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The Danish DartsOpen are the eight event of the PDC European Tour 2018 and will take place from 22. - 24. June in Copenhagen.
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23. April
Coaching Clinic 71:
The European Qualifying School  What sparked Daroid's Wanderlust:
More Darts Wanderlust 
Adam "Thorn" Smith travels again :
"The Antigua Roadshow" |
| Interview with Rene Eidams |
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German darts player Rene Eidams got into the limelight when he almost eliminated Michael van Gerwen from the PDC World Championship 2016. To the Interview |
Interview with Mark McGeeney
Mark McGeeney is at the moment the number 2 of the BDO and the number 4 of the WDF. Last year he stood in the final of the Winmau World Masters where he was defeated by Krzysztof Ratajski. In January he reached the final of the BDO World Champion and lost to Glen Durrant. As last year he again will take part in the Grand Slam of Darts in November in Wolverhampton.
To the Interview
23. June
Danish Darts Open
On the second day of the tournament in an afternoon - and an evening session the second round will be played. The first round winners play against the seeded players. From the Home Nation Qualifiers Madars Razma and Darius Labanauskas are still in the tournament.
Schedule, Results
Statistics
22. June
Danish Darts Open
By now the draw and the detailed schedule of the first and second round were published.
Players like Adrian Lewis, Jermaine Wattimena, Paul Nicholson and Max Hopp will already stand at the oche today in the first round. Favourite Michael van Gerwen will play in his first match tomorrow night against the winner aof the match between Robert Thornton and Scott Taylor.
By the Host Nation Qualifier Per Laursen, Brian Lokken, Darius Labanauskas and Dennis Nilsson qualified for the event.
Schedule, Results
Statistics
21. June
Danish Darts Open
Tomorrow in Copenhagen in Denmark the Danish Darts Open will begin - the eigth event of the PDC European Tour and the first that will take place in Scandinavia.
As always on the first day the first round will take place in which only the qualifier swill take part. The will be an afternoon- and an evening session.
Tonight in Copenhagen the Host Nation Qualifier will be played.
Participants
18. June
Wins for Cross and Wright in Wigan
In Wigan at the weekend both Rob Cross and Peter Wright won a Players Championship.
Rob Cross won the 13. Players Championship on Saturday defeating Ian White in the final. In the semi-finals stood Jermaine Wattimea and Stephen Bunting. On Sunday Cross again stood in the final but this time lost to Peter Wright. The semi-finals reached Michael Smith and again Jermaine Wattimena.
On Friday the UK Qualifiers for the European Tour events in Hamburg and Hildesheim took place. James Wilson, Darren Johnson, Justin Pipe, Andy Boulton and Robert Thornton managed to qualify for both events.
European Tour 9 Hamburg
European Tour 10 Hildesheim
German Masters
During the DDV tournament weekend in Kirchheim Monique Lessmeister and Ricardo Pietreczko won the singles titles. Winners of the youth events were Christina Schuler and Tobias de Vriesere. The men's team tournament won the BDV 1 team. The BDV 1 team won the ladies team event as well. The German mixed championship was won by Anna Degel/Michael Unterbucner.
Ergebnisse...
During the EDO Tournament weekend Fallon Sherrock and Scott Mitchell won the National Singles and Lisa Ashton and Kyle McKinstry won the England Open. The youth titles of the Youth Grand Prix got Beau Greaves and Jack Vincent. The ladies pairs won the pair Sherrock/Gallagher, the men's pairs the pair Carrett/ Harbour.
Winner of the second event of the World Soft Dart Series in La Rochelle in France was Boris Krcmar.
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated.PDC Rankings
14. June
Pro Tour weekend in Wigan
Tomorrow the next PDC Pro Tour weekend will begin in Wigan. On Friday the UK Qualifiers for the next two European Tour Events in
Hamburg and Hildesheim will take place. On Saturday and Sunday Players Championships 13 and 14 will be played. Raymond van Barneveld didn't register for the weekend.
Participants, Results
Darts Performance Centre 02 darts (Elementary range)
The Darts Performance Centre brought some more darts on the market: the Elementary Darts. The Elementary Darts are thought for grass-root players who wnt to improve
and look for a high quality but affordable prized dart.
In our first elementard darts review Adrian Uncerwood has a very close look on the Elementary 02, which help by their deep ringed barrels to place your fingers and with their tapered nose to group your darts tighter.
DPC Elementary 02 Darts
12. June
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit, the European Tour Order of Merit, the Development Tour Order of Merit and the Nordic an Baltic Tour Order of Merit were updated.PDC Rankings
11. June
Van Gerwen wins in Gibraltar
The number 1 of the world Michael van Gerwen was not to be stopped in Gibraltar and won the Gibraltar Darts Trophy with a 8:3 win over the slowly returning to best form Adrian Lewis. Van Gerwen defeated on finals day beside Lewis Andy Boulton, Jonny Clayton and Steve West. Lewis prevailed over James Wade, Peter Wright and the as well again getting near his best form Paul Nicholson.
Report Final
Development Tour
At the weekend in Wigan the next four PDC Development Events took place. German Martin Schindler won on Saturday both events and reached the quarterfinals on Sunday once.
The two Events on Sunday were won by Ryan Meikle and Ted Evetts who now heads the Development Tour table.
Development Tour
Results...
German Michael Unterbuchner won on Saturday the Swiss Open and stood on Sunday in the final of the Helvetia Open where he lost to Nick Kenny. Fallon Sherrock won both women's titles. The youth titles went to Marcel Steinacher and Nico Langer both from Austria.
Winners both of the Belfry and Bruges Open were Jim Williams and Fallon Sherrock. The youth titles both times won Layla Brussel and Daan Bastiaansen. Winners of the New Zealand Canterbury Open were Mark McGrath and Tara Mears. The Lithunian Open were won by Lithunian Darius Labanauskas and Helen Sunderlin from Sweden.
10.June
Gibraltar Darts Trophy - Day 3
On the third day of the Gibraltar Darts Trophy the third round, quarterinfals, semi-finals and the final will take place. In the afternoon session the third round will be played, in the evening the tournament will be played to the end.
Results
Statistics
9. June
Gibraltar Darts Trophy - Day 2
On the second day of the Gibraltar Darts Trophy the first round winners play against the seeded players. In the afternoon session with Stephen Bunting, Darren Webster and Ian White already three of the seeded players were eliminated. The only German in the field of participants - Max Hopp - defeated Ian White convincingly with 6:4 while the Austrain qualifier Hannes Schnier had no chance against Jonny Clayton. None of the Host Nation Qualifiers survived the first round.
Results
Statistics
8. June
Gibraltar Darts Trophy
Today in Gibraltar the Gibraltar Darts Trophy will begin, the seventh event of the PDC European Tour.
As always on the first day the first round will be played in which only the qualifiers will take part. An afternoon- and an evening session will take place.
Last Night the Host Nation was played. Antony Lopez, Clayton Otton, Roy Asquez und Tony Dawkins qualified.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
6. June
PDC World Championship 2019
Here now the more detailed information of the PDC World Championship 2019 including the schedule and an overvioew over the qualifiers.
Schedule, Participants, Format
4. June
PDC World Championship 2019
The PDC published fist informations about the PDC World Championship 2019.Here a first short version: The World Championship will take place from 13. December 2018 to 1. January 2019. 96 players will take part as the number of international qualifiers will be increased by 24. Among them there'll be them two female players. One will come from an UK qualifier, the other from a "rest of the world" qualifier. There will be no preliminary round any longer but the seeded players- as before the top 32 of the PDC Order of Merit - will only enter the tournament in the second round. Tickets for PDCTVAnnual Subscribers will go on sale on 23. July. The general sale will start on 31. July.
BDO World Darts Trophy
Winners of this year's BDO World Darts Trophy were Glen Durrant and Fallon Sherrock. Sherrock defeated in the women's final Lorraine Winstanley while Durrant prevailed over German Michael Unterbuchner. For Unterbuchner it was after the BDO World Championship semi-finals the next big success on the BDO Circuit.
Fallon Sherrocks average in the women's final was with 94.23 almost as high as Durrant's who had an 96.99 average in the final.
Team Netherlands wins PDC World Cup
While in the semi-final between Scotland and Australia only the double decided a Scottish win Team Netherlands won both singles against Team Belgium and by this progressed into the final.
Though Gary Anderson won his first single match against Raymond van Barneveld the final was dominated by the Dutch team which defended the title with a 3:1 win over the number 1 seed.
Results
Report, Statistics
3. June
PDC World Cup - Finals Day
The final day of the PDC World Cup started with the quarterfinals which took place in the afternoon session. The German Team had no chance at all against the reigning champion Nertherlands and was elimnated. The same happened to Team Japan which had no chance against number 1 seed Team Scotland. The matches Australia v Wales and England v Belgium needed a double to decide the winner. While Wales couldn't keep up with Australia in the double Team Belgium showed in the double against Team England its so far best performance and progressed into the semi-finals where it will play in the evening session against Team Netherlands. In the other semi-finale Team Scotland and Team Australia will meet.
Results
2. June
PDC World Cup - Third Day
Today in Frankfurt in an afternoon- and an evening session the second round of the World Cups takes place.
Each match starts with two singles, should it be necessary a double will follow to decide the match.
Results
Statistics
1. June
PDC World Cup - Second Day
The second first round evening was the more thrilling and more high class first round evening. Team Netherlands proved without doubts it wants to defend the title and defeated Gibraltar 5:0. There were two close matches between Northern Ireland and Poland and Belgium and the Republic of Ireland. Both matches were won by the seeded team 5:4. Host country Germany showed a convincing performance against Sweden. Team England impressed and progressed to the second round as well as did Singapore, Finland and South Africa.
Tomorrow the second round will be played in an afternoon- and an evening session. In all matches first two singles will be played followed - should it be necessary - by a double match.
Results
Statistics
PDC World Cup
Today the first round of the tournament will conclude.
Tonight reigning champion Team Netherlands will begin its campaing against Gibraltar in the last match of the evening. The "new" Team England - Dave Chisnall and Rob Cross - will play against the Czech Republic and the home team Germany will play against Team Sweden.
31. May
PDC World Cup - First Day
This year again on the first day of the PDC World Cup we had an upset - the number 8 seed Team Austria lost against Team Japan, the better team who deserved the win. The other three seeded teams - Wales, Australia and Scotland - progressed without bigger problems in the second round. Another but smaller upset was the clear 5:1 win of Team Brazil over Team Denmark. With Canada, Spain and Switzerland the other three matches had the expected winners.
Tomorrow night the first round will be played to the end. Among others Team Netherlands and the German team will stand at the oche.
Results
Report, Statistics
PDC World Cup
Today in theF Eissporthalle in Frankfurt the PDC World Cup will begin. The tournament will be opened by the match between Team Canada and Team Italy. Highlights of the first evening could be the matches between Australia and Hong Kong and Scotland and the USA. In the first round only doubles will be played.
Preview PDC
European Tour
Last Night in Frankfurt the European Qualifiers for the next two European Tour events in Gibraltar and Copenhagen took place. Three players managed to qualify for both events: Max Hopp, Jermaine Wattimena and Cristo Reyes.
ET 7 - Gibraltar
ET 8 - Copenhagen
30. May
PDC World Cup
Tomorrow in Frankfurt the PDC World Cup will begin. Again the Darts Performance Centre will be there as sponsor, supporter and companion of the brazilian team. Beforehand it has a view on the participating teams.
Preview Darts Performance Centre
At the death Eric Bristow
Of course at the sudden passing away of Eric Bristow many companions reacted with comments and articles.
Among those who already knew Eric Bristow before his career really started is the darts promoter and former darts wholesaler Dr. Eddie Norman. He met Eric first 1976 in the Crafty Cockney - the pub in California whom Bristow owed his later nickname.
Eric Bristow - Eddie Norman remembers
29. May
BDO World Darts Trophy
Tomorrow in Preston the BDO World Darts Trophy will begin. Reigning champion Peter Machin will open his campaign against James Hurrell while the BDO number 1 Glen Durrant wilol play first round against Dafydd Edwards.
Schedule and Results one can find here BDO Darts
The tournament is streamed live by the BDO YouTube Channel
Results...
Fallon Sherrock and Jim Williams dominated at the weekend the Cuesoul Belfry and the Bruges Open in Brussels and won both titles. Quite similar were the youth events - Rene Molendijk and Layla Brussel won both titles.
Winners of the Polish Open events were Carl Wilkinson and Deta Hedman in the senior events and Daan Bastiaansen from the Netherlands and Natja Skovlund from Denmark in the youth events. The titles of the Polish Masters secured Dutchman Kay Smeets and Poland's Karolina Podgorska. The youth titles went to Dutchman Levy Frauenfelder and Russian Ksenia Klochek.
Winners of the Russian Kalashnikow Cups were Boris Koltsov and Alisa Burykina. The Finnish Open were won by Russian Boris Koltsov and Norwigian Rachna David. The youth title won Alex Petursson from Iceland. Title winners of the Finnish Masters were Swede Andreas Harryson and Kirsi Viinikainen from Finland.
28. May
Development Tour
At the weekend in Hildesheim four events of the Development Tour took place and there were four different winners.
On Saturday Rowby-John Rodriguez and Kenny Neyens won once each, on Sunday it were Luke Humphries and Ted Evetts. Best German participant was Martin Schindler who twice stood under the last 16 and once reached a semi-final.
Development Tour
Suljovic wins German Darts Masters
With a 8:2 win in the final against Belgier Dimitri van den Bergh Mensur Suljovic won his first World Series of Darts title. Before Suljovic defeated in the semi-finals a disappointing Peter Wright while Dimitri van den Bergh - who had eliminated Michael van Gerwen in the quarterfinals - prevailed in a close match over Gary Anderson.
The eight German participants didn't survive the first round.
Results
24. May
German Darts Masters
Tomorrow the German Darts Masters will be played - this year as a mixed darts and music event.
In the afternoon in two sessions the first round will be played, in the evening follow quarterfinals, semi-finals and the final. The match between Raymond van Barneveld and Manfred Bilderl will open the tournament.
Preview
21. May
German Darts Masters
The German Darts Masters, the first tournament of this year's World Series of Darts, will be played on 25. May in Gelsenkirchen. Eight players representing the PDC will
play against eight German players. Reigning champion Peter Wright will play as last year in the first round against Dragutin Horvat.
The German number 1 - Max Hopp - will play in the first round against the number 1 of the world - Michael van Gerwen.
Participants, Schedule
Wins for Anderson and Payne in Milton Keynes
The two Players Championships in Milton Keynes were won by Gary Anderson and Josh Payne. On Saturday Gary Anderson got the title with a win over German
Gabriel Clemens. In the semifinals stood Peter Wright and Darren Webster. On Sunday won Josh Payne who defeated in the final Peter Wright. The semi-finals reached
Brendan Dolan and Ian White.
UK Qualifiers European Tour Events 7 + 8
Seven players mnaged to qualify for the European Tour Event in Gibraltar and the event in Kopenhagen: Adrian Lewis, Robert Thornton,
Paul Nicholson, Brendan Dolan, Adam Huckvale, Chris Dobey and Steve West.
The European Qualifier for the two events will be played before the PDC World Cup in Frankfurt.
ET 7 - Gibraltar
ET 8 - Copenhagen
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, der Pro Tour Order of Merit and der Players Championship Order of Merit were updated.PDC Rankings
18. May
Pro Tour Weekend in Milton Keynes
Today in Milton Keynes the next PDC Pro Tour weekend begins. Today the UK Qualifiers for the next two European Tour Events in
Gibraltar and Copenhagen will be played. Tomorrow and on Sunday the Players Championships 11 and 12 will take place.
Participants, Results
PDC World Cup
The PDC now published the draw and the detailed schedule of the World Cup of Darts. Reigning champion team Netherlands will play against team Gibraltar in the first round. In the
second round Michael van Gerwen and Raymond van Barneveld will play either Hungary or South Africa.
The World Cup will take place from 31. May till 3. June in Frankfurt.
Participants, Draw, Schedule
17. May
Van Gerwen defends Premier League Title
With an impressive performance - probably his best of the Premier League Saison - Michael van Gerwen defeated
Michael Smith in the Premier League final with 11:4 and defended his Premier League title.
Before van Gerwen defeated Rob Cross in the semi-finals with 10:6. Michael Smith prevailed with the same result over Gary Anderson.
Results
Bericht, Statistics
16. May
Premier League
Tomorrow the Premier League Play-Offs will be played in the 02 Arena in London.
In the first semi-final reigning champion Michael van Gerwen will meet world champion Rob Cross. After that Gary Anderson will play against Michael Smith.
The betting companies see Michael van Gerwen as favorit to win the tournament.
Preview Play-Offs
15. May
PDC World Cup
Now all teams who will take part in the PDC World Cup are now. Seeded are as last year the teams from Scotland, England, the Netherlands,
Australia, Wales, Northern Ierland, Belgium and Austria. But the composite of some of the teams changed - so for example for England Dave Chisnall and Rob Cross
will play and for Austria Mensur Suljovic will be joined by Zoran Lerchbacher.
The World Cup will be played from 31. May to 3. June in Frankfurt.
Participants, Schedule
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the European Tour Order of Merit were updated.PDC Rankings
Van Gerwen wins Dutch Darts Masters
Michael van Gerwen defended in Zwolle his Dutch Darts Masters title with a 8:5 win against
Steve Lennon though he didn't show his best performance. In the semif-finals he only just prevailed 7:6 over Daryl Gurney.
Steve Lennon defeated in the semi.finals Kim Huybrechts with 7:5.
Results
11. May
Dutch Darts Masters
Today in Zwolle in the Netherlands the Dutch Darts Masters will begin, the sixth event of the PDC European Tour.
As always on the first day the first round will be played in which only the qualifiers will take part. An afternoon- and an evening session will take place.
Last Night the Host Nation was played. Christian Kist, Jermaine Wattimena, Jan Dekker and Jeffrey de Graaf qualified.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
PDC World Cup
The PDC more teams which will play in the event. Team Germany will again consist of Max Hopp and Martin Schindler. But there will be quite a few names in the national teams as well. Rob Cross will this year stand at the ocche together with Dave Chisnall as Team England. Jonny Clayton will for the first time together with Gerwyn Price represent Wales and Steve Lennon with William O'Connor will play for the Republic of Ireland.
The World Cup will be played from 31. May to 3. June in Frankfurt.
Participants, Schedule
German Darts Masters
The field of participants of the German Darts Masters, the first event of this year's World Series of Darts, was now announced.
Beside the PDC representants Michael van Gerwen, Rob Cross, Gary Anderson, Mensur Suljovic, Raymond van Barneveld, reigning champion Peter Wright and Dimitri van den Bergh Max Hopp and Martin Schindler as the top two ranked German players in the PDC Order of Merit and six superleague Germany players Gabriel Clemens, Manfred Bilderl, Stefan Stoyke, Robert Marijanovic, Nico Kurz and Dragutin Horvat will take part.
World Series of Darts
10. May
Premier League - 15. League Day
The last league day of Premier League ended with three draws and a win - for Gary Anderson. Anderson - who had lost his last two league matches and was even in risk to lose his play-off place - defeated Michael van Gerwen in front of the delighted Scottish crowd 7:5 and and even moved up to the third place in the table. He will now play in the semi-finals next Thursday against Michael Smith while Rob Cross will play against Michael van Gerwen.
Results, Table
Report, Statistics
Premier League
The 15. and last league day of Premier League will take place in Aberdeen.
Michael van Gerwen, Michael Smith and Rob Cross are already through to the play-offs. Gary Anderson needs to win three legs against Michael van Gerwen to get the fourth play-off place. Daryl Gurney would need a clear win over Peter Wright and a clear win of van Gerwen over Gary Anderson to get into the play-offs. The other players all hope to end the season with a positive sign.
Preview fifteenth League Day
8. May
PDC Challenge Tour
At the weekend four Challenge Tour Events were played in Wigan statt. Michael Barnard won two of the tournaments and by this strengthend his first place in the Challenge Tour Order of Merit. The other two events were won by New Zealand's Cody Harris and by Adam Huckvale. For both it was the first win on the Challenge Tour.
Challenge Tour
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit, the European Tour Order of Merit and the Challenge Tour Order of Merit were updated.PDC Rankings
6. May
Van Gerwen wins in Sindelfingen
With a 8:3 win over James Wade Michael van Gerwen won the European Darts Grand Prix in Sindelfingen. Van Gerwen was the dominating player of the event and averaged in all his matches over 100. The Dutchman reached the final with wins over Darren Webster, Dave Chisnall and Michael Smith on finals day while Wade defeated Rob Cross, Simon Whitlock and Danny Noppert to reach the final.
Results
Statistics
5. May
European Darts Grand Prix - Day 2
On the second day of the European Darts Grand Prix the first round winners played against the seeded players. Six of the seeded players didn't survive the second round: Jelle Klaasen, Gerwyn Price, Kim Huybrechts, Daryl Gurney, Mervyn King and John Henderson.
Schedule, Results
Statistics
4. May
European Darts Grand Prix
Today in Sindelfingen the European Darts Grand Prix will begin, the fifth event of the PDC European Tour.
As always on the first day the first round will be played in which only the qualifiers take part. An afternoon and an evening session will take place.
Last night the Host Nation Qualifier for the event took place. As Adrian Lewis has withdrawn due to illness five places were available. The qualifiers were Max Hopp, Martin Schinlder, Gabriel Clemens, Christian Bunse and Robert Marjanovic.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
European Qualifier Sindelfingen and Zwolle
Last night in Sindelfingen the European Qualifier for the European Tour Events in Sindelfingen and Zwolle took place. Only Toni Alcinas managed to qualify for both events. Beside for Sindelfingen qualified Vincent van der Voort, Danny Noppert, Mats Gies, Jan Dekker, Mareno Michaels, Jermaine Wattimena and Dimitri van den Bergh. For Zwolle beside Alcinas Cristo Reyes, Mike de Dekker, Rowby -John Rodriguez and with Michael Rosenauer, Dragutin Horvat, Tobias Müller and Kevin Münch four German players qualified.
3. May
Premier League - 14. League Day
It will be only decided only the final League Day of Premier League next week who'll get the fourth Play-Off place as Daryl Gurney got a draw against Michael Smith while Gary Anderson lost to Raymond van Barneveld. Michael van Gerwen could not be stopped by Rob Cross and Peter Wright won against Simon Whitlock.
Results, Table
Report, Statistics
Premier League
The 14. Spieltag of Premier League is played in Birmingham.
On the penultimate League Day of Premier League Rob Cross, Michael Smith and Gary Anderson have to make sure they'll be in the Play-Offs. Michael van Gerwen has already qualified. Gary Anderson on the other side still could be ousted by Daryl Gurney from the fourth place in the table. The other three players no longer have a chance to qualify for the Play-Offs but would like to end the season on a high.
Preview Fourteenth League Day
2. May
PDC World Cup
By now more participating teams have qualified. Beside well known faces like Larry Butler and Darin Young for the USA or Boris Koltsov and Alexandr Oreshkin for Russia, we will se dubutants as well. Surprisingly for the Chinese team with Momo Zhou a woman qualified. She will be after Anastasia Dobromyslova in 2010 only the second woman to take part in the tournament.
Participants, Schedule
Coaching Clinic
In the newest Coaching Clinic the question is adressed whether you really can benefit from defeats and how you get the most from losing.
You Loser! We look at getting the maximum benefit from losing.