this year with One180-L-style as the new sponsors. there will be a new venue as well and all stage matches will take place in the Circus Tavern in Purfleet in which for many years the PDC World Championship took place. And something else changed as well - there will no more seeded players who join the event in the later stages.
World Masters 19
Tournament Information
22. October
Some more qualifiers are played by now and the field of international qualifiers slowly fills up.
By the Indian qualifier Nitin Kumar qualified who already stood on stage in the Alexandra Palace last year. Damon Heta qualified as first of the Dartplayers Australia Ranking. Spaniard Jose Justicia qualified by the -south/West Europe Qualifier, Dutchman Jan Dekker by the West Europe Qualifier. Irishman Keane Barry is qualified as winner of the Irish Matchplay.
PDC World Championship
20. October
With a close 11:10 win over Peter Wright Michael van Gerwen won his first Champions League of Darts title. Wright was three legs in advance in the match but in the end didn't use his chance to beat the Dutchman.
On his way into the final van Gerwen defeated on the last day of the event first last year's winner Gary Anderson in the last group match and in another very close match in the semi-finals Gerwyn Price. Wright won on finals day first in his last group match against Rob Cross and than prevailed in the semi-finals over Michael Smith.
Results, Tables
Statistics, Report Final
19. October
Today in Leicester in in an afternoon and an evening session the first group matches of the Champions League of Darts were played. Both Michael van Gerwen and Peter Wright won their both matches and are already safe in the K.O. phase. Rob Cross and reigning champion Gary Anderson lost both their matches and will be eliminated. The other foru players all have one win and one defeat after the first day of the tournament.
Results, Tables
Statistics
18. Oktober
Tomorrow in Leicester the Champions League will begin. Only the top eight of the PDC Order of Merit take part in the two day event. Not all of those top eight showed their A game in the last few weeks - so World Grand Prix winner Michael van Gerwen enters the event as the top favourite.
Preview
17. October
The PDC now announced the BDO representatives of this year's event. As in the last years it again will be eight players who get an invitation . this year two of them female players. Glen Durrant gat an invitation as BDO World Champion 2019 though he plays the PDC Circuit by now. BDO World Champion Mikuru Suzuki will take part as will Lisa Ashton who heads at the moment the BDO women's ranking. Beside Wesley Harms, Jim Williams, Richard Veenstra, Dave Parletti and Wayne Warren were invited who sit on places 1-5 of the BDO men's ranking.
Grand Slam of Darts - known participants
The field of participants of the World Series of Darts Final is complete.
The PDC invited Dave Chisnall, Nathan Aspinall, Simon Whitlock, Jermaine Wattimena, Danny Noppert, Kyle Anderson and Gabriel Clemens. By the qualifier yesterday qualified Jonny Clayton, Krzysztof Ratajski, Wayne Jones and Ricky Evans.
The final will be played from 1. - 3. November in Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
WSOD Final
16. October
After the last Players Championship of the year the participants of the Players Championship Finals in November in Minehead are known.
The PDC already published the first round draw. Reigning champion Daryl Gurney will begin his way to defend the title against Luke Woodhouse. Last year's runner-up Michael van Gerwen will play in the first round against Luke Humphries.
Participants, Draw
With a 8:1 win over Krzysztof Ratajski Peter Wright wins the last Players Championship of the year. For Wright it was the third Players Championship title of the year. In the semi-finals stood Danny Noppert and Gerwyn Price.
Participants, Results
PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
15. October
Brendan Dolan won for the second time this year a Players Championship - he defeated in the final of Players Championship 29 Ian White with 8:6. In the semi-finals stood Peter Wright and Ron Meulenkamp. Wright set in the quarterfinals with 123,5 a new record average for a live broadcasted darts match.
Participants, Results
At the weekend two events of the Nordic and Baltic Tour were played in Vääsky in Finnland. Both events were dominated by Darius Labanauskas and Madars Razma who on both days reached the final. Event 7 won Darius Labanauskas, Event 8 by Madars Razma. The two players head the ranking.
During the weekend the qualifier for the first European Tour Event 2020 took place as well and the qualifier for the Youth World Championship was played. Daniel Larsson is the Nordic and Baltic Qualfier of the first event of the European Tour while Hampus Norrström and Axel Ljungquist will represent Scandinavia in the Youth World Championship.
Nordic and Baltic Tour
PDC Rankings
Winners of the the singles title of the WDF World Cup were New Zealand's Darren Herrewini and Japanese Mikuru Suzuki - the reining BDO world champion. Both youth titles went to England: Keelan Kay and Beau Greaves are the new champions. The men's pairs won the Canadian pair David Cameron/Jeff Smith. The ladies pairs were won by the Japanese pair Mikuru Suzuki and Mayumi Ouchi. The boy's pairs won the English pair Brad Phillips/Keelan Kay,the girl's pairs won the English pair Beau Greaves and Shannon Reeves. The men's winning team came from Canada while the English ladies won the ladies team event The youth mixed pairs were won by the Czech pair Tomas Houdek and Anna Votavova. Overall points winners of the men were the Netherlands. Points winners of the ladies were England and the English Youth won the most points as well.
WDF Darts World Cup
14. October
Today and tomorrow in Barnsley the Players Championships 29 and 30 will be played - the last two Players Championships of the year. For the players it is the last chance to qualify for the Players Championship Finals of to defend their Tour Cards. Participants, Results
At the weekend the last Super League weekend of the year was played in Bielefeld. Now the players are known who will take part in the play-offs. The play-offs will take place on 17. November and the winner will get a place in the PDC World Championship. As Gabriel Clemens is already qualified for the World Championship by the Pro Tour Order of Merit Manfred Bilderl - nineth in the table - gets a place in the play-offs. Nico Kurz goes into the play-offs as head of the table - he won 11 of his matches at the weekend. Nico Blum and Ricardo Pietreczko were relegated from Superleague as lasts of the table..
Participants Superleague, Table
12. October
With a 5:2 win over Dave Chisnall Michael van Gerwen defended his World Grand Prix title and is now a five times World Grand Prix Champion.
For van Gerwen it was a commanding win. He didn't make many mistakes while Chisnall missed some opportunities. All in all a deserved tournament win for the Dutchman who only was in serious trouble in his first round match against Jamie Hughes.
Report, Statistics Final
The only seventeen years old Keane Barry defeated with an unbelievable comeback Liam Gallagher in the final of the Tom Kirby Memorial Irish Matchplay. With his win Barry - who plays the PDC Development Tour - secured himself a place in the PDC World Champion where he'll be probably this time the youngest participant.
Report, Statistics
11. October
Dave Chisnall and reigning champion Michael van Gerwen will meet tomorrow night in the final of the World Grand Prix.
Dave Chisnall defeated a still searching his A game Glen Durrant with 4:1. The last three sets of the match all were decided in a final leg in favour of Chisnall who won deservedly. Michael van Gerwen had in his semi-final only few problems with Chris Dobey who was not as strong on his doubles as in his previous matches - the reigning champion won with 4:0.
Results
Bericht, Statistics Semi-Finals
Today is the penultimate day of the World Cup and tonight the first finals will take place.
Here you can find the results from the quarterfinals to the finals:
WDF Darts World Cup
Chris Dobey, Dave Chisnall, Michael van Gerwen and Glen Durrant prevailed in the quarterfinals. Michael van Gerwen played with 94.64 the highest average of the night. Nevertheless he had in the early sets some problems against Mervyn King. Both players threw a 170 finish in the match. Chris Dobey showed a convincing performance against a far from his best Ian White. Surprisingly Dave Chisnall dominated the match against Nathan Aspinall. The last quarterfinal between Durrant and Jermaine Wattimena was a close match of two evenly match but on the night not really good players.
Results
Bericht, Statistics Quarterfinals
The fourth day of the World Grand Prix was another difficult day for the seeded players - Peter Wright and Rob Cross were elimnated from the event. Instead with Nathan Aspinall and Glen Durrant two debutants reached the quarterfinals. Beside Aspinall and Durrant Dave Chisnall and Jermaine Wattimena progressed into the next round.
Report, Statistics Day 4
9. October
Tonight the second round of the tournament will be played to the end - again four matches will take place.
In those among others Nathan Aspinall, Dave Chisnall, Rob Cross, Glen Durrant and Peter Wright will stand at the oche.
Results
8. October
On the third day of the event the first four second round matches took place.
From the seeded players only Michael van Gerwen survived the second round, James Wade, Michael Smith and Gary Anderson were eliminated. Debutant Chris Dobey impressed again and with the win over Anderson reached the quarter finals.
Tomorrow the other four matches of the second round will take place.
Results
Report, Statistics Day 3
Since Monday in Romania the WDF World Cup takes place with teams from fifty-one countries.
Here you can find all information:
WDF Darts World Cup
7. October
The first day of the World Grand Prix was played without upsets and all seeded players progressed into the next round though for reigning champion Michael van Gerwen and for Michael Smith it was hard work against Jamie Hughes and Simon Whitlock - both matches went into a deciding leg in the third set. Similar close was the match between Mervyn King and debutant Dimitri van den Bergh which King won in the end. With Chris Dobey one of the debutants reached the second round - he won 2:0 against Ricky Evans.
Today the first round will be played to the end.
Schedule, Results
Statistics Day 1
6. October
Tonight in Dublin the World Grand Prix will begin with the first eight matches of the first round. The World Grand Prix is the only Double In Double Out tournament of the PDC.
Reigning champion Michael van Gerwen will tonight open his World Grand Prix campaign against debutant Jamie Hughes. The event will be opened by the match between Ricky Evans and Chris Dobey - who is as well one of six tournament debutants.
Preview
Participants, Schedule, Results
WDF/BDO Rankings
5. October
Gerwyn Price won the 27. Players Championship of the year and defeated in the final Krzystof Ratajski. The semi-finals reached Mensur Suljovic and Ryan Joyce. Jose de Sousa won today the 28. Players Championship with a 8:6 win over Glen Durrant. In the semi-finals today stood again Mensur Suljovic and yesterday's winner Gerwyn Price.
Results
PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
4. October
Today and tomorrow in the City West Hotel in Dublin the Players Championships 27 and 28 will be played in the forefront of the PDC World Grand Prix.
Again not all Tour Card holders have registeres. They will be replaced by players from the Challenge Tour Order of Merit.
Participants, Results
The PDC now annonced the schedule of the first and second round of the tournament. Reigning champion James Wade will play on the first evening his first round match against Jonny Clayton. Michael van Gerwen as well will play his first match on the first evening against Ross Smith. On the second day of the event the match between Gerwyn Price and Ted Evetts in the afternoon session will be the last match of the first round.
European Championship
30. September
Krzysztof Ratajski defeated in the final of the Gibraltar Darts Trophy Dave Chisnall with 8:2 and is the first player from Poland who wins a PDC European Tour event. In the semi-finals stood Nathan Aspinall - who elimanted in the third round reigning champion Michael van Gerwen - and Daryl Gurney.
Report Final
Statistics
The PDC by now published the draw and the schedule of the first and second round of the World Grand Prix.
Reigning champion Michael van Gerwen will play in his first round match against Jamie Hughes. Number two seed Rob Cross will play against Mensur Suljovic.
World Grand Prix
After Gibraltar Darts Trophy all participants of the tournament are known. No German player will take part in the event which will take place this year in Göttingen in Germany. Michael Smith just managed to qualify. He ousted John Henderson who failed to qualify for the Gibraltar Darts Trophy
European Championship
At the weekend in Wigan the last four events of this year's PDC Challenge Tour took place. Again with Callan Rydz, Ciaran Teehan, Kyle McKinstry and Mark Barilli there were four different winners.
After his win Rydz haeads the table and by this qualified for the PDC World Championship. Besides Rydz and the second placed Jesus Noguera were rewarded with a two years Tour Card.
Challenge Tour
PDC Rankings
European Tour
Young Irishman Keane Barry was the most successful player of the JDC Festival of Darts in Gibraltar. He won the Dart Connect International Open and progressed into the Scott Farms International Junior World Championship.
JDC Festival of Darts - Results
28. September
On the second day of the Gibraltar Darts Trophy the seeded players entered the tournament.
Only one of them - Jonny Clayton - lost his match and his opponent Kim Huybrechts is the only unseeded player still in the tournmant.
All Host Nation Qualifier are out as well. The best average of the second round played Nathan Aspinall with 108.14.
On Sunday the tournament will be played to the end.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
27. September
Today in Gibraltar the last event of this year's European Tour will begin - the Gibraltar Darts Trophy.
As usually on the first day of the event the qualifiers will meet in an afternoon- and an evening session.
By the Host Nation Qualifier last night qualified David Francis, Antony Lopez, Dyson Parody and Justin Hewitt.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
24. September
Today in Gibraltar the JDC Festival of Darts 2019 will begin in which young dartplayers from 16 nations take part. Beside the PDPA Junior World Cup the DartConnect Junior International Open and the International Junior World Darts Championship will be played.
JDC Festival of Darts 2019
23. September
Winners of the BDO British Classic Single events were Dutchman Dennie Olde Kalter and Lisa Ahston. The British Open women's title won Lisa Ashton as well, the men's title won Wesley Harms. The men's pairs of the British Open won Scott Waites and Garry Thompson, the women's pairs the pair Lisa Ashton/Maria O'Brien.
Winners of the Catalonia Open were Kevin Doets and Sharon Prins - both from the Netherlands. The titles of the FCD Anniversary Open won Catalonian Carles Arola and Dutch Aileen de Graaf.
During a tournament weekend in Russia Roman Obukhov and Elena Shulgina won the Italmas Cup. Elena Shulgina won the ladies event of the Udmurtia Open as well. The men's event won Aleksey Kadochnikov. Winners of the Ukraine Open were Gabriel Pascaru from Romania and Ukraine Vitalina Moiseienko. The Kyiv Masters won Ukraine Oleksandr Mamyka and Russia's Ksenia Klockek. Both youth events of the Ukraine tournament weekend won Nikita Soltys.
PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
22. September
Winners of the two Players Championships at the weekend in Barnsley were Daryl Gurney and Mensur Suljovic.
Gurney won on Saturday the 25. Players Championship and defated in the final Nathan Aspinall. In the semi-finals stood Ian White and Michael Smith. For Gurney it was the first Pro Tour win of the year. Jeffrey de Zwaan threw in his match against Ron Meulenkamp a nine-darter.
On sunday Mensur Suljovic prevailed in the final over Ian White despite White throwing a nine-darter during the match. The semi-finals reached Steve West and Jonny Clayton. Besides White Rob Cross threw a nine-darter during the event.
Participants, Results
Gibraltar Darts Trophy
20. September
Today in Barnsley another Pro Tour weekend will begin with the UK and the European Tour Card Holder Qualifier for the last European Tour Event of the year in Gibraltar. On Saturday and on Sunday the Players Championships 25 and 26 will - take place the last chance for the players to qualify for the World Grand Prix in Dublin.
The PDC has now published the group draw and the draw for the first group matches of the Champions League.
Reigning Champion Gary Anderson, Michael van Gerwen, Michael Smith and James Wade are in Group A, Peter Wright, Gerwyn Price, Daryl Gurney and Rob Cross in Group B. Gary Anderson will play in his first group match against Michael Smith.
Participants, Draw
17. September
The Nine-Darter
Before the European Championship the World Grand Prix in Dublin will take place. Only the two Players Championships next weekend offer the players the chance to still qualify for the tournament. It looks Raymond van Barneveld in his last year before his retirement will miss the World Grand Prix while some players including Jamie Hughes and three times BDO World Champion Glen Durrant will give their debut.
At the moment the list of participants in the World Grand Prix looks like this:
World Grand Prix
Only one more European Tour will be played before the European Championship - the Gibraltar Darts Trophy. Next Friday in Barnsley the UK Qualifier and the West/South European Tour Card Holders Qualifier for Gibraltar will take place - the last chance for some players to qualify for Gibraltar. With a good run in Gibraltar several players still could snap a place in the European Championship. Among them are Kyle Anderson, Michael Smith and Raymond van Barneveld.
This is how the list of participantsin the European Championship looks at the moment:
European Championship
16. September
The regular season of the American CDC Magic Darts Championship Darts Circuit ended at the weekend with the Events 9 and 10. Darin Young won Event 9, Danny Baggish Event 10. After the end of the season the ranking is clear. Darin Young qualified as the number one of the ranking for the PDC World Championship as did Matt Campbell who sits as the highest ranked Canadian player in place two. Seigo Asada won the PDJ Japanese Qualifier. As he is already qualified Japanese Yuki Yamada gets by the Asian Tour Order of Merit a place in the PDc World Championship as Japanese qualifier.
PDC World Championship
PDC Rankings
European Tour
15. September
Gerwyn Price wins the International Darts Open in Riesa with a 8:6 win over Rob Cross and defends his title. The final was a quite close match in which the lead changed several times. But both players could not keep up the great performances which they had shown in earlier matches in the tournament. The semi-finals reached Glen Durrant - for the first time on the European Tour - and Peter Wright.
Results
Statistics
Report Finals Day
Today the tournament will be played to the end. In the afternoon the third round was played, tonight quarterfinals, semi-finals and the final will take place.
Michael Rosenauer was the only German player who survived the second round but he was elimnated third round by Glen Durrant. Four of the seeded players lost their second round matches - among them the number 1 seed Ian White. The highest average of the second round played Gerwyn Price with 106.20. In the third round Rob Cross was the most convincing player who defeated Joe Cullen - today finally with his own equipment - with 6:0.
Schedule, Results
Statistics
14. September
On the second day of the event again an afternoon- and an evening session will be played. The winners of the first day will play against the seeded players.
On the first day there were no upsets and only a few outstanding perfomrances. From the home nation qualifiers only Michael Rosenauer and Steffen Siepmann survived the first round. The best game of the first day was the match between Kyle Anderson and Aaron Monk who both had an average over 95. It was won by Kyle Anderson. The highest average of the first day played Belgian Davy van Baelen with 103.66.
Schedule, Results
Statistics
13. September
Today in Riesa the International Darts Open will begin - the penultimate event of this year's European Tour and the last in Germany.
On the first day the qualifiers will meet in an afternoon- and an evening session.
Michael van Gerwen and Dave Chisnall withdrew short notice so by the Host Nation Qualifier last night six places in the tournmanet were on offer. The qualifiers were Christian Jentschke, Mike Poge, Steffen Siepmann, Ole Luckow, Manfred Bilder and Michael Rosenauer who all will stand at the oche today. By the West/South Europe Associate Members Qualifier Davyd Venken and Mike de Decker qualified.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
12. September
Next year there will be one European Tour event less than this year and some of the sites changed. Trier, Budapest and Leeuwarden for the first time will be visited by the European Tour. The European Championship will return to Dortmund next year. Four of the Players Championships will be played in Hildesheim, two in Leeuwarden. The Development Tour will come for a weekend to Hildesheim as well. The Champions League of Darts and das World Series of Darts Finale will already take place in September - so October and November will be less packed. The Grand Slam will be played one week later as we are used to by now.
Provisional Tournament Calendar 2020
PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
James Wade won in Barnsley the 24. Players Championship of the year with an 8:6 win over Dave Chisnall. For Wade it was already the fifth Pro Tour win this year. The semifianls reached Scott Taylor - who replaced Michael van Gerwen on short notice - and Jamie Hughes. John Henderson threw against Ron Meulenkamp in the last 16 a nine-darter. Michael van Gerwen withdrew and probably will miss the European Tour event in Riesa this weekend as well.
Participants, Results
11. September
Jose de Sousa is the first ever player from Portugal who wins a PDC Players Championship. He defeated in the final Gerwyn Price with 8:1. De Sousa only got a PDC Tour Card in January and already reached the final of a Pro Tour Event for the second time. On his way into the final he defeated among others John Henderson, Jermaine Wattimena and Peter Wright who had elimated in the quarterfinals Michael van Gerwen. Peter Wright and Adrian Lewis stood in the semi-finals.
Participants, Results
During the BDO weekend in Selsey Anastasia Dobromyslova won both the Ladies Classic and the Ladies Matchplay. In the semi-finals of the England Classic she was the first woman ever who threw an over 100 average. She was rewarded for her achievement with 1000 pound. Lisa Ashton won the England Masters title. Scott Mitchell won the Mens Matchplay and the England Masters. Winner of the Mens Classic was Wesley Harms. Beau Greaves won the Girls Matchplay and was the youth overall winner, Charlie Manby was the winner of the Boys Matchplay. The BDDA Masters were won by Michael Callaghan, the BDDA Classic by Andrew Quinn.
Keane Barry and Liam Gallagher will play the final Irish Matchplay next month during the World Grand Prix in Dublin. Gallagher qualified as well together with Kieran Guina for the PDC Unicorn World Youth Championship in November.
10. September
Today in tomorrow in Barnsley the Players Championships 23 and 24 will take place.
As always some Tour Card Holders - among them Mensur Suljovic, Robert Marijanovic and Carey Cadby - didn't register and are replaced by players from the Challenge Tour Order of Merit.
Participants, Results
PDC Rankings
European Tour
8. September
Joe Cullen is the winner of the European Darts Matchplay in Mannheim. He defeated on his way into the final in the quarterfinals Glen Durrant, in the semi-finals James Wade and met then in the final Michael van Gerwen, who prevailed in the evening session first over Krzysztof Ratajski and then over Dave Chisnall. Cullen - who already showed strong performances against Durrant and Wade - had dominated the first legs of the finale and got a 5:2 lead with a 170 finish. Van Gerwen managed to draw 5:5 but Cullen didn't give in but took the next three legs for his first ever win on the European Tour.
Schedule, Results
Statistics
Report Final
The third day of the tournament started with the third round in the after-noon session in which the last two qualifers were eliminated from the event. Eliminated as well were despite again excellent performances Mensur Suljovic and Gerwyn Price. Suljovic lost against Michael van Gerwen, Gerwyn Price against Glen Durrant who in the till now outstanding match of the tournament averaged over 110 and had a hitting rate on the doubles of over über 85 percent.
In the evening session quarterfinals, semi-finals and final will follow.
7. September
After the second round today all German players are out of the event. Max Hopp, Florian Hempel and Steffen Siepmann already lost their first round matches. Gabriel Clemens, Karsten Koch and Marvin Wehder didn't survive the second round. With the exception of Peter Wright and Nathan Aspinall all seeds progressed into the third round. William O'Connor and Wayne Jones are the only qualifiers still in the tournament. Gerwyn Price and Mensur Suljovic both today played an average of over 100.
Tomorrow the tournament will be played to the end.
Schedule, Results
Statistics
6. September
Today in Mannheim the eleventh event of the European Tour will begin - the European Darts Matchplay.
As always in those events on the first day the first round will be played in an afternoon and an evening session in which only the qualifiers will stand at the oche.
By the Host Nation Qualifier last night Marvin Wehder, Florian Hempel, Steffen Siepmann and Karsten Koch qualified. By the West/South European Associate Members Qualifier Wesley Plaisier and Cody Harris got a place in the tournament.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
3. September
After good results on the last PDC Asia weekend Seigo Asada and Noel Malicdem joined Paul Lim and Lourence Ilagan as qualifiers for the PDC World Championship.
PDC World Championship
The titles of the BDO World Trophy won Lisa Ashton and Jim Williams. For Ashton - who defeated Anastasia Dobromyslova in the final - it was after 2015 and 2016 the third World Trophy titel. Jim Williams - who went as favourite in the tournament - defeated Richard Veenstra in the final.
The third event of the World soft-darts series was won by Paul Lim who now is placed second in the ranking behind Boris Krcmar. His opponent in the final was Jams Law from Hong Kong.
PDC Rankings
European Tour
2. September
To the delight of the Austrian crowd Mensur Suljovic won in Vienna the Austrian Darts Championship with a very narrow 8:7 win over Michael van Gerwen. For Suljovic it was the third European Tour title. Besides he could celebrate his first wins on stage ever in his hometown. The semi-finals reached Peter Wright and Vincent van der Voort.
Participants, Results
Statistics
Report Final
29. August
RECOVERY FROM AND AVOIDANCE OF DARTITIS
Tomorrow in Schwechat/Vienna the Austrian Darts Championship - the tenth event of the PDC European Tour - will begin.
As always on the first day of the event the qualifiers will clash, on the second das the seeded players will join the tournament and on the third day the tournament will be played to the end.
Tonight the Host Nation Qualifier and the West/South Europe Associate Members Qualifier will take place. Qualified by the Host Nation Qualifier Alex Steinauer, Rusty-Jake Rodriguez, Christian Goedl, Hannes Schnier und Dietmar Burger and by the West/South Europe Associate Members Qualifier Mike de Decker und Kevin Münch.
Participants, Results
Statistics
27. August
At the French Open in Bray Dunes Nick Kenny won the men's title. Deta Hedman won the ladies event. Winner of the French Classic was Adam Smith-Neale, winner of the women's event was Aileen de Graaf. The youth event of the French Open was won by Dutchman Danny Jansen.
Winners of the Japan Open were Katsuya Aiba and Mayumi Ouchi. The youth title won Sakuto Sueshige.
Winners of the long running Swedish Open were Swede Dennis Nilsson and Japanese Mikuru Suzuki. Lisa Ashton won the LDC Swedish Classic and Scotsman Gary Stone the Gents Swedish Classic.
25. August
On the third weekend of Super League again Nico Kurz with 12 wins out of 14 matches one of the most successful players and put himself on the head of the table in front of Martin Schindler who lost only one of his matches. Gabriel Clemens, head of the table before the fourth weekend, had a pitchblack first day on which he lost all his matches. He now sits in third place of the table.
Super League Germany
The third weekend of the Nordic and Baltic Tour took place in Iceland. Darius Labanauskas and Marko Kantele won the two Pro Tour events.
Besides the Nordic and Baltic Qualifiers for the last three European Tour events of the year were played. Dennis Nilsson qualified for Mannheim, Daniel Larsson for Riesa and Cor Dekker for the last event in Gibraltar.
Nordic and Baltic Tour, Ranking
24. August
After his win in the Melbourne Masters last week Michael van Gerwen now won the New Zealand Darts Masters in Hamilton as well. He defeated in the final his fellow country man Raymond van Barneveld with 8:1. After his second World Seriess win van Gerwen now heads the World Series ranking. The semi-finals reached James Wade and Rob Cross. Gary Anderson was elimated in the quarterfinals by van Gerwen - he had two teeth removed before the match...
Results, Report Final, Statistics
Tournament Information, Ranking
15. August
Tomorrow the World Series of Darts travels to Mebourne.
The PDC today published the draw and the schedule of the first round. Reigning champion Peter Wright will play in his first match against Corey Cadby. Damon Heta, winner of the event in Brisbane, will play in his first round match as in Brisbane against James Wade.
Schedule, Results, Statistics
Tournament Information, Ranking
14. August
Provisional Tournament Calender 2020
Wayne Warren and Astrid Trouwborst won the titles of the Antwerp Open, winners of the youth events were James Beeton and Lerena Rietbergen. In the on Sunday following Belgium Open siegten Nick Kenny and Aileen de Graaf were the winners. James Beeton again won the boy's title while Julie Berens won the girls event.
Winners of the New Zealand Open were Mark McGrath and Tina Osborne.
At the CDC weekend in Chicago both events had with Matt Campbell and Jeremiah Millar Canadian winners. For Campbell it was already the second win of the season.
12. August
Australian Damon Heta could celebrate his first PDC TV Title in Brisbane.
Heta, who heads the DPA Order of Merit, was on his 32. birthday the suprise winner in front of the Australian crowd. In the first round on the first day of the event he eliminated James Wade. On the second day he defeated in the quarterfinals Gary Anderson - who once again had problems to hit his doubles, in the semi-finals his fellow country man Simon Whitlock and in the final last year's winner Rob Cross. The final was a very close match in which Heta contrary to his opponent used his chances. Cross reached the final with wins against James Bailey, Raymond van Barneveld and Daryl Gurney. Gurney had elimanted in the quarterfinals Michael van Gerwen.
Results, Report Final, Statistics
At the weekend in Wolverhampton four Events of the PDC Challenge Tour took place and there were four different winners: Cameron Menzies, Patrick Lynskey, Jesus Noguera and Callan Rydz. For Menzies and Noguera it were already the second win this year on the Challenge Tour and they now head the Challenge Tour Order of Merit.
On Saturday Boris Koltsov threw a nine-darter, on Sunday Simon Preston.
Challenge Tour
9. August
A new MC and five new referees will stand on stage during the BDO World Trophy which will take place from 30. August to 1. September in Blackburn.
The new MC will be Paul Booth who among others was the MC of the League of Legends and accompanied many darts players through exhibitions. Best known of the new referees is John Fowler who once played darts himself but now works as MC and referee at tournaments and exhibitions. The other four new BDO referees all have some experience in local and regional tournaments. They are Garin Roderick, Josh Clough, Harry Smith and Kerrie Crompton, who will be the first ever official female referee on the BDO stage.
8. August
Tomorrow in Brisbane the first of three World Series events in Australia and New Zealand will begin.
Draw, schedule and participants are already known. Reigning Champion and World Matchplay winner Rob Cross will play in the first round against James Bailey, Gary Anderson will have to play against Corey Cadby - probably one of the most difficult oceanic opponents.
Schedule, Results, statistics
Tournament Information
During a visit to Thailand Dartoid has a look at the famous River Kwai.
Darts near the River Kwai
6. August
The BDO news start happening very fast at the moment.
The retirement of popular BDO MC Richard "Little Richard" Ashdown and all BDO referees caused a stir and fueled the fears of an ongoing BDO decline. Totally converse signals came from the BDO chairman who announced a new three years contract with the well-known Circus Tavern for the World Masters - and with One80 L-Style a new sponsor - and a new contract for the BDO World Championship which 2020 no longer will be played in the Lakeside Country Club but in the O2 Arena in London.
Details are not known yet. The World Master will be played from 23. - 28. October, the BDO World Championship from 4. - 12. January 2020.
Only one more day in Dominical - Thorn paddels the mangrove forest swamp before he spends the night at the dartboards of the San Clemente Bar.
"Flocks, Crocs And Oches"
In Luxembourg Aileen de Graaf won both the Luxembourg Open and the Luxembourg Masters. Matijn Kleermarker won the men's singles of the Luxembourg Open and Luc Peters the men's event of the Luxembourg Masters. Both girls events were won by Belgian Femke de Vuyst, the boys events were won by Englishman James Beeton(Open) and Dutch Pim van Bijnen(Masters).
Winners of the Mongolia Open were Gan-Erdene Sharavsambuu and Erdenechimeg Dondov. Erdenechimeg Dondov won the ladies singles of the Mongolia Masters as well while Baatarkhuyag Tsend won the men's event.
5. August
Here it is finally - the gallery of the first and second round of the World Matchplay:
Gallery
Krzysztof Ratajski and Brendan Dolan were the winners of the Players Championships in Hildesheim. Ratajski won on Saturday the 21. Players Championship and defeated in the final Dimitri van den Bergh. For Ratajski it was already the second Players Championship title this year. Van den Bergh for the second time stood in a final. The semi-finals reached Ian White and Danny Noppert. On Sunday Brendan Dolan for the first time in almost five years could celebrate a ranking title. He defeated in the final Jermaine Wattimena. Mensur Suljovic and Cody Harris stood in the semi-finals..
Results
PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
2. August
For a Pro Tour weekend the PDC travels to Hildesheim.
Today the UK/European Tour Card Holders Qualifiers for the European Tour Events 11 and 12 in Mannheim and Riesa take place. Tomorrow and on Sunday the Players Championships 21 and 22 will be played in the same venue.
Several tour card holders didn't register among them Michael van Gerwen - who said he will play no more Players Championships this year - and Gary Anderson.
Participants
European Tour Event 11
European Tour Event 12
1. August
On my last day at the World Matchplay the second round was played to the end. It was not as thrilling as the night before but quite interesting nevertheless.
Besides the World Matchplay this time a tourist attraction is in the focus which has quite a lot to do with entertainment - and as you perhaps can see in the picture on the sidelines with darts-: the Comedy Carpet.
"Let us entertain you"
31. July
On my penultimate day in Blackpool in the evening the second round of the World Matchplay started. It was a great night of darts with hard fought matches and upsets.
But what do you do during the day in Blackpool before the tournament is resumed? On this yunny and warm day the answer only could be let's go to the beach!
At the Beach
30. July
After American Danny Baggish - who qualified as North American Championship - by now two more participants in the tournament are known. Paul Lim and Lourence Ilagan were quite successful at the weekend on the PDC Asian Tour - Lim won one of the events and reached the final of the other. Now the can't be caught in the Asian Tour Order of Merit and even before the last Asian Tour weekend have qualified again for the PDC World Championship.
PDC World Championship
At the weekend the third Unicorn Super League took place. Most successful were Nico Kurz, Martin Schindler and Gabriel Clemens who all won ten of their matches. Ricardo Pietrecko for the second time this year withdraw for a weekend and was elimnated..
Super League Germany
The PDC now announced who will be the eight players taking part this year in the Champions League of Darts. It will be Michael van Gerwen, Rob Cross, Daryl Gurney, Gary Anderson, Michael Smith, Peter Wright, Gerwyn Price and James Wade.
The tournament will take place from 19. to 20. October in Leicester.
Champions League
PDC Rankings
28. July
With a 18:13 win over Michael Smith Rob Cross won the World Matchplay title. In a one sided start in the match Rob Cross got a 9:0 lead before Smith won his first leg and started a remarkable fightback. He managed to reduce his deficit to two legs. But Cross kept his nerve and crossed the finishing line first.
Statistics, Report
27. July
Tonight in Blackpool the semi-finals were played. In the first semi-final Rob Cross played against Daryl Gurney. Gurney first dominated the match and was 14:7 in the lead. But Cross started a sensational comeback, leveled 15:15 and then took the last two legs of the match and the win.
The second semi-final between Michael Smith and Glen Durrant stayed till the end a one-sided match. Daurrant never played as good as in his previous matches while Michael Smith showed a strong perfromance and won 17:10.
So tomorrow in the final Rob Cross will play against Michael Smith.
Results
Statistics, Report
26.July
Tonight the last two quarterfinals will be played.
Rob Cross will play against Stephen and Peter Wright against Daryl Gurney.
Rob Cross by now ist the favourite on the win with sponsor Betfred.
Schedule, Results
The first two quarterfinals were both clear matches. Mervyn King could keep up long with Michael Smith but nearer the end Smith was just the better player and won 16:11. The second quarterfinal was even more one-sided as James Wade never really was in the match. Might be he had more problems with the heat on stage then his opponent Glen Durrant who won 16:7.
Smith and Durrant will now meet in the semifinals tomorrow.
Schedule, Results
Statistics, Report
25. July
Day two of the second round was far less dramatic then day one. Three of the matches were dominated by one player and only one was very close and
went into the tie break and ended with a surprise. Daryl Gurney defeated in the first match of the night Keegan Brown with 11:9, both players couldn't keep up their
performances of the first round. Krzysztof Ratajski
had not much to oppose Rob Cross - Cross won with 11:5. Simon Whitlock had even less to oppose an again strong playing Peter Wright and Wright won with 11:2.
The match between Stephen Bunting and Ian White was first dominated by White. But suddenly Bunting was back in the match and the match went into the tie break - Bunting won it 14:12.
Schedule, Results
Statistics
On the third day of the tournament I had some more time and I passed it among other things with a walk. That's one of the reasons
the third article deals not only with the last first round matches but with piers in general - not only the Blackpool Piers - as well.
Along the Piers
On the fifth day of the tournament the second round will be played to the end. Daryl Gurney will play against Keegan Brown, Stephen Bunting against Ian White and
Rob Cross against Krzysztof Ratajski. The final match of the second round will be the match between Peter Wright and Simon Whitlock -
the only match of the night in which two seeded players will clash.
Schedule, Results
Statistics
The first second round night of the World Matchplay was a dramatic night. It started with a close 12:10 win of Michael Smith over
Max Hopp with which Smith for the first time progressed into the quarterfinals of the event. In the second match once again James Wade turned the game and
won in the tie break 13:11 against Mensur Suljovic. After that Mervyn King eliminated with a strong performance reigning champion Gary Anderson
and the night ended with the clash of two three times world champions which went into the tie break as well. Glen Durrant defeated
Michael van Gerwen with 13:11.
Schedule, Results
Statistics, Report
24. July
The second day of the tournamment was a day with two sessions. So one has not much time for other things. But it was an entertaining day nevertheless.
Darting Entertainment
Today in Blackpool the second round of the World Matchplay will begin. In the first match of the night Max Hopp will stand against Michael Smith at the oche. The matches
James Wade v Mensur Suljovic and Gary Anderson v Mervyn King will follow. In the last match of the night
Michael van Gerwen will play against Glen Durrant.
Schedule, Results
23. July
On the last first round day with Jonny Clayton another seeded player was eliminated - he lost against Keegan Brown. The other three seeded players
Simon Whitlock, Daryl Gurney and Peter Wright won their matches. Simon Whitlock had to fight hard against John Henderson. The match almost went into the
Tie Break. The most commanding performance and the best average with 102.04 showed Peter Wright against whom
Vincent van der Voort only could keep up at the start of the match.
Schedule, Results
Statistics, Report
Tonight in Blackpool the first round of the World Matchplay will be played to the end. Four first round matches will be played.
Among others Daryl Gurney and Peter Wright will stand at the oche. Wright won last week two Pro Tour events and
recently the German Darts Masters - it looks he is in good form.
Schedule, Results
On the second day of the World Matchplay we saw in the afternoon and the evening session one really hard fought match. In the afternoon it was the match between
Daven Chisnall and Max Hopp in which Hopp kept his nerve and won with 11:9. In the evening it was the most thrilling battle between
James Wade and Jeffrey de Zwaan which Wade won in a Sudden Death leg.
The outstanding performance showed three time BDO World Champion Glen Durrant who defeated in the last match of the second day Adrian Lewis with 10:4. Michael van Gerwen played a more
patchy match but showed enough to defeat Steve Beaton with10:6.
Schedule, Results
Statistics, Report
22. July
This year again Global Darts is live in Blackpool - for the first and second round of the tournament - and of course
there will be some articles which this year beside the tournament have the topic entertainment. The first article
deals with the opening night of the event and might be answers the question why the World Matchplay blends in so well with Blackpool.
No Beach Weather...
On the second day of the World Matchplay an afternoon- and an evening session with four first round matches each will take place.
In the afternoon session with Jamie Hughes and Krzysztof Ratajski two more debutants will stand at the oche. In the evening session all eyes will be on the number 1 seed Michael van Gerwen -who will play against Steve Beaton and on the last match of the night between Adrian Lewis and Glane Durrant.
21. July
On the first night of the World Matchplay the three debutants all were eliminated. Nathan Aspinall lost 5:10 against a strong playing
Mervyn King. Gary Anderson didn't show a great performance but Danny Noppert had no chance nevertheless. Rob Cross convinced in the last match of the night
against Chris Dobey. The most thrilling match of the first evening between Gerwyn Price and Stephen Bunting ended in a
13:12 win for Bunting.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics, Report
20. July
Tonight in Blackpool the World Matchplay will begin - this year sponsored by betting company Betfred.
The first round will be played from tonight till Monday. The tournament will be opened by the match between Nathan Aspinall and Mervyn King. Besides tonight
reigning champion Gary Anderson will start his campaign against Danny Noppert as well.
Preview
Participants, Schedule, Results
19. July
Part two of the debutants presentation of this year's World Matchplay deals with Glen Durrant, Jamie Hughes, Chris Dobey and Danny Noppert.
The Debutants - Part 2
18. July
This year there will be seven debutants in the World Matchplay. We check them out.
Today in our first part we deal with Nathan Aspinall, Krzysztof Ratajski und Ricky Evans.
The Debutants - Part 1
Peter Wright won the 20. Players Championship des Jahres in Barnsley as well - again with impressive performances. He defeated in the final Joe Cullen who had no chance at all. The semi-finals reached Adrian Gray and Adrian Lewis.
Participants, Results
PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
17. July
The Darts Performance Centre has a look on the upcoming World Matchplay. In the centre of the the thoughts stands the question whether Gary Anderson will be able to defend his title.
World Matchplay 2019
Peter Wright won his second PDC titel in four days - he won the 19. Players Championship of the year in Barnsley. In the final he defeated Justin Pipe. Wright showed a strong performance with several over 100 averages and looked well prepared for the World Matchplay. In the semi-finals he won against Gary Anderson who looked good as well. German Gabriel Clemens played similar strong as in the German Darts Masters and was only defeated in the semi-finals by Justin Pipe.
Kyle Anderson threw a nine-darter.
Today in Barnsley the 20. Players Championship will take place.
Participants, Results
16. July
Today and tomorrow in Barnsley the Players Championships 19 and 20 take place. Many of the participants of the World Matchplay - which will begin on Saturday in Blackpool - use the tournaments as preparation.
Michael van Gerwen and James Wade didn't register for the events.
15. July
At the weekend in Peterbrorough four events of the PDC Challenge Tour were played and there were four different winners. On Saturday Cody Harris and Nick Fullwell won, on Sunday Berry van Peer and Andy Jenkins were the winners. Jenkins besides on Saturday threw a nine-darter.
Stephen Burton still heads the Challenge Tour Order of Merit followed by Boris Koltsov on the second place and Andy Jenkins is ranked third.
Challenge Tour
In Ankara till Sunday the WDF Europe Cup Youth took place. The boys singles title went to the english high-flyer Leighton Bennett. The pairs title won the Dutch pair Jurjen van der Velde/Luke van der Kwast. The Team Event won the team of the Republic of Ireland. Overall boys winners were the Netherlands. The girls songles title won Hungarian Tamara Kovacs. The girls pairs won the English pair Shannon Reeves/Beau Greaves. Overall girls winner were the girls from England.
WDF Europe Cup Youth
14. July
For the second time in three years Peter Wright won the German Darts Masters. He defeated in a thrilling final German Gabriel Clemens with 8:6. Though Clemens lost in the end the tournament was a big success for him and his first televised stage final. Wright defeated on finals day Nico Kurz and James Wade, Clemens prevailed over Rob Cross and Mensur Suljovic.
The World Series of Darts will continue in August with the Event in Brisbane.
Results, Report Final, Statistics
13. July
On the first day of the German Darts Masters we could see three wins for the German players. Gabriel Clemens defeated Raymond van Barneveld, Nico Kurz prevailed over Gary Anderson and Martin Schindler showed an incredible comeback to eliminate Michael van Gerwen. Max Hopp was not so lucky. He played with 106.62 highest average but nevertheles was beaten by Rob Cross.
Today the tournament will be played to the end.
Schedule, Results, Statistics
12. July
Here a short presentation of the German participants!
German Participants
11. July
Tomorrow the third German Darts Masters will begin, the second event of this year's World Series of Darts. The Venue will be the Lanxess Arena in Cologne. Eight PDC representatives will play against eight German players. Reigning champion Mensur Suljovic will play in his first match against Maik Langendorf.
Preview
10. July
The PDC World Championmship 2019/2020 will be played from Friday 13. December 2019 to the 1. January 2020.
The priority sale for the PDCTV-HD Annual Members will begin on 22. July at 1000 BST for all those who have got Annual PDCTV-HD membership till 17. July 1200 BST. Beside there'll be another priority sale window for those who've registered through the priority sign-up form till 24. July 1000 BST. General sale will start on 26. July 1000 BST.
All information relating the ticket sale you can find here: World Championship Ticket Sale
The PDC published the draw and the schedule of the first round of the event which will begin on 20. July in Blackpool.
The match between Nathan Asspinall and Mervyn King will open the tournament. Reigning champion Gary Anderson will as well play on the first day against Danny Noppert am Oche stehen. In the evening session of the second day among others Michael van Gerwen will play against Steve Beaton and Adrian Lewis against Glen Durrant. The last first round match will be on Monday 22. July the match between Peter Wright and Vincent van der Voort.
World Matchplay 2019
8. July
The PDC published the draw for the German Darts Masters - the second World Series of Darts event of the year - which will be played this year on 12. and 13. July in Cologne. There again eight PDC representatives will play against eight national players. Instead of Gerwyn Price and Nathan Aspinall Mensur Suljovic and Raymond van Barneveld will stand at the oche. The eight German players are Max Hopp, Martin Schindler, Gabriel Clemens, Maik Langendorf, Nico Kurz, Kevin Münch, Christian Bunse and Robert Marijanovic. Reigning champion Mensur Suljovic will play against Maik Langendorf.
Draw First Round
After the event in Germany the World Series will continue in August with events in Brisbane and Melbourne in Australia and the final tournament in Hamilton in New Zealand.
For these events the field of participants is after the DPA qualifiers now complete.
World Series of Darts
6.July
Nathan Aspinall won at his World Series debut the title - he defeated in the final of the U.S. Darts Masters Michael Smith with 8:4. On the second day of the event - on which quarterfinals, semi-finals and the final were played - Aspinall was the outstanding player who had an over 100 average in all his matches. In the quarterfinals he defeated Rob Cross, in the semi-finals Peter Wright. Michael Smith reached the final with wins over Michael van Gerwen in the weakest match of the day and Gerwyn Price who before had eliminated reigning champion Gary Anderson from the event.
Results, Statistics
5. July
The second event yesterday was an all North American affair in which only the eight qualifers took part. It was Danny Baggish who triumphed in the end - he defeated in the final last year's winner Jeff Smith with 6:5. Smith had missed a matchdart on the Bullseye.
So Baggish is the first player who qualified for the PDC Worldchampionship. He will give his debut.
Results, Report, Statistics
None of the North American qualifiers survived the first round of the U.S.Darts Masters though some of the PDC players - among them the reigning champion Gary Anderson - had to fight hard. Especially close was the match between Peter Wright and Canadian Jeff Smith which was won in the deciding leg by Wright. The best perfomance of the first round showed Rob Cross who was the only player with an average over 100.
Schedule, Results, Statistics
4. July
Today this year's PDC World Series of Darts begins with the event in Las Vegas - the U.S.Darts Masters.
By four qualifiers four winners qualified - Jeff Smith, Leonard Gates, Daniel Baggish and Elliot Milk. Besides the four highest ranked players of the Qualifiers Order of Merit qualified as well: Gary Mawson, Shawn Brenneman, Jim Long and Darin Young. The eight North American players will play in the first round against eight PDC representatives.
After the first round of the U.S. Darts Masters the North American players wil play in the North American Championship for a place in the next PDC World Championship.
U.S.Darts Masters
World Series of Darts
The Momentum Performance Darts - designed by young Dutchman Joeri Wienen and just on the market - were tested.
Here you can find the review:
Momentum Performance Darts
1. July
After the Czech Darts Open at the weekend all World Matchplay participants are known. Thank to their achievements at the weekend Jamie Hughes and Keegan Brown were able to grab a place in the tournament. They cut out Kyle Anderson and Ryan Searle. Seven players this year will give their debut in Blackpool: Nathan Aspinall, Krzysztof Ratajski, Ricky Evans, Glen Durrant, Chris Dobey, Danny Noppert and Jamie Hughes. The PDC announced the draw will be made next week.
World Matchplay 2019
With 8:3 win over a seemingly tired Stephen Bunting Jamie Hughes secured in Prague his first PDC Title. By this he astonishingly managed to grab a place in the World Matchplay which was only possible by winning the event. Hughes showed a very consistent tournament performance and defeated on the final day besides Bunting Ron Meulenkamp, Ian White and Simon Whitlock. It didn't look the high temperatures on stage did affect him much opposed to other players who obviously had to struggle. With Bunting and Hughes two unseeded players reached the final of the inaugural Czech Open Darts.
Besides Hughes Keegan Brown as well at the last minute snaged a place in the World Matchplay by reaching the semi-finals.
Statistics
Report Final
PDC Rankings
European Tour
30. June
On the third day of the Czech Open the tournament will be played to the end. In the afternoon the third round will take place while in the evening quarterfinals, semi-finals and the final will follow.
On the second day of the event 11 of the 16 seeded players were eliminated - might be one of the reasons were the very high temperatures on stage. The eliminated players were headed by Michael van Gerwen who once again lost to Keegan Brown. Gerwyn Price on the other side was not impressed by the heat and crowned his win over Glen Durrant with a last leg nine-darter. Corey Cadby continued his European Tour debut with a close 6:5 win over Michael Smith and will today play against Mervyn King.
Schedule, Results
Statistics
29. June
Today in Prague the second day of the Czech Darts Open will take place on which the first round winners will play against the seeded players.
With the exception of Karel Sedlacek all Host Natipon Qualifiers already were elimnated on the first. The best perfomance of the first day showed Glen Durrant who played an 110.12 average in his 6:1 win over Daniel Larsson.
Schedule, Results
Statistik
Czech Darts Open
Today in Prague in Czechia the Czech Darts Open will begin - the ninth event of the European Tour 2019.
In an afternoon-and an evening-session the first round will be played in which only the qualifiers take part.
Yesterday by the Host Nation Qualifier Jan Hlavacek, Vaclav Shieferdecker, Ondrej Plsek and Karel Sedlacek qualified for the tournament. Winner of the East European Qualifier was Sebastian Steyer.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
26. June
Last month Performance Darts run a competition in which the participants were encouraged to design their "dream dart". Two of the designers won and their darts just made it on the market.
In this blog one of the two winners - young Dutchman Joeri Wienen - presents his design.
Meet our Designers - 1
Already before the last event which counts for the qualifiation for the World Matchplay - Czech Darts Open this weekend - it is clear there will be no fare well for Raymond van Barneveld from the stage in Blackpool as he failed to qualify. But there are still eleven players who take part in the Czech Darts Open to qualify with differing chances by the Pro Tour Order of Merit for the World Matchplay World Matchplay. the far best chance has Keegan Brown who only has to reach round two in Prague.
How the list of participants for Blackpool looks before the Czech Darts Open you can find here:
World Matchplay 2019
Beau Greaves won the LDO Ladies Classic, she defeated in the final Anastasia Dobromyslova with 5:4.
Winners of the Six Nation Cups of the EDO were the English ladies team and the Dutch men's team.
Winners of the Cherry Bomb International in Florida were Danny Baggish and Kris Grimal. Winners of the BDO Austrian Open were Belgian Sven Verdonck and Kaisu Rekkinen from Finnland. The pairs title secured German Michael Unterbuchner together with Hungarian Patrick Kovacs.
During the fourth tournament weekend of the PDC Asian Tour Lourence Ilagan not only threw a nine-darter but as well secured the win in both events - both times against his World Cup partner Noel Malicdem.
24. June
Krzysztof Ratajski won on Saturday the 17. Players Championship of the year with a 8:3 win over Nathan Aspinall. For Ratajski it was the first title of the year. In five of his seven matches the "Polish Eagle" had averaged over. The semi-finals reached Ron Meulenkamp and James Wilson, who by this increased his chance for a place in the World Matchplay.
In the 18. Players Championship on Sunday James Wade secured his already fourth title of the year. He defeated Portugese Jose de Sousa in the final 8:5. De Sousa for the first time reached the semi-finals of a PDC Event. In the semi-finals stood Krzysztof Ratajski and Dimitri van den Bergh.
Results
On Friday the UK and the South/West European Qualifiers for the Events Nine and Ten of the European Tour took place in Wigan as well. Eleven players qualified by the UK Qualifiers both for Prague and for Vienna among them Corey Cadby, William O'Connor, Jamie Hughes and Stephen Bunting. By the South/West European Qualifier Jermaine Wattimena and Rowby-John Rodriguez qualified for both tournaments.
European Tour Event 9
European Tour Event 10
PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
21. June
Today in Wigan a Pro Tour weekend begins with the UK and the West/South European Qualifiers for the European Tour Events 9 and 10. Tomorrow and on Sunday the Players Championships 17 and 18 will take place.
It's an important weekend for the qualification for the World Matchplay. Raymond van Barneveld had to withdrew due to personal reasons - so in his last year in the PDC he will not be able to qualify for the World Matchplay. Gary Anderson will not be in Wigan either.
Participants, Results
European Tour Event 9
European Tour Event 10
20. June
Most successful player of the England Open and the England National Singles was fifteen years old Beau Greaves who won both ladies singles titels, the Mixed Youth and the girls event. Wesley Harms won the England National men's singles, Jim Williams the England Open men's singles.
The titles of the Canadian Open Champions won Dianne Gobiel and Jeff Smith.
Winner of the second event of this year's World Soft-Dart Series was Croat Boris Krcmar who prevailed in the final over Austrian Michael Rasztovits. Beside Rasztovits the Austrian brothers Rowby-John and Rusty-Jake Rodriguez took part as well in the tournament which was played in La Rochelle in France. Among the participants were Germans Rene Eidams and Michael Unterbuchner, Belgian Kim Huybrechts, Dutchman Jelle Klaasen and Englishmen Andy Jenkins and Scott Waites.
The World
18. June
PDC Rankings
European Tour
17. June
Dave Chisnall won in Copenghagen the final of the Danish Darts Open with 8:3 against Chris Dobey. For Chisnall it was this year after two Players Championship wins already the third PDC titel. Chris Dobey for the first time reached a stage final. In the semi-finals stood Gerwyn Price and Jonny Clayton.
Participants, Results
Tournament Statistics
Report Final
12. June
The PDC today announced that James Wade and Raymond van Barneveld will complete the squat of PDC players in the Events in Australia und New Zealand. Most of the Oceanic representives are already know as well. The still free places will be filled by qualifiers.
World Series of Darts
Both the winners of the PDC World Cup - Gary Anderson and Peter Wright - as the runner-ups Steve Lennon and William O'Connor secured themselves a place in the Grand Slam of Darts in November in Wolverhampton.
An overview of the already for the tournament qualified players you can find here:
Grand Slam of Darts
Winners of the Swiss Open were Thomas Junghans and Deta Hedman. Junghans was since 1984 the first Swiss winner of the tournament. The youth event of the Swiss Open won Emir Mujanovic from Switzerland, the pairs won English/Belgian pair Dave Evans/Brian Raman.
The titles of the Helvetia Open went to Alan Soutar (against Thomas Junghans) and Fallon Sherrock. German Lucca Scheuch won the youth event.
The New Zealand Canterbury Open were won by Darren Herewini and Tina Osborne.
Last weekend four Events of PDC Development Tour were played in Milton Keynes.
Most successful was Ted Evetts who won two of the events and now heads the Development Tour Order of Merit. As well a good weekend had young Dutchman Geert Nentjes who won the ninth event and threw a nine-darter in event eleven. The fourth event of the weekend won Luke Humphries.
Development Tour
9. June
With a 3:1 win over the surprise-team of this year's World Cup - the Team of the Republic of Ireland, Team Scotland won the World Cup. With Scotland the most confident and consistent Team of the event got the win.
Scotland could win in the second round and on the final day till the final itself all its matches 2:0 and probably was slightly fresher as the Irish team who won their matches on finals day against Austria and against the Netherlands only in strong double matches 2:1. In the final Gary Anderson lost to Steve Lennon while Peter Wright won against both Steve Lennon and William O'Connor. The double match the Scots won with 4:0.
Results
Report, Statistics
Today the tournament will be played to the end in an afternoon- and an evening-session.
In the afternoon the quarterfinals take place, in the evening session the semi-finals and the final. Again the matches begin with two singles followed if necessary by a double match. In the final two singles are followed by a doubles match. Should the final not be decided after that up to two more singles can be played.
Schedule, Results
8. June
The second round of the event brought some more upsets and with Australia and England two more seeded teams and favorits were eliminated. Host nation Germany lost as well - Martin Schindler and Max Hopp were just not strong enough for Team Belgium. Scotland - and especially Gary Anderson - convinced again and progressed as Team Austria and Team Netherlands into the quarterfinals.
Unseeded Team Canada again showed a strong nerved performance and eliminated Australia, while two strong Irishmen prevailed over top favorite Team England. William O'Connor played against Rob Cross the match of his life and with 115.10 the so far highest average of this year's event.
Results
Report, Statistics
On the third day of the tournament in an afternoon- and an evening session the second round will be played.
In the afternoon with Scotland and Belgium two seeded teams will play - Belgium against host nation Germany. In the evening session four seeded teams will stand in the oche which all will play against an unseeded opponent. All matches begin with two singles followed if necessary by a double match.
Schedule
7. June
One of the debutants in the PDC World Cup I want to introduce you more detailed - the American Chuck Puleo who already took part in the PDC World Championship 2019. Together with Darin Young - who played in every World Cup so far - he is Team America.
To the Interview
There were no real upsets on the second first round day and all four seeded teams progressed into the second round. It was not easy for Austria and really surprisingly hard work for Australia to win against Finland.
England and the Netherlands won their matches commandingly. The highest avarage of the second day had with 97.56 not a seeded team but rather surprinsingly Team Canada who had a real fight with the almost as good team from Italy.
Results
Report, Statistics Day 2
On the second day of the tournament the first round will be played to the end.
As yesterday four seeded and twelve unseeded nations will stand at the oche. The seeds are reigning champion Netherlands, Team England, Team Australia and Team Austria. England will play against the high profile Team Philippines, Austria against Russia, Australia against Finnland and the Netherlands against Spain.
Participants, Schedule, Results
6. June
Today in Hamburg the PDC World Cup started with the first eight matches of the first round.
On the first day of the event we already saw two upsets and with Northern Ireland and Wales two seeded teams were elimanated by the unseeded teams from South Africa and Singapore. Especially Paul Lim once again won the hearts of the delighted crowd. Team Germany had no problems to win over the weakest team of the first day - Team Hungary. Belgium, as well a seeded team, impressed against Hong Kong. In the last match of the night number two seed Scotland with Gary Anderson and Peter Wright showed the outstanding performance of the first day. They won against Denmark with the only average over 100 with 5:0.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Report, Statistics Day 1
In the today in Hamburg beginning World Cup there are not only debutants. One of the participants has decided to give up his darts career after the tournament - permanently and entirely. Swede Magnus Caris after 40 years of darts has enough. An interview by Mads Plagborg Magnussen.
To the Interview
The PDC in the preview of the tournament has a view on the participants and talks to Michael van Gerwen, Michael Smith and Simon Whitlock. For all three the tournament is something special and they all look forward to wear their national shirts.
Preview
5. June
Short notice there was a chance in the Chinese team - instead of debutant Quingyu Zhan- who had problems with his visum - Yuanjun Liu will play his third PDC World Cup.
But of course there are several more debutants who didn't whithdraw and on those the third preview article has a view.
The Debutants 2
4. Juni
On 6. June the PDC World Cup will begin which this year will take place in Hamburg.
As in every year this year again several debutants will take part in the tournament - for example Michael Smith who will take part for the first time in the World . And sometimes nations will give their debut as well - this year Lithuania will its debut.
The Debutants 1
3. June
On 6. June the PDC World Cup will begin which this year will take place in Hamburg.
To tune in we have a view on the reigning champion Team Netherland which will this year no longer consist of last year's winners Raymond van Barneveld and Michael van Gerwen. Instead of van Barneveld this year Jermaine Wattimena was nominated!
The Reigning Champion - Team Netherlands
31. May
WDF/BDO Rankings
There are still almost two months till the World Matchplay and four events still to be played before the participants will be decided.
Here you can find how the list of participants looks at the moment:
World Matchplay 2019
27. May
Ian White won in Zwolle the final of the Dutch Darts Masters against Michael van Gerwen with 8:7 and got his second European Tour title in a row. Both players looked tired in the final but it was White who was more clinical on his doubles and van Gerwen trailed most of the time in the match.
White defeated on his way in the final on the third day of the event Jermaine Wattimena, Vincent van der Voort and Peter Wright. Van Gerwen won a rather close match against his Dutch rival Raymond van Barneveld, after that a very close match against Dave Chisnall in the quarterfinals and prevailed only just in the semi-finals over Gerwyn Price.
Report Final
PDC Rankings
European Tour
26. May
In Zwolle today the Dutch Darts Masters will be played to the end. In the afternoon-session the third round will be played, in the evening session quarter-finals, semi-finals and the final will take place.
The most anticipated match of the third round was the clash between Michael van Gerwen and Raymond van Barneveld which was won by the reigning champion. For Raymond van Barneveld - who will retire end of the year - it were his last Dutch Darts Masters.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
25. Mai
Today in Zwolle the second day of the Dutch Darts Masters takes place on which the seeded players enter the tournament and played against the first round winners.
With the exception of Danny van Trijp all Host Nation Qualifiers were eliminated in the first round. Austrian Rowby-John Rodriguez had with 108.79 the highest average of the first day. James Wade withdrew on short notice so his opponent Glen Durrant gets a bye and progresses into the third round.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
24. May
Today in Zwolle in the Netherlands the Dutch Darts Masters - the seventh event of the European Tour 2019 - will begin.
In an afternoon-and an evening-session the first round will be played in which only the qualifiers take part.
As Rob Cross withdrew on short notice yesterday in the Host Nation Qualifier five tournament places were on offer. The qualifiers are Erik Hol, Jimmy Hendriks, Danny van Trijp, Wesley Plaisier and Alexander Merkx.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
23. May
Michael van Gerwen won his fifth Premier League title. He defeated in the unforunately rather one sided final Rob Cross with 11:5. Cross had his chances in the match but often spoiled them as he couldn't find the double.
In the semi-finals van Gerwen didn't play as strong as in the final and had a lot more problems against his opponent Daryl Gurney, who was similar to Cross not too sure on his doubles. Rob Cross won his semifinal against James Wade convincingly and deserved, Wade just never found his game.
Report, Statistics
Today the final of the Premier League will take place in the O2 Arena in London.
In the first semi-final reigning champion Michael van Gerwen will meet Daryl Gurney. Gurney won this season both his league matches against van Gerwen. In the second semi-final James Wade will play against Rob Cross. It is a repeat of match last week in Leeds. There Wade defeated Cross with 8:6. After that this year's Premier League will conclude with the final.
Preview
21. May
At the weekend in Hildesheim, Germany, three Associate Members Qualifiers for European Tour Events in the Netherlands, in Denmark and in the Czech Republic took place. Austrian Michael Rasztovits threw a nine-darter Neun-Darter but failed to qualify.
For the Dutch Darts Masters qualified German Florian Hempel and Belgian Mike de Decker, for the Danish Darts Open Mike de Decker and New Zealands Cody Harris and for the Czech Darts Open Switzlerland's Stefan Bellmont and Dutchman Wessel Nijman.
Dutch Darts Masters
Danish Darts Open
Czech Darts Open
Glen Durrant won on saturday the fifteenth Players Championship of the year and with it his second PDC title. In the final he defeated Darius Labanauskas with 8:1. In the semi-finals Durrant prevailed over Michael van Gerwen while Labanauskas won against Ron Meulenkamp. Dave Chisnall threw a nine-darter.
The sixteenth Players Championship on sunday was won by Harry Ward who won the close final against German Max Hopp with 8:7. The semi-finals reached Robert Thornton and Jose de Sousa. Robert Thornton threw a nine-darter.
Results
Winners of the Police Open were Dutchman Toon Greebe and Fie Skinnes from Denmark. The titles of the Police Masters won Welshman Mark Blandford and Deta Hedman.
Kirsi Viinikainen from Finland won both the Lithunian and the Vilnius Open. The men's titles went to Englishman Martin Barrett and Dutchman Jeffrey Sparidaans.
Beau Greaves dominated the ladies events of the Welsh Open and won the girl's title and the women's titles of the Welsh Classic and the Welsh Open. James Beeton won the boy's event. Dutchman Martijn Kleermaker got the Welsh Open title, the Welsh Classic were won by Dave Parletti.
PDC Rankings
European Tour
Pro Tour
17. Mai
Again today in Barnsley a Pro Tour weekend begins with the UK and den West/South Europe Tour Card holders Qualifiers for the European
Tour Events seven and eight in Zwolle and Copenhagen. On Saturday and Sunday the Players Championships fifteen and sixteen will follow.
Some Tour Card holders didn't register or have withdrawn - among them Rob Cross and Mensur Suljovic. They will be replaced by players from the Challenge Tour Order of Merit.
Participants, Results
Dutch Darts Open
Danish Darts Open
By now the PDC published the first round schedule as well. The match between Gibraltar and Japan will open the tournament on Thursday the 6. June.
The match between last year's runner-up Team Scotland and Team Denmark will end the first day.
On the second day of the tournament the first round will be played to the end. In the last match of the first round and the last match of the second day
reigning champion Netherlands will play against the Spanish Team.
Draw and Schedule First Round, Participants
16. May
On the last dramatic league night of Premier League especially Gerwyn Price and Daryl Gurney impressed in their 8:3 wins over Peter Wright and Michael Smith
with strong perfomances. Price nevertheless lost out on a place in the play-offs as Gurney and James Wade won as well and sit by this in front of him in the final league table on the places three and
four. Michael van Gerwen won the battle for the first place in the table with his win over Mensur Suljovic while Rob Cross lost to James Wade.
Next weeks semifinals will be Michael van Gerwen against Daryl Gurney - against whom he lost twice in the league phase - and as today James Wade against Rob Cross.
Table Final Standings, Results
Statistics
The PDC today announced the draw for the first round of the event which will take place from 6. - 9. June in Hamburg.
Reigning champion Netherlands - this year with Michael van Gerwen and Jermaine Wattimena - will play against Spain. Team Scotland, last year's runner-up, will play in the first round against Team Denmark. Number 1 seed Team England - this year with Rob Cross and Michael Smith - begins against Team Philippines.
Draw First Round, Participants
15. May
The sixteenth and last league day of the Premier League will take place in Leeds and finally the positions in the table will be decided.
For Rob Cross and Michael van Gerwen it is all about the first place in the table, for Gerwyn Price, Daryl Gurney, Mensur Suljovic and James Wade it is all about the last two play-off places. All four matches will be important.
Preview
13. May
The PDC announced all participants in the PDC World Cup which will be played from 6. - 9. June in Hamburg.
While last year's runner-up Scotland again will play with Gary Anderson and Peter Wright the Dutch reigning champion
this year for the first time will stand with
Michael van Gerwen and Jermaine Wattimena at the oche. In the number 1 seed Team England there will be a change as well
- Rob Cross represents his home country this year together with Michael Smith. Team Switzerland was replaced by Team Lithunia
- Darius Labanauskas, Mindaugas Barauskas.
Participants
At the weekend in Wigan four more events of the PDC Challenge Tour took place and there were four different winners. The events 5 and 6 on
Saturday were won by Darren Beveridge and Cameron Menzies - for Beveridge it was the first PDC title, for Menzies the second.
On Sunday Jesus Naguera and Stephen Burton got a win each. For the Spaniard it was the first win in the PDC, for Burton already the second
Challenge Tour win this year. Burton now heads the Challenge Tour Order of Merit. in the seventh event Geert de Vos threw a
nine-darter.
Challenge Tour
Ian White defeated in the close finale of the European Darts Grand Prix Peter Wright with 8:7 and won his second European Tour title.
With White won the most consistent player of the event. On his way into the final he defeated on finals day Keegan Brown, Jeffrey de Zwaan and Steve Beaton. Wright first won
on finals day against Jonny Clayton, prevailed in the quarterfinals over the reigning champion Michael van Gerwen and defeated in the semi-finals Jamie
Hughes. For Hughes it was the first PDC semi-final.
Schedule, Results
Statistics
12. May
Yesterday in Sindelfingen the second day of the European Darts Grand Prix took place. The seeded players joined the tournament
and played against the first round winners.
After all German speaking qualifiers were elimnated in the first round the two seeds Mensur Suljovic and Max Hopp lost their second matches against Steve Beaton and Nathan Aspinall as well. Reigning champion Michael van Gerwen had much to bother to get over the finishing line in front of his opponent Brendan Dolan. In the best match of the evening session Jamie Hughes defeated Adrian Lewis with the with 103.67 so far highest average of the event 6:3.
Schedule, Results
Statistics
10.May
Today in Sindelfingen the European Darts Grand Prix will begin - the sixth event of the European Tour 2019.
In an afternoon-and an evening-session the first round will be played in which only the qualifiers take part.
By the West/South Europe Associate Members Qualifier Michael Rasztovits and Stefan Bellmont qualified. As Dave Chisnall withdrew by the Host Nation Qualifier five tournament places were on offer. Daniel Klose, Michael Hurtz, Dragutin Horvat, Ricardo Pietrezko and Michael Rosenauer qualified.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
After the fifteenth league day of Premier League it is still up in the air who'll be in the play-offs. Till know only is known
reigning Michael van Gerwen and Rob Cross will progress - both won their matches tonight.
Rob Cross still heads the table one point in advance of van Gerwen. James Wade has after his draw with Michael Smith a small edge over
Mensur Suljovic and Daryl Gurney and still is third of the table. Gerwyn Price
has one point less then Suljovic and Gurney and two points less then Wade - it all depends on the last league day next week.
Table, Results
Statistics
9. May
On the fifteenth and penultimate league day of the Premier League in Sheffield and the battle for the play-off places enters the next round.
The head-to head match of the night will be the match between Gerwyn Price and Daryl Gurney. Peter Wright and Michael Smith are not able to qualify any longer for the top four and have nothing to lose against Michael van Gerwen and James Wade. First in the table Rob Cross will play against Mensur Suljovic.
Preview
3. May
Today in Premstätten near Graz in Austria the Austrian Darts Open will begin - the fifth event of the European Tour 2019.
In an afternoon-and an evening-session the first round will be played in which only the qualifiers take part.
By the West/South Europe Associate Members Qualifier Patrick van den Boogaard and Diogo Portela qualified. By the Host Nation Qualifier qualified Dietmar Burger, Michael Rasztovits, Benjamin Fasching und Patrick Tringler for the event. Fasching and Tingler will give their European Tour debut.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
2. May
With a clear 8:1 win over Michael Smith Rob Cross played hi9mself back on the first place of the table of the Premier League and secured as first player his place in the play-offs Platz while Michael Smith with this loss is out finally out of the race for a place under the top four. Michael van Gerwen for the second time this season lost to Daryl Gurney and again has one point less then Cross. Gurney moved up with the win to the fifth place in the table and is only one point behind the places three and four. As well no longer in the races for a place under the top four is Peter Wright who lost against Mensur Suljovic. In the last match of the night direct rivals James Wade and Gerwyn Price met. Price had no good day and lost against a solid playing Wade. By this Price dropped behind Gurney on the sixth place in the table.
Table, Results
Report, Statistics
1. May
William O'Connor and Jeffrey der Zwaan won the Players Championships 13 and 14 in Barnsley.
William O'Connor got his first PDC Title by defeating Nathan Aspinal in the final of Players Championship 13 on Tuesday. The semi-finals reached Adrian Lewis and Daryl Gurney.
Jeffrey de Zwaan won today the fourteenth Players Championship defeating Stephen Bunting. Arron Monk and Darius Labanauskas stood in the semi-finals.
Results
The fourteenth league day of Premier League is played in Manchester and the battle for the play-off places enters the next round.
Gerwyn Price and James Wade meet in the last match of the evening in a head-to-head match while Mensur Suljovic will play against Peter Wright who is last of the table. Rob Cross and Michael van Gerwen could secure their play-off places. Rob Cross will meet luckless Michael Smith, Michael van Gerwen will play againsth Daryl Gurney who defeated him in the first half of the campaign in Berlin.
Preview
30. April
Today and tomorrow werden in Barnsley the Players Championships 13 and 14 will take place.
Several Tour Card Holders haven't registered for one or both Players Championships. Missing on both days will be Michael van Gerwen, James Wade, John Michael and John Goldie. They will be - as all the players only missing one day - replaced by players from the Challenge Tour Orders of Merit.
Participants
PDC Rankings
European Tour
28. April
In a quite one sided final Michael van Gerwen defeated Ian White with 8:3 and for the first time secured the title.
Van Gerwens way into the final started on the last day of the event with a close 6:5 over Raymond van Barneveld in round three. It followed an as close win over Nathan Aspinall in the quarterfinals and a 7:6 success against Dave Chisnall in which both players in the deciding leg missed some match darts.
Ian White reached the final with wins over Darren Webster, Adrian Lewis and Rob Cross.
Results
Statistics
Report Final
On the third day of the German Darts Open the tournament will be played to the end in an afternoon-and an evening-session.
With Max Hopp the last German player in the field of participants was eliminated - he played a good match but not good enough to beat John Henderson. Beside Hopp from the seeded players Simon Whitlock, Jonny Clayton and Jermaine Wattimena were eliminated.
Schedule, Results
Statistics
27. April
On the second day of the European Darts Open in an afternoon- and an evening -session the second round of the event will take place. The first round winners will play against the seeded players.
All German qualifiers lost their first round matches. Gabriel Clemens was the only one who showed a solid performance but had no chance against a good playing Raymond van Barneveld. Today the only seeded German player, Max Hopp, enters the tournament. He is the reigning champion and will play against John Henderson who convinced in the first round against Stephen Bunting. Highlight of the first day was a nine-darter from Steve Beaton.
Schedule, Results
Statistics
26. April
Today in Saarbrücken the German Darts Open will begin - the fourth event of the European Tour 2019.
In an afternoon-and an evening-session the first round will be played in which only the qualifiers take part.
By the West/South Europe Associate Members Qualifier Mike de Decker and Jerry Hendriks qualified. By the Host Nation Qualifier qualified Kevin Münch, Thomas Köhnlein, Karsten Koch and Lukas Wenig for the event. Köhnlein, Koch and Wenig will give their European Tour debut.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
25. April
Daryl Gurney was the only winner of the thirteenth league day - he defeated Peter Wright with 8:4 and sent his opponent to the last place of the table. All other matches ended in a draw so nothing else changed in the table. Michael van Gerwen still has one point more then the second in the table Rob Cross, but had to battle hard to get one point in the best match of the night against James Wade. James Wade, Gerwyn Price and Mensur Suljovic follow on the places three to five with 15 points each. Michael Smith has after the draw against Suljovic now as Wright 9 points but moved up to seventh place thanks to the better leg difference.
Table, Results
Report, Statistics
The thirteenth league day of the Premier League is played in Birmingham and the battle for the play-off places is still up in the air.
Mensur Suljovic, Gerwyn Price and James Wade all in the moment have 14 points - each of them would like to win his match tonight but Price and Wade await difficult games as they play against Rob Cross and Michael van Gerwen.
Preview
24. April
Winners of the Australian Easter Classic were Adam Rowe and Joanne Hadley. The Geelong Classic won Justin Thompson and Tori Kewish. The New Zealand South Island Masters Open were won by Ben Robb and Desi Mercer.
The titles of the Icelandic Open went to Scotsman Dennis Watt and Petrea Kr Frioriksdottir from Iceland.
Winners of the Estonian Open were Englishman John Scott and Kaisu Rekinen from Finnland. The men's event of the Estonian Masters was won by John Scott as well. The ladies title went to Swede Helene Sundelin.
More Worldcup Teams were announced. Among others Devon Petersen will this year represent South Africa together with Vernon Bouwers and Cody Harris will stand at the oche together with Haupai Puha for New Zealand. Karel Sedlacek - who reached at the weekend the quarterfinals of the German Darts Grand Prix will team up with Pavel Jirkal for the Czech Republic.
All till now known teams you can find here:
Participants
23. April
At the weekend in Wigan four events of the PDC Development Tour took place and they had four different winners. On Saturday Jeffrey de Zwaan - who played in all his seven matches an average over 100 - and Corey Cadby won a tournament each. On sunday the winners were Ryan Meikle and Callan Rydz. For Meikle it was already the second win this year and he now heads the Development Tour Order of Merit.
Development Tour
PDC Rankings
European Tour
22. April
With an 8:3 over Simon Whitlock Michael van Gerwen secured his second European Tour win of the year and defended his title. In the final Michael van Gerwen played his best match of the event.
Before van Gerwen defeated on finals day Stephen Bunting, Ted Evetts and Rob Cross. Simon Whitlock reached the final with wins over Ross Smith, Joe Cullen and Max Hopp who missed two matchdarts against him.
Results
Statistics
Report Final
On the third day of the German Darts Grand Prix the tournament will be played to the end in an afternoon-and an evening-session..
Some of the seeded players lost their second round matches yesterday and were eliminated: Ian White, Jonny Clayton, Danny Noppert, James Wade, Adrian Lewis, Michael Smith and Peter Wright.
Schedule
21. April
On the second day of the German Darts Grand Prix in an afternoon- and an evening -session the second round of the event will take place. The first round winners will play against the seeded players.
All seven German qualifiers were elimnated first round. Only Max Hopp - who is a seeded player - will represent Germany on the second day of the event. With an average of almost 100 Stephen Bunting played the highest average of the first day.
Schedule, Results
Statistics
19. April
Tomorrow in Munic the German Darts Grand Prix will begin - the third event of the European Tour 2019.
In an afternoon-and an evening-session the first round will be played in which only the qualifiers take part.
Gerwyn Price has withdrawn from the event. For him Danny Noppert moved up as seeded player and in the Host Nation Qualifier a fifth place was on offer. By the West/South Europe Associate Members Qualifier Diogo Portela and Michael Rasztovits qualified. By the Host Nation Qualifier qualified Kevin Münch, Michael Hurtz, Dragutin Horvat, Marko Puls and Jyhan Artut for the event.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
18. April
For the twelfth league day Premier League travels to Cardiff. There are only a few nights left before the play-offs and the battle for a place among the top four intensifies.
In the center of interest today will be the clash between head of the table, Rob Cross, and Michael van Gerwen who sits in second place. Rob Cross is only one point ahead. A lot of work lies in front of Michael Smith who still is last of the table. He really needs every point should he still intend to get into the play-offs.
Preview
Results, Table
17. April
The Darts Performance Centre has a closer view on Gabriel Clemens. The promising German player it thinks could become a formidable force in the sport...
Gabriel Clemens Is Beginning to Make a Name for Himself on the Tour
15. April
Winners of the Bull's German Open on Saturday were Mario Vandenbogaerde and Aileen de Graaf, who defended her title. The two youth events were won by Durch players as well - by Verena Rietbergen and Owen Roelofs
The winners of Sunday's Bull's German Masters were Englishman Brian Dawson and Australian Corrine Hammond. For both it was the first German Masters title.
Both paradarts titles went to Dutchman Vincent d'Hondt.
PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
14. April
James Wade won at the weekend both Players Championships in Barnsley. On Saturday he defeated in the final of Players Championship 11 Michael Smith, on Sunday he secured the win with a strong comeback against Jeffrey de Zwaan after he had defeated once again Michael Smith - this time already in the semi-finals. As well the semi-finals on Sunday reached John Henderson. On Saturday it were Ian White and Steve West who stood in the semi-finals.
On Saturday Harry Ward threw at his win over William O'Connor a nine-darter.
Results
In Barnsley the UK and the West/South Europe Tour Card Holders Qualifiers for the European Tour Events 5 + 6 in Graz and Sindelfingen were played as well.
Ten players qualified for both events: Steve Beaton, Mervyn King, Nathan Aspinall, Stephen Bunting, Keegan Brown, Chris Dobey, Ross Smith, Jamie Hughes, Ryan Searle and Jeffrey de Zwaan.
Austrian Darts Open
European Darts Grand Prix
12. April
Today in Barnsley the next Pro Tour Wweekend will begin with the UK and den West/South Europe Tour Card holder Qualifiers for the European Tour Events five and sechs in Graz and Sindelfingen. On saturday and Sunday the Players Championships eleven and twelve will be played.
Besides Mensur Suljovic - who will be replaced by Ritchie Edhouse all Tour Card holders registered for the weekend.
Participants, Results
11. April
After the eleventh league day it get's more and more unlikely Michael Smith will be able to reach the play-offs - he lost despite a good performance with 3:8 against Michael van Gerwen and stays on the last place of the table. But for van Gerwen the win was not enough to get back to the first place of the table as Rob Cross won against Peter Wright as well and still has one point more then van Gerwen. Gerwyn Price ended Mensur Suljovic winning run and James Wade and Daryl Gurney ended in a draw.
Results, Table
Report, Statistics
Tonight the Premier League travels for the 11. League Day to Liverpool.
Highlight of the league day probably will be the last match of the night - Michael van Gerwen and Michael Smith will meet in a repeat of the Premier League final 2018. Michael van Gerwen wants to get back to the first place of the table while Michael Smith as last of the table needs every point to still reach a place in the play-offs.
Preview
Schedule
10. April
The PDC today published the already confirmed players who will take part in the five World Series of Darts this year. In all events Michael van Gerwen, Rob Cross, Gary Anderson, Daryl Gurney and Peter Wright will take part. They will be joined with another three to fourn PDC players in each event. Together they will compete against local qualifiers.
World Series of Darts 2019
9. April
Dartoid deals in the column with score keeping. But a big part of the column is not penned from Dartoid but from Karl Hartmann and should one prefer to avoid trouble as potential chalker one should better have a sceptical look at his suggestions...
In the Days before DartConnect
8. April
James Wade and Jonny Clayton won the two Players Championships at the weekend in Barnsley. For both it was the first Pro Tour title of the year.
James Wade won on Saturday the ninth Players Championship with a 8:2 win against Michael Smith. In the semi-finals stood Steve West and Scott Baker. Mark McGeeney threw in his first round win over Adam Hunt a Nine-Darter. For Wade his first Pro Tour win since 2015.
On sunday won Jonny Clayton the tenth Players Championship and defeated in the final Gabriel Clemens. The semifinals reached Ian White and Tytus Kanik.
Pro Tour
PDC Rankings
4. April
Tomorrow in Barnsley the next Pro Tour weekend will begin - the Players Championships 9 and 10 will be played on Saturday and Sunday. With the exception of Michael van Gerwen and John Goldie all Tour Card holders have registered, they will be replaced by Ritchie Edhouse and Stephen Burton. For the first time in a little over a year Corey Cadby will stand at the oche after his visa problems finally were sorted out.
Participants, Results
3. April
Daryl Gurney was this year not allowed to celebrate a win in front of his home crowd - he lost with 4:8 against Rob Cross who was just the better player in the match. With his win Rob Cross returned on the first place of the table - one point in the lead before Michael van Gerwen who only managed a draw against Gerwyn Price. Michael Smith and Peter Wright ended in a draw as well and both players were not really happy with the result. Mensur Suljovic was the first winner of the night - he defeated in the weakest match of the league day James Wade deservedly with 8:6.
Bericht, Statistics
For the tenth League Day - the start of the second half - Premier League travels to Belfast.
During the second half only four matches will be played on each league but the format will be best of 14 legs now instead best of 12 legs. In front of his home crowd Northern Irish Daryl Gurney will stand in the centre of interest. As last year he will play against Rob Cross. Last year Gurney won with 7:5.
Preview
Spielplan
2. April
The PDC announced the countries taking part in the PDC World Cup which will be played from 6. - 9. June in Hamburg. Not much changed compared to the previous year only Thailand was replaced by the Phillipines.
In a few countries the qualifiers already were played and the participing players nominated.
Participants
The events 5 and 6 of the PDC Asia Tour at the weekend were won by Philippines Noel Malicdem and Lourence Ilagan who will represent the Philippines in the PDC World Cup in June in Hamburg.
The first two events of the North American Championship Darts Circuit won American Darin Young and Canadian Jim Long.
Paula Jacklin won during the Gree Festival of Darts in Athens both the Acropolis Open and the Greek Open. The men's event of the Akropolis Open won Italian Stefano Tomassetti - who will part of Team Italy in the PDC World Cup. The men's event of the Greek Open won Frenchman Thibault Tricole.
Winners of the American Virginia Beach Classic were Lisa Ayers and Darin Young. The youth titles went to Buster Graves and Ayama Suchak. The Russiian youth tournaments Young Stars of Darts and Izhevsk Open - in which an astonishing number of girls took part - won Timur Tuchatvulin, Oleg Vasiliev, Ksenia Klochek and Milena Petrova.
1. April
Daryl Gurney won in Hildesheim his first European Tour Event.
He defeated in a thrilling and evenly matched final Ricky Evans with 8:6. With Gurney and Evans a seeded and an unseeded player reached the final - both deservedly. Gurney defeated on the finals day with Rob Cross, Stephen Bunting and Adrian Lewis three former world champions. Evans prevailed over Mervyn King, Darren Webster and the like him unseeded Keegan Brown.
Report Finals Day
Overall Statistics European Tour 19
PDC Rankings
31. March
On the third day the German Darts Championship will be played to the end in an afternoon- and an evening session.
In the afternoon-session the third round took place. Highlight was a nine-darter from James Wade who lost the close match against Darren Webster in the end with 5:6. Among others Rob Cross was eliminated in the afternoon-session as well - he lost 2:6 against Daryl Gurney.
Schedule, Results
Statistics
30. March
On the second day of the European Darts Open in an afternoon- and an evening -session the second round of the event will take place. The first round winners will play against the seeded players.
The biggest upset of the second round caused Keegan Brown who elimnated Michael van Gerwen from the tournament. Almost as surprising was Ricky Evans win over Mensur Suljovic. Evans didn't get unsettled by Suljovic today rather slow throw. As third seeded player Dave Chisnall went out of the tournament - he lost in the last match of the night to Mervyn King.
Schedule, Results
Statistics
29. March
Today in Hildesheim the German Darts Championship will begin - the second event of the European Tour 2019.
In an afternoon- and an evening session the first round will take place in which only the qualifiers will take part
Michael Smith has withdrawn. For him James Wilson m0oves up as seeded player and in the Host Nation Qualifier a fifth place was on offer. By the West/South Europa Associate Members Qualifier qualified Diogo Portela and Mike de Decker. By the Host Nation Qualifier qualified Kevin Knopf, Mike Holz, Maik Langendorf, Steffen Siepmann and Jyhan Artut. Besides from the German Tour Card Holders Gabriel Clemens is qualified for the event.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
28. March
On his last Premier League night Raymond van Barneveld showed only a slightly improved performance and lost to his ruthless fellow country man Michael van Gerwen with 1:7. During the press conference afterwards he announced his immediate retirement. Beside van Gerwen Rob Cross, Gerwyn Price and James Wade - with the highest average of the night - won their matches. Before the start of the second half of the season Van Gerwen heads the table level on points with Rob Cross. James Wade sits on the third place with two points less.
Results, Table
Report, Statistics
Tonight in Rotterdam the ninth league day of Premier League will take place - the Judgement Night.
As it is already certain that Raymond van Barneveld is the player who will be eliminated after Judgement Night from the tournament in that regard it will not be a thrilling league day. But Raymond van Barneveld and his match against Michael van Gerwen will be the emotional high-light of the night - after 14 years of Premier League it will be the Dutchman's farewell to the event which he won in 2014. Last night the legend showed a weak performance. Will he be able tonight to motivate himself for a worthy testimonial match in front of his home crowd?
Schedule
27. March
After the eigth league day of Premier League it is certain Raymond van Barneveld will be elimanted from the tournament. He lost in a from both players weak match 1:7 against Daryl Gurney. Gurney moved up by the win to the fifth place in the table. Michael van Gerwen won with 7:1 against Peter Wright and is back on the first place of the table as Rob Cross lost in a strange match after a 5:1 lead with 5:7 to Mensur Suljovic. Michael Smith won against Gerwyn Price and the best match of the night between James Wade and debutant Dimitri van den Bergh ended in a draw.
Table, Results
Report, Statistics
The eigth and ninth League Day, the Judgement Night, will be played tonight and tomorrow night in Rotterdam.
Tonigth Dimitri van den Bergh will give his Premier League debut and play against James Wade. In the center of interest will of course stand in Rotterdam in front of their home crowd Raymond van Barneveld and Michael van Gerwen. Van Barneveld still battles against elimination and will play against Daryl Gurney who himself is not quite safe yet. Michael van Gerwen wants to return to the top of the table and will play against Peter Wright.
Preview
Schedule, Results
25. March
Michael van Gerwen won the first European Tour Event of the year in Leverkusen with an 8:6 win over Rob Cross and defended his title. Before van Gerwen in a from both sides not impressive semi-final against Mensur Suljovic quite surprisingly threw a nine-darter in the unusual way of 180, 174 and T19, Bullseye, D 20. In the second, better semi-final a convincing Rob Cross defeated Peter Wright. Cross was the only player of the tournament who played consistent averages over 100 in all his matches.
Report Finals Day
PDC Rankings
24. März
Today the event in Leverkusen will be played to the end in an afternoon- and an evening-session.
With Ian White, Michael Smith, Adrian Lewis and Simon Whitlock only four of the seeded players were elimated from the tournament. The best performance of the second day showed Krzysztof Ratajski - in his dramatic win over Michael Smith he had an 105.57 average.
Schedule, Results
Statistics
23. March
On the second day of the European Darts Open in an afternoon- and an evening -session the second round of the event will take place. The first round winners will play against the seeded players.
All Host Nation qualifiers were elimnated first round. Raymond van Barneveld as well lost his first round match against Steve Beaton and is out of the event. The highest average on the not really highclass opening day had Adam Hunt with 97.24.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
22. March
Today in Leverkusen the European Darts Open will begin, the first event of the European Tour 2019.
In an afternoon- and an evening session the first round will take place in which only the qualifiers will take part.
Last night the Host Nation and the West/South Europe Associate Members Qualifiers took place. By the Host Nation Qualifier qualified Fabian Herz, Michael Rosenauer, Nico Kurz and Jyhan Artut for the tournament. None of the German Tour Card holders qualified for the event. But Raymond van Barneveld will return on the European Tour and will play in the afternoon-session against Steve Beaton.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
21. March
Though Raymond van Barneveld again showed no great performance Max Hopp had no chance at all. Van Barneveld got his first win of the season but still is last of the table. The biggest upset caused Daryl Gurney who defeated an again not in top form playing Michael van Gerwen with 5:7. Far from his best as well was Michael Smith who lost 2:7 to Mensur Suljovic. Besides Rob Cross defeated Gerwyn Price with 4:7 and heads the table with two points more then van Gerwen. James Wade and Peter Wright played 6:6.
Table, Results
Report, Statistics
The seventh league day will be played in Berlin.
Max Hopp will replace Gary Anderson at the Oche and will play in the last match of the night against Raymond van Barneveld who hopes to get his first win of the season and to be able to leave the last place of the table. The two players heading the table - Michael van Gerwen and Rob Cross - will play against Daryl Gurney and Gerwyn Price respectively.
Preview
Schedule, Results
20. March
Finally - the complete UK Open 2019 Gallery!!!
Gallery
Thorn has arrived in Costa Rica and of course is immediately looking out for dartboards. With success - in Dominical you not only can surf you can play darts as well!
"Yo, Throw, Throw And A Bottle Of Rum"
19. March
After the last Coaching Clinic dealt with the darts barrels, this blog of the Darts Performance Centre has a view on the often unjustly ignored Shafts and Flights.
Flights and Shafts
Winners of the Sylt Classic were Daniel Zygla and Irina Armstrong. The youth events won Dominik Grüllich and Christina Schuler.
Christina Schuler won the girls event of the Sylt Open as well, the boys' event winner was David Schlichtig. The titles went to Aaron Rahlfs and Lisa Zollikofer.
Martijn Kleermaker won both the West Fries Masters and the West Fries Open. The ladies titles went to Deta Hedamn and Kirsty Hutchinson. The youth event of the West Fries Masters won Danny Jansen.
The men's pairs of the Torremolinos Festival of Darts won Lee Stanley and Robert Hawker. Grace Crane and Anna Madigan won the ladies pairs. The torremolinos Classic were won by Nick Fullwell and Dana Gleed, the titles of the Torremolinos Open secured Paula Jacklin and Thibault Tricole.
Winners of the Canadian Hub City Open were Dave Cameron and Hayley Crowley.
18. MarchChisnall and Lewis win in Wigan
PDC Championship - Semifinals
Both semi-finals ended with the same result - Peter Wright and Michael van Gerwen progressed with 6:3 wins over Gerwyn Price and Nathan Aspinall into the World Championship final. After a one day break the final will be played on 1. January 2020. All in all it was not a gripping semi-finals night and the Alexandra Palace crowd was not electrified. Gerwyn Price played disappointing and Michael van Gerwen looked jaded. He only threw three 180s in the match, scored poor in patches and was not too clinical on his doubles even though Nathan Aspinall was often not able to use his chances. Peter Wright showed with a 98.39 average the best performance of the night but his double hitting rate leaves room for improvement as well.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
29. December
PDC World Championship - Day 14
The World Championships was carried on today with the quarterfinals. Nathan Aspinall defeated in the first quarterfinal Dimitri van den Bergh with 5:3 and for the second time in a row progressed into the semi-finals. He will meet tomorrow Michael van Gerwen who won a scrappy match against Darius Labanauskas with 5:2. Peter Wright progressed to the semi-finals as well after a high class win over Luke Humphries. His opponent will be Gerwyn Price who won the last quarterfinal against a disappointing Glen Durrant with 5:1.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
PDC World Championship - Day 13
Today in the Alexandra Palace the fourth round was played to the end - in an afternoon- and an evening-session each time three matches took place. Darius Labanauskas, Luke Humphries and Gerwyn Price didn't have many problems with their opponents Steve Beaton, Kim Huybrechts and Simon Whitlock and won with 2:4 respectively 1:4. The other three matches were closer - Dimitri van den Bergh defeated Adrian Lewis with a comeback 4:3, Peter Wright escaped 4:3 over the finishing line after Jeffrey de Zwaan drew with a comeback 3:3 and Glen Durrant prevailed with the same result over Chris Dobey.
Results
Statisticsnew
27. December
PDC World Championship - Day 12
Christmas break is over and today in the Alexandra Palace the last four third round matches and the first two fourth round matches were played. Fallon Sherrock was back on stage in her third round match but lost to a dominant Chris Dobey with 2:4. The other three third round matches were won by Simon Whitlock, Glen Durrant and Gerwyn Price. While Michael van Gerwen whitewashed Stephen Bunting who showed a weak performance today, Gary Anderson - who made a few vital mistakes - lost 2:4 to Nathan Aspinall. Both players showed a strong performance.
Results
Statisticsnew
24. December
PDC World Championship - Day 11
Again in the Alexandra Palace six third round matches were played - three of them were really close. Most thrilling was the match between Gary Anderson and Ryan Searle in which Anderson was already 1:3 behind. But Anderson didn't give in and while Searle was less strong as at the start of the match the Scotsman managed to improve and win 4:3 with an almost 110 average. The best performance of the day showed Jeffrey der Zwaan who won a close match against Dave Chisnall with a 106.09 average. Beside Anderson and de Zwaan Adrian Lewis, Luke Humphries, Dimitri van den Bergh and Peter Wright progressed into the fourth round.
Results
Statisticsnew
22. December
PDC World Championship - Day 10
Today in the Alexandra Palace the first six matches of the third round were played - the format is now best of seven sets. Max Hopp, Jonny Clayton, Danny Noppert, Ricky Evans and James Wade were eliminated form the tournament. With Kim Huybrechts and Darius Labanauskas two unseeded players reached the fourth round. Reigning champion Michael van Gerwen continued his campaign with a 4:0 win over Ricky Evans. In the best match of the day Nathan Aspinall defeated Krzysztof Ratajski in a close encounter with 4:3.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
PDC World Championship - Day 9
The match of the day to be sure was the match between Fallon Sherrock and Mensur Suljovic which delighted the crowd. Sherrock won it with another good performance 3:1. Suljovic was not the only seeded player who was eliminated today - Steve West was demolished 0:3 by an outstanding Ryan Searle who played with 101.54 the second highest average of the day and Keegan Brown lost a close match against Japanese Seigo Asada. The highest average of the day played Dimitri van den Bergh in the last match of the night against Josh Payne with 103.81. Josh Payne had no chance at all despite playing well himself. As well 3:0 wins had Simon Whitlock, Daryl Gurney and Glen Durrant. Adrian Lewis had to give all against Cristo Reyes but in the end won 3:2. He narrowly missed in the match the double 12 for a níne-darter.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
21. December
Barry wins JDC World Championship
Young Irishman Keane Barry defeated in the final of the JDC International Junior World Championship Adam Gawlas from the Czech Republic with 5:3.
The final of the JDC World Championship was played today on the stage Alexandra Palace on which Barry only a few days ago played his first round match against Vincent van der Voort.
Report
20. December
PDC World Championship - Day 7
The last two first round matches were won by Justin Pipe and Jan Dekker - both were close matches. After that in the afternoon-session followed two second round matches which were both won
by the seeded players John Henderson and Steve beaton without problems. The four second round matches of the evening session were won by the seeded players as well though some were hard faught wins especially the last one
between Gerwyn Price and William O'Connor which Price might be only won because O'Connor made a mistake.
Results
Statisticsnew
Interview with Matt Campbell
Canadian Matt Campbell qualified this year by the CDC ranking for the PDC World Championship. He played first round against Mark McGeeney but lost the match
1:3. In the interview he talks about himself, the CDC Tour and the Canadian darts scene.
To the Interviewnew
19. December
"I wish you a Merry Christmas..."
Today is my last day at the Alexandra Palace. And of course it is raining again... The last two first round matches will be played and six second round matches. I am looking
forward especially to the last two matches tonight when with Dave Chisnall and Gerwyn Price two Top 10 players will stand at the oche!
The seventh day of the tournament - "I wish you a Merry Christmas..."new
PDC World Championship - Day 6
Of the two German players in the evening session only Nico Kurz won his match, Gabriel Clemens lost a close match against Benito van de Pas. The two seeded players Stephen Bunting and
James Wade progressed in the best matches of their sessions. The other winners were Ron Meulenkamp, Seigo Asada, Harry Ward, and Josh Payne.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
18. December
"O Tannenbaum"
Tonight is German night in the Alexandra Palace. So the song "O Tannenbaum" is a must despite there can't be found a Christmas tree anywhere in Alexandra Palace. Might be I even will have recovered a little bit from
yesterday when Nico Kurz and Gabriel Clemens will come in stage...
The sixth day of the tournament - "O Tannenbaum"new
PDC World Championship - Day 5
The outstanding match of the day was the match between Fallon Sherrock and Ted Evetts which Sherrock won with 3:2 and it was a good match as well. Krzysztof Ratajski and Jeffrey de Zwaan were the two
seeded players and both won their matches against Zoran Lerchbacher and Darin Young. Damon Heta and Noel Malicdem won both 3:0
Results
Statistics, Report new
17. December
BDO World Championships
Due to ill health Trina Gulliver - who till now took part in every women's World Champion and won it ten times - will have to miss out this year. She will be replaced by Australian Tori Kewish.
Participants, Schedule
"Bog sie Rodzi"
The next long day of the tournament with an afternoon and an evening session is ahead of us. Players from around the world will stand at the oche today - among them the second female
player Fallon Sherrock. Appropriate to Polish player Krzysztof Ratajski I picked the Polish Christmas song "Bog sie Rodzi" as song of the day.
The fifth day of the tournament - "Bog sie Rodzi"new
PDC World Championship - Day 4
Gary Anderson is the second seeded player who survived the second round - he defeated with a solid performance Brendan Dolan with 3:0. The only Irishman who survived this night is William O'Connor,
who won with 3:0 but was far from happy with his game. Impressed tonight have especially the two young players - Englishman Callan Rydz who defeated Steve Lennon and the young Irishman
Keane Barry despite he lost to Vincent van der Voort
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
16. December
"Fairytale of New York"
On the fourth day of the tournament only an evening session will be played and
it will be really something special as in all four matches an Irish player will stand on stage. Appropriate the musical part deals with Christmas songs from Ireland -
first of all "Fairytale of New York". The fourth day of the tournament - "Fairytale of New York"new
PDC World Championship - Day 3
For the seeded players with the exception of Michael van Gerwen the tournament so far is a disaster - with Ian White and Michael Smith againm the seeded players
were eliminated from the tournament. Beside there were some very close matches which were won by Kyle Anderson and American Danny Baggish and just, really just lost by Mikuru Suzuki.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
15. December
"Good King Wenceslas"
Today is already the third day of the World Championship. And outside the sun is shining. What a pity. Today the musical part deals with an English Christmas song
- "Good King Wenceslas". Many different countries will stand at the oche today, but the two seeded players are from England. The third day of the tournament - "Good King Wenceslas"new
PDC World Championship - Day 2
After a not really interesting afternoon session - with the exception of the match between Jermaine Wattimena and Luke Humphries which Humphries won in a Sudden Death Leg -
followed an evening session with two big upsets.
Raymond van Barneveld was celebrated by the crowd but lost to Amrican Darin Young. Not a nice farewell for the Dutch legend...The last match of the night ended with an upset as well
- Rob Cross who was at all sea was demolished
0:3 by a delighted Kim Huybrechts.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
14. December
"White Christmas"
The second day of the tournament lies in front of me. It will be a long day of darts... Today the musical part of the article centers around an American
Christmas song - "White Christmas" - as two players from North America will stand on the Alexandra Palace stage!
The second tournament day - "White Christmas" new
13. December
PDC World Championship - Day 1
The first night of the PDC World Championship was an interesting evening. In the first match Jelle Klaasen started tense but won in the end deserved against
Kevin Burness. The second match between Kim Huybrechts and
Geert Nentjes was a very close affair and Huybrechtsin the end a delighted winner. PDC Wold Youth Champion Luke Humphries got a solid win over Devon Petersen. In the second round match of
the night reigning champion Michael van Gerwen became shaky against Jelle Klaasen but won 3:1.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
13. December
PDC World Championship
Today in London the PDC World Championship will begin and Global Darts will be there for almost a week. Again every day
an article will be published - beside a "musical" part it will consists of a preview of the darts day. Today the "musical" part will have a look on
the walk-on songs while over the
next days musically appropriate it will get festive.
The first tournament day!new
World Championships Competition
This year my idea was a slightly different competition under the motto : "Who wears that shoe" and which will run through both the PDC and the BDO World Championship.
The winner will get a set of Triumph Performance Darts.
To the Competition
9. December
Interview with Marko Puls
Actually we had planed to publish the interview in the forerun to the WDF World Cup - but somehow we all didn't bring in about. But now it is finally finished and as an alternative program to the PDC World Championship it is interesting when a DDV players has a view on darts in Germany.
To the Interview
Interview with Gabriel Clemens
Gabriel Clemens will this year stand for the second time during the PDC World Championship on the stage of the Alexandra Palace. Since 2018 Clemens has a Tour Card and he during this almost two years played himself up to the 42. place in the PDC Order of Merit. His highlights this year were the final German Darts Masters and the Last 16 of the Grand Slam of Darts were this interview came into being. In the first round of the World Championship Clemens will play against Benito van de Pas. Should he win his second round opponent will be his fellow country man Max Hopp.
To the Interview
6. December
Additions "Who is Who"
This year again for the PDC World Championship some additions in the Who is Who were necessary.
Added were: Harry Ward, Ritchie Edhouse, Ryan Meikle, Noel Malicdem, Ciaran Teehan, Callan Rydz, Robbie King, Damon Heta, Nico Kurz, Jose Justicia, Benjamin Pratnemer, Xiaochen Zong, Keane Barry, Danny Baggish and Yuki Yamada.
Leighton Rees
At a time when the future of the BDO World Championship looks more doubtful than ever we have a closer look at the first BDO World Champion, the first Darts World Champion altogether Welshman Leighton Rees.
Linked to the short article are several of the many Leighton Rees' videos you can find in the internet. Among others you can find the link to the last leg of the first World Championship final between Leighton Rees and John Lowe.
Leighton Rees
2. December
Coaching Klinik
How better to attune to a World Championship than with a Coaching Clinic about a World Champion? In this Darts Performance Centre blog the first ever World Champion Leighton Rees occupies centre stage. Even today you can still learn from him...
We take you back to the late 70's for coaching advice from Welsh legend Leighton Rees
28. November
Schedule - PDC World Championship
By now the PDC published the detailed schedule for the first three rounds of the tournament.
The match between Jelle Klaasen and Kevin Burness will open the World Championship on 13. December. Reigning champion Michael van Gerwenwill play in the last match of the first night against the winner of that first round match. The second round will be played till 21. December when the match between Dimitri van den Bergh and the winner of the match Josh Payne v Diogo Portela will end the first round. The third round will be played till after the Christmas break and will end on 27. December.
Schedule
Results...
Winners of the Finder Italian Grand Masters were Scotsman Ross Montgomery and Laura Turner from England. The Open Italia was won by Tony Martin and Aileen de Graaf.
The Korea Open were won by Kwang-Hee Cho and Hye-Jin Choi. Winners of the Latvia Open were Andrey Pontus from Belarus and Fin Kirsi Viinikainen. The youth event won Latvian Ralfs Laumanis.
26. November
PDC World Championship
By the PDPA Qualifier qualified Benito van de Pas, Kevin Burness and Matthew Edgar for the World Championship. The UK/Ireland Women's Qualifier was won by Fallon Sherrock. Now the field of participants is complete.
Yesterday the draw for the first and second round was made as well. In the first round all qualifiers and the players who got their place in the World Championship by the Pro Tour Order of Merit will participate. First round winners than will meet in the second round the 32 seeded players. Reigning champion Michael van Gerwen will open his tournament against the winner of the first round match between Jelle Klaasen and Kevin Burness. The two female qualifiers Mikuru Suzuki and Fallon Sherrock will play in the first round against James Richardson and Ted Evetts.
Participants, Draw
World Series of Darts 2020
The PDC already announced first dates and host cities of the World Series of Darts 2020. Next year the World Series again will visit the USA but the U.S Darts Masters will not take place in Las Vegas but in New York from 5. - 6. June. Already one week later the World Series for the first time wil come to Copenhagen for the Nordic Darts Masters. Retained will be the event in Hamilton in New Zealand which will take place on 21. and 22. August. The final will be played next year already in September might be in Salzburg in Austria.
World Series of Darts
Olly Croft passed away
On Saturday only a few days after his 90. birthday the founder of the BDO - Olly Croft - passed away. Croft founded the BDO in 1973 and till his voting out in 2011 stayed in the board. Croft was many years honorary president of the WDF. Due to his attitude 1994 the now PDC spilt off the BDO. Even though Croft rulings in later years were often not really wise he nevertheless was a big influence in the development of the sport of darts which probably would not even exist without him in today's from.
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit was updated after the Players Championship Finals.PDC Rankings
25. November
PDC World Championship
After the Players Championship Finals at the weekend the seeded players and the players who qualified by the Pro Tour Order of Merit for the World Championship are known.
Today in Wigan the UK and Ireland Women's Qualifier and the PDPA Qualifier will be played by which the last four tournament places will be filled.
PDC World Championship
24. November
Van Gerwen Wins Players Championship Finals
With a very close 9:11 win - Gerwyn Price narrowly missed the 10:10 - Michael van Gerwen won the Players Championship Finals. Before both players had won their semi-finals 11:8 and especially for Gerwyn Price it had been hard work against Chris Dobey.
The afternoon quarterfinals were with the exception of the match between Ian White and William O'Connor all more one-sided matches. Raymond van Barneveld disappointed with a quite weak performance against Chris Dobey.
Statistics
Report Finals Day
Humphries wins PDC Unicorn World Youth Championship
Luke Humphries had no problems at all with his opponent and won with a 6:0 whitewash against Adam Gawlas the PDC Unicorn World Youth Championship title. One could see that Humphries has a lot more experience on stage than the with 17 years a lot younger Gawlas who beside only started to play darts this February.
Report, Statisticsnew
Players Championship Finals
Today is the last day of the Players Championship Finals and the tournament will be played to the end.
In the afternoon the quarterfinals will be played, tonight semi-finals and final. Between the semi-finals and the final the final of the PDC Unicorn World Youth Championship between Luke Humphries and Adam Gawlas will take place.
Schedule, Results
23. November
Players Championship Finals
On the first day of the Players Championship Finals with Peter Wright, reigning champion Daryl Gurney, Nathan Aspinall and Jonny Clayton several top players already were eliminated. Gerwyn Price schowed the best performance of the day while Raymond van Barneveld won with a strong display against Nathan Aspinall.
Today in the afternoon-session the second round will be played and in the evening-session the third round.Both session will again be played on two stages.
Schedule, Results
Statisticsnew
22. November
Players Championship Finals
Today in Minehead the Players Championship Finals will begin - the last PDC event before the World Championship. Last year Daryl Gurney won it. He defeated Michael van Gerwen in the final.
Today the first round will be played in an afternoon- and an evening-session on two stages.
Previewnew
Grand Slam Gallery
Just in time before the next PDC tournament - the Grand Slam of Darts Gallery!
Gallery
21. November
"Black by Day and Red by Night" - 3
Here is a fifth and last article from Wolverhampton as I still was there on the first day of the knockout phase. Of course the main topic are the dasrts of the day but beside you'll find the very sad story of a young football player...
"Black by Day and Red by Night" - 3new
20. November
PDC News
The PDC amended the tournament calendar and in addition published a new structure of qualification for the European Tour.
The amended tournament calendar you can find her:
Tournament Calendar 2020new
The new qualification structure of the European Tour you can find here:
European Tournew
19. November
Results...
Winners of the Czech Open were Ross Montgomery and Lisa Ashton. The youth events were won by Tomas Houdek and Denisa Feklova from the Czech Republic.
Winners of the Ted Clements Memorial in New Zealand were Darren Herewini and Desi Mercer. The Hong Kong Open were won by FbLeung and Yi Hong Li. Winners of the Taiwan Darts Open were Yeng Chou Liao and Angelyn Detablan.
Winners of the Colorado Open were Bruce Robbins and Paula Murphy. The youth titles won Ronan Miller and Rianna December.
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit was updated after the Grand Slam of Darts.PDC Rankings
18. November
PDC World Championship
Beside the Superleague final in Hildesheim at the weeken the "Rest of the World Women's Qualifier" for the PDC World Championship took place with far less participants then last year. In an all Japanese final Mikuru Suzuki defeated Kasumi Sato with 6:3 and will take part in the World Championship for the first time.
PDC World Championship
Superleague Germany
On saturday the qualifier for the new Superleague season took place. Three places were on offer.
Kai Gotthardt, Jens Kniest and Daniel Klose qualified. For all three it will be the first Superleague season.
On sunday to end this year's season the play-offs were played with the winner getting a place in the PDc World Championship. Nico Kurz won the final against Martin Schindler and will give his debut in Alexandra Palace.
Superleague
17. November
Price verteidigt Grand Slam Titel
An outstanding Gerwyn Price defeated in the Grand Slam final Peter Wright with 16:6 and defended the title. Peter Wright throughout the match couldn't keep up with Price who had an average of 107.86 and threw 11 180s in the final.
In the afternoon first Peter Wright progressed into the final with a win over Glen Durrant. After that Price defeated in the thrilling and high class second semi-final Michael van Gerwen with 16:12. Price was always in the lead in the match.
Results
Report, Statisticsnew
Grand Slam of Darts
Today the Grand Slam will be played to the end. In the afternoon-session the semi-finals between Peter Wright and Glen Durrant and Gerwyn Price and Michael van Gerwen will take place. In the evening-session the final will be played.
Schedule
16. November
Grand Slam of Darts - Quarterfinals 2
Tonight both quarterfinals were one-sided affairs and Gerwyn Price and Michael van Gerwen progressed deservedly and without problems into the semi-finals.There they will play against another tomorrow afternoon.
Neither Gary Anderson nor Adrian Lewis were good enough to keep up with their opponents and so Anderson lost 9:16 to Gerwyn Price and Lewis 6:16 to van Gerwen.
Results
Bericht, Statisticsnew
Grand Slam of Darts
Tonight the other two quarterfinals will take place. First Gerwyn Price will play against Gary Anderson - a repeat of last year's controversial final. After that Michael van Gerwen and Adrian Lewis will meet who already played against each other in the group phase. There van Gerwen won 5:2.
Schedule
"Black by Day and Red by Night" - 2
On the fourth day of the tournament the group phase ended with the last gruop matches of the Groups A-D zu Ende and it was an interesting evening. Beside we present an interesting person out of the history of the Black Country - Dudd Dudley.
"Black by Day and Red by Night" - 2new
Grand Slam of Darts - Quarterfinals 1
Peter Wright and Glen Durrant prevailed in the first two quarterfinals and will now meet on sunday afternoon in the semi-finals.
Peter Wright defeated Dave Chisnall with 16:12. Wright - who changed his flights in the second break - had to come from 5:8 behind. He won eight legs in a row. Then his lead was just too big - despite a fightback from Chisnall Wright won. With the same result Glen Durrant defeated Michael Smith. Durrant was in a rather evenly matched game far more clinical on his doubles.
Results
Report, Statisticsnew
15. November
Grand Slam of Darts
Tonight the first two quarterfinals will be played. First Dave Chisnall will play against Peter Wright. In the second match Glen Durrant will meet Michael Smith.
Schedule, Results
BDO World Championships
Despite all rumours about problems in the BDO now the schedule of the World Championships were published - they will be played from 4. - 12. January in London.
The men's tournament will be opened by the match between Marion Vandenbogaerde and Sebastian Steyer. In the women's event Fallon Sherrock and Corrine Hammond will be the first at the oche. The men's number one seed Wesley Harms will play in the afternoon session on Monday against the winner of the match between Andreas Harrysson and World Masters winner John O'Shea while the reigning women's champion Mikuru Suzuki will play in Monday's evening session against Maria O'Brien.
Schedulenew
Grand Slam of Darts - Day 6
With a great fightback Adrian Lewis defeated James Wade and progressed into the quarterfinals. Michael van Gerwen and Gary Anderson had some problems but progressed as well. An easy win had reigning champion Geryn Price over Darren Webster - Price won with 10:1.
Results
Report, Statisticsnew
14. November
Grand Slam of Darts - Day 5
German Gabriel Clemens started strong in his match against Glen Durrant but lost the close match in the end with 9:10. Beside Durrant Dave Chisnall,
Michael Smith and Peter Wright were tonight winners. While Chisnall and Wright had no problems with their opponents Ryan Harrington and Rob Cross Smith had no easy match
against Daryl Gurney.
Results
Statistics
"Black by Day and Red by Night" - 1
Of course the darts of the third day of the tournament play their part in the third article but beside we have a view on the region around Wolverhampton, - the "Black Country", which is represented in the event by Jamie Hughes.
"Black by Day and Red by Night" - 1
13. November
Grand Slam of Darts
On the fifth day of the tournament the knockout phase begins and four matches will be played. Among others Peter Wright and Michael Smith will stand at the oche.
Schedule, Results
Grand Slam of Darts - Day 4
While by the last group matches not much did change in the group tables of Groups A-D there were nevertheless some surprinsing
results.James Wade and Gary Anderson lost their last group matches against Steve Lennon and Darren Webster and Webster played a really great match.
Though Robert Thornton won he really had to fight against Mikuru Suzuki. Dave Parletti defeated Williem O'Connor. Reigning champion Gerwyn Price won his match against Dinitri van der Bergh as well.
For the knockout phase qualified in the end beside Michael van Gerwen Ian White,
James Wade, Robert Thornton, Gerwyn Price, Darren Webster, Gary Anderson and Adrian Lewis.
Results, Tables
Report, Statistics
12. November
Day Two and most is about Darts!!!
As the second day of the event was another long day of darter artcle two is more or less only about darts as well...All participants played their second group matches.
Day Two and most is about Darts!!!
Grand Slam of Darts
Today another thrilling evening of darts awaits us - out of the groups A - D only Michael van Gerwen is already through to the knockout phase. So seven more places are still on offer.
Schedule
Grand Slam of Darts - Day 3
The last group matches of the groups E-H didn't cause real upsets. Gabriel Clemens, Michael Smith and Dave Chisnall were already through to the next round and won
their third group matches as well. Peter Wright got his third win as well and progress into the next round. Thanks to their second wins the following players will take part in the knockout phase
as well:
Daryl Gurney, Rob Cross, Glen Durrant and Ryan Harrington.
Schedule, Results
Report, Statistics
11.November
I am back...
For some time I feared I couldn't Brexit visit the Grand Slam this year but luckily for me the no deal Brexit was
postponed. So I traveled to Wolverhampton to watch the group phase of the event once again live.
The first article deals more or laess only with the darts of the first tournament day.
I am back...
Grand Slam of Darts
Tonight the last group matches of the Groups E - H will take place. Only Dave Chisnall, Gabriel Clemens and Michael Smith are already through to the next round so it will be an exciting evening.
Grand Slam of Darts - Day 2
After the second day with group matches Michael van Gerwen, Dave Chisnall, Gabriel Clemens and Michael Smith
are already qualified for the k.o phase of the tournament while Ross Smith, Lisa Ashton, Wayne Warren, Richard Veenstra and Martin Schindler
are already out.
On a day with many highclass performances Michael Smith played an outstanding 113,62 in an impressive match in which Nathan Aspinall despite an over 100 average as well had no chance at all. Jim Williams got the till now only win for a still BDO player of the event.
Schedule, Results, Tables
Report, Statistics
10. November
Grand Slam of Darts
On the second day of the tournament again an afternoon - and an evening session will take place. In the afternoon session the first the losers of yesterday's first group
matches of the Groups E-H will play another and afterwards the winners. In the evening session the same will happen with the losers and winners of the Group A-D.
Grand Slam of Darts - Day 1
On the first day of the Grand Slam all groups played their first group matches.All eight BDO players involved lost their matches including the two women
Lisa Ashton and Mikuru Suzuki though Suzuki impressed against Gerwyn Price. All fovourites won their matches - the only surorise winners were
Ryan Harrington against Danny Noppert and Robert Thornton
against Dimitri van den Bergh.
Schedule, Results
Report, Statistics
9. November
European Tour
The PDC today announced thecompleted line-up of the European Tour 2020. The first event of the European Tour will be played from 28. February to 1. March in Hasselt in Belgium.
The 13. and last event will take place from 16. - 18. October in Prag in the Czech Republic.
European Tour
Grand Slam of Darts
Today in Wolverhampton the Grand Slam of Darts will begin.
In an afternoon - and an evening session all participants will play their first group mantches.
Preview
7. November
Grand Slam of Darts
The PDC now published the schedule for the first group matches on Saturday. As in the last years in the afternoon session Groups E-H will play and in the evening session Groups A-D.
The match between Nathan Aspinall and Martin Schindler will open the tournament. Reigning champion Gerwyn Price will open his campaign in the second match of the evening session against Japanese Women's World Champion Mikuru Suzuki.
Schedule first group matches
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Results...
Deta Hedman won in Hungary both the ladies singles of the and of the Masters. The men's event of the Hungarian Classic won Hungarian Janos Vegso and Romanian Gabriel Pascaru the men's event of the Hungarian Masters. Tamara Kovacs won both girl's titles while Zsombor Budvari won the boys Classic and Rajmund Papp the boys Masters. All youth are from Hungary.
Winner of the Turkish Open were Turk Emirhan Kan Gunduz and Iranian Zahra Rajabi. The youthtitles won Isa Furkan Cos from Turkey and Iranian Mashad Avazzadeh. The titles of the Turkish Masters went to Iranian Hossain Arabi Karagani and Turkish woman Merve Erden. Isa Furkan Kos won this boy's event as well while Iranian Ayse Bodur won the girl's title.
The Alan King Memorial in New Zealand was won by Darren Herrewini and Patience Te Moananui. Winners of the Canadian Bob Jone Memorial were David Cameron and Maria Mason.
5. November
Grand Slam of Darts
After the PDC Unicorn Youth World Championship yesterday in Wigan the Grand Slam Qualifier took place in which eight places in the tournament were on offer. Ryan Harrington, Robert Thornton, Brendan Dolan, Jamie Hughes, Ross Smith, Adrian Lewis and Gabriel Clemens qualified. Clemens, Smith and Harrington will take part in the tournament for the first time.
By now the PDC published the group draw for the tournament. The number one seed Michael van Gerwen is joined in Group A by Adrian Lewis, Ross Smith and Jim Williams while reigning champion Gerwyn Price builds Group C together with Dimitri van den Bergh, Robert Thornton and Mikuru Suzuki.
Participants, Group Drawnew
PDC Unicorn World Youth Championship
Yesterday in Wigan the 17 years old Czech Adam Gawlas and Luke Humphries reached the final of the PDC Unicorn World Youth Championship. The final will take place on 24. November on the finals day of the Players Championship Finals in Minehead. Ryan Meikle and Keane Barry reached the semi-finals.
PDC Unicorn World Youth Championship
4. November
PDC Development Tour
At the weekend the last four events of the Development Tour were played. On both days Ted Evetts and Luke Humphries won one of the events and hold steady on the first and second place of the ranking. Both are at the moment already qualified by the Pro Tour Order of Merit for the PDC World Champion - Geert Nentjes and Ryan Meikle will move up for them. As Meikle is at the moment already qualified as well the fifth ranked Ciaran Teehan probably will have the chance to take part in his first World Championship.
During the last event of the Development Tour Keane Barry threw a nine-darter.
After the end of the development tour the field of participants of the PDC Unicorn World Youth Championship - which will take place today in Wigan - are known.
Development Tour
PDC Unicorn World Youth Championship
PDC Nordic and Baltic Tour
At the weekend the last two events of the Nordic and Baltic Tour took place in Latvia. Madars Razma and Darius Labanauskas both won one of the events. So Razma sits on the first place of the ranking and will take part in the PDC World Championship. Darius Labanauskas - who sits in second place - is already qualified by the Pro Tour Order . So Marko Kantele will move up to the qualification place.
Before the two events the Qualifier for the second European Tour event 2020 took place. Latvian Mindausgas Barauskas won it and will take part for the first time in the European Tour.
Nordic and Baltic Tour
PDC Rankings
The PDC Development Tour Order of Merit and the Nordic and Baltic Order of Merit were updated. Both are now on the final standings from 3. November.PDC Rankings
3. November
Van Gerwen wins in Amsterdam
At the end of an interesting day of darts stood a completely one sided final in which Michael van Gerwen defeated Danny Noppert with 11:2 and won the title.
In the afternoon session we could see three close matches which were won by Mensur Suljovic, Dave Chisnall and - surprisingly - Danny Noppert. Dave Chisnall had prevailed with 10:8 over Raymond van Barneveld. Michael van Gerwen won his last eight match with 10:6 against Jonny Clayton and afterwards demolished Mensur Suljovic in the semi-finals with 11:4 while the second semi-final between Dave Chisnall and Danny Noppert was a highly compatitive match. Might be that was the reason Noppert had no chance at all to keep up with van Gerwen in the final.
Results
Report and Statistics, Finals Day
World Series of Darts Finale
In an afternoon and an evening-session the tournament will be played today to the end. After the second round Michael van Gerwen to be sure starts into the final day as favourit. But should Raymond van Barnevld by able to keep up his second round performance he will have a chance on the win as well.
Schedule
World Series of Darts Finale - Second Round
The second round of the tournament turned out to be a surprise round - six of the eight seeded players lost their matches and were elimnated. That means from those players who really played in one or several World Series events only Michael van Gerwen and Raymond van Barneveld are still in the tournament. Michael van Gerwen had some problems to get rid of Gerwyn Price and needed a last leg decider to do so. Raymond van Barneveld played last night the highest average and probably his best match of the year and progressed with a 6:4 win over Jermaine Wattimena into the quarterfinals.
Results
Report and Statistics, Second Round
2. November
World Series of Darts Finale
Tonight the second round of the event is played and the seeded players join the tournament.
Yesterday's first round was without upsets. Michael Smith lost to Gerwyn Price, Mensur Suljovic won a from both sides not good match against Kyle Anderson and today meets Damon Heta. Jermaine Wattimena prevailed over Gabriel Clemens and will play tonight against Raymond van Barneveld. In the best first round match Krzysztof Ratajski won the close encounter against Nathan Aspinall.
Schedule, Results
1. November
BDO World Championships 2020
Today the draw for the first and second round of the men and of the first round of the women took place.
The number 1 seed Dutchman Wesley Harms will play in his second round match against the winner of the first round match between Andreas Harrysson and the World Masters winner John O'Shea. The reigning women's champion and number two seed Japanese Mikuru Suzuki will begin her campaingn against unseeded Maria O'Brien.
Participants, Draw
World Series of Darts Finale - Preview
Tonight in Amsterdam the final of this year's World Series of Darts will begin. For the Dutch legend Raymond van Barneveld it will be the last televised PDC tournament in front of his Dutch fans.
But tonight in the first round only the sixteen unseeded players will stand at the oche and van Barnevelds opponent will be decided in the match between his fellow country man Jermaine Wattimena and German Gabriel Clemens.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
Preview
29. October
Players Championship Finals
After the draw the PDC today published the detailed schedule of the event which will be played from 22. - 24. November in Minehead. The first and the second round again will be played on two stages.
Reigning champion Daryl Gurney will begin his title defence during Friday's evening session on the main stage before the world's number one Michael van Gerwen will play on the same stage against Luke Humphries.
Participants, Schedule
World Masters
Yesterday on the last day of the World Masters the Play-Offs for the BDO World Championships took place. On offer were four places in the men's event and two in the women's world championship.
For the men's tournament qualified Justin Hood, Nick Fullwell, Scott Williams and Ben Hazel. All four will give their world championship debut. For the women's event qualified Kirsty Hutchinson and Corrine Hammond. For Hutchinson it will be as well the first world championship.
World Masters 19
28. October
World Series of Darts Final
The PDC now published the draw and the schedule of the first and second round of the event which took place last night during the European Championship in Göttingen.
In the first round qualifiers and invited players will meet. The seeded players will join the event in the second round. Reigning champion James Wade will open his tournament in the second round either against Wayne Jones or against Jonny Clayton.
The final of the World Series of Darts will begin on Friday.
Participants, Draw, Schedule
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit was updated on 27. October after the European Championship.PDC Rankings
27. October
Cross wins European Championship
With a convincing 11:6 win over Gerwyn Price Rob Cross won the European Championship title, after the World Masters title his second major title of the year. Gerwyn Price looked rather tired and more and more frustrated in the final and couldn't keep up any longer after the second break.
Cross before elimated in the quarterfinals Ricky Evans and then prevailes in a close semi-final over Daryl Gurney. Price defeated on finals day in the quarterfinals a persistent Vincent van der Voort and in the semi-finals a once again luckless Michael Smith.
Results
Report Finals Day
Statistics
Lisa Ashton and John O'Shea win World Masters titels
As last year Lisa Ashton won the women's event of the World Masters. In a high class final she defeated Anastasia Dobromyslova with 5:4. Before she prevailed in the semi-finals with 5:1 over Japanese Kasumi Sato. Dobromyslova defeated in her semi-final Lorraine Winstanley as well with 5:1.
In the men's event Irishman John O'Shea was a surprise winner over Scott Waites in the final. The Irishman never before won a tournament outside of Ireland but in 2011 he took part in the UK Open. O'Shea won on finals day in the quarterfinals against Neil Duff from Northern Ireland and in the semi-finals against Belgian Mario Vandenbogaerd. For Waites the way in the final went over a win against Carl Hamilton in the quarterfinals and a win over Welshman Michael Warburton in the semi-finals.
World Masters 19
European Championship - Day 4
Today in Göttingen the tournament will be played to the end. In the afternoon the quarterfinals will take place - in the evening semi-finals and final.
Looking at the performances in the tournament so far Dave Chisnall and Gerwyn Price go into finals day as the favourites while Ricky Evans, Jeffrey de Zwaan and Vincent van der Voort to be sure are the underdogs.
World Masters
Finals day at the World Masters in London as well and here as well an afternoon session and an evening session will be played. In the afternoon session the ladies play their semi-finals and the men their quarterfinals. In the evening the men's semi-finals and final and the women's final will be played. While out of the men's field the best known player - Scott Waites - will be the favourite probably all four women could win the tournament.
The youth finals were already played on Friday and Irishman Keane Barry won the boy's title while Katie Sheldon from Ireland won the girl's title.
World Masters 19
26. October
European Championship - Day 3
On the third day of the tournament in an evening session the second round will be played to the end. Again four matches will take place and with Michael Smith and Gerwyn Price two favourites on the win will stand at the oche. But their opponents Stephen Bunting and Nathan Aspinall could make it hard work for them to progress.
Results
Report Third Day
Statistics
25. October
European Championship - Day 2
The second day of the event started with the last eight first round matches in an afternoon-session. With Peter Wright another favourit was eliminated from the event - he lost with 4:6 against Jeffrey de Zwaan. In the best match of the afternoon - in which both players had an over 100 average - Michael Smith defeated Ian White with 6:1.
By yesterday's winners tonight in the evening-session the first four matches of the second round will be played.
Participants, Results
Report Second Day
Statistics
World Masters
Though it looks the World Masters are in parts rather chaotic of course darts is played as well and there are first results. The men's last 32 are known and the quarterfinals of the women as well. Today beside the men's last 32 - in an afternoon and an evening session - the boys final between Irish Keane Barry - who recently won the Irish Matchplay and qualified for the PDC World Championship - and English Charlie Manby will take place. As well today in the girls final Irish Katie Sheldon will meet Scottish Sophie McKinlay.
World Masters 19
24. October
European Championship - Day 1
The European Championship started with two big upsets on the first evening - both reigning champion James Wade and the favourite to win the event Michael van Gerwen were elimnated tonight. James Wade looked not really motivated and failed to win a single leg against Jonny Clayton who showed the outstanding performance of the night. Michael van Gerwen played well but couldn't get rid of Ross Smith who won the close match with 6:5. Compared with that is was only a small surprise that Ricky Evans won 6:5 over Glen Durrant.
Participants, Results
Report First Eveningnew
Statistics
European Championship
Today in the Lokhalle in Göttingen this year's European Championship will begin for which the Top 32 of the Euorpean Tour Order of Merit are qualified. No German player managed to qualify. After his recent achievements Michael van Gerwen will enter the event as the favourit.
Tonight the first eight matches of the first round will be played.
Preview
PDC World Youth Championship
Next Monday the PDC Unicorn World Youth Championship will take place in Wigan.
The 23 international participants are known by now. They will be joined by Max Hopp and Jeffrey de Zwaan - who are among the Top 32 of the Order of Merit - and 71 players from the Development Tour Order of Merit which will be known on Sunday night after the last four events of the Development Tour will have been played on Saturday and Sunday in Wigan.
PDC Unicorn World Youth Championship
23. October
World Masters
Today the World Masters will begin - this year with One180-L-style as the new sponsors. there will be a new venue as well and all stage matches will take place in the Circus Tavern in Purfleet in which for many years the PDC World Championship took place. And something else changed as well - there will no more seeded players who join the event in the later stages.
World Masters 19
Tournament Information
22. October
PDC World Championship
Some more qualifiers are played by now and the field of international qualifiers slowly fills up.
By the Indian qualifier Nitin Kumar qualified who already stood on stage in the Alexandra Palace last year. Damon Heta qualified as first of the Dartplayers Australia Ranking. Spaniard Jose Justicia qualified by the -south/West Europe Qualifier, Dutchman Jan Dekker by the West Europe Qualifier. Irishman Keane Barry is qualified as winner of the Irish Matchplay.
PDC World Championship
20. October
Champions League
With a close 11:10 win over Peter Wright Michael van Gerwen won his first Champions League of Darts title. Wright was three legs in advance in the match but in the end didn't use his chance to beat the Dutchman.
On his way into the final van Gerwen defeated on the last day of the event first last year's winner Gary Anderson in the last group match and in another very close match in the semi-finals Gerwyn Price. Wright won on finals day first in his last group match against Rob Cross and than prevailed in the semi-finals over Michael Smith.
Results, Tables
Statistics, Report Final
19. October
Champions League
Today in Leicester in in an afternoon and an evening session the first group matches of the Champions League of Darts were played. Both Michael van Gerwen and Peter Wright won their both matches and are already safe in the K.O. phase. Rob Cross and reigning champion Gary Anderson lost both their matches and will be eliminated. The other foru players all have one win and one defeat after the first day of the tournament.
Results, Tables
Statistics
18. Oktober
Champions League
Tomorrow in Leicester the Champions League will begin. Only the top eight of the PDC Order of Merit take part in the two day event. Not all of those top eight showed their A game in the last few weeks - so World Grand Prix winner Michael van Gerwen enters the event as the top favourite.
Preview
17. October
Grand Slam of Darts
The PDC now announced the BDO representatives of this year's event. As in the last years it again will be eight players who get an invitation . this year two of them female players. Glen Durrant gat an invitation as BDO World Champion 2019 though he plays the PDC Circuit by now. BDO World Champion Mikuru Suzuki will take part as will Lisa Ashton who heads at the moment the BDO women's ranking. Beside Wesley Harms, Jim Williams, Richard Veenstra, Dave Parletti and Wayne Warren were invited who sit on places 1-5 of the BDO men's ranking.
Grand Slam of Darts - known participants
World Series of Darts Final
The field of participants of the World Series of Darts Final is complete.
The PDC invited Dave Chisnall, Nathan Aspinall, Simon Whitlock, Jermaine Wattimena, Danny Noppert, Kyle Anderson and Gabriel Clemens. By the qualifier yesterday qualified Jonny Clayton, Krzysztof Ratajski, Wayne Jones and Ricky Evans.
The final will be played from 1. - 3. November in Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
WSOD Final
16. October
Players Championship Finals
After the last Players Championship of the year the participants of the Players Championship Finals in November in Minehead are known.
The PDC already published the first round draw. Reigning champion Daryl Gurney will begin his way to defend the title against Luke Woodhouse. Last year's runner-up Michael van Gerwen will play in the first round against Luke Humphries.
Participants, Draw
Wright wins last Players Championship of the year
With a 8:1 win over Krzysztof Ratajski Peter Wright wins the last Players Championship of the year. For Wright it was the third Players Championship title of the year. In the semi-finals stood Danny Noppert and Gerwyn Price.
Participants, Results
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated. The Pro Tour Order of Merit and the Players Championship Order of Merit are now after the conclusion of the Pro Tour on the final standings 2019.PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
15. October
Brendan Dolan Wins Players Championship 29
Brendan Dolan won for the second time this year a Players Championship - he defeated in the final of Players Championship 29 Ian White with 8:6. In the semi-finals stood Peter Wright and Ron Meulenkamp. Wright set in the quarterfinals with 123,5 a new record average for a live broadcasted darts match.
Participants, Results
Nordic and Baltic Tour
At the weekend two events of the Nordic and Baltic Tour were played in Vääsky in Finnland. Both events were dominated by Darius Labanauskas and Madars Razma who on both days reached the final. Event 7 won Darius Labanauskas, Event 8 by Madars Razma. The two players head the ranking.
During the weekend the qualifier for the first European Tour Event 2020 took place as well and the qualifier for the Youth World Championship was played. Daniel Larsson is the Nordic and Baltic Qualfier of the first event of the European Tour while Hampus Norrström and Axel Ljungquist will represent Scandinavia in the Youth World Championship.
Nordic and Baltic Tour
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit and the Nordic and Baltic Tour Order of Merit were updated.PDC Rankings
WDF World Cup
Winners of the the singles title of the WDF World Cup were New Zealand's Darren Herrewini and Japanese Mikuru Suzuki - the reining BDO world champion. Both youth titles went to England: Keelan Kay and Beau Greaves are the new champions. The men's pairs won the Canadian pair David Cameron/Jeff Smith. The ladies pairs were won by the Japanese pair Mikuru Suzuki and Mayumi Ouchi. The boy's pairs won the English pair Brad Phillips/Keelan Kay,the girl's pairs won the English pair Beau Greaves and Shannon Reeves. The men's winning team came from Canada while the English ladies won the ladies team event The youth mixed pairs were won by the Czech pair Tomas Houdek and Anna Votavova. Overall points winners of the men were the Netherlands. Points winners of the ladies were England and the English Youth won the most points as well.
WDF Darts World Cup
14. October
Players Championships Barnsley
Today and tomorrow in Barnsley the Players Championships 29 and 30 will be played - the last two Players Championships of the year. For the players it is the last chance to qualify for the Players Championship Finals of to defend their Tour Cards. Participants, Results
Superleague Germany
At the weekend the last Super League weekend of the year was played in Bielefeld. Now the players are known who will take part in the play-offs. The play-offs will take place on 17. November and the winner will get a place in the PDC World Championship. As Gabriel Clemens is already qualified for the World Championship by the Pro Tour Order of Merit Manfred Bilderl - nineth in the table - gets a place in the play-offs. Nico Kurz goes into the play-offs as head of the table - he won 11 of his matches at the weekend. Nico Blum and Ricardo Pietreczko were relegated from Superleague as lasts of the table..
Participants Superleague, Table
12. October
Van Gerwen defends Title
With a 5:2 win over Dave Chisnall Michael van Gerwen defended his World Grand Prix title and is now a five times World Grand Prix Champion.
For van Gerwen it was a commanding win. He didn't make many mistakes while Chisnall missed some opportunities. All in all a deserved tournament win for the Dutchman who only was in serious trouble in his first round match against Jamie Hughes.
Report, Statistics Final
Barry wins Irish Matchplay
The only seventeen years old Keane Barry defeated with an unbelievable comeback Liam Gallagher in the final of the Tom Kirby Memorial Irish Matchplay. With his win Barry - who plays the PDC Development Tour - secured himself a place in the PDC World Champion where he'll be probably this time the youngest participant.
Report, Statistics
11. October
World Grand Prix - Semi-Finals
Dave Chisnall and reigning champion Michael van Gerwen will meet tomorrow night in the final of the World Grand Prix.
Dave Chisnall defeated a still searching his A game Glen Durrant with 4:1. The last three sets of the match all were decided in a final leg in favour of Chisnall who won deservedly. Michael van Gerwen had in his semi-final only few problems with Chris Dobey who was not as strong on his doubles as in his previous matches - the reigning champion won with 4:0.
Results
Bericht, Statistics Semi-Finals
WDF World Cup
Today is the penultimate day of the World Cup and tonight the first finals will take place.
Here you can find the results from the quarterfinals to the finals:
WDF Darts World Cup
World Grand Prix - Quarterfinals
Chris Dobey, Dave Chisnall, Michael van Gerwen and Glen Durrant prevailed in the quarterfinals. Michael van Gerwen played with 94.64 the highest average of the night. Nevertheless he had in the early sets some problems against Mervyn King. Both players threw a 170 finish in the match. Chris Dobey showed a convincing performance against a far from his best Ian White. Surprisingly Dave Chisnall dominated the match against Nathan Aspinall. The last quarterfinal between Durrant and Jermaine Wattimena was a close match of two evenly match but on the night not really good players.
Results
Bericht, Statistics Quarterfinals
World Grand Prix
The fourth day of the World Grand Prix was another difficult day for the seeded players - Peter Wright and Rob Cross were elimnated from the event. Instead with Nathan Aspinall and Glen Durrant two debutants reached the quarterfinals. Beside Aspinall and Durrant Dave Chisnall and Jermaine Wattimena progressed into the next round.
Report, Statistics Day 4
9. October
World Grand Prix
Tonight the second round of the tournament will be played to the end - again four matches will take place.
In those among others Nathan Aspinall, Dave Chisnall, Rob Cross, Glen Durrant and Peter Wright will stand at the oche.
Results
8. October
World Grand Prix
On the third day of the event the first four second round matches took place.
From the seeded players only Michael van Gerwen survived the second round, James Wade, Michael Smith and Gary Anderson were eliminated. Debutant Chris Dobey impressed again and with the win over Anderson reached the quarter finals.
Tomorrow the other four matches of the second round will take place.
Results
Report, Statistics Day 3
WDF World Cup
Since Monday in Romania the WDF World Cup takes place with teams from fifty-one countries.
Here you can find all information:
WDF Darts World Cup
7. October
World Grand Prix
The first day of the World Grand Prix was played without upsets and all seeded players progressed into the next round though for reigning champion Michael van Gerwen and for Michael Smith it was hard work against Jamie Hughes and Simon Whitlock - both matches went into a deciding leg in the third set. Similar close was the match between Mervyn King and debutant Dimitri van den Bergh which King won in the end. With Chris Dobey one of the debutants reached the second round - he won 2:0 against Ricky Evans.
Today the first round will be played to the end.
Schedule, Results
Statistics Day 1
6. October
World Grand Prix
Tonight in Dublin the World Grand Prix will begin with the first eight matches of the first round. The World Grand Prix is the only Double In Double Out tournament of the PDC.
Reigning champion Michael van Gerwen will tonight open his World Grand Prix campaign against debutant Jamie Hughes. The event will be opened by the match between Ricky Evans and Chris Dobey - who is as well one of six tournament debutants.
Preview
Participants, Schedule, Results
WDF/BDO Rankings
All WDF/BDO Rankings were updated.WDF/BDO Rankings
5. October
Price and de Sousa win in Dublin
Gerwyn Price won the 27. Players Championship of the year and defeated in the final Krzystof Ratajski. The semi-finals reached Mensur Suljovic and Ryan Joyce. Jose de Sousa won today the 28. Players Championship with a 8:6 win over Glen Durrant. In the semi-finals today stood again Mensur Suljovic and yesterday's winner Gerwyn Price.
Results
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated.PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
4. October
PDC Pro Tour
Today and tomorrow in the City West Hotel in Dublin the Players Championships 27 and 28 will be played in the forefront of the PDC World Grand Prix.
Again not all Tour Card holders have registeres. They will be replaced by players from the Challenge Tour Order of Merit.
Participants, Results
European Championship
The PDC now annonced the schedule of the first and second round of the tournament. Reigning champion James Wade will play on the first evening his first round match against Jonny Clayton. Michael van Gerwen as well will play his first match on the first evening against Ross Smith. On the second day of the event the match between Gerwyn Price and Ted Evetts in the afternoon session will be the last match of the first round.
European Championship
30. September
Ratajski siegt in Gibraltar
Krzysztof Ratajski defeated in the final of the Gibraltar Darts Trophy Dave Chisnall with 8:2 and is the first player from Poland who wins a PDC European Tour event. In the semi-finals stood Nathan Aspinall - who elimanted in the third round reigning champion Michael van Gerwen - and Daryl Gurney.
Report Final
Statistics
World Grand Prix
The PDC by now published the draw and the schedule of the first and second round of the World Grand Prix.
Reigning champion Michael van Gerwen will play in his first round match against Jamie Hughes. Number two seed Rob Cross will play against Mensur Suljovic.
World Grand Prix
European Championship
After Gibraltar Darts Trophy all participants of the tournament are known. No German player will take part in the event which will take place this year in Göttingen in Germany. Michael Smith just managed to qualify. He ousted John Henderson who failed to qualify for the Gibraltar Darts Trophy
European Championship
PDC Challenge Tour
At the weekend in Wigan the last four events of this year's PDC Challenge Tour took place. Again with Callan Rydz, Ciaran Teehan, Kyle McKinstry and Mark Barilli there were four different winners.
After his win Rydz haeads the table and by this qualified for the PDC World Championship. Besides Rydz and the second placed Jesus Noguera were rewarded with a two years Tour Card.
Challenge Tour
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the European Tour Order of Merit were updated.PDC Rankings
European Tour
JDC Festival of Darts
Young Irishman Keane Barry was the most successful player of the JDC Festival of Darts in Gibraltar. He won the Dart Connect International Open and progressed into the Scott Farms International Junior World Championship.
JDC Festival of Darts - Results
28. September
Gibraltar Darts Trophy
On the second day of the Gibraltar Darts Trophy the seeded players entered the tournament.
Only one of them - Jonny Clayton - lost his match and his opponent Kim Huybrechts is the only unseeded player still in the tournmant.
All Host Nation Qualifier are out as well. The best average of the second round played Nathan Aspinall with 108.14.
On Sunday the tournament will be played to the end.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
27. September
Gibraltar Darts Trophy
Today in Gibraltar the last event of this year's European Tour will begin - the Gibraltar Darts Trophy.
As usually on the first day of the event the qualifiers will meet in an afternoon- and an evening session.
By the Host Nation Qualifier last night qualified David Francis, Antony Lopez, Dyson Parody and Justin Hewitt.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
24. September
JDC Festival of Darts 2019
Today in Gibraltar the JDC Festival of Darts 2019 will begin in which young dartplayers from 16 nations take part. Beside the PDPA Junior World Cup the DartConnect Junior International Open and the International Junior World Darts Championship will be played.
JDC Festival of Darts 2019
23. September
Results...
Winners of the BDO British Classic Single events were Dutchman Dennie Olde Kalter and Lisa Ahston. The British Open women's title won Lisa Ashton as well, the men's title won Wesley Harms. The men's pairs of the British Open won Scott Waites and Garry Thompson, the women's pairs the pair Lisa Ashton/Maria O'Brien.
Winners of the Catalonia Open were Kevin Doets and Sharon Prins - both from the Netherlands. The titles of the FCD Anniversary Open won Catalonian Carles Arola and Dutch Aileen de Graaf.
During a tournament weekend in Russia Roman Obukhov and Elena Shulgina won the Italmas Cup. Elena Shulgina won the ladies event of the Udmurtia Open as well. The men's event won Aleksey Kadochnikov. Winners of the Ukraine Open were Gabriel Pascaru from Romania and Ukraine Vitalina Moiseienko. The Kyiv Masters won Ukraine Oleksandr Mamyka and Russia's Ksenia Klockek. Both youth events of the Ukraine tournament weekend won Nikita Soltys.
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated.PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
22. September
Gurney and Suljovic winin Barnsley
Winners of the two Players Championships at the weekend in Barnsley were Daryl Gurney and Mensur Suljovic.
Gurney won on Saturday the 25. Players Championship and defated in the final Nathan Aspinall. In the semi-finals stood Ian White and Michael Smith. For Gurney it was the first Pro Tour win of the year. Jeffrey de Zwaan threw in his match against Ron Meulenkamp a nine-darter.
On sunday Mensur Suljovic prevailed in the final over Ian White despite White throwing a nine-darter during the match. The semi-finals reached Steve West and Jonny Clayton. Besides White Rob Cross threw a nine-darter during the event.
Participants, Results
Gibraltar Darts Trophy
20. September
Pro Tour Weekend
Today in Barnsley another Pro Tour weekend will begin with the UK and the European Tour Card Holder Qualifier for the last European Tour Event of the year in Gibraltar. On Saturday and on Sunday the Players Championships 25 and 26 will - take place the last chance for the players to qualify for the World Grand Prix in Dublin.
Champions League
The PDC has now published the group draw and the draw for the first group matches of the Champions League.
Reigning Champion Gary Anderson, Michael van Gerwen, Michael Smith and James Wade are in Group A, Peter Wright, Gerwyn Price, Daryl Gurney and Rob Cross in Group B. Gary Anderson will play in his first group match against Michael Smith.
Participants, Draw
17. September
The Nine-Darter
The nine-darter or the perfect leg is the most spectacular performance a dart player can achieve. Though now-a-days comparatively a lot of nine-darters are thrown they are still far from common. Especially in the big TV tournaments they are still rare highlights - 2019 already 35 nine-darters were thrown on the PDC Circuit but none in one of the big TV events.The Nine-Darter
World Grand Prix
Before the European Championship the World Grand Prix in Dublin will take place. Only the two Players Championships next weekend offer the players the chance to still qualify for the tournament. It looks Raymond van Barneveld in his last year before his retirement will miss the World Grand Prix while some players including Jamie Hughes and three times BDO World Champion Glen Durrant will give their debut.
At the moment the list of participants in the World Grand Prix looks like this:
World Grand Prix
European Championship
Only one more European Tour will be played before the European Championship - the Gibraltar Darts Trophy. Next Friday in Barnsley the UK Qualifier and the West/South European Tour Card Holders Qualifier for Gibraltar will take place - the last chance for some players to qualify for Gibraltar. With a good run in Gibraltar several players still could snap a place in the European Championship. Among them are Kyle Anderson, Michael Smith and Raymond van Barneveld.
This is how the list of participantsin the European Championship looks at the moment:
European Championship
16. September
PDC World Championship
The regular season of the American CDC Magic Darts Championship Darts Circuit ended at the weekend with the Events 9 and 10. Darin Young won Event 9, Danny Baggish Event 10. After the end of the season the ranking is clear. Darin Young qualified as the number one of the ranking for the PDC World Championship as did Matt Campbell who sits as the highest ranked Canadian player in place two. Seigo Asada won the PDJ Japanese Qualifier. As he is already qualified Japanese Yuki Yamada gets by the Asian Tour Order of Merit a place in the PDc World Championship as Japanese qualifier.
PDC World Championship
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the European Tour Order of Merit were updated.PDC Rankings
European Tour
15. September
Price defends Title
Gerwyn Price wins the International Darts Open in Riesa with a 8:6 win over Rob Cross and defends his title. The final was a quite close match in which the lead changed several times. But both players could not keep up the great performances which they had shown in earlier matches in the tournament. The semi-finals reached Glen Durrant - for the first time on the European Tour - and Peter Wright.
Results
Statistics
Report Finals Day
International Darts Open
Today the tournament will be played to the end. In the afternoon the third round was played, tonight quarterfinals, semi-finals and the final will take place.
Michael Rosenauer was the only German player who survived the second round but he was elimnated third round by Glen Durrant. Four of the seeded players lost their second round matches - among them the number 1 seed Ian White. The highest average of the second round played Gerwyn Price with 106.20. In the third round Rob Cross was the most convincing player who defeated Joe Cullen - today finally with his own equipment - with 6:0.
Schedule, Results
Statistics
14. September
International Darts Open
On the second day of the event again an afternoon- and an evening session will be played. The winners of the first day will play against the seeded players.
On the first day there were no upsets and only a few outstanding perfomrances. From the home nation qualifiers only Michael Rosenauer and Steffen Siepmann survived the first round. The best game of the first day was the match between Kyle Anderson and Aaron Monk who both had an average over 95. It was won by Kyle Anderson. The highest average of the first day played Belgian Davy van Baelen with 103.66.
Schedule, Results
Statistics
13. September
International Darts Open
Today in Riesa the International Darts Open will begin - the penultimate event of this year's European Tour and the last in Germany.
On the first day the qualifiers will meet in an afternoon- and an evening session.
Michael van Gerwen and Dave Chisnall withdrew short notice so by the Host Nation Qualifier last night six places in the tournmanet were on offer. The qualifiers were Christian Jentschke, Mike Poge, Steffen Siepmann, Ole Luckow, Manfred Bilder and Michael Rosenauer who all will stand at the oche today. By the West/South Europe Associate Members Qualifier Davyd Venken and Mike de Decker qualified.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
12. September
Tournament Calendar amended
The PDC dates were added to the 2020 Tournament Calendar.Next year there will be one European Tour event less than this year and some of the sites changed. Trier, Budapest and Leeuwarden for the first time will be visited by the European Tour. The European Championship will return to Dortmund next year. Four of the Players Championships will be played in Hildesheim, two in Leeuwarden. The Development Tour will come for a weekend to Hildesheim as well. The Champions League of Darts and das World Series of Darts Finale will already take place in September - so October and November will be less packed. The Grand Slam will be played one week later as we are used to by now.
Provisional Tournament Calendar 2020
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated.PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
Wade wins in Barnsley
James Wade won in Barnsley the 24. Players Championship of the year with an 8:6 win over Dave Chisnall. For Wade it was already the fifth Pro Tour win this year. The semifianls reached Scott Taylor - who replaced Michael van Gerwen on short notice - and Jamie Hughes. John Henderson threw against Ron Meulenkamp in the last 16 a nine-darter. Michael van Gerwen withdrew and probably will miss the European Tour event in Riesa this weekend as well.
Participants, Results
11. September
De Sousa wins PC 23
Jose de Sousa is the first ever player from Portugal who wins a PDC Players Championship. He defeated in the final Gerwyn Price with 8:1. De Sousa only got a PDC Tour Card in January and already reached the final of a Pro Tour Event for the second time. On his way into the final he defeated among others John Henderson, Jermaine Wattimena and Peter Wright who had elimated in the quarterfinals Michael van Gerwen. Peter Wright and Adrian Lewis stood in the semi-finals.
Participants, Results
Results..
During the BDO weekend in Selsey Anastasia Dobromyslova won both the Ladies Classic and the Ladies Matchplay. In the semi-finals of the England Classic she was the first woman ever who threw an over 100 average. She was rewarded for her achievement with 1000 pound. Lisa Ashton won the England Masters title. Scott Mitchell won the Mens Matchplay and the England Masters. Winner of the Mens Classic was Wesley Harms. Beau Greaves won the Girls Matchplay and was the youth overall winner, Charlie Manby was the winner of the Boys Matchplay. The BDDA Masters were won by Michael Callaghan, the BDDA Classic by Andrew Quinn.
Keane Barry and Liam Gallagher will play the final Irish Matchplay next month during the World Grand Prix in Dublin. Gallagher qualified as well together with Kieran Guina for the PDC Unicorn World Youth Championship in November.
10. September
PDC Pro Tour
Today in tomorrow in Barnsley the Players Championships 23 and 24 will take place.
As always some Tour Card Holders - among them Mensur Suljovic, Robert Marijanovic and Carey Cadby - didn't register and are replaced by players from the Challenge Tour Order of Merit.
Participants, Results
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the European Tour Order of Merit were updated.PDC Rankings
European Tour
8. September
Cullen wins European Darts Matchplay
Joe Cullen is the winner of the European Darts Matchplay in Mannheim. He defeated on his way into the final in the quarterfinals Glen Durrant, in the semi-finals James Wade and met then in the final Michael van Gerwen, who prevailed in the evening session first over Krzysztof Ratajski and then over Dave Chisnall. Cullen - who already showed strong performances against Durrant and Wade - had dominated the first legs of the finale and got a 5:2 lead with a 170 finish. Van Gerwen managed to draw 5:5 but Cullen didn't give in but took the next three legs for his first ever win on the European Tour.
Schedule, Results
Statistics
Report Final
European Darts Matchplay
The third day of the tournament started with the third round in the after-noon session in which the last two qualifers were eliminated from the event. Eliminated as well were despite again excellent performances Mensur Suljovic and Gerwyn Price. Suljovic lost against Michael van Gerwen, Gerwyn Price against Glen Durrant who in the till now outstanding match of the tournament averaged over 110 and had a hitting rate on the doubles of over über 85 percent.
In the evening session quarterfinals, semi-finals and final will follow.
7. September
European Darts Matchplay
After the second round today all German players are out of the event. Max Hopp, Florian Hempel and Steffen Siepmann already lost their first round matches. Gabriel Clemens, Karsten Koch and Marvin Wehder didn't survive the second round. With the exception of Peter Wright and Nathan Aspinall all seeds progressed into the third round. William O'Connor and Wayne Jones are the only qualifiers still in the tournament. Gerwyn Price and Mensur Suljovic both today played an average of over 100.
Tomorrow the tournament will be played to the end.
Schedule, Results
Statistics
6. September
European Darts Matchplay
Today in Mannheim the eleventh event of the European Tour will begin - the European Darts Matchplay.
As always in those events on the first day the first round will be played in an afternoon and an evening session in which only the qualifiers will stand at the oche.
By the Host Nation Qualifier last night Marvin Wehder, Florian Hempel, Steffen Siepmann and Karsten Koch qualified. By the West/South European Associate Members Qualifier Wesley Plaisier and Cody Harris got a place in the tournament.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
3. September
PDC World Championship
After good results on the last PDC Asia weekend Seigo Asada and Noel Malicdem joined Paul Lim and Lourence Ilagan as qualifiers for the PDC World Championship.
PDC World Championship
Results...
The titles of the BDO World Trophy won Lisa Ashton and Jim Williams. For Ashton - who defeated Anastasia Dobromyslova in the final - it was after 2015 and 2016 the third World Trophy titel. Jim Williams - who went as favourite in the tournament - defeated Richard Veenstra in the final.
The third event of the World soft-darts series was won by Paul Lim who now is placed second in the ranking behind Boris Krcmar. His opponent in the final was Jams Law from Hong Kong.
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the European Tour Order of Merit were updated.PDC Rankings
European Tour
2. September
Suljovic wins in Wien
To the delight of the Austrian crowd Mensur Suljovic won in Vienna the Austrian Darts Championship with a very narrow 8:7 win over Michael van Gerwen. For Suljovic it was the third European Tour title. Besides he could celebrate his first wins on stage ever in his hometown. The semi-finals reached Peter Wright and Vincent van der Voort.
Participants, Results
Statistics
Report Final
29. August
Dartitis
Years after his first article over dartitis from which he suffered himself Bob Johnson published a second article on Dr. Chaplin's newsletter. He kindly allowed me to use it on Globald Darts in my section "Dartitis" as well.RECOVERY FROM AND AVOIDANCE OF DARTITIS
Austrian Darts Championship
Tomorrow in Schwechat/Vienna the Austrian Darts Championship - the tenth event of the PDC European Tour - will begin.
As always on the first day of the event the qualifiers will clash, on the second das the seeded players will join the tournament and on the third day the tournament will be played to the end.
Tonight the Host Nation Qualifier and the West/South Europe Associate Members Qualifier will take place. Qualified by the Host Nation Qualifier Alex Steinauer, Rusty-Jake Rodriguez, Christian Goedl, Hannes Schnier und Dietmar Burger and by the West/South Europe Associate Members Qualifier Mike de Decker und Kevin Münch.
Participants, Results
Statistics
27. August
Results...
At the French Open in Bray Dunes Nick Kenny won the men's title. Deta Hedman won the ladies event. Winner of the French Classic was Adam Smith-Neale, winner of the women's event was Aileen de Graaf. The youth event of the French Open was won by Dutchman Danny Jansen.
Winners of the Japan Open were Katsuya Aiba and Mayumi Ouchi. The youth title won Sakuto Sueshige.
Winners of the long running Swedish Open were Swede Dennis Nilsson and Japanese Mikuru Suzuki. Lisa Ashton won the LDC Swedish Classic and Scotsman Gary Stone the Gents Swedish Classic.
25. August
Super League Germany
On the third weekend of Super League again Nico Kurz with 12 wins out of 14 matches one of the most successful players and put himself on the head of the table in front of Martin Schindler who lost only one of his matches. Gabriel Clemens, head of the table before the fourth weekend, had a pitchblack first day on which he lost all his matches. He now sits in third place of the table.
Super League Germany
PDC Nordic and Baltic Tour
The third weekend of the Nordic and Baltic Tour took place in Iceland. Darius Labanauskas and Marko Kantele won the two Pro Tour events.
Besides the Nordic and Baltic Qualifiers for the last three European Tour events of the year were played. Dennis Nilsson qualified for Mannheim, Daniel Larsson for Riesa and Cor Dekker for the last event in Gibraltar.
Nordic and Baltic Tour, Ranking
24. August
Van Gerwen wins in Hamilton as well
After his win in the Melbourne Masters last week Michael van Gerwen now won the New Zealand Darts Masters in Hamilton as well. He defeated in the final his fellow country man Raymond van Barneveld with 8:1. After his second World Seriess win van Gerwen now heads the World Series ranking. The semi-finals reached James Wade and Rob Cross. Gary Anderson was elimated in the quarterfinals by van Gerwen - he had two teeth removed before the match...
Results, Report Final, Statistics
Tournament Information, Ranking
15. August
World Series of Darts
Tomorrow the World Series of Darts travels to Mebourne.
The PDC today published the draw and the schedule of the first round. Reigning champion Peter Wright will play in his first match against Corey Cadby. Damon Heta, winner of the event in Brisbane, will play in his first round match as in Brisbane against James Wade.
Schedule, Results, Statistics
Tournament Information, Ranking
14. August
Provisional Tournament Calender 2020
Till now the PDC didn't publish the tournament calender for next year. But other organisations like the DDV, the BDO, the EDO and the WDF already published some dates which can be found in the tournament calender!Provisional Tournament Calender 2020
Results...
Wayne Warren and Astrid Trouwborst won the titles of the Antwerp Open, winners of the youth events were James Beeton and Lerena Rietbergen. In the on Sunday following Belgium Open siegten Nick Kenny and Aileen de Graaf were the winners. James Beeton again won the boy's title while Julie Berens won the girls event.
Winners of the New Zealand Open were Mark McGrath and Tina Osborne.
At the CDC weekend in Chicago both events had with Matt Campbell and Jeremiah Millar Canadian winners. For Campbell it was already the second win of the season.
12. August
Heta wins in Brisbane
Australian Damon Heta could celebrate his first PDC TV Title in Brisbane.
Heta, who heads the DPA Order of Merit, was on his 32. birthday the suprise winner in front of the Australian crowd. In the first round on the first day of the event he eliminated James Wade. On the second day he defeated in the quarterfinals Gary Anderson - who once again had problems to hit his doubles, in the semi-finals his fellow country man Simon Whitlock and in the final last year's winner Rob Cross. The final was a very close match in which Heta contrary to his opponent used his chances. Cross reached the final with wins against James Bailey, Raymond van Barneveld and Daryl Gurney. Gurney had elimanted in the quarterfinals Michael van Gerwen.
Results, Report Final, Statistics
PDC Challenge Tour
At the weekend in Wolverhampton four Events of the PDC Challenge Tour took place and there were four different winners: Cameron Menzies, Patrick Lynskey, Jesus Noguera and Callan Rydz. For Menzies and Noguera it were already the second win this year on the Challenge Tour and they now head the Challenge Tour Order of Merit.
On Saturday Boris Koltsov threw a nine-darter, on Sunday Simon Preston.
Challenge Tour
9. August
More BDO News
A new MC and five new referees will stand on stage during the BDO World Trophy which will take place from 30. August to 1. September in Blackburn.
The new MC will be Paul Booth who among others was the MC of the League of Legends and accompanied many darts players through exhibitions. Best known of the new referees is John Fowler who once played darts himself but now works as MC and referee at tournaments and exhibitions. The other four new BDO referees all have some experience in local and regional tournaments. They are Garin Roderick, Josh Clough, Harry Smith and Kerrie Crompton, who will be the first ever official female referee on the BDO stage.
8. August
World Series of Darts
Tomorrow in Brisbane the first of three World Series events in Australia and New Zealand will begin.
Draw, schedule and participants are already known. Reigning Champion and World Matchplay winner Rob Cross will play in the first round against James Bailey, Gary Anderson will have to play against Corey Cadby - probably one of the most difficult oceanic opponents.
Schedule, Results, statistics
Tournament Information
Dartoids World
During a visit to Thailand Dartoid has a look at the famous River Kwai.
Darts near the River Kwai
6. August
BDO News
The BDO news start happening very fast at the moment.
The retirement of popular BDO MC Richard "Little Richard" Ashdown and all BDO referees caused a stir and fueled the fears of an ongoing BDO decline. Totally converse signals came from the BDO chairman who announced a new three years contract with the well-known Circus Tavern for the World Masters - and with One80 L-Style a new sponsor - and a new contract for the BDO World Championship which 2020 no longer will be played in the Lakeside Country Club but in the O2 Arena in London.
Details are not known yet. The World Master will be played from 23. - 28. October, the BDO World Championship from 4. - 12. January 2020.
Adam "Thorn" Smith travels on
Only one more day in Dominical - Thorn paddels the mangrove forest swamp before he spends the night at the dartboards of the San Clemente Bar.
"Flocks, Crocs And Oches"
Results...
In Luxembourg Aileen de Graaf won both the Luxembourg Open and the Luxembourg Masters. Matijn Kleermarker won the men's singles of the Luxembourg Open and Luc Peters the men's event of the Luxembourg Masters. Both girls events were won by Belgian Femke de Vuyst, the boys events were won by Englishman James Beeton(Open) and Dutch Pim van Bijnen(Masters).
Winners of the Mongolia Open were Gan-Erdene Sharavsambuu and Erdenechimeg Dondov. Erdenechimeg Dondov won the ladies singles of the Mongolia Masters as well while Baatarkhuyag Tsend won the men's event.
5. August
World Matchplay Gallery
Here it is finally - the gallery of the first and second round of the World Matchplay:
Gallery
Ratajski and Dolan win in Hildesheim
Krzysztof Ratajski and Brendan Dolan were the winners of the Players Championships in Hildesheim. Ratajski won on Saturday the 21. Players Championship and defeated in the final Dimitri van den Bergh. For Ratajski it was already the second Players Championship title this year. Van den Bergh for the second time stood in a final. The semi-finals reached Ian White and Danny Noppert. On Sunday Brendan Dolan for the first time in almost five years could celebrate a ranking title. He defeated in the final Jermaine Wattimena. Mensur Suljovic and Cody Harris stood in the semi-finals..
Results
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated.PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
2. August
Pro Tour Weekend Hildesheim
For a Pro Tour weekend the PDC travels to Hildesheim.
Today the UK/European Tour Card Holders Qualifiers for the European Tour Events 11 and 12 in Mannheim and Riesa take place. Tomorrow and on Sunday the Players Championships 21 and 22 will be played in the same venue.
Several tour card holders didn't register among them Michael van Gerwen - who said he will play no more Players Championships this year - and Gary Anderson.
Participants
European Tour Event 11
European Tour Event 12
1. August
"Let Us Entertain You"
On my last day at the World Matchplay the second round was played to the end. It was not as thrilling as the night before but quite interesting nevertheless.
Besides the World Matchplay this time a tourist attraction is in the focus which has quite a lot to do with entertainment - and as you perhaps can see in the picture on the sidelines with darts-: the Comedy Carpet.
"Let us entertain you"
31. July
At the Beach
On my penultimate day in Blackpool in the evening the second round of the World Matchplay started. It was a great night of darts with hard fought matches and upsets.
But what do you do during the day in Blackpool before the tournament is resumed? On this yunny and warm day the answer only could be let's go to the beach!
At the Beach
30. July
PDC World Championship 2019/20
After American Danny Baggish - who qualified as North American Championship - by now two more participants in the tournament are known. Paul Lim and Lourence Ilagan were quite successful at the weekend on the PDC Asian Tour - Lim won one of the events and reached the final of the other. Now the can't be caught in the Asian Tour Order of Merit and even before the last Asian Tour weekend have qualified again for the PDC World Championship.
PDC World Championship
Super League Germany
At the weekend the third Unicorn Super League took place. Most successful were Nico Kurz, Martin Schindler and Gabriel Clemens who all won ten of their matches. Ricardo Pietrecko for the second time this year withdraw for a weekend and was elimnated..
Super League Germany
Champions League of Darts
The PDC now announced who will be the eight players taking part this year in the Champions League of Darts. It will be Michael van Gerwen, Rob Cross, Daryl Gurney, Gary Anderson, Michael Smith, Peter Wright, Gerwyn Price and James Wade.
The tournament will take place from 19. to 20. October in Leicester.
Champions League
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit was updated after the World Matchplay.PDC Rankings
28. July
Cross wins World Matchplay
With a 18:13 win over Michael Smith Rob Cross won the World Matchplay title. In a one sided start in the match Rob Cross got a 9:0 lead before Smith won his first leg and started a remarkable fightback. He managed to reduce his deficit to two legs. But Cross kept his nerve and crossed the finishing line first.
Statistics, Report
27. July
World Matchplay - Semifinals
Tonight in Blackpool the semi-finals were played. In the first semi-final Rob Cross played against Daryl Gurney. Gurney first dominated the match and was 14:7 in the lead. But Cross started a sensational comeback, leveled 15:15 and then took the last two legs of the match and the win.
The second semi-final between Michael Smith and Glen Durrant stayed till the end a one-sided match. Daurrant never played as good as in his previous matches while Michael Smith showed a strong perfromance and won 17:10.
So tomorrow in the final Rob Cross will play against Michael Smith.
Results
Statistics, Report
26.July
World Matchplay
Tonight the last two quarterfinals will be played.
Rob Cross will play against Stephen and Peter Wright against Daryl Gurney. Rob Cross by now ist the favourite on the win with sponsor Betfred.
Schedule, Results
World Matchplay - Day 6
The first two quarterfinals were both clear matches. Mervyn King could keep up long with Michael Smith but nearer the end Smith was just the better player and won 16:11. The second quarterfinal was even more one-sided as James Wade never really was in the match. Might be he had more problems with the heat on stage then his opponent Glen Durrant who won 16:7.
Smith and Durrant will now meet in the semifinals tomorrow.
Schedule, Results
Statistics, Report
25. July
World Matchplay - Day 5
Day two of the second round was far less dramatic then day one. Three of the matches were dominated by one player and only one was very close and
went into the tie break and ended with a surprise. Daryl Gurney defeated in the first match of the night Keegan Brown with 11:9, both players couldn't keep up their
performances of the first round. Krzysztof Ratajski
had not much to oppose Rob Cross - Cross won with 11:5. Simon Whitlock had even less to oppose an again strong playing Peter Wright and Wright won with 11:2.
The match between Stephen Bunting and Ian White was first dominated by White. But suddenly Bunting was back in the match and the match went into the tie break - Bunting won it 14:12.
Schedule, Results
Statistics
Along the piers
On the third day of the tournament I had some more time and I passed it among other things with a walk. That's one of the reasons
the third article deals not only with the last first round matches but with piers in general - not only the Blackpool Piers - as well.
Along the Piers
World Matchplay
On the fifth day of the tournament the second round will be played to the end. Daryl Gurney will play against Keegan Brown, Stephen Bunting against Ian White and
Rob Cross against Krzysztof Ratajski. The final match of the second round will be the match between Peter Wright and Simon Whitlock -
the only match of the night in which two seeded players will clash.
Schedule, Results
Statistics
World Matchplay - Day 4
The first second round night of the World Matchplay was a dramatic night. It started with a close 12:10 win of Michael Smith over
Max Hopp with which Smith for the first time progressed into the quarterfinals of the event. In the second match once again James Wade turned the game and
won in the tie break 13:11 against Mensur Suljovic. After that Mervyn King eliminated with a strong performance reigning champion Gary Anderson
and the night ended with the clash of two three times world champions which went into the tie break as well. Glen Durrant defeated
Michael van Gerwen with 13:11.
Schedule, Results
Statistics, Report
24. July
Darting Entertainment
The second day of the tournamment was a day with two sessions. So one has not much time for other things. But it was an entertaining day nevertheless.
Darting Entertainment
World Matchplay
Today in Blackpool the second round of the World Matchplay will begin. In the first match of the night Max Hopp will stand against Michael Smith at the oche. The matches
James Wade v Mensur Suljovic and Gary Anderson v Mervyn King will follow. In the last match of the night
Michael van Gerwen will play against Glen Durrant.
Schedule, Results
23. July
World Matchplay - Day 3
On the last first round day with Jonny Clayton another seeded player was eliminated - he lost against Keegan Brown. The other three seeded players
Simon Whitlock, Daryl Gurney and Peter Wright won their matches. Simon Whitlock had to fight hard against John Henderson. The match almost went into the
Tie Break. The most commanding performance and the best average with 102.04 showed Peter Wright against whom
Vincent van der Voort only could keep up at the start of the match.
Schedule, Results
Statistics, Report
World Matchplay
Tonight in Blackpool the first round of the World Matchplay will be played to the end. Four first round matches will be played.
Among others Daryl Gurney and Peter Wright will stand at the oche. Wright won last week two Pro Tour events and
recently the German Darts Masters - it looks he is in good form.
Schedule, Results
World Matchplay -Tag 2
On the second day of the World Matchplay we saw in the afternoon and the evening session one really hard fought match. In the afternoon it was the match between
Daven Chisnall and Max Hopp in which Hopp kept his nerve and won with 11:9. In the evening it was the most thrilling battle between
James Wade and Jeffrey de Zwaan which Wade won in a Sudden Death leg.
The outstanding performance showed three time BDO World Champion Glen Durrant who defeated in the last match of the second day Adrian Lewis with 10:4. Michael van Gerwen played a more
patchy match but showed enough to defeat Steve Beaton with10:6.
Schedule, Results
Statistics, Report
22. July
No Beach Weather...
This year again Global Darts is live in Blackpool - for the first and second round of the tournament - and of course
there will be some articles which this year beside the tournament have the topic entertainment. The first article
deals with the opening night of the event and might be answers the question why the World Matchplay blends in so well with Blackpool.
No Beach Weather...
World Matchplay
On the second day of the World Matchplay an afternoon- and an evening session with four first round matches each will take place.
In the afternoon session with Jamie Hughes and Krzysztof Ratajski two more debutants will stand at the oche. In the evening session all eyes will be on the number 1 seed Michael van Gerwen -who will play against Steve Beaton and on the last match of the night between Adrian Lewis and Glane Durrant.
21. July
World Matchplay - Day 1
On the first night of the World Matchplay the three debutants all were eliminated. Nathan Aspinall lost 5:10 against a strong playing
Mervyn King. Gary Anderson didn't show a great performance but Danny Noppert had no chance nevertheless. Rob Cross convinced in the last match of the night
against Chris Dobey. The most thrilling match of the first evening between Gerwyn Price and Stephen Bunting ended in a
13:12 win for Bunting.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics, Report
20. July
World Matchplay
Tonight in Blackpool the World Matchplay will begin - this year sponsored by betting company Betfred.
The first round will be played from tonight till Monday. The tournament will be opened by the match between Nathan Aspinall and Mervyn King. Besides tonight
reigning champion Gary Anderson will start his campaign against Danny Noppert as well.
Preview
Participants, Schedule, Results
19. July
World Matchplay
Part two of the debutants presentation of this year's World Matchplay deals with Glen Durrant, Jamie Hughes, Chris Dobey and Danny Noppert.
The Debutants - Part 2
18. July
World Matchplay
This year there will be seven debutants in the World Matchplay. We check them out.
Today in our first part we deal with Nathan Aspinall, Krzysztof Ratajski und Ricky Evans.
The Debutants - Part 1
Wright wins Players Championship 20 as well
Peter Wright won the 20. Players Championship des Jahres in Barnsley as well - again with impressive performances. He defeated in the final Joe Cullen who had no chance at all. The semi-finals reached Adrian Gray and Adrian Lewis.
Participants, Results
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated.PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
17. July
Darts Performance Centre
The Darts Performance Centre has a look on the upcoming World Matchplay. In the centre of the the thoughts stands the question whether Gary Anderson will be able to defend his title.
World Matchplay 2019
Wright gewinnt Players Championship 19
Peter Wright won his second PDC titel in four days - he won the 19. Players Championship of the year in Barnsley. In the final he defeated Justin Pipe. Wright showed a strong performance with several over 100 averages and looked well prepared for the World Matchplay. In the semi-finals he won against Gary Anderson who looked good as well. German Gabriel Clemens played similar strong as in the German Darts Masters and was only defeated in the semi-finals by Justin Pipe.
Kyle Anderson threw a nine-darter.
Today in Barnsley the 20. Players Championship will take place.
Participants, Results
16. July
PDC Pro Tour
Today and tomorrow in Barnsley the Players Championships 19 and 20 take place. Many of the participants of the World Matchplay - which will begin on Saturday in Blackpool - use the tournaments as preparation.
Michael van Gerwen and James Wade didn't register for the events.
15. July
PDC Challenge Tour
At the weekend in Peterbrorough four events of the PDC Challenge Tour were played and there were four different winners. On Saturday Cody Harris and Nick Fullwell won, on Sunday Berry van Peer and Andy Jenkins were the winners. Jenkins besides on Saturday threw a nine-darter.
Stephen Burton still heads the Challenge Tour Order of Merit followed by Boris Koltsov on the second place and Andy Jenkins is ranked third.
Challenge Tour
WDF Europe Cup Youth
In Ankara till Sunday the WDF Europe Cup Youth took place. The boys singles title went to the english high-flyer Leighton Bennett. The pairs title won the Dutch pair Jurjen van der Velde/Luke van der Kwast. The Team Event won the team of the Republic of Ireland. Overall boys winners were the Netherlands. The girls songles title won Hungarian Tamara Kovacs. The girls pairs won the English pair Shannon Reeves/Beau Greaves. Overall girls winner were the girls from England.
WDF Europe Cup Youth
14. July
Wright wins German Darts Masters
For the second time in three years Peter Wright won the German Darts Masters. He defeated in a thrilling final German Gabriel Clemens with 8:6. Though Clemens lost in the end the tournament was a big success for him and his first televised stage final. Wright defeated on finals day Nico Kurz and James Wade, Clemens prevailed over Rob Cross and Mensur Suljovic.
The World Series of Darts will continue in August with the Event in Brisbane.
Results, Report Final, Statistics
13. July
German Darts Masters - Day 1
On the first day of the German Darts Masters we could see three wins for the German players. Gabriel Clemens defeated Raymond van Barneveld, Nico Kurz prevailed over Gary Anderson and Martin Schindler showed an incredible comeback to eliminate Michael van Gerwen. Max Hopp was not so lucky. He played with 106.62 highest average but nevertheles was beaten by Rob Cross.
Today the tournament will be played to the end.
Schedule, Results, Statistics
12. July
German Darts Masters
Here a short presentation of the German participants!
German Participants
11. July
German Darts Masters
Tomorrow the third German Darts Masters will begin, the second event of this year's World Series of Darts. The Venue will be the Lanxess Arena in Cologne. Eight PDC representatives will play against eight German players. Reigning champion Mensur Suljovic will play in his first match against Maik Langendorf.
Preview
10. July
PDC World Championship
The PDC World Championmship 2019/2020 will be played from Friday 13. December 2019 to the 1. January 2020.
The priority sale for the PDCTV-HD Annual Members will begin on 22. July at 1000 BST for all those who have got Annual PDCTV-HD membership till 17. July 1200 BST. Beside there'll be another priority sale window for those who've registered through the priority sign-up form till 24. July 1000 BST. General sale will start on 26. July 1000 BST.
All information relating the ticket sale you can find here: World Championship Ticket Sale
PDC World Matchplay
The PDC published the draw and the schedule of the first round of the event which will begin on 20. July in Blackpool.
The match between Nathan Asspinall and Mervyn King will open the tournament. Reigning champion Gary Anderson will as well play on the first day against Danny Noppert am Oche stehen. In the evening session of the second day among others Michael van Gerwen will play against Steve Beaton and Adrian Lewis against Glen Durrant. The last first round match will be on Monday 22. July the match between Peter Wright and Vincent van der Voort.
World Matchplay 2019
8. July
German Darts Masters
The PDC published the draw for the German Darts Masters - the second World Series of Darts event of the year - which will be played this year on 12. and 13. July in Cologne. There again eight PDC representatives will play against eight national players. Instead of Gerwyn Price and Nathan Aspinall Mensur Suljovic and Raymond van Barneveld will stand at the oche. The eight German players are Max Hopp, Martin Schindler, Gabriel Clemens, Maik Langendorf, Nico Kurz, Kevin Münch, Christian Bunse and Robert Marijanovic. Reigning champion Mensur Suljovic will play against Maik Langendorf.
Draw First Round
World Series of Darts
After the event in Germany the World Series will continue in August with events in Brisbane and Melbourne in Australia and the final tournament in Hamilton in New Zealand.
For these events the field of participants is after the DPA qualifiers now complete.
World Series of Darts
6.July
Aspinall wins U.S. Darts Masters
Nathan Aspinall won at his World Series debut the title - he defeated in the final of the U.S. Darts Masters Michael Smith with 8:4. On the second day of the event - on which quarterfinals, semi-finals and the final were played - Aspinall was the outstanding player who had an over 100 average in all his matches. In the quarterfinals he defeated Rob Cross, in the semi-finals Peter Wright. Michael Smith reached the final with wins over Michael van Gerwen in the weakest match of the day and Gerwyn Price who before had eliminated reigning champion Gary Anderson from the event.
Results, Statistics
5. July
Baggish wins North American Championship
The second event yesterday was an all North American affair in which only the eight qualifers took part. It was Danny Baggish who triumphed in the end - he defeated in the final last year's winner Jeff Smith with 6:5. Smith had missed a matchdart on the Bullseye.
So Baggish is the first player who qualified for the PDC Worldchampionship. He will give his debut.
Results, Report, Statistics
U.S.Darts Masters - Day 1
None of the North American qualifiers survived the first round of the U.S.Darts Masters though some of the PDC players - among them the reigning champion Gary Anderson - had to fight hard. Especially close was the match between Peter Wright and Canadian Jeff Smith which was won in the deciding leg by Wright. The best perfomance of the first round showed Rob Cross who was the only player with an average over 100.
Schedule, Results, Statistics
4. July
World Series of Darts
Today this year's PDC World Series of Darts begins with the event in Las Vegas - the U.S.Darts Masters.
By four qualifiers four winners qualified - Jeff Smith, Leonard Gates, Daniel Baggish and Elliot Milk. Besides the four highest ranked players of the Qualifiers Order of Merit qualified as well: Gary Mawson, Shawn Brenneman, Jim Long and Darin Young. The eight North American players will play in the first round against eight PDC representatives.
After the first round of the U.S. Darts Masters the North American players wil play in the North American Championship for a place in the next PDC World Championship.
U.S.Darts Masters
World Series of Darts
Momentum Performance Darts
The Momentum Performance Darts - designed by young Dutchman Joeri Wienen and just on the market - were tested.
Here you can find the review:
Momentum Performance Darts
1. July
PDC World Matchplay
After the Czech Darts Open at the weekend all World Matchplay participants are known. Thank to their achievements at the weekend Jamie Hughes and Keegan Brown were able to grab a place in the tournament. They cut out Kyle Anderson and Ryan Searle. Seven players this year will give their debut in Blackpool: Nathan Aspinall, Krzysztof Ratajski, Ricky Evans, Glen Durrant, Chris Dobey, Danny Noppert and Jamie Hughes. The PDC announced the draw will be made next week.
World Matchplay 2019
Hughes wins Czech Darts Open
With 8:3 win over a seemingly tired Stephen Bunting Jamie Hughes secured in Prague his first PDC Title. By this he astonishingly managed to grab a place in the World Matchplay which was only possible by winning the event. Hughes showed a very consistent tournament performance and defeated on the final day besides Bunting Ron Meulenkamp, Ian White and Simon Whitlock. It didn't look the high temperatures on stage did affect him much opposed to other players who obviously had to struggle. With Bunting and Hughes two unseeded players reached the final of the inaugural Czech Open Darts.
Besides Hughes Keegan Brown as well at the last minute snaged a place in the World Matchplay by reaching the semi-finals.
Statistics
Report Final
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the European Order of Merit were updated.PDC Rankings
European Tour
30. June
Czech Darts Open - Day 3
On the third day of the Czech Open the tournament will be played to the end. In the afternoon the third round will take place while in the evening quarterfinals, semi-finals and the final will follow.
On the second day of the event 11 of the 16 seeded players were eliminated - might be one of the reasons were the very high temperatures on stage. The eliminated players were headed by Michael van Gerwen who once again lost to Keegan Brown. Gerwyn Price on the other side was not impressed by the heat and crowned his win over Glen Durrant with a last leg nine-darter. Corey Cadby continued his European Tour debut with a close 6:5 win over Michael Smith and will today play against Mervyn King.
Schedule, Results
Statistics
29. June
Czech Darts Open - Day 2
Today in Prague the second day of the Czech Darts Open will take place on which the first round winners will play against the seeded players.
With the exception of Karel Sedlacek all Host Natipon Qualifiers already were elimnated on the first. The best perfomance of the first day showed Glen Durrant who played an 110.12 average in his 6:1 win over Daniel Larsson.
Schedule, Results
Statistik
Czech Darts Open
Today in Prague in Czechia the Czech Darts Open will begin - the ninth event of the European Tour 2019.In an afternoon-and an evening-session the first round will be played in which only the qualifiers take part.
Yesterday by the Host Nation Qualifier Jan Hlavacek, Vaclav Shieferdecker, Ondrej Plsek and Karel Sedlacek qualified for the tournament. Winner of the East European Qualifier was Sebastian Steyer.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
26. June
Meet our Designers
Last month Performance Darts run a competition in which the participants were encouraged to design their "dream dart". Two of the designers won and their darts just made it on the market.
In this blog one of the two winners - young Dutchman Joeri Wienen - presents his design.
Meet our Designers - 1
PDC World Matchplay
Already before the last event which counts for the qualifiation for the World Matchplay - Czech Darts Open this weekend - it is clear there will be no fare well for Raymond van Barneveld from the stage in Blackpool as he failed to qualify. But there are still eleven players who take part in the Czech Darts Open to qualify with differing chances by the Pro Tour Order of Merit for the World Matchplay World Matchplay. the far best chance has Keegan Brown who only has to reach round two in Prague.
How the list of participants for Blackpool looks before the Czech Darts Open you can find here:
World Matchplay 2019
Results...
Beau Greaves won the LDO Ladies Classic, she defeated in the final Anastasia Dobromyslova with 5:4.
Winners of the Six Nation Cups of the EDO were the English ladies team and the Dutch men's team.
Winners of the Cherry Bomb International in Florida were Danny Baggish and Kris Grimal. Winners of the BDO Austrian Open were Belgian Sven Verdonck and Kaisu Rekkinen from Finnland. The pairs title secured German Michael Unterbuchner together with Hungarian Patrick Kovacs.
During the fourth tournament weekend of the PDC Asian Tour Lourence Ilagan not only threw a nine-darter but as well secured the win in both events - both times against his World Cup partner Noel Malicdem.
24. June
Ratajski and Wade win in Wigan
Krzysztof Ratajski won on Saturday the 17. Players Championship of the year with a 8:3 win over Nathan Aspinall. For Ratajski it was the first title of the year. In five of his seven matches the "Polish Eagle" had averaged over. The semi-finals reached Ron Meulenkamp and James Wilson, who by this increased his chance for a place in the World Matchplay.
In the 18. Players Championship on Sunday James Wade secured his already fourth title of the year. He defeated Portugese Jose de Sousa in the final 8:5. De Sousa for the first time reached the semi-finals of a PDC Event. In the semi-finals stood Krzysztof Ratajski and Dimitri van den Bergh.
Results
Qualifiers European Tour
On Friday the UK and the South/West European Qualifiers for the Events Nine and Ten of the European Tour took place in Wigan as well. Eleven players qualified by the UK Qualifiers both for Prague and for Vienna among them Corey Cadby, William O'Connor, Jamie Hughes and Stephen Bunting. By the South/West European Qualifier Jermaine Wattimena and Rowby-John Rodriguez qualified for both tournaments.
European Tour Event 9
European Tour Event 10
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated.PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
21. June
Pro Tour Wigan
Today in Wigan a Pro Tour weekend begins with the UK and the West/South European Qualifiers for the European Tour Events 9 and 10. Tomorrow and on Sunday the Players Championships 17 and 18 will take place.
It's an important weekend for the qualification for the World Matchplay. Raymond van Barneveld had to withdrew due to personal reasons - so in his last year in the PDC he will not be able to qualify for the World Matchplay. Gary Anderson will not be in Wigan either.
Participants, Results
European Tour Event 9
European Tour Event 10
20. June
Results...
Most successful player of the England Open and the England National Singles was fifteen years old Beau Greaves who won both ladies singles titels, the Mixed Youth and the girls event. Wesley Harms won the England National men's singles, Jim Williams the England Open men's singles.
The titles of the Canadian Open Champions won Dianne Gobiel and Jeff Smith.
The World
Winner of the second event of this year's World Soft-Dart Series was Croat Boris Krcmar who prevailed in the final over Austrian Michael Rasztovits. Beside Rasztovits the Austrian brothers Rowby-John and Rusty-Jake Rodriguez took part as well in the tournament which was played in La Rochelle in France. Among the participants were Germans Rene Eidams and Michael Unterbuchner, Belgian Kim Huybrechts, Dutchman Jelle Klaasen and Englishmen Andy Jenkins and Scott Waites.
The World
18. June
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the European Tour Order of Merit were updated.PDC Rankings
European Tour
17. June
Chisnall wins Danish Darts Open
Dave Chisnall won in Copenghagen the final of the Danish Darts Open with 8:3 against Chris Dobey. For Chisnall it was this year after two Players Championship wins already the third PDC titel. Chris Dobey for the first time reached a stage final. In the semi-finals stood Gerwyn Price and Jonny Clayton.
Participants, Results
Tournament Statistics
Report Final
12. June
World Series of Darts
The PDC today announced that James Wade and Raymond van Barneveld will complete the squat of PDC players in the Events in Australia und New Zealand. Most of the Oceanic representives are already know as well. The still free places will be filled by qualifiers.
World Series of Darts
Grand Slam of Darts
Both the winners of the PDC World Cup - Gary Anderson and Peter Wright - as the runner-ups Steve Lennon and William O'Connor secured themselves a place in the Grand Slam of Darts in November in Wolverhampton.
An overview of the already for the tournament qualified players you can find here:
Grand Slam of Darts
Results...
Winners of the Swiss Open were Thomas Junghans and Deta Hedman. Junghans was since 1984 the first Swiss winner of the tournament. The youth event of the Swiss Open won Emir Mujanovic from Switzerland, the pairs won English/Belgian pair Dave Evans/Brian Raman.
The titles of the Helvetia Open went to Alan Soutar (against Thomas Junghans) and Fallon Sherrock. German Lucca Scheuch won the youth event.
The New Zealand Canterbury Open were won by Darren Herewini and Tina Osborne.
PDC Development Tour
Last weekend four Events of PDC Development Tour were played in Milton Keynes.
Most successful was Ted Evetts who won two of the events and now heads the Development Tour Order of Merit. As well a good weekend had young Dutchman Geert Nentjes who won the ninth event and threw a nine-darter in event eleven. The fourth event of the weekend won Luke Humphries.
Development Tour
9. June
Scotland wins World Cup
With a 3:1 win over the surprise-team of this year's World Cup - the Team of the Republic of Ireland, Team Scotland won the World Cup. With Scotland the most confident and consistent Team of the event got the win.
Scotland could win in the second round and on the final day till the final itself all its matches 2:0 and probably was slightly fresher as the Irish team who won their matches on finals day against Austria and against the Netherlands only in strong double matches 2:1. In the final Gary Anderson lost to Steve Lennon while Peter Wright won against both Steve Lennon and William O'Connor. The double match the Scots won with 4:0.
Results
Report, Statistics
PDC World Cup
Today the tournament will be played to the end in an afternoon- and an evening-session.
In the afternoon the quarterfinals take place, in the evening session the semi-finals and the final. Again the matches begin with two singles followed if necessary by a double match. In the final two singles are followed by a doubles match. Should the final not be decided after that up to two more singles can be played.
Schedule, Results
8. June
PDC World Cup - Day 3
The second round of the event brought some more upsets and with Australia and England two more seeded teams and favorits were eliminated. Host nation Germany lost as well - Martin Schindler and Max Hopp were just not strong enough for Team Belgium. Scotland - and especially Gary Anderson - convinced again and progressed as Team Austria and Team Netherlands into the quarterfinals.
Unseeded Team Canada again showed a strong nerved performance and eliminated Australia, while two strong Irishmen prevailed over top favorite Team England. William O'Connor played against Rob Cross the match of his life and with 115.10 the so far highest average of this year's event.
Results
Report, Statistics
PDC World Cup
On the third day of the tournament in an afternoon- and an evening session the second round will be played.
In the afternoon with Scotland and Belgium two seeded teams will play - Belgium against host nation Germany. In the evening session four seeded teams will stand in the oche which all will play against an unseeded opponent. All matches begin with two singles followed if necessary by a double match.
Schedule
7. June
Interview Chuck Puleo
One of the debutants in the PDC World Cup I want to introduce you more detailed - the American Chuck Puleo who already took part in the PDC World Championship 2019. Together with Darin Young - who played in every World Cup so far - he is Team America.
To the Interview
PDC World Cup - Day 2
There were no real upsets on the second first round day and all four seeded teams progressed into the second round. It was not easy for Austria and really surprisingly hard work for Australia to win against Finland.
England and the Netherlands won their matches commandingly. The highest avarage of the second day had with 97.56 not a seeded team but rather surprinsingly Team Canada who had a real fight with the almost as good team from Italy.
Results
Report, Statistics Day 2
PDC World Cup
On the second day of the tournament the first round will be played to the end.
As yesterday four seeded and twelve unseeded nations will stand at the oche. The seeds are reigning champion Netherlands, Team England, Team Australia and Team Austria. England will play against the high profile Team Philippines, Austria against Russia, Australia against Finnland and the Netherlands against Spain.
Participants, Schedule, Results
6. June
PDC World Cup - Day 1
Today in Hamburg the PDC World Cup started with the first eight matches of the first round.
On the first day of the event we already saw two upsets and with Northern Ireland and Wales two seeded teams were elimanated by the unseeded teams from South Africa and Singapore. Especially Paul Lim once again won the hearts of the delighted crowd. Team Germany had no problems to win over the weakest team of the first day - Team Hungary. Belgium, as well a seeded team, impressed against Hong Kong. In the last match of the night number two seed Scotland with Gary Anderson and Peter Wright showed the outstanding performance of the first day. They won against Denmark with the only average over 100 with 5:0.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Report, Statistics Day 1
Interview with Magnus Caris
In the today in Hamburg beginning World Cup there are not only debutants. One of the participants has decided to give up his darts career after the tournament - permanently and entirely. Swede Magnus Caris after 40 years of darts has enough. An interview by Mads Plagborg Magnussen.
To the Interview
PDC World Cup
The PDC in the preview of the tournament has a view on the participants and talks to Michael van Gerwen, Michael Smith and Simon Whitlock. For all three the tournament is something special and they all look forward to wear their national shirts.
Preview
5. June
PDC World Cup
Short notice there was a chance in the Chinese team - instead of debutant Quingyu Zhan- who had problems with his visum - Yuanjun Liu will play his third PDC World Cup.
But of course there are several more debutants who didn't whithdraw and on those the third preview article has a view.
The Debutants 2
4. Juni
PDC World Cup
On 6. June the PDC World Cup will begin which this year will take place in Hamburg.
As in every year this year again several debutants will take part in the tournament - for example Michael Smith who will take part for the first time in the World . And sometimes nations will give their debut as well - this year Lithuania will its debut.
The Debutants 1
3. June
PDC World Cup
On 6. June the PDC World Cup will begin which this year will take place in Hamburg.
To tune in we have a view on the reigning champion Team Netherland which will this year no longer consist of last year's winners Raymond van Barneveld and Michael van Gerwen. Instead of van Barneveld this year Jermaine Wattimena was nominated!
The Reigning Champion - Team Netherlands
31. May
WDF/BDO Rankings
All WDF/BDO Rankings were updated.WDF/BDO Rankings
PDC World Matchplay
There are still almost two months till the World Matchplay and four events still to be played before the participants will be decided.
Here you can find how the list of participants looks at the moment:
World Matchplay 2019
27. May
White wins in Zwolle
Ian White won in Zwolle the final of the Dutch Darts Masters against Michael van Gerwen with 8:7 and got his second European Tour title in a row. Both players looked tired in the final but it was White who was more clinical on his doubles and van Gerwen trailed most of the time in the match.
White defeated on his way in the final on the third day of the event Jermaine Wattimena, Vincent van der Voort and Peter Wright. Van Gerwen won a rather close match against his Dutch rival Raymond van Barneveld, after that a very close match against Dave Chisnall in the quarterfinals and prevailed only just in the semi-finals over Gerwyn Price.
Report Final
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the European Tour Order of Merit were updated.PDC Rankings
European Tour
26. May
Dutch Darts Masters - Day 3
In Zwolle today the Dutch Darts Masters will be played to the end. In the afternoon-session the third round will be played, in the evening session quarter-finals, semi-finals and the final will take place.
The most anticipated match of the third round was the clash between Michael van Gerwen and Raymond van Barneveld which was won by the reigning champion. For Raymond van Barneveld - who will retire end of the year - it were his last Dutch Darts Masters.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
25. Mai
Dutch Darts Masters - Day 2
Today in Zwolle the second day of the Dutch Darts Masters takes place on which the seeded players enter the tournament and played against the first round winners.
With the exception of Danny van Trijp all Host Nation Qualifiers were eliminated in the first round. Austrian Rowby-John Rodriguez had with 108.79 the highest average of the first day. James Wade withdrew on short notice so his opponent Glen Durrant gets a bye and progresses into the third round.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
24. May
Dutch Darts Masters
Today in Zwolle in the Netherlands the Dutch Darts Masters - the seventh event of the European Tour 2019 - will begin.In an afternoon-and an evening-session the first round will be played in which only the qualifiers take part.
As Rob Cross withdrew on short notice yesterday in the Host Nation Qualifier five tournament places were on offer. The qualifiers are Erik Hol, Jimmy Hendriks, Danny van Trijp, Wesley Plaisier and Alexander Merkx.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
23. May
Van Gerwen wins Premier League
Michael van Gerwen won his fifth Premier League title. He defeated in the unforunately rather one sided final Rob Cross with 11:5. Cross had his chances in the match but often spoiled them as he couldn't find the double.
In the semi-finals van Gerwen didn't play as strong as in the final and had a lot more problems against his opponent Daryl Gurney, who was similar to Cross not too sure on his doubles. Rob Cross won his semifinal against James Wade convincingly and deserved, Wade just never found his game.
Report, Statistics
Premier League - Preview Play-Offs
Today the final of the Premier League will take place in the O2 Arena in London.
In the first semi-final reigning champion Michael van Gerwen will meet Daryl Gurney. Gurney won this season both his league matches against van Gerwen. In the second semi-final James Wade will play against Rob Cross. It is a repeat of match last week in Leeds. There Wade defeated Cross with 8:6. After that this year's Premier League will conclude with the final.
Preview
21. May
European Tour - Associate Members Qualifiers
At the weekend in Hildesheim, Germany, three Associate Members Qualifiers for European Tour Events in the Netherlands, in Denmark and in the Czech Republic took place. Austrian Michael Rasztovits threw a nine-darter Neun-Darter but failed to qualify.
For the Dutch Darts Masters qualified German Florian Hempel and Belgian Mike de Decker, for the Danish Darts Open Mike de Decker and New Zealands Cody Harris and for the Czech Darts Open Switzlerland's Stefan Bellmont and Dutchman Wessel Nijman.
Dutch Darts Masters
Danish Darts Open
Czech Darts Open
Durrant and Ward win in Barnsley
Glen Durrant won on saturday the fifteenth Players Championship of the year and with it his second PDC title. In the final he defeated Darius Labanauskas with 8:1. In the semi-finals Durrant prevailed over Michael van Gerwen while Labanauskas won against Ron Meulenkamp. Dave Chisnall threw a nine-darter.
The sixteenth Players Championship on sunday was won by Harry Ward who won the close final against German Max Hopp with 8:7. The semi-finals reached Robert Thornton and Jose de Sousa. Robert Thornton threw a nine-darter.
Results
Results
Winners of the Police Open were Dutchman Toon Greebe and Fie Skinnes from Denmark. The titles of the Police Masters won Welshman Mark Blandford and Deta Hedman.
Kirsi Viinikainen from Finland won both the Lithunian and the Vilnius Open. The men's titles went to Englishman Martin Barrett and Dutchman Jeffrey Sparidaans.
Beau Greaves dominated the ladies events of the Welsh Open and won the girl's title and the women's titles of the Welsh Classic and the Welsh Open. James Beeton won the boy's event. Dutchman Martijn Kleermaker got the Welsh Open title, the Welsh Classic were won by Dave Parletti.
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit, the European Tour Order of Merit and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated.PDC Rankings
European Tour
Pro Tour
17. Mai
Pro Tour Barnsley
Again today in Barnsley a Pro Tour weekend begins with the UK and den West/South Europe Tour Card holders Qualifiers for the European
Tour Events seven and eight in Zwolle and Copenhagen. On Saturday and Sunday the Players Championships fifteen and sixteen will follow.
Some Tour Card holders didn't register or have withdrawn - among them Rob Cross and Mensur Suljovic. They will be replaced by players from the Challenge Tour Order of Merit.
Participants, Results
Dutch Darts Open
Danish Darts Open
PDC World Cup
By now the PDC published the first round schedule as well. The match between Gibraltar and Japan will open the tournament on Thursday the 6. June.
The match between last year's runner-up Team Scotland and Team Denmark will end the first day.
On the second day of the tournament the first round will be played to the end. In the last match of the first round and the last match of the second day
reigning champion Netherlands will play against the Spanish Team.
Draw and Schedule First Round, Participants
16. May
Premier League - Sixteenth League Day
On the last dramatic league night of Premier League especially Gerwyn Price and Daryl Gurney impressed in their 8:3 wins over Peter Wright and Michael Smith
with strong perfomances. Price nevertheless lost out on a place in the play-offs as Gurney and James Wade won as well and sit by this in front of him in the final league table on the places three and
four. Michael van Gerwen won the battle for the first place in the table with his win over Mensur Suljovic while Rob Cross lost to James Wade.
Next weeks semifinals will be Michael van Gerwen against Daryl Gurney - against whom he lost twice in the league phase - and as today James Wade against Rob Cross.
Table Final Standings, Results
Statistics
PDC World Cup
The PDC today announced the draw for the first round of the event which will take place from 6. - 9. June in Hamburg.
Reigning champion Netherlands - this year with Michael van Gerwen and Jermaine Wattimena - will play against Spain. Team Scotland, last year's runner-up, will play in the first round against Team Denmark. Number 1 seed Team England - this year with Rob Cross and Michael Smith - begins against Team Philippines.
Draw First Round, Participants
15. May
Premier League - Preview Sixteenth League Day
The sixteenth and last league day of the Premier League will take place in Leeds and finally the positions in the table will be decided.
For Rob Cross and Michael van Gerwen it is all about the first place in the table, for Gerwyn Price, Daryl Gurney, Mensur Suljovic and James Wade it is all about the last two play-off places. All four matches will be important.
Preview
13. May
PDC World Cup
The PDC announced all participants in the PDC World Cup which will be played from 6. - 9. June in Hamburg.
While last year's runner-up Scotland again will play with Gary Anderson and Peter Wright the Dutch reigning champion
this year for the first time will stand with
Michael van Gerwen and Jermaine Wattimena at the oche. In the number 1 seed Team England there will be a change as well
- Rob Cross represents his home country this year together with Michael Smith. Team Switzerland was replaced by Team Lithunia
- Darius Labanauskas, Mindaugas Barauskas.
Participants
PDC Challenge Tour
At the weekend in Wigan four more events of the PDC Challenge Tour took place and there were four different winners. The events 5 and 6 on
Saturday were won by Darren Beveridge and Cameron Menzies - for Beveridge it was the first PDC title, for Menzies the second.
On Sunday Jesus Naguera and Stephen Burton got a win each. For the Spaniard it was the first win in the PDC, for Burton already the second
Challenge Tour win this year. Burton now heads the Challenge Tour Order of Merit. in the seventh event Geert de Vos threw a
nine-darter.
Challenge Tour
White wins in Sindelfingen
Ian White defeated in the close finale of the European Darts Grand Prix Peter Wright with 8:7 and won his second European Tour title.
With White won the most consistent player of the event. On his way into the final he defeated on finals day Keegan Brown, Jeffrey de Zwaan and Steve Beaton. Wright first won
on finals day against Jonny Clayton, prevailed in the quarterfinals over the reigning champion Michael van Gerwen and defeated in the semi-finals Jamie
Hughes. For Hughes it was the first PDC semi-final.
Schedule, Results
Statistics
12. May
European Darts Grand Prix - Day 2
Yesterday in Sindelfingen the second day of the European Darts Grand Prix took place. The seeded players joined the tournament
and played against the first round winners.
After all German speaking qualifiers were elimnated in the first round the two seeds Mensur Suljovic and Max Hopp lost their second matches against Steve Beaton and Nathan Aspinall as well. Reigning champion Michael van Gerwen had much to bother to get over the finishing line in front of his opponent Brendan Dolan. In the best match of the evening session Jamie Hughes defeated Adrian Lewis with the with 103.67 so far highest average of the event 6:3.
Schedule, Results
Statistics
10.May
European Darts Grand Prix
Today in Sindelfingen the European Darts Grand Prix will begin - the sixth event of the European Tour 2019.In an afternoon-and an evening-session the first round will be played in which only the qualifiers take part.
By the West/South Europe Associate Members Qualifier Michael Rasztovits and Stefan Bellmont qualified. As Dave Chisnall withdrew by the Host Nation Qualifier five tournament places were on offer. Daniel Klose, Michael Hurtz, Dragutin Horvat, Ricardo Pietrezko and Michael Rosenauer qualified.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
Premier League - Fifteenth League Day
After the fifteenth league day of Premier League it is still up in the air who'll be in the play-offs. Till know only is known
reigning Michael van Gerwen and Rob Cross will progress - both won their matches tonight.
Rob Cross still heads the table one point in advance of van Gerwen. James Wade has after his draw with Michael Smith a small edge over
Mensur Suljovic and Daryl Gurney and still is third of the table. Gerwyn Price
has one point less then Suljovic and Gurney and two points less then Wade - it all depends on the last league day next week.
Table, Results
Statistics
9. May
Premier League - Preview Fifteenth League Day
On the fifteenth and penultimate league day of the Premier League in Sheffield and the battle for the play-off places enters the next round.
The head-to head match of the night will be the match between Gerwyn Price and Daryl Gurney. Peter Wright and Michael Smith are not able to qualify any longer for the top four and have nothing to lose against Michael van Gerwen and James Wade. First in the table Rob Cross will play against Mensur Suljovic.
Preview
3. May
Austrian Darts Open
Today in Premstätten near Graz in Austria the Austrian Darts Open will begin - the fifth event of the European Tour 2019.In an afternoon-and an evening-session the first round will be played in which only the qualifiers take part.
By the West/South Europe Associate Members Qualifier Patrick van den Boogaard and Diogo Portela qualified. By the Host Nation Qualifier qualified Dietmar Burger, Michael Rasztovits, Benjamin Fasching und Patrick Tringler for the event. Fasching and Tingler will give their European Tour debut.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
2. May
Premier League - Fourteenth League Day
With a clear 8:1 win over Michael Smith Rob Cross played hi9mself back on the first place of the table of the Premier League and secured as first player his place in the play-offs Platz while Michael Smith with this loss is out finally out of the race for a place under the top four. Michael van Gerwen for the second time this season lost to Daryl Gurney and again has one point less then Cross. Gurney moved up with the win to the fifth place in the table and is only one point behind the places three and four. As well no longer in the races for a place under the top four is Peter Wright who lost against Mensur Suljovic. In the last match of the night direct rivals James Wade and Gerwyn Price met. Price had no good day and lost against a solid playing Wade. By this Price dropped behind Gurney on the sixth place in the table.
Table, Results
Report, Statistics
1. May
O'Connor and de Zwaan win in Barnsley
William O'Connor and Jeffrey der Zwaan won the Players Championships 13 and 14 in Barnsley.
William O'Connor got his first PDC Title by defeating Nathan Aspinal in the final of Players Championship 13 on Tuesday. The semi-finals reached Adrian Lewis and Daryl Gurney.
Jeffrey de Zwaan won today the fourteenth Players Championship defeating Stephen Bunting. Arron Monk and Darius Labanauskas stood in the semi-finals.
Results
Premier League - Preview Fourteenth League Day
The fourteenth league day of Premier League is played in Manchester and the battle for the play-off places enters the next round.
Gerwyn Price and James Wade meet in the last match of the evening in a head-to-head match while Mensur Suljovic will play against Peter Wright who is last of the table. Rob Cross and Michael van Gerwen could secure their play-off places. Rob Cross will meet luckless Michael Smith, Michael van Gerwen will play againsth Daryl Gurney who defeated him in the first half of the campaign in Berlin.
Preview
30. April
Pro Tour Barnsley
Today and tomorrow werden in Barnsley the Players Championships 13 and 14 will take place.Several Tour Card Holders haven't registered for one or both Players Championships. Missing on both days will be Michael van Gerwen, James Wade, John Michael and John Goldie. They will be - as all the players only missing one day - replaced by players from the Challenge Tour Orders of Merit.
Participants
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the European Tour Order of Merit were updated.PDC Rankings
European Tour
28. April
Van Gerwen wins German Darts Open
In a quite one sided final Michael van Gerwen defeated Ian White with 8:3 and for the first time secured the title.
Van Gerwens way into the final started on the last day of the event with a close 6:5 over Raymond van Barneveld in round three. It followed an as close win over Nathan Aspinall in the quarterfinals and a 7:6 success against Dave Chisnall in which both players in the deciding leg missed some match darts.
Ian White reached the final with wins over Darren Webster, Adrian Lewis and Rob Cross.
Results
Statistics
Report Final
German Darts Open - Day 3
On the third day of the German Darts Open the tournament will be played to the end in an afternoon-and an evening-session.
With Max Hopp the last German player in the field of participants was eliminated - he played a good match but not good enough to beat John Henderson. Beside Hopp from the seeded players Simon Whitlock, Jonny Clayton and Jermaine Wattimena were eliminated.
Schedule, Results
Statistics
27. April
German Darts Open - Day 2
On the second day of the European Darts Open in an afternoon- and an evening -session the second round of the event will take place. The first round winners will play against the seeded players.
All German qualifiers lost their first round matches. Gabriel Clemens was the only one who showed a solid performance but had no chance against a good playing Raymond van Barneveld. Today the only seeded German player, Max Hopp, enters the tournament. He is the reigning champion and will play against John Henderson who convinced in the first round against Stephen Bunting. Highlight of the first day was a nine-darter from Steve Beaton.
Schedule, Results
Statistics
26. April
German Darts Open
Today in Saarbrücken the German Darts Open will begin - the fourth event of the European Tour 2019.In an afternoon-and an evening-session the first round will be played in which only the qualifiers take part.
By the West/South Europe Associate Members Qualifier Mike de Decker and Jerry Hendriks qualified. By the Host Nation Qualifier qualified Kevin Münch, Thomas Köhnlein, Karsten Koch and Lukas Wenig for the event. Köhnlein, Koch and Wenig will give their European Tour debut.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
25. April
Premier League - Thirteenth League Day
Daryl Gurney was the only winner of the thirteenth league day - he defeated Peter Wright with 8:4 and sent his opponent to the last place of the table. All other matches ended in a draw so nothing else changed in the table. Michael van Gerwen still has one point more then the second in the table Rob Cross, but had to battle hard to get one point in the best match of the night against James Wade. James Wade, Gerwyn Price and Mensur Suljovic follow on the places three to five with 15 points each. Michael Smith has after the draw against Suljovic now as Wright 9 points but moved up to seventh place thanks to the better leg difference.
Table, Results
Report, Statistics
Premier League - Preview thirteenth League Day
The thirteenth league day of the Premier League is played in Birmingham and the battle for the play-off places is still up in the air.
Mensur Suljovic, Gerwyn Price and James Wade all in the moment have 14 points - each of them would like to win his match tonight but Price and Wade await difficult games as they play against Rob Cross and Michael van Gerwen.
Preview
24. April
Results...
Winners of the Australian Easter Classic were Adam Rowe and Joanne Hadley. The Geelong Classic won Justin Thompson and Tori Kewish. The New Zealand South Island Masters Open were won by Ben Robb and Desi Mercer.
The titles of the Icelandic Open went to Scotsman Dennis Watt and Petrea Kr Frioriksdottir from Iceland.
Winners of the Estonian Open were Englishman John Scott and Kaisu Rekinen from Finnland. The men's event of the Estonian Masters was won by John Scott as well. The ladies title went to Swede Helene Sundelin.
PDC World Cup
More Worldcup Teams were announced. Among others Devon Petersen will this year represent South Africa together with Vernon Bouwers and Cody Harris will stand at the oche together with Haupai Puha for New Zealand. Karel Sedlacek - who reached at the weekend the quarterfinals of the German Darts Grand Prix will team up with Pavel Jirkal for the Czech Republic.
All till now known teams you can find here:
Participants
23. April
Development Tour
At the weekend in Wigan four events of the PDC Development Tour took place and they had four different winners. On Saturday Jeffrey de Zwaan - who played in all his seven matches an average over 100 - and Corey Cadby won a tournament each. On sunday the winners were Ryan Meikle and Callan Rydz. For Meikle it was already the second win this year and he now heads the Development Tour Order of Merit.
Development Tour
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit, the European Tour Order of Merit and the Development Tour Order of Merit were updated.PDC Rankings
European Tour
22. April
Van Gerwen wins in Munic
With an 8:3 over Simon Whitlock Michael van Gerwen secured his second European Tour win of the year and defended his title. In the final Michael van Gerwen played his best match of the event.
Before van Gerwen defeated on finals day Stephen Bunting, Ted Evetts and Rob Cross. Simon Whitlock reached the final with wins over Ross Smith, Joe Cullen and Max Hopp who missed two matchdarts against him.
Results
Statistics
Report Final
German Darts Grand Prix - Day 3
On the third day of the German Darts Grand Prix the tournament will be played to the end in an afternoon-and an evening-session..
Some of the seeded players lost their second round matches yesterday and were eliminated: Ian White, Jonny Clayton, Danny Noppert, James Wade, Adrian Lewis, Michael Smith and Peter Wright.
Schedule
21. April
German Darts Grand Prix - Day 2
On the second day of the German Darts Grand Prix in an afternoon- and an evening -session the second round of the event will take place. The first round winners will play against the seeded players.
All seven German qualifiers were elimnated first round. Only Max Hopp - who is a seeded player - will represent Germany on the second day of the event. With an average of almost 100 Stephen Bunting played the highest average of the first day.
Schedule, Results
Statistics
19. April
German Darts Grand Prix
Tomorrow in Munic the German Darts Grand Prix will begin - the third event of the European Tour 2019.In an afternoon-and an evening-session the first round will be played in which only the qualifiers take part.
Gerwyn Price has withdrawn from the event. For him Danny Noppert moved up as seeded player and in the Host Nation Qualifier a fifth place was on offer. By the West/South Europe Associate Members Qualifier Diogo Portela and Michael Rasztovits qualified. By the Host Nation Qualifier qualified Kevin Münch, Michael Hurtz, Dragutin Horvat, Marko Puls and Jyhan Artut for the event.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
18. April
Premier League - Preview Twelfth League Day
For the twelfth league day Premier League travels to Cardiff. There are only a few nights left before the play-offs and the battle for a place among the top four intensifies.
In the center of interest today will be the clash between head of the table, Rob Cross, and Michael van Gerwen who sits in second place. Rob Cross is only one point ahead. A lot of work lies in front of Michael Smith who still is last of the table. He really needs every point should he still intend to get into the play-offs.
Preview
Results, Table
17. April
Gabriel Clemens
The Darts Performance Centre has a closer view on Gabriel Clemens. The promising German player it thinks could become a formidable force in the sport...
Gabriel Clemens Is Beginning to Make a Name for Himself on the Tour
15. April
Bull's German Open/ Bull's German Masters
Winners of the Bull's German Open on Saturday were Mario Vandenbogaerde and Aileen de Graaf, who defended her title. The two youth events were won by Durch players as well - by Verena Rietbergen and Owen Roelofs
The winners of Sunday's Bull's German Masters were Englishman Brian Dawson and Australian Corrine Hammond. For both it was the first German Masters title.
Both paradarts titles went to Dutchman Vincent d'Hondt.
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated.PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
14. April
Wade dominates in Barnsley
James Wade won at the weekend both Players Championships in Barnsley. On Saturday he defeated in the final of Players Championship 11 Michael Smith, on Sunday he secured the win with a strong comeback against Jeffrey de Zwaan after he had defeated once again Michael Smith - this time already in the semi-finals. As well the semi-finals on Sunday reached John Henderson. On Saturday it were Ian White and Steve West who stood in the semi-finals.
On Saturday Harry Ward threw at his win over William O'Connor a nine-darter.
Results
Qualifiers European Tour
In Barnsley the UK and the West/South Europe Tour Card Holders Qualifiers for the European Tour Events 5 + 6 in Graz and Sindelfingen were played as well.
Ten players qualified for both events: Steve Beaton, Mervyn King, Nathan Aspinall, Stephen Bunting, Keegan Brown, Chris Dobey, Ross Smith, Jamie Hughes, Ryan Searle and Jeffrey de Zwaan.
Austrian Darts Open
European Darts Grand Prix
12. April
Pro Tour Barnsley
Today in Barnsley the next Pro Tour Wweekend will begin with the UK and den West/South Europe Tour Card holder Qualifiers for the European Tour Events five and sechs in Graz and Sindelfingen. On saturday and Sunday the Players Championships eleven and twelve will be played.
Besides Mensur Suljovic - who will be replaced by Ritchie Edhouse all Tour Card holders registered for the weekend.
Participants, Results
11. April
Premier League - Eleventh League Day
After the eleventh league day it get's more and more unlikely Michael Smith will be able to reach the play-offs - he lost despite a good performance with 3:8 against Michael van Gerwen and stays on the last place of the table. But for van Gerwen the win was not enough to get back to the first place of the table as Rob Cross won against Peter Wright as well and still has one point more then van Gerwen. Gerwyn Price ended Mensur Suljovic winning run and James Wade and Daryl Gurney ended in a draw.
Results, Table
Report, Statistics
Premier League - Preview Eleventh League Day
Tonight the Premier League travels for the 11. League Day to Liverpool.
Highlight of the league day probably will be the last match of the night - Michael van Gerwen and Michael Smith will meet in a repeat of the Premier League final 2018. Michael van Gerwen wants to get back to the first place of the table while Michael Smith as last of the table needs every point to still reach a place in the play-offs.
Preview
Schedule
10. April
World Series of Darts
The PDC today published the already confirmed players who will take part in the five World Series of Darts this year. In all events Michael van Gerwen, Rob Cross, Gary Anderson, Daryl Gurney and Peter Wright will take part. They will be joined with another three to fourn PDC players in each event. Together they will compete against local qualifiers.
World Series of Darts 2019
9. April
Dartoids World
Dartoid deals in the column with score keeping. But a big part of the column is not penned from Dartoid but from Karl Hartmann and should one prefer to avoid trouble as potential chalker one should better have a sceptical look at his suggestions...
In the Days before DartConnect
8. April
Wins for Wade and Clayton in Barnsley
James Wade and Jonny Clayton won the two Players Championships at the weekend in Barnsley. For both it was the first Pro Tour title of the year.
James Wade won on Saturday the ninth Players Championship with a 8:2 win against Michael Smith. In the semi-finals stood Steve West and Scott Baker. Mark McGeeney threw in his first round win over Adam Hunt a Nine-Darter. For Wade his first Pro Tour win since 2015.
On sunday won Jonny Clayton the tenth Players Championship and defeated in the final Gabriel Clemens. The semifinals reached Ian White and Tytus Kanik.
Pro Tour
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated.PDC Rankings
4. April
Pro Tour Barnsleyn
Tomorrow in Barnsley the next Pro Tour weekend will begin - the Players Championships 9 and 10 will be played on Saturday and Sunday. With the exception of Michael van Gerwen and John Goldie all Tour Card holders have registered, they will be replaced by Ritchie Edhouse and Stephen Burton. For the first time in a little over a year Corey Cadby will stand at the oche after his visa problems finally were sorted out.
Participants, Results
3. April
Premier League - Tenth League Day
Daryl Gurney was this year not allowed to celebrate a win in front of his home crowd - he lost with 4:8 against Rob Cross who was just the better player in the match. With his win Rob Cross returned on the first place of the table - one point in the lead before Michael van Gerwen who only managed a draw against Gerwyn Price. Michael Smith and Peter Wright ended in a draw as well and both players were not really happy with the result. Mensur Suljovic was the first winner of the night - he defeated in the weakest match of the league day James Wade deservedly with 8:6.
Bericht, Statistics
Premier League - Preview Tenth League Day
For the tenth League Day - the start of the second half - Premier League travels to Belfast.
During the second half only four matches will be played on each league but the format will be best of 14 legs now instead best of 12 legs. In front of his home crowd Northern Irish Daryl Gurney will stand in the centre of interest. As last year he will play against Rob Cross. Last year Gurney won with 7:5.
Preview
Spielplan
2. April
PDC World Cup
The PDC announced the countries taking part in the PDC World Cup which will be played from 6. - 9. June in Hamburg. Not much changed compared to the previous year only Thailand was replaced by the Phillipines.
In a few countries the qualifiers already were played and the participing players nominated.
Participants
Results 2...
The events 5 and 6 of the PDC Asia Tour at the weekend were won by Philippines Noel Malicdem and Lourence Ilagan who will represent the Philippines in the PDC World Cup in June in Hamburg.
The first two events of the North American Championship Darts Circuit won American Darin Young and Canadian Jim Long.
Results...
Paula Jacklin won during the Gree Festival of Darts in Athens both the Acropolis Open and the Greek Open. The men's event of the Akropolis Open won Italian Stefano Tomassetti - who will part of Team Italy in the PDC World Cup. The men's event of the Greek Open won Frenchman Thibault Tricole.
Winners of the American Virginia Beach Classic were Lisa Ayers and Darin Young. The youth titles went to Buster Graves and Ayama Suchak. The Russiian youth tournaments Young Stars of Darts and Izhevsk Open - in which an astonishing number of girls took part - won Timur Tuchatvulin, Oleg Vasiliev, Ksenia Klochek and Milena Petrova.
1. April
Gurney wins in Hildesheim
Daryl Gurney won in Hildesheim his first European Tour Event.
He defeated in a thrilling and evenly matched final Ricky Evans with 8:6. With Gurney and Evans a seeded and an unseeded player reached the final - both deservedly. Gurney defeated on the finals day with Rob Cross, Stephen Bunting and Adrian Lewis three former world champions. Evans prevailed over Mervyn King, Darren Webster and the like him unseeded Keegan Brown.
Report Finals Day
Overall Statistics European Tour 19
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the European Order of Merit were updated.PDC Rankings
31. March
German Darts Championship - Tag 3
On the third day the German Darts Championship will be played to the end in an afternoon- and an evening session.
In the afternoon-session the third round took place. Highlight was a nine-darter from James Wade who lost the close match against Darren Webster in the end with 5:6. Among others Rob Cross was eliminated in the afternoon-session as well - he lost 2:6 against Daryl Gurney.
Schedule, Results
Statistics
30. March
German Darts Championship - Day 2
On the second day of the European Darts Open in an afternoon- and an evening -session the second round of the event will take place. The first round winners will play against the seeded players.
The biggest upset of the second round caused Keegan Brown who elimnated Michael van Gerwen from the tournament. Almost as surprising was Ricky Evans win over Mensur Suljovic. Evans didn't get unsettled by Suljovic today rather slow throw. As third seeded player Dave Chisnall went out of the tournament - he lost in the last match of the night to Mervyn King.
Schedule, Results
Statistics
29. March
German Darts Championship - Day 1
Today in Hildesheim the German Darts Championship will begin - the second event of the European Tour 2019.In an afternoon- and an evening session the first round will take place in which only the qualifiers will take part
Michael Smith has withdrawn. For him James Wilson m0oves up as seeded player and in the Host Nation Qualifier a fifth place was on offer. By the West/South Europa Associate Members Qualifier qualified Diogo Portela and Mike de Decker. By the Host Nation Qualifier qualified Kevin Knopf, Mike Holz, Maik Langendorf, Steffen Siepmann and Jyhan Artut. Besides from the German Tour Card Holders Gabriel Clemens is qualified for the event.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
28. March
Premier League - Judgement Night
On his last Premier League night Raymond van Barneveld showed only a slightly improved performance and lost to his ruthless fellow country man Michael van Gerwen with 1:7. During the press conference afterwards he announced his immediate retirement. Beside van Gerwen Rob Cross, Gerwyn Price and James Wade - with the highest average of the night - won their matches. Before the start of the second half of the season Van Gerwen heads the table level on points with Rob Cross. James Wade sits on the third place with two points less.
Results, Table
Report, Statistics
Premier League - Ninth League Day
Tonight in Rotterdam the ninth league day of Premier League will take place - the Judgement Night.
As it is already certain that Raymond van Barneveld is the player who will be eliminated after Judgement Night from the tournament in that regard it will not be a thrilling league day. But Raymond van Barneveld and his match against Michael van Gerwen will be the emotional high-light of the night - after 14 years of Premier League it will be the Dutchman's farewell to the event which he won in 2014. Last night the legend showed a weak performance. Will he be able tonight to motivate himself for a worthy testimonial match in front of his home crowd?
Schedule
27. March
Premier League - Eigth League Day
After the eigth league day of Premier League it is certain Raymond van Barneveld will be elimanted from the tournament. He lost in a from both players weak match 1:7 against Daryl Gurney. Gurney moved up by the win to the fifth place in the table. Michael van Gerwen won with 7:1 against Peter Wright and is back on the first place of the table as Rob Cross lost in a strange match after a 5:1 lead with 5:7 to Mensur Suljovic. Michael Smith won against Gerwyn Price and the best match of the night between James Wade and debutant Dimitri van den Bergh ended in a draw.
Table, Results
Report, Statistics
Premier League - Preview Eight League Day
The eigth and ninth League Day, the Judgement Night, will be played tonight and tomorrow night in Rotterdam.
Tonigth Dimitri van den Bergh will give his Premier League debut and play against James Wade. In the center of interest will of course stand in Rotterdam in front of their home crowd Raymond van Barneveld and Michael van Gerwen. Van Barneveld still battles against elimination and will play against Daryl Gurney who himself is not quite safe yet. Michael van Gerwen wants to return to the top of the table and will play against Peter Wright.
Preview
Schedule, Results
25. March
Van Gerwen wins in Leverkusen
Michael van Gerwen won the first European Tour Event of the year in Leverkusen with an 8:6 win over Rob Cross and defended his title. Before van Gerwen in a from both sides not impressive semi-final against Mensur Suljovic quite surprisingly threw a nine-darter in the unusual way of 180, 174 and T19, Bullseye, D 20. In the second, better semi-final a convincing Rob Cross defeated Peter Wright. Cross was the only player of the tournament who played consistent averages over 100 in all his matches.
Report Finals Day
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the European Order of Merit were updated.PDC Rankings
24. März
European Darts Open - Day 3
Today the event in Leverkusen will be played to the end in an afternoon- and an evening-session.
With Ian White, Michael Smith, Adrian Lewis and Simon Whitlock only four of the seeded players were elimated from the tournament. The best performance of the second day showed Krzysztof Ratajski - in his dramatic win over Michael Smith he had an 105.57 average.
Schedule, Results
Statistics
23. March
European Darts Open - Day 2
On the second day of the European Darts Open in an afternoon- and an evening -session the second round of the event will take place. The first round winners will play against the seeded players.
All Host Nation qualifiers were elimnated first round. Raymond van Barneveld as well lost his first round match against Steve Beaton and is out of the event. The highest average on the not really highclass opening day had Adam Hunt with 97.24.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
22. March
European Darts Open - Day 1
Today in Leverkusen the European Darts Open will begin, the first event of the European Tour 2019.In an afternoon- and an evening session the first round will take place in which only the qualifiers will take part.
Last night the Host Nation and the West/South Europe Associate Members Qualifiers took place. By the Host Nation Qualifier qualified Fabian Herz, Michael Rosenauer, Nico Kurz and Jyhan Artut for the tournament. None of the German Tour Card holders qualified for the event. But Raymond van Barneveld will return on the European Tour and will play in the afternoon-session against Steve Beaton.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
21. March
Premier League - Seventh League Day
Though Raymond van Barneveld again showed no great performance Max Hopp had no chance at all. Van Barneveld got his first win of the season but still is last of the table. The biggest upset caused Daryl Gurney who defeated an again not in top form playing Michael van Gerwen with 5:7. Far from his best as well was Michael Smith who lost 2:7 to Mensur Suljovic. Besides Rob Cross defeated Gerwyn Price with 4:7 and heads the table with two points more then van Gerwen. James Wade and Peter Wright played 6:6.
Table, Results
Report, Statistics
Premier League - Preview Seventh League Day
The seventh league day will be played in Berlin.
Max Hopp will replace Gary Anderson at the Oche and will play in the last match of the night against Raymond van Barneveld who hopes to get his first win of the season and to be able to leave the last place of the table. The two players heading the table - Michael van Gerwen and Rob Cross - will play against Daryl Gurney and Gerwyn Price respectively.
Preview
Schedule, Results
20. March
UK Open Gallery
Finally - the complete UK Open 2019 Gallery!!!
Gallery
Adam "Thorn" Smith is traveling on
Thorn has arrived in Costa Rica and of course is immediately looking out for dartboards. With success - in Dominical you not only can surf you can play darts as well!
"Yo, Throw, Throw And A Bottle Of Rum"
19. March
Coaching Clinic
After the last Coaching Clinic dealt with the darts barrels, this blog of the Darts Performance Centre has a view on the often unjustly ignored Shafts and Flights.
Flights and Shafts
Sylt Open/Classic
Winners of the Sylt Classic were Daniel Zygla and Irina Armstrong. The youth events won Dominik Grüllich and Christina Schuler.
Christina Schuler won the girls event of the Sylt Open as well, the boys' event winner was David Schlichtig. The titles went to Aaron Rahlfs and Lisa Zollikofer.
Results...
Martijn Kleermaker won both the West Fries Masters and the West Fries Open. The ladies titles went to Deta Hedamn and Kirsty Hutchinson. The youth event of the West Fries Masters won Danny Jansen.
The men's pairs of the Torremolinos Festival of Darts won Lee Stanley and Robert Hawker. Grace Crane and Anna Madigan won the ladies pairs. The torremolinos Classic were won by Nick Fullwell and Dana Gleed, the titles of the Torremolinos Open secured Paula Jacklin and Thibault Tricole.
Winners of the Canadian Hub City Open were Dave Cameron and Hayley Crowley.
18. March
At the weekend in in Schwalmstadt the first tournament weekend of the Bild Super League Germany took place. Most successful were Robert Marijanovic and Nico Kurz who both won 12 points and now head the table. Dragutin Horvat was with eight wins not as well but threw in his match against Manfred Bilderl a nine-darter. Not a good weekend had Nico Blum who only got three points and even woth fared Ricardo Pietrezko who with only two points after the first weekend is last of the table.
