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19. January
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28. March
World Series of Darts
As the PDC announced the World Series of Darts this year will be completed by the
Polish Darts Open in Warsaw. The event will be played on 7. and 8. July in Warsaw. Most of the participants are known already.
The PDC will be represented by Michael Smith, Michael van Gerwen, Gerwyn Price, Rob Cross, Luke Humphries, Danny Noppert,
Dimitri van den Bergh and Nathan Aspinall.
The PDC representatives of the U.S Darts Masters on 2. and 3. June were already announced as well. With one exception it will be the same players as in Warsaw - only Danny Noppert will be replaced by Peter Wright.
World Series of Darts
27. March
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order and the European Order of Merit were updated after the European Darts Open.PDC Rankings
European Tour
26. March
Price wins European Darts Open
Gerwyn Price defeated in a close and highclass final Dirk van Duijvenbode with 8:7. Price showed throughout
the tournament strong, in parts sensational performances and reached the final with wins over
Krzysztof Ratajski, Michael Smith, Michael van Gerwen and Danny Noppert. Dirk van Duijvenbode
defeated on the way into his first European Tour final Ted Evetts, Ross Smith, Josh Rock and Rob Cross.
Ricardo Pietrezko was the best German player and reached the quarterfinals where he lost 4:6 to Rob Cross.
Results
Tournament Statistics
Report Finalnew
European Tour
Today the European Darts Open will be played to the end. In the afternoon session the third round will take place,
In the evening session quarterfinals, semi-finals and final will follow.
From the German participants only Ricardo Pietreczko is still in the tournament who used his chances against a below par Peter Wright. Beside Peter Wright from the seeds Joe Cullen, Jonny Clayton, Ryan Searle and Martin Schindler were eliminated as well. Luke Humphries had to withdraw as he was taken ill.
Schedule
25. March
European Tour
Today the European Darts Open in Leverkusen continue with the second round. Again in an afternoon- and an evening
session the first round winners will play against the seeded players.
The highest first round averages played Ross Smith and Ryan Meikle both with over 100. Impressive as well were German Ricardo Pietrczko, Ian White and Raymond van Barneveld who will now play today in the evening session against reigning champion Michael van Gerwen.
Schedule, Results
Tournament Statisticsnew
24. March
European Tour
Today in Leverkusen, Germany, the European Darts Open will begin. It is the second European Tour Event of the year.
As always on the first day only qualifiers will stand at the oche - among them with Ricardo Pietreczko, Pascal Rupprecht, Gabriel Clemens, Florian Hempel, Rene Eidams and Nico Kurz six German players. An afternoon- and an evening session will be played.
Participants, Schedule, Resultsnew
Tournament Statisticsnew
Price siegt auch in Newcastle
Gerwyn Price got in Newcastle his second day win in a row - he played a sensational final and defeated
Michael van Gerwen with 6:1. Both van Gerwen as Price now have won three League days and and sit in the first and
the second place of the table. Price reached the final with wins over Jonny Clayton and local hero Chris Dobey. In the
final he played an 114.96 average. Van Gerwen defeated in the quarterfinals Peter Wright and in the semi-finals
Nathan Aspinall.
Without a point stayed in Newcastle Dimitri van den Bergh, Peter Wright, Jonny Clayton and Michael Smith.
Results
Table
Report, Statisticsnew
23. March
PDC Premier League
For the eighth League Day the Premier League travels to Newcastle.
Tonight the places in the table determine the quarterfinal fixtures - by pure chance they are the same as last week. But they will be played in another order. The quarterfinal between Michael van Gerwen and Peter Wright will open the night. After that Nathan Aspinall will play against Dimitri van den Bergh. The third quarterfinal is the all Welsh clash between Jonny Clayton and Gerwyn Price. In the last quarterfinal local hero Chris Dobey will play against World Champion Michael Smith - last week Dobey won.
Schedule
Preview Eighth League Day
22. March
European Tour
At the Tour Card holders qualifiers for the European Tour Events 7 + 8 in Hildesheim nine players managed
to qualify for both events: Gary Anderson, Jose de Sousa, Ross Smith, Ian White, Dylan Slevin, Bradley Brooks, Matt Campbell,
Richard Veenstra and Martijn Kleermaker.
ET 7 Wieze
ET 8 Prag
21. March
PDC Pro Tour
The two Players Championships in Hildesheim were won by Michael van Gerwen and Gary Anderson.
Michael van Gerwen won on Sunday the seventh Players Championship. He defeated in the final Josh Rock with 8:4. In the semi-finals stood Krzysztof Ratajski and Bardley Brooks. For van Gerwen it was the first ranking title of the year. Brendan Dolan threw a nine-darter..
On Monday Gary Anderson for the first time since three years won an PDC title. He defeated in the final of the eighth Players Championship a strong playing Krzysztof Ratajski. While Ratajski threw in his semi-final against Ricardo Pietreczko a 170 finish Anderson managed it in the final. German Ricardo Pietreczko and Gerwyn Price were the semifinalists. Price before eliminated Michael van Gerwen in the Last 16. This time William O'Connor threw a nine-darter.
Today in Hildesheim the Tour Card Holders Qualifiers for the ET Events 7 + 8 will be played.
Pro Tour - Participants, Results
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order, the Players Championship Order of Merit and the Challenge Tour Order of Merit were updated after the weekend.PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
Challenge Tour
20. March
WDF Results
Winner of the Canterbury Classic in New Zealand were Kym Mitchell and Haupai Puha. At the Shoot for the Moon in Alabama
in the USA the titles went to Paula Murphy and Jason Brandon. The youth titles of the Port City Open went to Seth Patenaude und Taylor Farrell.
The Slovak Open had two German winners: Irina Armstrong won the women's event, Liam Maendl-Lawrence the men's event. The titles of the Slovak Masters won Maud Jansson and Benjamin Pratnemer.
The men's tournament of the Scottish Open was won by Jordan Brooks - it was his maiden WDF title. In the women's event Deta Hedman prevailed in the final over Rhian O'Sullivan.
PDC Challenge Tour
The foor Challenge Tour Events of the weekend had four different winners - Berry van Peer and John Henderson won on Friday,
, Ron Meulenkamp and Dragutin Horvat on Saturday. Horvat is only the second German player who won a Challenge Tour Event.
Once again history wrote Fallon Sherrock in the ninth event - as the first woman ever she threw a nine-darter in a PDC Event.
Challenge Tour
18. March
PDC Pro Tour
This wekend again Pro Tour events will take place - but they'll start on Sunday.
Tomorrow and on Monday in Hildesheim the Players Championships 7 + 8 will be played, on Tuesday the Tour Card holders
Qualifiers for the European Tour Events in Wieze and Prague will follow.
Missing Tour Card holders are Nathan Aspinall, Corey Cadby, Christian Perez, Ryan Searle, Peter Wright. Nathan Rafferty, Joe Murnan, Adam Smith-Neale and James Wilson. They will be replaced by Andy Boulton, Cameron Crabtree, Christian Kist, Chris Landman, Thibault Tricole, James Hurrell, Lukas Wenig, Alex Spellman and Berry van Peer.
Yesterday and today as well in Hildesheim the events 6 - 9 of the Challenge Tour are played.
Pro Tour - Participants, Results
ET 7 Wieze
ET 8 Prag
17. March
Second win for Price
Gerwyn Price got on the seventh League Day in Nottingham his second day win. He defeated in the quarterfinals Jonny Clayton, in the semi-finals
Dimitri van den Bergh and in the final Chris Dobey - all with 6:4. By this he moved up to the second place in the table.
Chris Dobey reached the final with wins over Michael Smith and Michael van Gerwen. He demolished the Dutchman imperiously with 6:0. Van den Bergh and van Gerwen both got 2 points by reaching the semifinals. Without a point in Nottingham stayed Jonny Clayton, Peter Wright, Nathan Aspinall and Michael Smith who all lost their quarterfinals.
Results
Table
Report, Statisticsnew
16. March
PDC Premier League
The seventh League Day of the Premier League takes place today in Nottingham.
The night will start with the quarterfinal between Dimitri van den Bergh and Nathan Aspinall. After that we'll see an all Welsh clash between Jonny Clayton and Gerwyn Price. In the third quarterfinal bottom of the table Peter Wright and head of the table Michael van Gerwen will meet - Wright hopes for a win. In the last quarterfinal Chris Dobey and Michael Smith will play - Dobey won the first League Day and since then not a single match.
Schedule
Preview Seventh League Day
14. March
European Tour
In conclusion of the Pro Tour weekend in Barnsley yesterday the Tour Card holders qualifiers for the European Tour
Events 5 and 6 in Graz and in Leeuwarden were played.
For both events the following players qualified: Jim Williams, Ian White, Dylan Slevin, Madars Razma, Krzysztof Ratajski, Ricardo Pietrezcko Kim Huybrechts and Daryl Gurney. For the first time since 2016 Gary Anderson qualified for a European Tour Event - he will take part in the event in Leeuwarden.
ET 5 Graz, Participants, Schedule
ET 6 Leeuwarden, Participants, Schedule
13. März
PDC Pro Tour
The two Players Championships in Barnsley at the weekend were won by Ross Smith and Dirk van Duijvenbode.
Ross Smith won on Saturday the fifth Players Championship - he defeated in the final Gary Anderson with 8:6. In the semi-finals stood Gerwyn Price and Martin Schindler.
On Sunday Dirk van Duijvenbode prevailed in the final over Ryan Searle. The semi-finals reached Luke Humphries and Mike de Decker. For the Dutchman it was already the second Pro Tour title of the year.
Participants, Results
Nordic and Baltic Tour
At the weekend the second Nordic and Baltic weekend of the year was played in Gotenburg in Sweden.
Marko Kantele was the dominating player of the weekend. He won both the third Pro Tour Event and the qualifier for ET 6 in Leeuwarden in the Netherlands. The fourth Pro Tour Event was won by Daniel Larsson. For ET 4 in Munic Oskar Lukasiak qualified, at ET 5 in Graz Dimitrijs Zukovs will stand as the Nordic and Baltic Qualifier at the oche.
Nordic und Baltic Tour
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order, the Players Championship Order of Merit and the Nordic and Baltic Tour Order of Merit were updated after the weekend.PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
11. March
PDC Pro Tour
This weekend in Barnsley the third Pro Tour weekend of the year will take place. Today and tomorrow Players Championship 5 + 6 will be played.
On Monday the Tour Card Holders Qualifiers for the European Tour Events 5 + 6 in Graz and in Leeuwarden will follow.
Tour Card Holders Vladimir Andersen, Corey Cadby, Nick Kenny, Christian Perez and Peter Wright didn't register for Barnsley. They will be replaced by players from the Challenge Tour Order of Merit: Owen Bates, Andy Boulton, Cameron Crabtree, Chris Landman and Thibault Tricole.
Participants, Resultsnew
ET 5 Graz, Participants, Schedule
ET 6 Leeuwarden, Participants, Schedule
10. March
Third win in a row for Van Gerwen
In the final in Liverpool Michael van Gerwen prevailed over Michael Smith with 6:4 and got his third day win in a row.
By this he has now a lead of eight points before Michael Smith on second place with 12 points and Nathan Aspinall on third place with
11 points.
In the quarterfinals Michael van Gerwen defeated Jonny Clayton and in the semi-finals Peter Wright, who got his first two points on the board due to his victory over Gerwen Price in the quarterfinals. Michael Smith won in the quarterfinals against Dimitri van den Bergh and in the semi-finals over Nathan Aspinall. Quarterfinal losers on the sixth League Day were beside Dimitri van den Bergh and Jonny Clayton Gerwyn Price and Chris Dobey.
Results
Table
Report, Statisticsnew
8. March
PDC Premier League
For the sixth League Day Premier League travels to Liverpool.
In the first quarterfinal Gerwyn Price and Peter Wright will meet. Wright still has no point in the table and sits on bottom place. After that Michael van Gerwen will play against Jonny Clayton - van Gerwen hopes for a third day win in a row. Following that Chris Dobey will clash with Nathan Aspinall - Dobey couldn't win a match since the first League Day. In the last quarterfinal UK Open Semifinalist Dimitri van den Bergh and World Champion Michael Smith will meet.
Schedule, Results
Preview Sixth League Day
UK Open
The Exmoor National Park is a region where myths and legends are still very much alive.So the year Global Darts while beside telling about the tournament has a look on some of the creatures who beside all the dartplayers and fans who can found here at the moment populate the region.
Meetings with the Devil around here have been very rare - luckily - in recent times but what about the Pixies?
It's scary to walk through the moor... - The Pixiesnew
6. March
Gilding wins UK Open
In a close final Andrew Gilding defeated Michael van Gerwen 11:10 and won the titel - another surprise in a tournament whiuch had a lot upsets to offer.
Van Gerwen couldn't get rid of Gilding who showed no nerves in the deciding leg.
Before Gilding awon on finals day against Martin Schindler and Adam Gawlas, van Gerwen reacheds the final with wins over Nathan Aspinall and Dimitri van den Bergh.
UK Open - Results Finals Day
Statistics Finals Day
UK Open - Report Finals Daynew
5. March
UK Open second day
The second day was more relaxed as less matches were played and less players were involved. It was an interesting day,
on which Richie Burnett provided the emotional moments and players like van Gerwen, O'Connor and Price added the highest averages.
And there was something to laugh as well - we had an invasion of dinos..
UK Open - Report second daynew
4. März
UK Open - Day 2 Evening
In the evening-sesion only on the mainstage and on the second stage matches were played and the upsets continued.
Jonny Clayton, Peter Wright, Gary Anderson, Joe Cullen, Brendan Dolan, Jeffrey de Zwaan, William O'Connor and Luke Humphries were eliminated while Martin Schindler, Richie Burnett, Dimitri van den Bergh, Nathan Aspinall, Andrew Gilding, Rob Cross, Adam Gawlas and Michael van Gerwen progressed into the quarterfinals, which wil be played on Suday afternoon.
UK Open - Results Round 6, Draw Quarterfinals
Statistics Round Six
UK Open first Day
The first day of the UK Open offered as always a high number of matches and it is completely
Impossible to watch all you would like to watch.
What I managed to watch and other news from the Butlin's resort you can read in my report of the first day of the tournament.
UK Open - Report first daynew
UK Open - Day 2 Afternoon
In the afternoon-Ssession today the fifth round of the tournament took place - on the reduced number of four Boards - and there were some upsets.
Beside Gerwyn Price and World Champion Michael Smith reigning champion Danny Noppert was eliminated 9:10 by William O'Connor.
Dirk van Duijvenbode and Chris Dobey as well were eliminated fifth round.
Still in the tournament among others are Richie Burnett and German Martin Schindler.
UK Open - Results Round 5, Draw 6. Roundnew
Statistic Main- and Second Stage Round 5new
3. March
UK Open - Day 1 Evening
In the evening session reigning champion Danny Noppert was one of many players who
prevailed in close matches and progressed into the fifth round. Some of the matches were won with
the very last dart for example in the match Nathan Aspinall v Alan Soutar
or Jonny Clayton v Ross Smith, which were won by Aspinall and Clayton.
So far there were no real upsets - the Top Eight of the World are all still in the tournament.
UK Open - Results Round 4, Draw Fifth round
Statistic Main- and Second Stage Rounds 1-4
UK Open - Day 1 Afternoon
This afternoon the first three rounds of the tournament took place and from the players who qualified by the Development Tour Order of Merit, the Challenge Tour
Order and by the Riley's Amateur Qualifiers only Jelle Klaasen, Luke Littler and Thomas Banks are still in the tournament.
Tonight the fourth round will be played and the Top 32 of the PDC Order of Merit will join the survivors of the first three rounds - among them big names like Adrian Lewis, Ian White and Simon Whitlock.
UK Open - Results Rounds 1 - 3, Draw 4. Round
UK Open
The Exmoor National Park is a region where myths and legends are still very much alive.So the year Global Darts while beside telling about the tournament has a look on some of the creatures who beside all the dartplayers and fans who can found here at the moment populate the region.
The first article deals with the devil who was very active here in shaping the landscape.
It's scary to walk through the moor... - The Devilnew
2. March
Van Gerwen wins in Exeter as well
Michael van Gerwen defeated in the final in Exeter Jonny Clayton with 6:3 and got his second day win in a row.
By this he now heads the table with 15 points - followed by Michael Smith and Nathan Aspinall who both have
nine points.
Van Gerwen defeated in the quarterfinals Gerwyn Price and in the semi-finals Nathan Aspinall. Jonny Clayton won in the quarterfinals against Peter Wright - who still has no point - and prevailed in the semi-finals over Dimitri van den Bergh durch. Beside Wright and Price today neither Michael Smith nor Chris Dobey got a point.
Results
Table
Statisticsnew
UK Open
Tomorrow in Minehead the UK Open will begin.
In the PDC preview reigning champion Danny Noppert, Luke Humphries and Adrian Lewis have their say. Lewis this year takes part for the 20. time in the UK Open.
Preview
PDC Premier League
The fifth League Day of Premier League takes place in Exeter.
In the first quarterfinal the finalists of last weeks League Day will meet - Michael van Gerwen and Gerwyn Price. Van Gerwen won the close final. After that Nathan Aspinall wilk play against Michael Smith. In the third quarterfinal Dimitri van den Bergh and Chris Dobey will clash before in the last quarterfinal the two players at the bottom of the table - Jonny Clayton and Peter Wright - will stand at the oche.
Schedule, Results
Preview Fifth League Day
27. February
UK Open
The PDC confirmed today the participants and published the draw and the schedule of the first three rounds.
The UK Open have no tournament bracket, there will be a new draw before every round. All Tour Card holders with the exception of Corey Cadby and Christian Perez will take part. Added are players who qualified by the Challenge Tour Order of Merit, the Development Tour Order of Merit and the Riley's Amateur Qualifiers.
UK Open - Participants, Draw/Schedule 1. - 3. Round
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order, the European Tour Order of Merit and the Women's Series Order of Merit were updated after the weekend.PDC Rankings
European Tour
Women's Series
26. February
Chisnall wins Baltic Sea Darts Open
Dave Chisnall was the winner of the first Baltic Sea Darts Open in Kiel. He defeated in the final Luke Humphries with 8:5.
Before Chisnall won on finals day against Gerwyn Price in the best match of the tournament, against Martin Schindler and
in the semi-finals against Jonny Clayton. For Chisnall it was the fourth win on the
European Tour.
Humphries defeated on finals day Dimitri van den Bergh, Dirk van Duijvenbode and - in a high class semi-final - Ryan Searle.
Results Day 3
Statistics
Report Finals Daynew
PDC Women Series
Once again Beau Greaves was the outstanding player of the Women's Series weekend. She won three of the four events. Only
the third event she lost in the quarterfinals to Mikuru Suzuki who went on to win the final against Rhian O'Sullivan.
Suzuki lost two times in the semi-finals and once in the final to Greaves. Lisa Ashton once reached a semi-final while
Fallon Sherrock's best placing was a quarterfinal.
Participants, Results
Baltic Sea Darts Open - Day 3
The Baltic Sea Darts Open will be played to the end today.
In the afternoon-session the third round took place. In the evening session quarterfinals, semifinals and final will follow. With Keegan Brown and Steve Beaton two unseeded players will stand at the oche in the quarterfinals.
Participants, Schedule
25. February
Baltic Sea Darts Open - Day 2
Today the Baltic Sea Darts Open will continue with the second round.
In an afternoon- and an evening-session the first round winners will play against the seeds.
Participants, Schedule, Results Day 2
Statisticsnew
PDC Women Series
This weekend in Leicester the first events of the PDC Women's Series 2023 take place - on Saturday and Sunday two events
each will be played.
Lisa Ashton, Beau Greaves and Fallon Sherrock will stand at the oche as will Mikuru Suzuki, Aileen de Graaf, Lorraine Winstanley and for the first time again Anastasia Dobromyslova.
Participants, Results
24. February
Baltic Sea Darts Open - Day 1
Steve Beaton produced in the last first round match against Adrian Lewis in a highclass contest the highlight of the day
- he defeated Lewis with 6:2 and played an 106.10 average.
As well impressive played Steve Bunting against William O'Connor, Lewy Williams against Dennis Nilsson, Niko Springer against Jermaine Wattimana and Daryl Gurney against Gabriel Clemens who all played at their wins averages of 97 or higher.
Participants, Schedule
Win for van Gerwen in Dublin
In Dublin Michael van Gerwen got his first win of the season. He defeated in a close final
Gerwyn Price - who missed in the deciding leg two match darts - with 6:5. In the semi-finals stood
Michael Smith and Jonny Clayton.
Peter Wright lost already in the quarterfinals a close match against Michael Smith and still is without a point. Other quarterfinal losers were
Dimitri van den Bergh, Chris Dobey and Nathan Aspinall.
Results
Table
Report, Statisticsnew
23. February
European Tour
Tomorrow in Kiel the Baltic Sea Darts Open will begin - the first event of the European Tour 2023.
The PDC pubblished the draw and the detailled schedule of the first and second round.
Participants, Schedule
22. February
PDC Premier League
For the fourth League Day Premier League travels to Dublin.
Peter Wright is still the only player without a win in this year's campaign. He will meet in Dublin in the
first quarterfinal World Champion Michael Smith. After that
Gerwyn Price will play against Dimitri van den Bergh. In the third quarterfinal Jonny Clayton and Nathan Aspinall
will meet. In the last quarterfinal reigning champion Michael van Gerwen and Masters winner Chris Dobey
will stand at the oche.
Schedule
Preview Fourth League Day
UK Open
After the weekend all Riley's Qualifiers for the UK Open are known. On Saturday and Sunday the last
qualifiers took place and Lewis Gurney, Noel Grant, Garey Davy and Jonathan Wynn were the winners. Only Grant
already took part once in the UK Open, the other three players will give their debut.
The PDC announced that this year for the first time the matches from all boards will be televised.
The matches at the Boards 3 - 8 on Friday and on the Boards 3 and 4 on Staturday will be streamed
on PDCTV.
The draw and the schedule of the first three rounds will be announced on Monday, 27. February.
UK Open
20. February
European Tour Tour Card Holders Qualifier
In conclusion of the second Pro Tour weekend in Barnsley today the Tour Card Holders qualifiers for the European Tour Events 3 and 4
took place. Ross Smith, Simon Whitlock, Daryl Gurney, Brendan Dolan, Andrew Gilding, Alan Soutar, Mario Vandenbogaerde, Matt Campbell and Lee Evans
qualified for both events.
With the exception of the Nordic and Baltic Qualifier of the European Tour Event in München now all participants in both events are known.
ET 3 Riesa, Participants, Schedule
ET 4 München, Participants, Schedule
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated
after the second Players Championship Weekend.
PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
PDC Pro Tour
Winners of the two Players Championships of the weekend were Kim Huybrechts and Dirk van Duijvenbode.
Kim Huybrechts defeated in the final of the third Players Championship on Saturday Gabriel Clemens with
8:1. In the semi-finals stood Gerwyn Price and Canadian Matt Campbell.
Today Dirk van Duijvenbode won Players Championship 4 - he defeated in the final Ryan Searle with 8:2.
The semi-finals reached Dave Chisnall and Joe Cullen.
Participants, Results
Nordic and Baltic Tour
This weekend was as well Nordic and Baltic Tour weekend. The first two Pro Tour Events and
the qualifiers for the European Tour Events 1 - 3 took place.
The two Pro Tour events were won by Marko Kantele and Mindaugas Barauskas. For the first European Tour Event in Kiel
Dennis Nilsson qualified, Marko Kantele will stand at the oche of the second Event in Leverkusen. For the third Event in Riesa
Finn Paavo Myller qualified.
Nordic and Baltic Tour
18. February
PDC Pro Tour
Again this weekend the PDC Pro Tour will be played in Barnsley. Today and tomorrow Players Championship 3 + 4 will take place.
On Monday the Tour Card Holders Qualifiers for the European Tour Events 3 + 4 in Riesa and München will follow.
Beside other Tour Card Holders the Premier League players Michael Smith, Peter Wright and Michael van Gerwen will not be
in Barnsley. For all missing players players from the Challenge Tour Order of Merit will move up.
Participants, Results
ET 3 Riesa, Participants, Schedule
ET 4 München, Participants, Schedule
17. February
Smith wins in Glasgow
An outstanding Michael Smith defeated in the final an as well strong playing Dimitri van den Bergh and got his first day win.
Before Smith defeated in the quarterfinals a far from convincing Gerwyn Price and prevailed in a close semi-final over Jonny Clayton.
Dimitri van den Bergh disappointed the Scottish crowd by defeating Peter Wright (who still is without a point) in the quarterfinals
and was too strong in the semi-finals for Nathan Aspinall.
Aspinall defeated in the quarterfinals Michael van Gerwen who played a strange match, Jonny Clayton defeated Chris Dobey
- had a lot of double trouble - and got his first two points.
Results
Table
Bericht, Statisticsnew
Increase in Price Money
After an increase in price money for the für Challenge Tour, Development Tour and Women's Series now the price money of
the European Tour and the UK Open were increased as well.
Challenge Tour
Development Tour
Women Series
European Tour
UK Open
16. February
PDC Premier League
The third League Day of the Premier League will take place today in Glasgow.
Peter Wright hopes his Scottish fans will ignite him and he will finally get his first points
- he will meet in the second quarterfinal Dimitri van den Bergh. Jonny Clayton as well hopes for his first win - he will play
in the last quarterfinal against Chris Dobey. The night will be opened with the quarterfinal between
Nathan Aspinall and reigning champion Michael van Gerwen. Beside last league day's winner, Gerwyn Price, will play in the quarterfinals against
World Champion Michael Smith.
Schedule
Preview Third League Daynew
14. February
European Tour Tour Card Inhaber Qualifikationen
At yesterday's qualifiers for the European Tour Events 1 and 2 in Barnsley James Wade, Raymond van Barneveld,
Stephen Bunting, Daryl Gurney, William O'Connor, Ryan Joyce, Jermaine Wattimena, Bradley Brooks, Ryan Meikle and Ted Evetts
qualified for both events.
So now with the exception of the Nordic and Baltic Qualifiers all participants of the European Tour Events in Kiel and Leverkusen
are known. The Nordic and Balic Qualifiers for the
European Tour Events 1,2 and 3 will take place during the first Nordic and Baltic Pro Tour weekend next weekend in Denmark.
ET 1 Kiel, Participants, Schedule
ET 2 Leverkusen, Participants, Schedule
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated
after the first two Players Championships.
PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
12. February
Searle and Noppert win in Barnsley
Ryan Searle and Danny Noppert won the first two Players Championships of the year.
Searle won on Saturday Players Championship 1 - he defeated in the final Jamie Hughes with 8:4. In the semi-finals
stood Jonny Clayton and Tour Card debutant Dylan Slevin.
On Sunday Danny Noppert won the second Players Championship with a 8:3 win over Simon Whitlock. The semi-finals
reached Luke Humphries and Brendan Dolan.
Today in Barnsley the Tour Card Holders Qualifiers for the European Tour Events 1 and 2 will take place.
Participants, Results
ET 1 Kiel, Participants, Results
ET 2 Leverkusen, Participants, Results
Thornton defends Title
Robert Thornton managed to defend his World Seniors Darts Champion title with a 5:2 win over Richie Howson. With Thornton
once again won the most consistent player who had in almost every match an over 90 average. In the semifinals stood
the surprise player of the event American Leonard Gates and - as last time - Kevin Painter. As in the first staging of the event
a not really good playing Phil Taylor was already eliminated in the quarterfinals.
Participants, Results
11. Februar
PDC Pro Tour
Today in Barnsley this years PDC Pro Tour will begin with the first Players Championshipship of the year. Tomorrow Players Championship 2 will follow,
on Monday the Tour Card holders Qualifier for the first two European Tour Events in Kiel and Leverkusen will end the weekend.
Already since yesterday in Hildesheim the Host Nation and the Associate Members Qualifiers for the European Tour Events 1 - 5 take place.
By the Host Nation Qualifiers Nico Kurz and Niko Springer qualified for ET 1 and Nico Kurz and Rene Eidams for ET 2. By the Associate Members Qualifiers
Martijn Dragt and Jeroen Mioch qualified for ET 1 and Andy Boulton and John Henderson for ET 2.
Participants, Results
ET 1 Kiel, Participants, Schedule
ET 2 Leverkusen, Participants, Schedule
World Seniors Darts Championship
Yesterday in der Circus Tavern the first round of the event was played to the end and reigning champion Robert Thornton
showed at his 3:0 win over Roland Scholten the so far best performance of the tournament. As well with 3:0 wins Andy Jenkins, American
Leonard Gates and Mark Dudbridge progressed into round two. Als winners of hard fought matches
progressed Neil Duff and Keith Deller (both in overtime) as did John Part and Phil Taylor.
Today in an afternoon and an evening session the second round will be played.
Participants, Results, Schedule
10. February
Price wins in Cardiff
While Jonny Clayton disappointed his Welsh fans Gerwyn Price delighted them playing a great
Premier League night, won in the quarterfinals a close match against Chris Dobey before he prevailed in the semis even closer over Michael van Gerwen
who had the far higher average. In the final he met Nathan Aspinall - who couldn't quite keep up the performance of his two
prvious matches - and defeated him 3:6.
His first two points got Michael Smith with his win over Jonny Clayton. Clayton and Peter Wright are the only players
still without a point.
Results
Table
Report, Statisticsnew
World Seniors Darts Championship
On the first day of the World Seniors Darts Championship in the afternoon session four close matches were played which were won by
Terry Jenkins, Darryl Fitton, Ritchie Howson und Darren Johnson with 3:2. Terry Jenkins played the highest average of the day with 88.89
The matches of the evening session all four were a one sided affair, only Martin Adams lost one set to Dave Prins. The other three matches were won with
3:0 by Kevin Painter, Dennis Harbour (against Trina Gulliver) and Scott Mitchell.
Today the first round will be played to the end - again in an afternoon and an evening session.
Participants, Results, Schedule
9. February
PDC Premier League
On the second League Day the PDC travels to Cardiff.
In Wales Welshman Jonny Clayton and Gerwyn Price hope to get their first points. Jonny Clayton opens the quarterfinals
against World Champion Michael Smith. After that Nathan Aspinall meets Peter Wright, Gerwyn Price will play in the third quarterfinal
against the winner of the first night - Chris Dobey. In the last quarterfinal reigning champion Michael van Gerwen
will play against Dimitri van den Bergh.
Schedule
Preview Second League Daynew
8. February
World Seniors Darts Championship
Tomorrow in the Circus Tavern in London the second World Seniors Darts Championship will begin.
Beside reigning champion Robert Thornton a lot of illustrious players will stand at the oche - headed by Phil Taylor who finally hopes
to win a title on the seniors tour. Former World Champions Trina Gulliver, Lisa Ashton, Martin Adams, Keith Deller, Bob Anderson,
Scott Mitchell, Glen Durrant and John Part and the reigning WDF World Champion Neil Duff can be found in the field of participants.
Participants, Results, Schedule
30 Years PDC World Championship - 30 years Dutch participants? - Part 4
In the last article of the series "Dutchmen in the PDC World Championship" beside Raymond van Barneveld and
Michael van Gerwen to more not really well-known Dutch players who took part in the tournament are in the lime-light -
Erwin Extercatte and Rico Vonck who both by now have disappeared from the sport.
30 Years PDC World Championship - 30 years Dutch participants? - Part 4new
6. February
"Tend your darts"
Well "tended" darts can help to improve your game and so this blog by darts manufacturer Shot
deals with the right sharpening of the darts points and the right cleaning of the dart barrels.
Sharpen your game: how to clean and care for your darts
UK Open
Around a month away are this year's UK Open and till the 21. January Riley's Amateur Qualifiers take place
for the event. Nine players have qualified so far. Three of the qualifiers - JDC World Junior Champion Luke Littler, Jim Moston and
Harry Lane - for the first time qualified for the UK Open. The other six - American Danny Lauby, Dan Read, Stuart White, Daniel Lee,
Brett Claydon and James Richardson - all have already some UK Open experience. James Richardson joins his son Joshua who
already was qualified by the Development Tour Order of Merit.
UK Open
3. February
Dobey wins in Belfast
Premier League debutant Chris Dobey won the first League Night - he defeated in the final Michael van Gerwen with 6:5.
Before he prevailed in the quarterfinals against Peter Wright and in the semi-finals over Nathan Aspinall.
Michael van Gerwen defeated in the quarterfinals World Champion Michael Smith with 6:2 and in the semi-finals
Dimitri van den Bergh with 6:4. Without a point stayed on the first night beside Michael Smith and Peter Wright Gerwyn Price and
Jonny Clayton.
Results
Statisticsnew
2. February
PDC Premier League
Today the PDC travels for the first league night to Belfast.
In the limelight tonight will stand the the second quarterfinal between World Champion Michael Smith and reigning champion
Michael van Gerwen. The league night will be opened by the match between Dimitri van den Bergh and Jonny Clayton.
In the third quarterfinal Peter Wright will meet Masters Champion Chris Dobey, in the last quarterfinal Gerwyn Price
will play against Nathan Aspinall.
First League Night Schedule
Preview First League Nightnew
1. February
PDC Awards
This year again the PDC handed out several awards to the players.
Three awards collected World Champion Michael Smith - he is PDC Player of the Year, Fans Player of the Year and PDPA
Player of the Year. Best Pro Tour Player of the Year is Luke Humphries, best newcomer und Young Player of the Year
is Josh Rock. Ross Smith was awarded for the best TV Performance of the Year - for the final of the European
Darts Championship against Michael Smith.
Results...
Winners of Romanian Open were Romanian Laszlo Kadar and Beau Greaves. Gary Stone won the Romanian Classic, the women's title got as well Beau Greaves.
The Las Vegas Open were won by Chris Lim, son of Paul Lim, and Paula Murphy. Winners of the Youth Pacific Masters
were Australians Alan Hellmuth and Janiya Finlay.
Winners of the singles events of the renowned Dutch Open were Aileen de Graaf and Berry van Peer. The youth titles went to Sydnee Vries
, Ruben Baalmans (U14) and Sophie McKinlay from Scotland. In the pairs events the English women pair Beau Greaves/Deta Hedman
and the Dutch men pair Christian Kist/Michael Stoeten were successful. The Wheelchair Darter title secured
Belgian Vincent d'Hondt, the Standing Darters title won German Heiko Bohnhorst who won together with Ralf Huesmann the Paradart pairs event as well.
30. January
PDC Premier League
The PDC today announced the participants in this year's Premier League.
Beside the Top Four of the Order of Merit - Michael Smith, Peter Wright, Michael van Gerwen and Gerwyn Price - who already had ensured their participation
Jonny Clayton, Nathan Aspinall, Dimitri van den Bergh and Chris Dobey were nominated.
The fixtures of all matchdays were by now published as well.
Premier League 2023new
Dobey wins Masters
With Chris Dobey again an unseeded player wins the Masters - he defeated in a slightly weary final
Rob Cross with 11:7. While Cross couldn't keep up his previous performances
Dobey was consistent till the last dart.
Dobey defeated Dirk van Duijvenbode in the quarterfinals and World Champion Michael Smith in the semi-finals on Finals Day, Cross
prevailed on his way into the final over Michael van Gerwen in the quarterfinals and over
Peter Wright in the semis.
Results, Schedule Day 3
Report, Statistics Day 3new
29. January
PDC The Masters
In the second round of the event with the exception of Luke Humphries and Gerwyn Price all seeded players won their matches -
Humphries lost to Chris Dobey, Price to Dirk van Duijvenbode. In the afternoon-session
Rob Cross and Gary Anderson played the match of the day. Cross won 10:6 with an average of 112.32 while Anderson
played an average of 111.17. The other winners of the day were Michael Smith, Michael van Gerwen, Peter Wright, Jonny Clayton and Danny
Noppert.
Today the tournament in Milton Keynes will be played to the end. In the afternoon the quarterfinals will take place, tonight semi-finals and finals will be played.
Report, Statistics Day 2new
28. January
PDC The Masters
The first day of The Masters brought a big upset - Chris Dobey eliminated reigning champion Joe Cullen from the event.
Beside it brought wins for James Wade and Gary Anderson, Jose de Sousa defeated Gabriel Clemens, Ross Smith prevailed over the luckless
Damon Heta, Dirk van Duijvenbode was in the end to clinical on his doubles for Krzysztof Ratajski, Stephen Bunting prevented a
comeback of Nathan Aspinall and Dave Chisnall defeated with an 161 finish in the deciding leg Ryan Searle.
Today the tournament will continue with the second round. Yesterday's winners will play against the seeds.
Report, Statistics Day 1
Results, Schedule Second Round
26. January
PDC The Masters
Tomorrow in Milton Keynes The Masters - the first big PDC event since the World Championship - will begin.
The Top 24 of PDC Order of Merit will take part. The Top Eight are seeded and will enter the tournament
in the second round which will be played on Saturday. Tomorrow the unseeded players will play the first round
and the winners will progress into round 2.
Last year's winner Joe Cullen is one of the unseeded players and he will begin his campaign tomorrow against
Chris Dobey.
The PDC increased the price money this year.
Results, Schedule Day 1new
Preview
PDC Challenge Tour
After the first weekend of the PDC Challenge Tour Frenchman Thibault Tricole has the lead in the Challenge Tour
Ranking. Tricole won one of the five events of the weekend and beside once stood in the
quarterfinals.
The other four winners of the weekend - Andy Boulton, Cameron Crabtree, Christian Kist and Chris Landman -
follow on the places 2 - 5.
Challenge Tour
20. January
Nordic Darts Masters
On the first day of the Nordic Darts Masters today the first round matches will take place. Tomorrow the tournament
will be played to the end.
Luke Humphries will open the tournament against Finn Marko Kantele.
Participants, Schedule, Results, Statistics
Previewnew
European Tour
The dates Home Nation and Associate Members Qualifiers of the European Tour were added to the Tournament Calendar.
Tournament Calendar 2023
19. January
Dartoids World
Dartoid travels to Greece and hopes to meet John Michael. Unluckily that doesn't happen.
But Dartoid had the chance to eavesdrop on a discussion between a Greece and an Italian...
Girls, Geezers and Greece
18. January
Nordic Darts Masters
On Friday in Copenhagen the Nordic Darts Masters will begin - the second World Series of Darts Event of the year.
Again eight PDC representatives will stand of stage, this time instead Raymond van Barneveld Michael van Gerwen is in the mix.
They will play in the first around against the leading players of the Nordic and Baltic region.
Dimitri van den Bergh- the reigning champion - will play against Madars Razma. World Champion Michael Smith, who won in Bahrain
the first World Series Event of the year, was drawn against Darius Labanauskas.
Participants, Schedule
Jann Hoffmann passed away
Danish darts player Jann Hoffmann - one of the founders of the Nordic and Baltic Tour - passed away on Monday
following a lengthy illness.
Hoffmann played many years on the BDO/WDF Circuit and qualified several times for the BDO World Championship. He switched to the PDC and
played for seven years on the PDC Circuit. Twice he was nominated in those years for the PDC World Cup. For some time he as well took part
in events of the Nordic und Baltic Tour.
Hoffmann was aged 65. We send condolences to his family and friends.
In ocaasion of the start of the SDC Circuit Global Darts interviewd Hoffmann 2018. You can find the interview here:
Interview with Jann Hoffmann
PDC Nordic and Baltic Tour
The dates of the Nordic und Baltic Tour 2023 were added to the Tournament Calendar.
Due to new rules of those PDC players who own a PDC Tour Card longer then two consecutive years are no longer eligible to participate
on a Global Affiliate Tour of its relevant qualifiers for PDC Events. In this case it concerns
Madars Razma and Darius Labanauskas.
Tournament Calendar 2023
Nordic und Baltic Tour
16. January
PDC Qualifying School
On the last day of the final Phase Robbie Knops and Adam Smith-Neale got the day win and by this the direct Tour Cards of the day.
In Kalkar additional ten Tour Cards were assigned by the ranking. They went to Maik Kuivenhoven, Richard Veenstra, Niels Zonneveld, Pascal Rupprecht,
Ronny Huybrechts, Karel Sedlacek, Jacques Labre, Daniel Klose, Gian van Veen and Owen Roloefs. In Milton Keynes nine additional Tour Cards were assigned
by the ranking to Dylan Slevin, Lee Evans, Stephen Burton, Nick Kenny, Keegan Brown, Adam Warner,
Graham Hall, Callum Goffin and Christian Perez. For the first time ever a Frenchman and a Filipino
will join the Pro Circuit.
EU and UK Qualifying School, Report Day 4new
Qualifying School 2023, Results
Ranking UK Qualifying Schoolnew
Ranking European Qualifying Schoolnew
15. January
PDC Qualifying School
On the Third day of the final Phase Josh Payne and Jeffrey de Zwaan got the win and by this the direct Tour Card.
Jeffrey de Zwaan defeated in the final in Kalkar fellow countryman Maik Kuivenhoven who is already assured a Tour Card by the ranking.
Josh Payne won in Milton Keynes against Chris Quantock.
The Qualifying School will continue today in both venues with the fourth and last event.
EU and UK Qualifying School, Report Day 3, Ranking after Day 3new
Qualifying School 2023, Results
14. January
PDC Qualifying School
On the second day of the final Phase Corey Cadby and Graham Usher got the win and by this the direct Tour Card.
Corey Cadby defeated in the final in Kalkar Karel Sedlacek, Graham Usher won in Milton Keynes against Adam Warner.
The Qualifying School will continue today in both venues with the third event.
EU and UK Qualifying School, Report Day 2, Ranking after Day 2new
Qualifying School 2023, Results
Smith wins in Bahrain
Michael Smith won the first ever Bahrain Darts Masters with a 8:6 win against Gerwyn Price. Smith already
had been 7:3 in the lead but then couldn't find his doubles and Price closed in on 6:7. But Smith
recovered and won his third TV title in three months.
In the semi-finals stood Raymond van Barneveld and Rob Cross.
Participants, Schedule, Results, Statistics
Report Day 2new
13.January
PDC Qualifying School
On the first day of the final Phase Arron Monk and Jeffrey Sparidaans got the win and by this the direct Tour Card.
Arron Monk defeated in the final in Milton Keynes Dom Taylor, Jeffrey Sparidaans won in Kalkar against Ronny Huybrechts.
The Qualifying School will continue today in both venues with the second event.
EU and UK Qualifying School, Report Day 1, Ranking after Day 1new
Bahrain Darts Masters - Day 1
In the first round of the tournament all eight PDC representatives prevailed though for some of them it was
not an easy win.
The best performance of the first round showed Jonny Clayton who impressed in his 6:0 defeat of Basem Mahmood
with an 103.66 average.
Today the tournament in Bahrain will be played to the end Bahrain.
Participants, Schedule, Results, Statistics
Report Day 1new
12. January
PDC Qualifying School
The first Phase of Qualifying School is over and the participants of the final Phase - which will start today - are known.
In the UK Qualifying School Fallon Sherrock is the only female player who qualified for the final Phase - she was yesterday one of the day winners.
As well among the day winners who progressed were former World Youth Champion Aaron Monk and Christian Perez from the Philippines.
In the EU Qualifiyng School two German players - Nico Kurz and Daniel Zygla - were among the day winners which included among others
another former PDC Youth World Champion - Australian Corey Cadby - and WDF World Championship semi-finalist Richard Veenstra.
EU Qualifying School, Participants final Phase, Resultsnew
UK Qualifying School, Participants final Phase, Resultsnew
11.January
Bahrain Darts Masters
Tomorrow the first ever Bahrain Darts Masters will begin with the first round. On Friday Quarterfinals, Semi-Finals
and the tournament Final will follow.
World Champion Michael Smith, Luke Humphries, Dimitri van den Bergh, Peter Wright, Gerwyn Price, Rob Cross, Raymond
van Barneveld and Jonny Clayton will stand as PDC representatives at the oche who will play against eight
qualifiers from Bahrain and Asia. Among them will be Paul Lim who was drawn against Gerwyn Price.
Participants, Schedule, Results and Statistics First Roundnew
9. January
PDC Qualifying Schools
Today in Kalkar and in Milton Keynes the European and the UK Qualifiying School began. Till including Wednesday
the first phase of the tournament will be played. Each day eight players will qualify directly for the final Phase which will take
place from 12. - 15 January. For the participants in the finale Phase 27 Tour Card are on offer - eight for the day winners
and the other 19 by the Q School Orders of Merit.
Qualifying School 2023, Results
4. January
World Series of Darts
The World Series of Darts will begin on 12. and 13. January with the Bahrain Darts Masters which are played for the first time this year.
The PDC now announced the participants of the Bahrain Darts Masters and of the second World Series event - the Nordic Darts Masters which will
take place from 20. - 21. January in Copenhagen.
World Series of Darts
PDC Ranking
The PDC Order of Merit was updated after the World Championship.
PDC Rankings
Smith wins PDC World Championship
In a terrific final Michael Smith defeated Michael van Gerwen with 7:4 and won his first World Champion title. By this
he moved up to the first place in the PDC Order of Merit as well.
The players shared the first six sets of the match.
In the incredible third leg of the second set both players had the chance for a nine-darter. While van Gerwen missed the
double 12 for his perfect leg, Smith hit it. It was only the second nine-darter so far in a World Championship Final.
At 3:3 in sets Smith started to pull clear - he won three sets in a row and led 6:3. Then he slightly dropped off
and van Gerwen won his fourth leg. In the last set the Dutchman first was on the inside track but he missed the
busllseye for his 132 finish to win the set. Smith managed to turn the set around and won match and title with an 11-darter.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
3. January
PDC World Championship - Semi-Finals
On the penultimate day of the PDC World Championship the two semi-finals were played. Both matches had a distinct result.
Michael Smith won 6:2 against Gabriel Clemens, Michael van Gerwen defeated Dimitri van den Bergh with 6:0. While Michael van Gerwen
in the second semi-final was the clearly better player and van den Bergh only won four legs the first semifinal between Smith and Clemens was a quite hard-fought affair
and six of the eight sets were decided in the fifth Leg. Nevertheless Smith came across as the stronger player thoughout the match.
Today in the final Michael Smith and Michael van Gerwen will meet.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
2. January
30 Years PDC World Championship - 30 years Dutch participants? - 3
2004 beside Roland Scholten Jan van der Rassel for the first time qualified for the PDC World Championship. Van der
Rassel took as well part in 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010 in the PDC World Championship before he disappeared from the scene
due to the lack of sponsors. 2005 and 2007 Josephus Schenk joined Roland Scholten for the PDC World Championship but he gave up his career as well -
might be due to the same reason as van der Rassel - for the lack of sponsors.
30 Years PDC World Championship - 30 years Dutch participants? - 3new
Tournament Calendar 2023
The new Tournament Calendar 2023 is now online. Some more dates were added - among the the dates for the
WDF World Championship 2023 which will take place from 2. - 10 December.
Tournament Calendar 2023new
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 15
Tonight in the evening session both semi-finals will be played. First Gabriel Clemens will play against Michael Smith. After that Dimitri van den Bergh
will meet Michael van Gerwen.
Semifinals Specials: In the semi-finals stand four players from four different countries - for the fourth time in the history of the event. But it is only for the second
time that all four are the number 1 of their country. That only happened once before in 2010, in that year with Phil Taylor the English number 1,
with Raymond van Barneveld the Dutch number 1,with Mark Webster the Welsh number 1 and with Simon Whitlock the Australian number 1 stood at the oche.
Winner 2010 was the English number 1 Phil Taylor.
What you should know as well: Not only Gabriel Clemens wrote history by progressing into the semi-finals, it is as well the first time ever a Belgian
player reached the semi-finals of the event - Dimitri van den Bergh. Van den Bergh's so far best placings had been the quarterfinals 2018 where
he lost to the eventual winner Rob Cross and the quarterfinals 2020 where he lost to Nathan Aspinall.
But Clemens is not the first German who reached the semi-finals of a World Championship.
That was Michael Unterbuchner, who stood both 2018 and 2019 in the semi-finals of the BDO World Championship.
Schedule Day 15
1. January
PDC World Championship - Day 14
Today all four quarterfinals took place and there were two upsets - the bigger one was caused by German Gabriel Clemens.
The German number 1 wrote even more history tonight - Clemens defeated the number 1 of the world Gerwyn Price with 5:1 and progressed as
first ever German into the semi-finals of the PDC World Championship. Clemens was the better player almost throughout, he had the higher average,
threw more maxima and was more clinical on the doubles. The second upset was caused by Belgian Dimitri van den Bergh who defeated Jonny Clayton with 5:3.
The match between Michael Smith and Stephen Bunting was hard fought - Bunting scored better but Smith had the better hitting rate on the doubles which decided
the match. No problems at all had Michael van Gerwen in the last quarterfinal as Chris Dobey showed a far less strong performance as against Rob Cross. Van Gerwen
won 5:0.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
Schedule Semifinals
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 14
Today in the afternoon- and the evening-session two quarterfinals each will be played.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite: Gerwyn Price v Gabriel Clemens. Impartial: Michael Smith v Stephen Bunting
Today's Day's Specials: Today for once the English players have the majority - with Michael Smith, Chris Dobey and
Stephen Bunting three will stand at the oche. But the two former World Champions still in the tournament come from the Netherlands and Wales...
What you should know as well: Michael van Gerwen switched 2007 to the PDC. His first appearance in the PDC World Championship
was in the World Championship 2008 where he lost first round to Phil Taylor. Anyway were van Gerwen's first years in the PDC far from successful. That changed after he
won 2012 the Grand Slam in Dublin. Then followed the years in which he displaced Phil Taylor as the dominant player of the PDC though so far he won the World Championship
only three times and never managed to defend his title.
Schedule Day 14, Results
Statisticsnew
Global Darts wishes everybody a Happy New Year!
An outstanding Michael Smith defeated in the final an as well strong playing Dimitri van den Bergh and got his first day win.
Before Smith defeated in the quarterfinals a far from convincing Gerwyn Price and prevailed in a close semi-final over Jonny Clayton.
Dimitri van den Bergh disappointed the Scottish crowd by defeating Peter Wright (who still is without a point) in the quarterfinals
and was too strong in the semi-finals for Nathan Aspinall.
Aspinall defeated in the quarterfinals Michael van Gerwen who played a strange match, Jonny Clayton defeated Chris Dobey - had a lot of double trouble - and got his first two points.
Results
Table
Bericht, Statisticsnew
Increase in Price Money
After an increase in price money for the für Challenge Tour, Development Tour and Women's Series now the price money of the European Tour and the UK Open were increased as well.Challenge Tour
Development Tour
Women Series
European Tour
UK Open
16. February
PDC Premier League
The third League Day of the Premier League will take place today in Glasgow.
Peter Wright hopes his Scottish fans will ignite him and he will finally get his first points - he will meet in the second quarterfinal Dimitri van den Bergh. Jonny Clayton as well hopes for his first win - he will play in the last quarterfinal against Chris Dobey. The night will be opened with the quarterfinal between Nathan Aspinall and reigning champion Michael van Gerwen. Beside last league day's winner, Gerwyn Price, will play in the quarterfinals against World Champion Michael Smith.
Schedule
Preview Third League Daynew
14. February
European Tour Tour Card Inhaber Qualifikationen
At yesterday's qualifiers for the European Tour Events 1 and 2 in Barnsley James Wade, Raymond van Barneveld,
Stephen Bunting, Daryl Gurney, William O'Connor, Ryan Joyce, Jermaine Wattimena, Bradley Brooks, Ryan Meikle and Ted Evetts
qualified for both events.
So now with the exception of the Nordic and Baltic Qualifiers all participants of the European Tour Events in Kiel and Leverkusen are known. The Nordic and Balic Qualifiers for the European Tour Events 1,2 and 3 will take place during the first Nordic and Baltic Pro Tour weekend next weekend in Denmark.
ET 1 Kiel, Participants, Schedule
ET 2 Leverkusen, Participants, Schedule
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated after the first two Players Championships.PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
12. February
Searle and Noppert win in Barnsley
Ryan Searle and Danny Noppert won the first two Players Championships of the year.
Searle won on Saturday Players Championship 1 - he defeated in the final Jamie Hughes with 8:4. In the semi-finals stood Jonny Clayton and Tour Card debutant Dylan Slevin.
On Sunday Danny Noppert won the second Players Championship with a 8:3 win over Simon Whitlock. The semi-finals reached Luke Humphries and Brendan Dolan.
Today in Barnsley the Tour Card Holders Qualifiers for the European Tour Events 1 and 2 will take place.
Participants, Results
ET 1 Kiel, Participants, Results
ET 2 Leverkusen, Participants, Results
Thornton defends Title
Robert Thornton managed to defend his World Seniors Darts Champion title with a 5:2 win over Richie Howson. With Thornton
once again won the most consistent player who had in almost every match an over 90 average. In the semifinals stood
the surprise player of the event American Leonard Gates and - as last time - Kevin Painter. As in the first staging of the event
a not really good playing Phil Taylor was already eliminated in the quarterfinals.
Participants, Results
11. Februar
PDC Pro Tour
Today in Barnsley this years PDC Pro Tour will begin with the first Players Championshipship of the year. Tomorrow Players Championship 2 will follow,
on Monday the Tour Card holders Qualifier for the first two European Tour Events in Kiel and Leverkusen will end the weekend.
Already since yesterday in Hildesheim the Host Nation and the Associate Members Qualifiers for the European Tour Events 1 - 5 take place. By the Host Nation Qualifiers Nico Kurz and Niko Springer qualified for ET 1 and Nico Kurz and Rene Eidams for ET 2. By the Associate Members Qualifiers Martijn Dragt and Jeroen Mioch qualified for ET 1 and Andy Boulton and John Henderson for ET 2.
Participants, Results
ET 1 Kiel, Participants, Schedule
ET 2 Leverkusen, Participants, Schedule
World Seniors Darts Championship
Yesterday in der Circus Tavern the first round of the event was played to the end and reigning champion Robert Thornton
showed at his 3:0 win over Roland Scholten the so far best performance of the tournament. As well with 3:0 wins Andy Jenkins, American
Leonard Gates and Mark Dudbridge progressed into round two. Als winners of hard fought matches
progressed Neil Duff and Keith Deller (both in overtime) as did John Part and Phil Taylor.
Today in an afternoon and an evening session the second round will be played.
Participants, Results, Schedule
10. February
Price wins in Cardiff
While Jonny Clayton disappointed his Welsh fans Gerwyn Price delighted them playing a great
Premier League night, won in the quarterfinals a close match against Chris Dobey before he prevailed in the semis even closer over Michael van Gerwen
who had the far higher average. In the final he met Nathan Aspinall - who couldn't quite keep up the performance of his two
prvious matches - and defeated him 3:6.
His first two points got Michael Smith with his win over Jonny Clayton. Clayton and Peter Wright are the only players
still without a point.
Results
Table
Report, Statisticsnew
World Seniors Darts Championship
On the first day of the World Seniors Darts Championship in the afternoon session four close matches were played which were won by
Terry Jenkins, Darryl Fitton, Ritchie Howson und Darren Johnson with 3:2. Terry Jenkins played the highest average of the day with 88.89
The matches of the evening session all four were a one sided affair, only Martin Adams lost one set to Dave Prins. The other three matches were won with
3:0 by Kevin Painter, Dennis Harbour (against Trina Gulliver) and Scott Mitchell.
Today the first round will be played to the end - again in an afternoon and an evening session.
Participants, Results, Schedule
9. February
PDC Premier League
On the second League Day the PDC travels to Cardiff.
In Wales Welshman Jonny Clayton and Gerwyn Price hope to get their first points. Jonny Clayton opens the quarterfinals
against World Champion Michael Smith. After that Nathan Aspinall meets Peter Wright, Gerwyn Price will play in the third quarterfinal
against the winner of the first night - Chris Dobey. In the last quarterfinal reigning champion Michael van Gerwen
will play against Dimitri van den Bergh.
Schedule
Preview Second League Daynew
8. February
World Seniors Darts Championship
Tomorrow in the Circus Tavern in London the second World Seniors Darts Championship will begin.
Beside reigning champion Robert Thornton a lot of illustrious players will stand at the oche - headed by Phil Taylor who finally hopes
to win a title on the seniors tour. Former World Champions Trina Gulliver, Lisa Ashton, Martin Adams, Keith Deller, Bob Anderson,
Scott Mitchell, Glen Durrant and John Part and the reigning WDF World Champion Neil Duff can be found in the field of participants.
Participants, Results, Schedule
30 Years PDC World Championship - 30 years Dutch participants? - Part 4
In the last article of the series "Dutchmen in the PDC World Championship" beside Raymond van Barneveld and
Michael van Gerwen to more not really well-known Dutch players who took part in the tournament are in the lime-light -
Erwin Extercatte and Rico Vonck who both by now have disappeared from the sport.
30 Years PDC World Championship - 30 years Dutch participants? - Part 4new
6. February
"Tend your darts"
Well "tended" darts can help to improve your game and so this blog by darts manufacturer Shot
deals with the right sharpening of the darts points and the right cleaning of the dart barrels.
Sharpen your game: how to clean and care for your darts
UK Open
Around a month away are this year's UK Open and till the 21. January Riley's Amateur Qualifiers take place
for the event. Nine players have qualified so far. Three of the qualifiers - JDC World Junior Champion Luke Littler, Jim Moston and
Harry Lane - for the first time qualified for the UK Open. The other six - American Danny Lauby, Dan Read, Stuart White, Daniel Lee,
Brett Claydon and James Richardson - all have already some UK Open experience. James Richardson joins his son Joshua who
already was qualified by the Development Tour Order of Merit.
UK Open
3. February
Dobey wins in Belfast
Premier League debutant Chris Dobey won the first League Night - he defeated in the final Michael van Gerwen with 6:5.
Before he prevailed in the quarterfinals against Peter Wright and in the semi-finals over Nathan Aspinall.
Michael van Gerwen defeated in the quarterfinals World Champion Michael Smith with 6:2 and in the semi-finals
Dimitri van den Bergh with 6:4. Without a point stayed on the first night beside Michael Smith and Peter Wright Gerwyn Price and
Jonny Clayton.
Results
Statisticsnew
2. February
PDC Premier League
Today the PDC travels for the first league night to Belfast.
In the limelight tonight will stand the the second quarterfinal between World Champion Michael Smith and reigning champion
Michael van Gerwen. The league night will be opened by the match between Dimitri van den Bergh and Jonny Clayton.
In the third quarterfinal Peter Wright will meet Masters Champion Chris Dobey, in the last quarterfinal Gerwyn Price
will play against Nathan Aspinall.
First League Night Schedule
Preview First League Nightnew
1. February
PDC Awards
This year again the PDC handed out several awards to the players.
Three awards collected World Champion Michael Smith - he is PDC Player of the Year, Fans Player of the Year and PDPA
Player of the Year. Best Pro Tour Player of the Year is Luke Humphries, best newcomer und Young Player of the Year
is Josh Rock. Ross Smith was awarded for the best TV Performance of the Year - for the final of the European
Darts Championship against Michael Smith.
Results...
Winners of Romanian Open were Romanian Laszlo Kadar and Beau Greaves. Gary Stone won the Romanian Classic, the women's title got as well Beau Greaves.
The Las Vegas Open were won by Chris Lim, son of Paul Lim, and Paula Murphy. Winners of the Youth Pacific Masters
were Australians Alan Hellmuth and Janiya Finlay.
Winners of the singles events of the renowned Dutch Open were Aileen de Graaf and Berry van Peer. The youth titles went to Sydnee Vries
, Ruben Baalmans (U14) and Sophie McKinlay from Scotland. In the pairs events the English women pair Beau Greaves/Deta Hedman
and the Dutch men pair Christian Kist/Michael Stoeten were successful. The Wheelchair Darter title secured
Belgian Vincent d'Hondt, the Standing Darters title won German Heiko Bohnhorst who won together with Ralf Huesmann the Paradart pairs event as well.
30. January
PDC Premier League
The PDC today announced the participants in this year's Premier League.
Beside the Top Four of the Order of Merit - Michael Smith, Peter Wright, Michael van Gerwen and Gerwyn Price - who already had ensured their participation
Jonny Clayton, Nathan Aspinall, Dimitri van den Bergh and Chris Dobey were nominated.
The fixtures of all matchdays were by now published as well.
Premier League 2023new
Dobey wins Masters
With Chris Dobey again an unseeded player wins the Masters - he defeated in a slightly weary final
Rob Cross with 11:7. While Cross couldn't keep up his previous performances
Dobey was consistent till the last dart.
Dobey defeated Dirk van Duijvenbode in the quarterfinals and World Champion Michael Smith in the semi-finals on Finals Day, Cross
prevailed on his way into the final over Michael van Gerwen in the quarterfinals and over
Peter Wright in the semis.
Results, Schedule Day 3
Report, Statistics Day 3new
29. January
PDC The Masters
In the second round of the event with the exception of Luke Humphries and Gerwyn Price all seeded players won their matches -
Humphries lost to Chris Dobey, Price to Dirk van Duijvenbode. In the afternoon-session
Rob Cross and Gary Anderson played the match of the day. Cross won 10:6 with an average of 112.32 while Anderson
played an average of 111.17. The other winners of the day were Michael Smith, Michael van Gerwen, Peter Wright, Jonny Clayton and Danny
Noppert.
Today the tournament in Milton Keynes will be played to the end. In the afternoon the quarterfinals will take place, tonight semi-finals and finals will be played.
Report, Statistics Day 2new
28. January
PDC The Masters
The first day of The Masters brought a big upset - Chris Dobey eliminated reigning champion Joe Cullen from the event.
Beside it brought wins for James Wade and Gary Anderson, Jose de Sousa defeated Gabriel Clemens, Ross Smith prevailed over the luckless
Damon Heta, Dirk van Duijvenbode was in the end to clinical on his doubles for Krzysztof Ratajski, Stephen Bunting prevented a
comeback of Nathan Aspinall and Dave Chisnall defeated with an 161 finish in the deciding leg Ryan Searle.
Today the tournament will continue with the second round. Yesterday's winners will play against the seeds.
Report, Statistics Day 1
Results, Schedule Second Round
26. January
PDC The Masters
Tomorrow in Milton Keynes The Masters - the first big PDC event since the World Championship - will begin.
The Top 24 of PDC Order of Merit will take part. The Top Eight are seeded and will enter the tournament
in the second round which will be played on Saturday. Tomorrow the unseeded players will play the first round
and the winners will progress into round 2.
Last year's winner Joe Cullen is one of the unseeded players and he will begin his campaign tomorrow against
Chris Dobey.
The PDC increased the price money this year.
Results, Schedule Day 1new
Preview
PDC Challenge Tour
After the first weekend of the PDC Challenge Tour Frenchman Thibault Tricole has the lead in the Challenge Tour
Ranking. Tricole won one of the five events of the weekend and beside once stood in the
quarterfinals.
The other four winners of the weekend - Andy Boulton, Cameron Crabtree, Christian Kist and Chris Landman -
follow on the places 2 - 5.
Challenge Tour
20. January
Nordic Darts Masters
On the first day of the Nordic Darts Masters today the first round matches will take place. Tomorrow the tournament
will be played to the end.
Luke Humphries will open the tournament against Finn Marko Kantele.
Participants, Schedule, Results, Statistics
Previewnew
European Tour
The dates Home Nation and Associate Members Qualifiers of the European Tour were added to the Tournament Calendar.
Tournament Calendar 2023
19. January
Dartoids World
Dartoid travels to Greece and hopes to meet John Michael. Unluckily that doesn't happen.
But Dartoid had the chance to eavesdrop on a discussion between a Greece and an Italian...
Girls, Geezers and Greece
18. January
Nordic Darts Masters
On Friday in Copenhagen the Nordic Darts Masters will begin - the second World Series of Darts Event of the year.
Again eight PDC representatives will stand of stage, this time instead Raymond van Barneveld Michael van Gerwen is in the mix.
They will play in the first around against the leading players of the Nordic and Baltic region.
Dimitri van den Bergh- the reigning champion - will play against Madars Razma. World Champion Michael Smith, who won in Bahrain
the first World Series Event of the year, was drawn against Darius Labanauskas.
Participants, Schedule
Jann Hoffmann passed away
Danish darts player Jann Hoffmann - one of the founders of the Nordic and Baltic Tour - passed away on Monday
following a lengthy illness.
Hoffmann played many years on the BDO/WDF Circuit and qualified several times for the BDO World Championship. He switched to the PDC and
played for seven years on the PDC Circuit. Twice he was nominated in those years for the PDC World Cup. For some time he as well took part
in events of the Nordic und Baltic Tour.
Hoffmann was aged 65. We send condolences to his family and friends.
In ocaasion of the start of the SDC Circuit Global Darts interviewd Hoffmann 2018. You can find the interview here:
Interview with Jann Hoffmann
PDC Nordic and Baltic Tour
The dates of the Nordic und Baltic Tour 2023 were added to the Tournament Calendar.
Due to new rules of those PDC players who own a PDC Tour Card longer then two consecutive years are no longer eligible to participate
on a Global Affiliate Tour of its relevant qualifiers for PDC Events. In this case it concerns
Madars Razma and Darius Labanauskas.
Tournament Calendar 2023
Nordic und Baltic Tour
16. January
PDC Qualifying School
On the last day of the final Phase Robbie Knops and Adam Smith-Neale got the day win and by this the direct Tour Cards of the day.
In Kalkar additional ten Tour Cards were assigned by the ranking. They went to Maik Kuivenhoven, Richard Veenstra, Niels Zonneveld, Pascal Rupprecht,
Ronny Huybrechts, Karel Sedlacek, Jacques Labre, Daniel Klose, Gian van Veen and Owen Roloefs. In Milton Keynes nine additional Tour Cards were assigned
by the ranking to Dylan Slevin, Lee Evans, Stephen Burton, Nick Kenny, Keegan Brown, Adam Warner,
Graham Hall, Callum Goffin and Christian Perez. For the first time ever a Frenchman and a Filipino
will join the Pro Circuit.
EU and UK Qualifying School, Report Day 4new
Qualifying School 2023, Results
Ranking UK Qualifying Schoolnew
Ranking European Qualifying Schoolnew
15. January
PDC Qualifying School
On the Third day of the final Phase Josh Payne and Jeffrey de Zwaan got the win and by this the direct Tour Card.
Jeffrey de Zwaan defeated in the final in Kalkar fellow countryman Maik Kuivenhoven who is already assured a Tour Card by the ranking.
Josh Payne won in Milton Keynes against Chris Quantock.
The Qualifying School will continue today in both venues with the fourth and last event.
EU and UK Qualifying School, Report Day 3, Ranking after Day 3new
Qualifying School 2023, Results
14. January
PDC Qualifying School
On the second day of the final Phase Corey Cadby and Graham Usher got the win and by this the direct Tour Card.
Corey Cadby defeated in the final in Kalkar Karel Sedlacek, Graham Usher won in Milton Keynes against Adam Warner.
The Qualifying School will continue today in both venues with the third event.
EU and UK Qualifying School, Report Day 2, Ranking after Day 2new
Qualifying School 2023, Results
Smith wins in Bahrain
Michael Smith won the first ever Bahrain Darts Masters with a 8:6 win against Gerwyn Price. Smith already
had been 7:3 in the lead but then couldn't find his doubles and Price closed in on 6:7. But Smith
recovered and won his third TV title in three months.
In the semi-finals stood Raymond van Barneveld and Rob Cross.
Participants, Schedule, Results, Statistics
Report Day 2new
13.January
PDC Qualifying School
On the first day of the final Phase Arron Monk and Jeffrey Sparidaans got the win and by this the direct Tour Card.
Arron Monk defeated in the final in Milton Keynes Dom Taylor, Jeffrey Sparidaans won in Kalkar against Ronny Huybrechts.
The Qualifying School will continue today in both venues with the second event.
EU and UK Qualifying School, Report Day 1, Ranking after Day 1new
Bahrain Darts Masters - Day 1
In the first round of the tournament all eight PDC representatives prevailed though for some of them it was
not an easy win.
The best performance of the first round showed Jonny Clayton who impressed in his 6:0 defeat of Basem Mahmood
with an 103.66 average.
Today the tournament in Bahrain will be played to the end Bahrain.
Participants, Schedule, Results, Statistics
Report Day 1new
12. January
PDC Qualifying School
The first Phase of Qualifying School is over and the participants of the final Phase - which will start today - are known.
In the UK Qualifying School Fallon Sherrock is the only female player who qualified for the final Phase - she was yesterday one of the day winners.
As well among the day winners who progressed were former World Youth Champion Aaron Monk and Christian Perez from the Philippines.
In the EU Qualifiyng School two German players - Nico Kurz and Daniel Zygla - were among the day winners which included among others
another former PDC Youth World Champion - Australian Corey Cadby - and WDF World Championship semi-finalist Richard Veenstra.
EU Qualifying School, Participants final Phase, Resultsnew
UK Qualifying School, Participants final Phase, Resultsnew
11.January
Bahrain Darts Masters
Tomorrow the first ever Bahrain Darts Masters will begin with the first round. On Friday Quarterfinals, Semi-Finals
and the tournament Final will follow.
World Champion Michael Smith, Luke Humphries, Dimitri van den Bergh, Peter Wright, Gerwyn Price, Rob Cross, Raymond
van Barneveld and Jonny Clayton will stand as PDC representatives at the oche who will play against eight
qualifiers from Bahrain and Asia. Among them will be Paul Lim who was drawn against Gerwyn Price.
Participants, Schedule, Results and Statistics First Roundnew
9. January
PDC Qualifying Schools
Today in Kalkar and in Milton Keynes the European and the UK Qualifiying School began. Till including Wednesday
the first phase of the tournament will be played. Each day eight players will qualify directly for the final Phase which will take
place from 12. - 15 January. For the participants in the finale Phase 27 Tour Card are on offer - eight for the day winners
and the other 19 by the Q School Orders of Merit.
Qualifying School 2023, Results
4. January
World Series of Darts
The World Series of Darts will begin on 12. and 13. January with the Bahrain Darts Masters which are played for the first time this year.
The PDC now announced the participants of the Bahrain Darts Masters and of the second World Series event - the Nordic Darts Masters which will
take place from 20. - 21. January in Copenhagen.
World Series of Darts
PDC Ranking
The PDC Order of Merit was updated after the World Championship.
PDC Rankings
Smith wins PDC World Championship
In a terrific final Michael Smith defeated Michael van Gerwen with 7:4 and won his first World Champion title. By this
he moved up to the first place in the PDC Order of Merit as well.
The players shared the first six sets of the match.
In the incredible third leg of the second set both players had the chance for a nine-darter. While van Gerwen missed the
double 12 for his perfect leg, Smith hit it. It was only the second nine-darter so far in a World Championship Final.
At 3:3 in sets Smith started to pull clear - he won three sets in a row and led 6:3. Then he slightly dropped off
and van Gerwen won his fourth leg. In the last set the Dutchman first was on the inside track but he missed the
busllseye for his 132 finish to win the set. Smith managed to turn the set around and won match and title with an 11-darter.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
3. January
PDC World Championship - Semi-Finals
On the penultimate day of the PDC World Championship the two semi-finals were played. Both matches had a distinct result.
Michael Smith won 6:2 against Gabriel Clemens, Michael van Gerwen defeated Dimitri van den Bergh with 6:0. While Michael van Gerwen
in the second semi-final was the clearly better player and van den Bergh only won four legs the first semifinal between Smith and Clemens was a quite hard-fought affair
and six of the eight sets were decided in the fifth Leg. Nevertheless Smith came across as the stronger player thoughout the match.
Today in the final Michael Smith and Michael van Gerwen will meet.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
2. January
30 Years PDC World Championship - 30 years Dutch participants? - 3
2004 beside Roland Scholten Jan van der Rassel for the first time qualified for the PDC World Championship. Van der
Rassel took as well part in 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010 in the PDC World Championship before he disappeared from the scene
due to the lack of sponsors. 2005 and 2007 Josephus Schenk joined Roland Scholten for the PDC World Championship but he gave up his career as well -
might be due to the same reason as van der Rassel - for the lack of sponsors.
30 Years PDC World Championship - 30 years Dutch participants? - 3new
Tournament Calendar 2023
The new Tournament Calendar 2023 is now online. Some more dates were added - among the the dates for the
WDF World Championship 2023 which will take place from 2. - 10 December.
Tournament Calendar 2023new
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 15
Tonight in the evening session both semi-finals will be played. First Gabriel Clemens will play against Michael Smith. After that Dimitri van den Bergh
will meet Michael van Gerwen.
Semifinals Specials: In the semi-finals stand four players from four different countries - for the fourth time in the history of the event. But it is only for the second
time that all four are the number 1 of their country. That only happened once before in 2010, in that year with Phil Taylor the English number 1,
with Raymond van Barneveld the Dutch number 1,with Mark Webster the Welsh number 1 and with Simon Whitlock the Australian number 1 stood at the oche.
Winner 2010 was the English number 1 Phil Taylor.
What you should know as well: Not only Gabriel Clemens wrote history by progressing into the semi-finals, it is as well the first time ever a Belgian
player reached the semi-finals of the event - Dimitri van den Bergh. Van den Bergh's so far best placings had been the quarterfinals 2018 where
he lost to the eventual winner Rob Cross and the quarterfinals 2020 where he lost to Nathan Aspinall.
But Clemens is not the first German who reached the semi-finals of a World Championship.
That was Michael Unterbuchner, who stood both 2018 and 2019 in the semi-finals of the BDO World Championship.
Schedule Day 15
1. January
PDC World Championship - Day 14
Today all four quarterfinals took place and there were two upsets - the bigger one was caused by German Gabriel Clemens.
The German number 1 wrote even more history tonight - Clemens defeated the number 1 of the world Gerwyn Price with 5:1 and progressed as
first ever German into the semi-finals of the PDC World Championship. Clemens was the better player almost throughout, he had the higher average,
threw more maxima and was more clinical on the doubles. The second upset was caused by Belgian Dimitri van den Bergh who defeated Jonny Clayton with 5:3.
The match between Michael Smith and Stephen Bunting was hard fought - Bunting scored better but Smith had the better hitting rate on the doubles which decided
the match. No problems at all had Michael van Gerwen in the last quarterfinal as Chris Dobey showed a far less strong performance as against Rob Cross. Van Gerwen
won 5:0.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
Schedule Semifinals
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 14
Today in the afternoon- and the evening-session two quarterfinals each will be played.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite: Gerwyn Price v Gabriel Clemens. Impartial: Michael Smith v Stephen Bunting
Today's Day's Specials: Today for once the English players have the majority - with Michael Smith, Chris Dobey and
Stephen Bunting three will stand at the oche. But the two former World Champions still in the tournament come from the Netherlands and Wales...
What you should know as well: Michael van Gerwen switched 2007 to the PDC. His first appearance in the PDC World Championship
was in the World Championship 2008 where he lost first round to Phil Taylor. Anyway were van Gerwen's first years in the PDC far from successful. That changed after he
won 2012 the Grand Slam in Dublin. Then followed the years in which he displaced Phil Taylor as the dominant player of the PDC though so far he won the World Championship
only three times and never managed to defend his title.
Schedule Day 14, Results
Statisticsnew
Global Darts wishes everybody a Happy New Year!
Premier League debutant Chris Dobey won the first League Night - he defeated in the final Michael van Gerwen with 6:5.
Before he prevailed in the quarterfinals against Peter Wright and in the semi-finals over Nathan Aspinall.
Michael van Gerwen defeated in the quarterfinals World Champion Michael Smith with 6:2 and in the semi-finals
Dimitri van den Bergh with 6:4. Without a point stayed on the first night beside Michael Smith and Peter Wright Gerwyn Price and
Jonny Clayton.
Results
Statisticsnew
2. February
PDC Premier League
Today the PDC travels for the first league night to Belfast.
In the limelight tonight will stand the the second quarterfinal between World Champion Michael Smith and reigning champion Michael van Gerwen. The league night will be opened by the match between Dimitri van den Bergh and Jonny Clayton. In the third quarterfinal Peter Wright will meet Masters Champion Chris Dobey, in the last quarterfinal Gerwyn Price will play against Nathan Aspinall.
First League Night Schedule
Preview First League Nightnew
1. February
PDC Awards
This year again the PDC handed out several awards to the players.
Three awards collected World Champion Michael Smith - he is PDC Player of the Year, Fans Player of the Year and PDPA Player of the Year. Best Pro Tour Player of the Year is Luke Humphries, best newcomer und Young Player of the Year is Josh Rock. Ross Smith was awarded for the best TV Performance of the Year - for the final of the European Darts Championship against Michael Smith.
Results...
Winners of Romanian Open were Romanian Laszlo Kadar and Beau Greaves. Gary Stone won the Romanian Classic, the women's title got as well Beau Greaves.
The Las Vegas Open were won by Chris Lim, son of Paul Lim, and Paula Murphy. Winners of the Youth Pacific Masters
were Australians Alan Hellmuth and Janiya Finlay.
Winners of the singles events of the renowned Dutch Open were Aileen de Graaf and Berry van Peer. The youth titles went to Sydnee Vries , Ruben Baalmans (U14) and Sophie McKinlay from Scotland. In the pairs events the English women pair Beau Greaves/Deta Hedman and the Dutch men pair Christian Kist/Michael Stoeten were successful. The Wheelchair Darter title secured Belgian Vincent d'Hondt, the Standing Darters title won German Heiko Bohnhorst who won together with Ralf Huesmann the Paradart pairs event as well.
30. January
PDC Premier League
The PDC today announced the participants in this year's Premier League.
Beside the Top Four of the Order of Merit - Michael Smith, Peter Wright, Michael van Gerwen and Gerwyn Price - who already had ensured their participation Jonny Clayton, Nathan Aspinall, Dimitri van den Bergh and Chris Dobey were nominated.
The fixtures of all matchdays were by now published as well.
Premier League 2023new
Dobey wins Masters
With Chris Dobey again an unseeded player wins the Masters - he defeated in a slightly weary final
Rob Cross with 11:7. While Cross couldn't keep up his previous performances
Dobey was consistent till the last dart.
Dobey defeated Dirk van Duijvenbode in the quarterfinals and World Champion Michael Smith in the semi-finals on Finals Day, Cross prevailed on his way into the final over Michael van Gerwen in the quarterfinals and over Peter Wright in the semis.
Results, Schedule Day 3
Report, Statistics Day 3new
29. January
PDC The Masters
In the second round of the event with the exception of Luke Humphries and Gerwyn Price all seeded players won their matches -
Humphries lost to Chris Dobey, Price to Dirk van Duijvenbode. In the afternoon-session
Rob Cross and Gary Anderson played the match of the day. Cross won 10:6 with an average of 112.32 while Anderson
played an average of 111.17. The other winners of the day were Michael Smith, Michael van Gerwen, Peter Wright, Jonny Clayton and Danny
Noppert.
Today the tournament in Milton Keynes will be played to the end. In the afternoon the quarterfinals will take place, tonight semi-finals and finals will be played.
Report, Statistics Day 2new
28. January
PDC The Masters
The first day of The Masters brought a big upset - Chris Dobey eliminated reigning champion Joe Cullen from the event.
Beside it brought wins for James Wade and Gary Anderson, Jose de Sousa defeated Gabriel Clemens, Ross Smith prevailed over the luckless
Damon Heta, Dirk van Duijvenbode was in the end to clinical on his doubles for Krzysztof Ratajski, Stephen Bunting prevented a
comeback of Nathan Aspinall and Dave Chisnall defeated with an 161 finish in the deciding leg Ryan Searle.
Today the tournament will continue with the second round. Yesterday's winners will play against the seeds.
Report, Statistics Day 1
Results, Schedule Second Round
26. January
PDC The Masters
Tomorrow in Milton Keynes The Masters - the first big PDC event since the World Championship - will begin.
The Top 24 of PDC Order of Merit will take part. The Top Eight are seeded and will enter the tournament
in the second round which will be played on Saturday. Tomorrow the unseeded players will play the first round
and the winners will progress into round 2.
Last year's winner Joe Cullen is one of the unseeded players and he will begin his campaign tomorrow against Chris Dobey.
The PDC increased the price money this year.
Results, Schedule Day 1new
Preview
PDC Challenge Tour
After the first weekend of the PDC Challenge Tour Frenchman Thibault Tricole has the lead in the Challenge Tour
Ranking. Tricole won one of the five events of the weekend and beside once stood in the
quarterfinals.
The other four winners of the weekend - Andy Boulton, Cameron Crabtree, Christian Kist and Chris Landman - follow on the places 2 - 5.
Challenge Tour
20. January
Nordic Darts Masters
On the first day of the Nordic Darts Masters today the first round matches will take place. Tomorrow the tournament
will be played to the end.
Luke Humphries will open the tournament against Finn Marko Kantele.
Participants, Schedule, Results, Statistics
Previewnew
European Tour
The dates Home Nation and Associate Members Qualifiers of the European Tour were added to the Tournament Calendar.Tournament Calendar 2023
19. January
Dartoids World
Dartoid travels to Greece and hopes to meet John Michael. Unluckily that doesn't happen.
But Dartoid had the chance to eavesdrop on a discussion between a Greece and an Italian...
Girls, Geezers and Greece
18. January
Nordic Darts Masters
On Friday in Copenhagen the Nordic Darts Masters will begin - the second World Series of Darts Event of the year.
Again eight PDC representatives will stand of stage, this time instead Raymond van Barneveld Michael van Gerwen is in the mix. They will play in the first around against the leading players of the Nordic and Baltic region.
Dimitri van den Bergh- the reigning champion - will play against Madars Razma. World Champion Michael Smith, who won in Bahrain the first World Series Event of the year, was drawn against Darius Labanauskas.
Participants, Schedule
Jann Hoffmann passed away
Danish darts player Jann Hoffmann - one of the founders of the Nordic and Baltic Tour - passed away on Monday
following a lengthy illness.
Hoffmann played many years on the BDO/WDF Circuit and qualified several times for the BDO World Championship. He switched to the PDC and played for seven years on the PDC Circuit. Twice he was nominated in those years for the PDC World Cup. For some time he as well took part in events of the Nordic und Baltic Tour.
Hoffmann was aged 65. We send condolences to his family and friends.
In ocaasion of the start of the SDC Circuit Global Darts interviewd Hoffmann 2018. You can find the interview here:
Interview with Jann Hoffmann
PDC Nordic and Baltic Tour
The dates of the Nordic und Baltic Tour 2023 were added to the Tournament Calendar.
Due to new rules of those PDC players who own a PDC Tour Card longer then two consecutive years are no longer eligible to participate
on a Global Affiliate Tour of its relevant qualifiers for PDC Events. In this case it concerns
Madars Razma and Darius Labanauskas.
Tournament Calendar 2023
Nordic und Baltic Tour
16. January
PDC Qualifying School
On the last day of the final Phase Robbie Knops and Adam Smith-Neale got the day win and by this the direct Tour Cards of the day.
In Kalkar additional ten Tour Cards were assigned by the ranking. They went to Maik Kuivenhoven, Richard Veenstra, Niels Zonneveld, Pascal Rupprecht,
Ronny Huybrechts, Karel Sedlacek, Jacques Labre, Daniel Klose, Gian van Veen and Owen Roloefs. In Milton Keynes nine additional Tour Cards were assigned
by the ranking to Dylan Slevin, Lee Evans, Stephen Burton, Nick Kenny, Keegan Brown, Adam Warner,
Graham Hall, Callum Goffin and Christian Perez. For the first time ever a Frenchman and a Filipino
will join the Pro Circuit.
EU and UK Qualifying School, Report Day 4new
Qualifying School 2023, Results
Ranking UK Qualifying Schoolnew
Ranking European Qualifying Schoolnew
15. January
PDC Qualifying School
On the Third day of the final Phase Josh Payne and Jeffrey de Zwaan got the win and by this the direct Tour Card.
Jeffrey de Zwaan defeated in the final in Kalkar fellow countryman Maik Kuivenhoven who is already assured a Tour Card by the ranking.
Josh Payne won in Milton Keynes against Chris Quantock.
The Qualifying School will continue today in both venues with the fourth and last event.
EU and UK Qualifying School, Report Day 3, Ranking after Day 3new
Qualifying School 2023, Results
14. January
PDC Qualifying School
On the second day of the final Phase Corey Cadby and Graham Usher got the win and by this the direct Tour Card.
Corey Cadby defeated in the final in Kalkar Karel Sedlacek, Graham Usher won in Milton Keynes against Adam Warner.
The Qualifying School will continue today in both venues with the third event.
EU and UK Qualifying School, Report Day 2, Ranking after Day 2new
Qualifying School 2023, Results
Smith wins in Bahrain
Michael Smith won the first ever Bahrain Darts Masters with a 8:6 win against Gerwyn Price. Smith already
had been 7:3 in the lead but then couldn't find his doubles and Price closed in on 6:7. But Smith
recovered and won his third TV title in three months.
In the semi-finals stood Raymond van Barneveld and Rob Cross.
Participants, Schedule, Results, Statistics
Report Day 2new
13.January
PDC Qualifying School
On the first day of the final Phase Arron Monk and Jeffrey Sparidaans got the win and by this the direct Tour Card.
Arron Monk defeated in the final in Milton Keynes Dom Taylor, Jeffrey Sparidaans won in Kalkar against Ronny Huybrechts.
The Qualifying School will continue today in both venues with the second event.
EU and UK Qualifying School, Report Day 1, Ranking after Day 1new
Bahrain Darts Masters - Day 1
In the first round of the tournament all eight PDC representatives prevailed though for some of them it was
not an easy win.
The best performance of the first round showed Jonny Clayton who impressed in his 6:0 defeat of Basem Mahmood
with an 103.66 average.
Today the tournament in Bahrain will be played to the end Bahrain.
Participants, Schedule, Results, Statistics
Report Day 1new
12. January
PDC Qualifying School
The first Phase of Qualifying School is over and the participants of the final Phase - which will start today - are known.
In the UK Qualifying School Fallon Sherrock is the only female player who qualified for the final Phase - she was yesterday one of the day winners.
As well among the day winners who progressed were former World Youth Champion Aaron Monk and Christian Perez from the Philippines.
In the EU Qualifiyng School two German players - Nico Kurz and Daniel Zygla - were among the day winners which included among others
another former PDC Youth World Champion - Australian Corey Cadby - and WDF World Championship semi-finalist Richard Veenstra.
EU Qualifying School, Participants final Phase, Resultsnew
UK Qualifying School, Participants final Phase, Resultsnew
11.January
Bahrain Darts Masters
Tomorrow the first ever Bahrain Darts Masters will begin with the first round. On Friday Quarterfinals, Semi-Finals
and the tournament Final will follow.
World Champion Michael Smith, Luke Humphries, Dimitri van den Bergh, Peter Wright, Gerwyn Price, Rob Cross, Raymond
van Barneveld and Jonny Clayton will stand as PDC representatives at the oche who will play against eight
qualifiers from Bahrain and Asia. Among them will be Paul Lim who was drawn against Gerwyn Price.
Participants, Schedule, Results and Statistics First Roundnew
9. January
PDC Qualifying Schools
Today in Kalkar and in Milton Keynes the European and the UK Qualifiying School began. Till including Wednesday
the first phase of the tournament will be played. Each day eight players will qualify directly for the final Phase which will take
place from 12. - 15 January. For the participants in the finale Phase 27 Tour Card are on offer - eight for the day winners
and the other 19 by the Q School Orders of Merit.
Qualifying School 2023, Results
4. January
World Series of Darts
The World Series of Darts will begin on 12. and 13. January with the Bahrain Darts Masters which are played for the first time this year.
The PDC now announced the participants of the Bahrain Darts Masters and of the second World Series event - the Nordic Darts Masters which will
take place from 20. - 21. January in Copenhagen.
World Series of Darts
PDC Ranking
The PDC Order of Merit was updated after the World Championship.
PDC Rankings
Smith wins PDC World Championship
In a terrific final Michael Smith defeated Michael van Gerwen with 7:4 and won his first World Champion title. By this
he moved up to the first place in the PDC Order of Merit as well.
The players shared the first six sets of the match.
In the incredible third leg of the second set both players had the chance for a nine-darter. While van Gerwen missed the
double 12 for his perfect leg, Smith hit it. It was only the second nine-darter so far in a World Championship Final.
At 3:3 in sets Smith started to pull clear - he won three sets in a row and led 6:3. Then he slightly dropped off
and van Gerwen won his fourth leg. In the last set the Dutchman first was on the inside track but he missed the
busllseye for his 132 finish to win the set. Smith managed to turn the set around and won match and title with an 11-darter.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
3. January
PDC World Championship - Semi-Finals
On the penultimate day of the PDC World Championship the two semi-finals were played. Both matches had a distinct result.
Michael Smith won 6:2 against Gabriel Clemens, Michael van Gerwen defeated Dimitri van den Bergh with 6:0. While Michael van Gerwen
in the second semi-final was the clearly better player and van den Bergh only won four legs the first semifinal between Smith and Clemens was a quite hard-fought affair
and six of the eight sets were decided in the fifth Leg. Nevertheless Smith came across as the stronger player thoughout the match.
Today in the final Michael Smith and Michael van Gerwen will meet.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
2. January
30 Years PDC World Championship - 30 years Dutch participants? - 3
2004 beside Roland Scholten Jan van der Rassel for the first time qualified for the PDC World Championship. Van der
Rassel took as well part in 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010 in the PDC World Championship before he disappeared from the scene
due to the lack of sponsors. 2005 and 2007 Josephus Schenk joined Roland Scholten for the PDC World Championship but he gave up his career as well -
might be due to the same reason as van der Rassel - for the lack of sponsors.
30 Years PDC World Championship - 30 years Dutch participants? - 3new
Tournament Calendar 2023
The new Tournament Calendar 2023 is now online. Some more dates were added - among the the dates for the
WDF World Championship 2023 which will take place from 2. - 10 December.
Tournament Calendar 2023new
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 15
Tonight in the evening session both semi-finals will be played. First Gabriel Clemens will play against Michael Smith. After that Dimitri van den Bergh
will meet Michael van Gerwen.
Semifinals Specials: In the semi-finals stand four players from four different countries - for the fourth time in the history of the event. But it is only for the second
time that all four are the number 1 of their country. That only happened once before in 2010, in that year with Phil Taylor the English number 1,
with Raymond van Barneveld the Dutch number 1,with Mark Webster the Welsh number 1 and with Simon Whitlock the Australian number 1 stood at the oche.
Winner 2010 was the English number 1 Phil Taylor.
What you should know as well: Not only Gabriel Clemens wrote history by progressing into the semi-finals, it is as well the first time ever a Belgian
player reached the semi-finals of the event - Dimitri van den Bergh. Van den Bergh's so far best placings had been the quarterfinals 2018 where
he lost to the eventual winner Rob Cross and the quarterfinals 2020 where he lost to Nathan Aspinall.
But Clemens is not the first German who reached the semi-finals of a World Championship.
That was Michael Unterbuchner, who stood both 2018 and 2019 in the semi-finals of the BDO World Championship.
Schedule Day 15
1. January
PDC World Championship - Day 14
Today all four quarterfinals took place and there were two upsets - the bigger one was caused by German Gabriel Clemens.
The German number 1 wrote even more history tonight - Clemens defeated the number 1 of the world Gerwyn Price with 5:1 and progressed as
first ever German into the semi-finals of the PDC World Championship. Clemens was the better player almost throughout, he had the higher average,
threw more maxima and was more clinical on the doubles. The second upset was caused by Belgian Dimitri van den Bergh who defeated Jonny Clayton with 5:3.
The match between Michael Smith and Stephen Bunting was hard fought - Bunting scored better but Smith had the better hitting rate on the doubles which decided
the match. No problems at all had Michael van Gerwen in the last quarterfinal as Chris Dobey showed a far less strong performance as against Rob Cross. Van Gerwen
won 5:0.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
Schedule Semifinals
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 14
Today in the afternoon- and the evening-session two quarterfinals each will be played.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite: Gerwyn Price v Gabriel Clemens. Impartial: Michael Smith v Stephen Bunting
Today's Day's Specials: Today for once the English players have the majority - with Michael Smith, Chris Dobey and
Stephen Bunting three will stand at the oche. But the two former World Champions still in the tournament come from the Netherlands and Wales...
What you should know as well: Michael van Gerwen switched 2007 to the PDC. His first appearance in the PDC World Championship
was in the World Championship 2008 where he lost first round to Phil Taylor. Anyway were van Gerwen's first years in the PDC far from successful. That changed after he
won 2012 the Grand Slam in Dublin. Then followed the years in which he displaced Phil Taylor as the dominant player of the PDC though so far he won the World Championship
only three times and never managed to defend his title.
Schedule Day 14, Results
Statisticsnew
Global Darts wishes everybody a Happy New Year!
