Premier League
The Premier League will be played from 2. February till 25. May every Thursday. Participants, Schedule Tournament Information

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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!

30. December

PDC World Championship - Day 13

Yesterday the fourth round of the tournament was played to the end. Today is the usual New Year's Eve break before on New Year's Day the quarterfinals will be played.
The last six matches of the fourth round were all quite one-sided, but there were a few surprise winners. The afternoon-session started with a clear 4:0 win from Dimitri van den Bergh over Kim Huybrechts. In the second match German Gabriel Clemens wrote history: he progressed as the first ever German player in the quarterfinals of a PDC World Championship. Clemens dominated the match and defeated the last unseeded player still in the tournament - Alan Soutar - with 4:1. With the same result ended the last match of the afternoon-session: Joe Cullen had no chance at all against Michael Smith. Not much better then Joe Cullen fared in the first match of the evening -session surprisingly Rob Cross who lost 2:4 to Chris Dobey. Without a chance was as well Dirk van Duijvenbode against Michael van Gerwen who won as well 4:1. Another surprise had the last fourth round match in store - Stephen Bunting won 4:1 against Luke Humphries.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
Schedule Quarterfinals



29. December

PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 13

Today in both the afternoon- and the evening-session three matches of the fourth round will be played.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite: Gabriel Clemens v Alan Soutar. Impartial: Michael van Gerwen v Dirk van Duijvenbode
Today's Day's Specials: It is only the second time that at the PDC World Championship two Belgian players meet. 2014 Kim Huybrechts was drawn first round against his brother Ronny Huybrechts, Kim won with 3:1.
What you should know as well: Gabriel Clemens already stands for the second time in the fourth round and he ist still so far the only German player who managed it. In this year with Gabriel Clemens and Martin Schindler for the first time two German players qualified by the Order of Merit for the World Championship.
Schedule Day 13
Statisticsnew

PDC World Championship - Day 12

On the twelfth day of the tournament first the last four third round matches were played and Dirk van Duijvenbode, Rob Cross, Stephen Bunting and Luke Humphries prevailed. Dirk van Duijvenbode won as last year the hard fought match against Ross Smith while a strong playing Bunting won against an almost as outstanding Dave Chisnall. After that the first two fourth round matches took place. Gerwyn Price had no problems against Jose de Sousa, but the match between Jonny Clayton and Josh Rock was a real battle. In the end Clayton won who impressed with his clinical finishing.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew



29. December

PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 12

At the PDC World Championship the third round will be played to the end and the fourth round will begin. In the afternoon-session three third round and in the evening-session one third round and two fourth round matches will take place.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite: Jonny Clayton v Josh Rock. Impartial: Dirk van Duijvenbode v Ross Smith
Today's Day's Specials: Dave Chisnall due to a positive Covid 19 test was eliminated from last year's World Championship but a few weeks later reached the final of The Masters
What you should know as well: Today with Mervyn King the oldest participant in this year's World Championship stands at the oche. For King - born 1966 - who started his career in the BDO it is already the 27. World Championship in a row. He reached the final of the BDO World Championship twice. His best PDC World Championship result so far was the semi-final 2009
Schedule Day 12, Ergebnisse
Statistiknew

PDC World Championship - Tag 11

On the eleventh day of the tournament the third round continued with some upsets and a lot of drama. In the afternoon-session both Jose de Sousa and unseeded Alan Soutar reached the fourth round with strong comebacks. De Sousa's comeback only started after Searle missed one matchdart for a 4:1 win. After that Chris Dobey eliminated Gary Anderson with a clear 4:1 win from the tournament. In the evening-session Joe Cullen and Michael van Gerwen dominated their matches - despite Suljovic' strong performance against von Gerwen. With the last match a real thriller between Martin Schindler and Michael Smith followed. Smith as well had to come back from 1:3 to win the match 4:3.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew



28. December

PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 11

At the PDC World Championship the third round continues, again an afternoon- and an evening -session with three matches each will be played.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite: Ryan Searle v Jose de Sousa. Impartial: Michael Smith v Martin Schindler
Today's Day's Specials: With Alan Soutar another non seeded player stands at the oche today. Soutar got his Tour Card in 2021 and moved up the rankings from then. Today he is ranked 36 in the PDC Order of Merit. He qualified last year for the PDC World Championship as well and lost in the last 16 at his debut.
What you should know as well: Gary Anderson not only supported Michael Smith at the begin of his career but Chris Dobey too. They met at the PDC World Championship 2019 as well , that year under the Last 16. Anderson defeated Dobey 4:3.
Schedule Day 11

PDC World Championship - Day 10

After the end of the Christmas break yesterday the third round started with several upsets and surprising results. The biggest upset to be sure was that reigning champion Peter Wright was eliminated by Kim Huybrechts. Nathan Aspinall was eliminated by Josh Rock who continued his astonishing debut. Raymond van Barneveld was far less impressive as he had been in the Grand Slam where he won twice against Gerwyn Price. This time Price got a very clear 4:0 win against the Dutchman. German Gabriel Clemens defeated in the dramatic match of the day Jim Williams. No problems at all had Dimitri van den Bergh against Krzysztof Ratajski and Jonny Clayton against Brendan Dolan.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew



27. December

PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 10

The Christmas break is over and the tournament continues with the third round which is played today in an afternoon- and an evening-session.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite: Nathan Aspinall v Josh Rock. Impartial: Gerwyn Price v Raymond van Barneveld
Today's Day's Specials: Nathan Aspinall is the only English player today on stage. Beside him we will see today three Welshmen, two Belgians, two Irishmen, a Scotsman - reigning champion Peter Wright, a German, a Dutchman and a Pole.
What you should know as well: This year only three unseeded players reached the third round: Josh Rock, Jim Williams and Alan Soutar. With Josh Rock and Jim Williams two will stand at the oche today.
Schedule Day 10, Results
Statisticsnew



23. December

PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 9

The last day before the Christmas break and the last day of the second round which is played to the end in an afternoon- and an evening-session.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite: Martin Schindler v Martin Lukeman. Impartial: Rob Cross v Scott Williams
Today's Day's Specials: For Brendan Dolan it is already the 15. PDC World Championship. His best results so far were the quarterfinals in 2019.
What you should know as well: Today seven players will stand at the oche who took at some time of their career part in BDO/WDF World Championships: Darius Labanauskas, Ross Smith, Martijn Kleermaker, David Cameron, Danny Noppert, Scott Williams and Jimmy Hendriks. Noppert even reached the final of the BDO World Championship 2017.
Schedule Day 9, Results
Statisticsnew

PDC World Championship - Day 8

The eighth day of the World Championship was a difficult day for some of the seeded players. One of them - James Wade - even was eliminated from the tournament. Dirk van Duijvenbode, Gary Anderson and Luke Humphries had to give all for their wins. Quite comfortable wins got Ryan Searle, Mensur Suljovic, Krzysztof Ratajski and Vincent van der Voort.
Results
Statisticsnew



22. December

30 Years PDC World Championship - 30 years Dutch participants? - 2

Roland Scholten was the first Dutchman to become a PDC Top player and he stayed it for several years. He took part in six BDO and in twelve PDC World Chanpionships before a neck and shoulder injury ended his career. During his years in the PDC several other Dutch players qualified for the PDC World Championship but none of those stayed in the PDC. 2003 it was the today forgotten Arjan Moen.
30 Years PDC World Championship - 30 years Dutch participants? - 2new

PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 8

The first round is over and so on the eighth day of the PDC World Championship both in the afternoon and in the evening session four second round matches will be played. When you feel the first round this year was not as good as in the years before you are not wrong. This year's overall average was 87.07 while in 2020 it was 88.99, in 2021 88.81 and in 2022 88.22.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite: Luke Humphries v Florian Hempel. Impartial: Ryan Searle v Adam Gawlas
Today's Day's Specials: German Florian Hempal is today the only player who qualified neither by the PDC Order of Merit nor by the PDC Pro Tour Order of Merit. He qualified as the winner of the PDC Europe Super League.
What you should know as well: With Luke Humphries today the PDC World Youth Champion from 2019 will stand at the oche. By now he is the number 5 in the World. He defeated in the final Adam Gawlas 6:0. Gawlas as weel will be on stage today. He is ranked 73 in the PDC Order of Merit. But Gawlas is quite accurately seven years younger then Humphries...
Schedule Day 8new

PDC World Championship - Day 7

On Day 7 of the tournament first the last two first round matches took place which were won by Darius Labanauskas and Martijn Kleermaker. In the following two second round matches of the afternoon session the Irish debutant Josh Rock could celebrate a surprisingly clear 3:0 win over seeded upcoming player Callan Rydz who had a pitchblack day and after that Dave Chisnall won a hard fought match against Andrew Gilding with 3:1. The evening session brought wins for all four seeded players Mervyn King, Gabriel Clemens, Michael van Gerwen and Stephen Bunting though Mervyn King had to give all against American Danny Baggish.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew



21. December

PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 7

Day seven of the PDC World Championship 2022/23. An afternoon session with the last two first round matches and two second round matches will be played while in the evening session four second round matches will take place.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite: Callan Rydz v Josh Rock. Impartial: Michael van Gerwen v Lewy Williams
Debutants of the day: John O'Shea, Xicheng Han
Today's Day's Specials: With Stephen Bunting after Steve Beaton, Richie Burnett and Raymond van Barneveld the fourth former BDO World Champion will stand at the oche today. Mervyn King and Dave Chisnall both reached BDO World Championship finals. For Bunting, Chisnall and King the best PDC World Championship result was the semi-final. King reached it 2009, Bunting and Chisnall both 2021.
What you should know as well: In last year's World Championship both Darius Labanauskas and Michael van Gerwen threw a nine-darter
Schedule Day 7, Resultsnew
Statisticsnew

PDC World Championship - Day 6

The seeded player of the day Raymond van Barneveld prevailed in the last match of the night with 3:1 over a solid playing Ryan Meikle and will meet in the third round once again Gerwyn Price. Ricky Evans defeated Fallon Sherrock in an evenly matched game 3:2. Evans was more clinical on his doubles which made the difference. Beside there were wins of debutant Jimmy Hendriks in a tenacious match over Jamie Hughes and of Jim Williams over young Pole Sebastian Bialecki.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew



20. December

30 Years PDC World Championship - 30 years Dutch participants? - 1

Though Global Darts could't travel to London nevertheless this years World Championship will be again accompanied by some articles.
The PDC World Championship celebrates this year its 30. anniversary as Raymond van Barneveld celebrates his 30. World Championship. But that is coincidence. The articles will tell you how it really was with the PDC World Championship and the Dutch participants taking part.
30 Years PDC World Championship - 30 years Dutch participants? - 1new

PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 6

On the sixth of the PDC World Championship 2022/23 only an evening session will be played with three first round - and one second round match.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite: Ricky Evans v Fallon Sherrock. Impartial: Raymond van Barneveld v Ryan Meikle
Debutants of the day: Sebastian Bialecki, Jimmy Hendriks
Seeded Player of the day: Raymond van Barneveld
Today's Day's Specials: For van Barneveld it is already the 30. World Championship. 14 times he took part in the BDO World Championship and won four times. For the 16. time he takes part in the PDC World Championship and so far won it once
What you should know as well: The two debutants of the day Sebastian Bialecki and Jimmy Hendricks started the career in different ways. While the around ten years younger Bialecki from the start tried to make an impact in the PDC playing on the Devlopment Tour (though he was part of the national Polish team which took part in the WDF Europe Cup 2022) Jimmy Hendricks started es part of the BDO/WDF youth system winning 2011 the WDF World Cup Youth and the Youth World Masters and only is involved with the PDC since 2017.
Schedule Day 6, Resultsnew
Statisticsnew

PDC World Championship - Day 5

Jose de Sousa and Gerwyn PRice - the two seeded players of the fifth day - won their matches and progressed into the third round. De Sousa needed against Simon Whitlock a remarkable comeback as the Australian already had been 2:0 in the lead. Gerwyn Price lost the first set to Simon Whitlock but after that controlled the match. Four of the debutants of the day won their matches: Danny Jansen, Danny Van Trijp, Leonard Gates - who danced into the hearts of the crowd - and David Cameron who surprised with his win over Ritchie Edhouse. Beside Lewy Williams only just missed the nine-darter to win his match against Niels Zonneveld.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew



19. December

Littler wins JDC World Championship

In the Alexandra Palace today as well the final of the JDC World Championship between Hugh Littler and Harry Gregory took place.
Littler dominated the match and won with 5:0.
Reportnew

PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 5

Today, on day five of the PDC World Championship 2022/23 again an afternoon and an evening session will be played with three first round - and one second round match each.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite and impartial: Jose de Sousa v Simon Whitlock
Debutants of the day: Robert Owen, Danny Jansen, Paolo Nebrida, Leonard Gates, David Cameron, Danny van Trijp
Seeded Player of the day: Jose de Sousa, Gerwyn Price
Today's Day's Specials:Today we have even six debutants! Though I find it difficult to call one of them, David Cameron, a debutant. He was some kind of ever present in the BDO World Championship from 2014 - 2020. Beside he won the World Senior Darts MAsters in 2022. Cameron qualified as best Canadian on the CDC Tour for his first PDC World Championship.
What you should know as well: For Steve Beaton it is already the 32. World Championship in a row. From 1992 - 2001 he took part in every BDO World Championship, from 2002 till today in all PDC World Championships. He only won once in 1996. Beside he reached in 1993 and 1997 the semi-finals of the BDO World Championship. In the PDC World Championship he never got further then the Last 16.
Schedule Day 5, Results
Statisticsnew

PDC World Championship - Day 4

Both seeded winners of the fourth day won their matches - Damon Heta defeated Adrian Lewis, who couldn't keep up his first round performance - with 3:0, Nathan Aspinall prevailed 3:1 over Boris Krcmar. The outstanding match of the day and the tournament so far was the match between Scott Williams and Ryan Joyce, in which both players had an average of over 100 and which was won by Scott Williams with 164 Finish 3:1. Another highlight of the day was Karel Sedlacek's 3:0 win over Raymond Smith - Sedlacek averaged 98.72.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew



18. December

PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 4

On the fourth day of the PDC World Championship 2022/23 again afternoon and an evening session will be played each with three first round - and one second round match.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite: Scott Williams v Ryan Joyce. Impartial: Damon Heta v Adrian Lewis
Debutants of the day: Prakash Jiwa, Vladyslav Omelchenko, Scott Williams
Seeded Player of the day: Damon Heta, Nathan Aspinall
Today's Day's Specials: Matches between a Canadian and and US American player so far didn't happen often in the PDC World Championship. 1998 John Part won 3:1 against Paul Lim who in this year still represented the USA. 2009 John Part lost 0:3 to American Bill Davies. And today we'll see Canadian Matt Campbell play against American Danny Baggish
What you should know as well: Though Prakash Jiwa gives his debut as Indian qualifier today he is far from unknown in the PDC. Jiwa had a Tour Card from 2011 -2018, he regained it three times during those years in Q School. Since then he plays on the Challengen Tour. 2022 he decided no longer to play for England but to represent India, took part in the Indian World Championship Qualifier and won it.
Schedule Day 4, Results
Statisticsnew

PDC World Championship - Day 3

On the third day of the tournament with Daryl Gurney the first seeded player was eliminated from the event. He lost 0:3 to Alan Soutar who again impressed. In contrast the second seeded player, Dimitri van den Bergh, showed the so far best performance of the tournament and won 3:0 over Lourence Ilagan who had no chance at all. With Martin Lukeman, Adam Gawlas, Cameron Menzies and Josh Rock four of the debutants progressed into the second round. Lisa Ashton missed out on her first win in the Ally Pally. She had managed to come back from 0:2 against Ryan Meikle and to draw 2:2 but in the fifth set she couldn't keep up any longer.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew



17. December

PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 3

On the third day of the PDC World Championship 2022/23 an afternoon and an evening session will be played each with three first round - and one second round match.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite: Simon Whitlock v Christian Perez. Impartial: Ryan Meikle v Lisa Ashton
Debutants of the day: Martin Lukeman, Nobohiro Yamamoto, Adam Gawlas, Cameron Menzies, Josh Rock
Seeded Player of the day: Daryl Gurney, Dimitri van den Bergh
Today's Day's Specials: Probably there was never before a day at a PDC World Championship on which five debutants from five different countries stood at the oche
What you should know as well: With Lisa Ashton and Richie Burnett two former and with Josh Rock a reigning World Champion will stand on stage. Added are former BDO World Championship runner-up Simon Whitlock and Cameron Mezies who stood 2022 in the semi-finals of the WDF World Championship
Schedule Day 3

PDC World Championship - Day 2

On the second day of the tournament in the afternoon-session only one-sided matches were pplayed which ended with 3:0 wins for Alan Soutar, Boris Krcmar, Adrian Lewis and Kim Huybrechts. It was more thrilling in the evening-session where in the first match Lourence Ilagan won a very close match Rowby-John Rodriguez. William O'Connor won after this with 3:0 against Beau Greaves but Greaves as well set some highlights and two of the sets went into the deciding legs. In the third match Florian Hempel only just prevailed over Keegan Brown who lost his Tour Card in defeat. The final match of the day was again a very one-sided one - Michael Smith won 3:0 over Nathan Rafferty and didn't lose a single leg.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew



16. December

PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 2

On the second day of the PDC World Championship 2022/23 and afternoon and an evening session will be played each with three first round - and one second round match.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite: William O'Connor v Beau Greaves. Impartial: Michael Smith v Nathan Rafferty
Debutants of the day: Mal Cuming, Beau Greaves
Seeded Player of the day: Kim Huybrechts, Michael Smith
Today's Day's Specials: International Day at the Ally Pally - Australia, Scotland, Japan, Croatia, Belgium, Sweden, South Africa, Austria, the Philippines, the Republic of Ireland, Germany, Northern Ireland and England will be represented.
What you should know as well: Mal Cuming, Daniel Larsson and Alan Soutar all played in BDO World Championships as well. For Michael Smith it is already the twelfth PDC World Championship, for Keegan Brown and Rowby-John Rodriguez it is World Championship number seven.
Schedule Day 2new



15. December

PDC World Championship - Day 1

The first round matches on the first day of the tournaments brought two smaller upsets - both debutants won their matches. South African Grant Sampson defeated in a scrapy match Keane Barry with 3:1 and Nathan Rafferty prevailed in a close match 3:2 over Jermaine Wattimena. Mickey Mansell won without problems the opening match of the tournament 3:1 against Ben Robb but had in the second round match against reigning champion Peter Wright no chance - Wright won 3:0.
Resultsnew
Statistics, Reportnew

PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 1

Today in the Alexandra Palace in London the PDC World Championship 2022/23 will begin. Only an evening session will be played with three first round - and one second round match.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Jermaine Wattimena v Nathan Rafferty. Impartial: Wright v Mansell/Robb
Debutants of the day: Nathan Rafferty, Grant Sampson
Seeded Player of the day: Reigning Champion Peter Wright
Today's Day's Specials: With Keane Barry and Micky Mansell from Northern Ireland and Nathan Rafferty from the Republic of Ireland some kind of Irish night
What you should know as well: While 22 years old Nathan Rafferty will give his World Championship debut for the two years younger Keane Barry, the 2020 BDO JYouth World Champion, it is already his fourth PDC World Championship. Rafferty's best results so far were the 2021 final of the PDC World Youth Championship and the Last 16 of the Grand Slam of Darts in the same year while Barry reached this year the semi-finals of the UK Open and the last 16 of the Players Championship Finals
Schedule Day 1



14. Dezember

30 years PDC World Championship - 30. World Championship for Raymond van Barneveld

Not only the PDC World Championship celebrates this time its 30. anniversary. For Raymond van Barneveld it will be the thirtieth time he takes part in a World Championship. Beside him only Steve Beaton managed it, who this year already qualified for the thirty-first time. Van Barneveld will enter the the World Championship after he reached the semi-finals of the Grand Slam last month full of confidence. The PDC World Championship will begin tomorrow.
Van Barneveld bidding to roll back the years at Cazoo World Championshipnew

WDF World Championships 2023

The dates for the WDF World Championships 2023 are not yet known but after the Winmau World Masters all participants are already known.
You can finde here how the field of participants will look:
Participants WDF World Championships 2023new



13. Dezember

Winmau World Masters

On the final day of the Winmau World Masters the qualifiers for the men and women for the WDF World Championships 2023 took place. Four places were on offer for the men, two for the women. The men's qualifiers were Shaun McDonald, Dutchmen Jarno Bottenberg and Arjan Kontermann and Austrian Christian Gödl. He is the first Austrian who managed to qualify after Mensur Suljovic in 2002. The two places for the women got Spain Almudenda Fajardo and Japanese Mayumi Ouchi. With Fajardo for the first time a female Spain qualified for a WDF World Championship.
The participants in the WDF World Championships of the Girls and the Boys are known as well. In the final of the girl's event Italian Aurora Fochesato and Hungarian Krisztina Turai will meet. The boy's semi-finals reached Luke Littler, Dutchman Bradley van der Velden, German Mats Theobald and Irishman Adam Dee.
Report Qualifiers Women and Mennew
Report Qualifiers Girls and Boysnew



12. December

Winmau World Masters

In all four events of the Winmau World Masters we did see new winners this year.
Winner of the men's event was Dutchman Wesley Plaisier. The women's title went to Beau Greaves, who already won the girl's title before. The Boy's title went to Luke Littler who had been the favourite. In the Girls event Paige Pauling prevailed who had won the World Open as well.
Today in Assen the WDF World Championship Qaulifiers for the Women and Men will take place.
Worldmasters 22, Results
Report Day Fournew



11. December

Winmau World Masters

On the third day of the tournament in Assen the World Open of the Men and the Women took place, the two World Masters Youth events were played down till including the semi-finals and the finals of the World ParaDarts World Masters were played. The World Open titles went to Benjamin Pratnemer and Aileen de Graaf. Luke Littler and American Peter Stewart jnr will meet in the Boy's Final. Stewart is the first Amrican to reach this final. In the Girls Final Paige Pauling, who already won the World Open event, and Finn Lida Lanko will clash. The ParaDarter titles went to Canadian Wayne Chapman - standing - and Belgian Vincent D'Hondt - wheelchair.
Today the finals of all four World Masters events will be played.
Worldmasters 22, Resultsnew
Report Third Day

Trailblazer Ashton eyeing elusive Alexandra Palace victory

Lisa Ashton as well talked about her already fourth participation the the PDC World Championship. After she lost three times in the first round she finally wants a win on the Ally Pally stage. The complete interview with Ashton can be found in the PDC World Championship programme.
Trailblazer Ashton eyeing elusive Alexandra Palace victorynew



9. December

Winmau World Masters

Yesterday in Assen in the Netherlands the Winmau World Masters began. On the first day the Floor Matches of the women and men were played. In the men's event no former World Masters winner is in the field of the participants. Among the players who were eliminated on the first day were the WDF World Chmapionship runner-up Thibault Tricole and James Hurrell. In the women's event all favourites are still in the event.
Worldmasters 2022new

PDC World Championship

The PDC published the provisional schedule of the Third Round of the tournament. The Third Round will be played after the Christmas break from 27. - 29. December.
Provisional Schedule Third Roundnew

Van Gerwen vying to create more Ally Pally history

Michael van Gerwen will go after his win of the Players Championship Finals end of November full of confindence in the PDC World Championship. He intends to win his fourth World champion title and get back the number 1 of the world spot.
Van Gerwen vying to create more Ally Pally historynew



6. December

Additions Who is Who

As always before the PDC World Championship some of the participants had to be added to the Who is Who. This year it were: Scott Williams, Sebastian Bialecki, Xicheng Han, Paolo Nebrida, Nobuhiro Yamamoto, Robert Owen, Danny van Trijp, Grant Sampson and Vladyslav Omelchenko.



4. December

Greaves looks forward to World Championship

During a press conference to launch the upcoming PDC World Championship Beau Greaves talks about her participation in the event.
Greaves determined to enjoy Ally Pally debutnew



30. November

PDC Weltmeisterschaft

After the draw the PDC puplished now the schedule of the first and second round as well.
The tournament will begin on 15. December with the first round match between Mickey Mansell and Ben Robb. As always the reigning champion will as well begin his tournament on the first evening - Peter Wright will play against the winner of the opening match. Till including the 20. December in each session three first round and one second round match will be played. The last two first round matches will take place in the afternoon session on 21. December. After that till the Christmas break the second round will be played to the end.
Schedule First and Second Roundnew



29. November

PDC World Championship

The field of participants for the PDC World Championship 2022/23 is complete. Yesterday by the PDPA Qualifier Richie Burnett, Ryan Joyce and Jeff Smith were the last players to qualify for the tournament.
The draw for the first and second round of the tournament took place yesterday as well. Reigning champion Peter Wright will begin his campaign against the winner of the first round match between Mickey Mansell and Ben Robb from New Zealand. The World Number 1 Gerwyn Price will play his first match against the winner of the first round game between Luke Woodhouse and Urkain's Vladyslav Omelchenko while Michael van Gerwen will begin against the winner of the first round match between Niels Zonneveld and Lewy Williams.
Participants, Draw First and Second Roundnew



27. November

Van Gerwen wins Players Championship Finals

Michael van Gerwen was unstoppable in the final of the Players Championship Finals - not even by a strong playing Rob Cross. He won the final 6:11 and for the seventh time got the title.
In the match he delighted the crowd not only with a nine-darter but with a 170 finish as well.
Report and Statistics Finals Daynew

Rock Winmau World Youth Champion

Josh Rock is the newly crowned Winmau PDC World Youth Champion.
He defeated in a very one sided final his Scottish opponent Nathan Girvan with 6:1 and once again showed a convincing performance.
Reportnew

Players Championship Finals

On the second day of the event the second and the third round were played and the field of participants was further reduced from 32 to 8 players. In the oustanding match of the day an unstoppable Dirk van Duijvenbode met a strong playing Ryan Searle. Van Duijvenbode won the close match with 10:9.
Today in the afternoon-session the quarterfinals will take place. In the evening-session semi-finals and final will follow. Between the semi-finals and the final the final of the Winmau World Youth Championship between Josh Rock and Nathan Girvan will be played.
Report an Statistics Second and Third Round
Schedule Finals Day, Resultsnew



26. November

Players Championship Finals

In the first round there were several - among others Gerwyn Price and Michael Smith lost their averages and were eliminated from the tournament.The best perfomance of the first day showed Danny Noppert who played an average of 106.59.
Today in the afternoon-session the second round is played, in the evening session the third round. Again it will be played on two stages.
Schedule Day 2, Results
Statistics Second and Third Roundnew



25. November

Players Championship Finals

Today in Minehead the Players Championship Finals will begin in which the Top 64 of the Players Championship Order of Merit take part. Reigning champion Peter Wright withdrew due to the health issues of his wife and is replaced by Gian van Veen.
On the Main- and the Second Stage the first round will be played.
Schedule, Participants, Results
Statistics First Roundnew



21. November

PDC Ranking

The PDC Order of Merit was updated after the Grand Slam of Darts.
PDC Rankings



20. November

Michael Smith wins Grand Slam

Michael Smith defeated in the final of the Grand Slam Nathan Aspinall with 16:5 and won his first big TV title.
Smith was one of the moast consistent players of the event, he won all his group matches commandingly and he was in the final clearly the better player while Aspinall seemed to be a little bit tired. Smith was already a finalist in many TV events but so far always missed with his matchdarts.
Statistics Semi-Finals, Finalnew

Smith and Aspinall in the Final

Michael Smith and Nathan Aspinall will meet tonight in the final of the Grand Slam of Darts.
Michael Smith prevailed 16:12 over Raymond van Barneveld. For a long time it was an evenly matched game but in the end Smith managed to pull clear. The second semi-final between Nathan Aspinall and Luke Humphries was very similar - for a long time both players were on par before Aspinall pulled clear and won as well 16:12.
Bericht, Statistics Semi-Finalsnew



19. November

Aspinall and Humphries through to semi-finals

Nathan Aspinall und Luke Humphries won tonight their quarterfinals against Alan Soutar and Michael van Gerwen and will meet tomorrow afternoon in the semi-finals.
In the first quarterfinal tonight Nathan Aspinall won 16:12 against Alan Soutar. It was a very evenly matched game in which Aspinall prevailed because he was much more clinical on his doubles then his opponent.
In the second semi-final Luke Humphries caused one of the big upsets of the tournament - he defeated Michael van Gerwen - the favourite to win the event - with 10:16. Van Gerwen couldn't keep up the brilliant performance he showed against Josh Rock and Humphries was from the start the dominant player who kept his nerve till the end.
Results
Statistics Quarterfinals 2new

Some fans dress up as dart boards...

Here comes the second article!
Again it deals mostly with darts - to be excact with the second day of the tournament. Beside you'll find a pinch of local colour.
Some fans dress up as dart boards...new

Grand Slam of Darts - Quarterfinals 2

Tonight the other two semi-finals will take place.
First Scottish debutant Alan Soutar will play against Nathan Aspinall. After that in the last quarterfinal Luke Humphries and Michael van Gerwen will clash.
Schedule, Results Quarterfinals 2



18. November

Smith and van Barneveld progressed into the semi-finals

In two thrilling quarterfinals tonight Michael Smith and Raymond van Barneveld prevailed. Joe Cullen and reigning champion Gerwyn Price were eliminated.
First Michael Smith played against Joe Cullen. Cullen most of the time was in the lead till 15:13. But then Smith managed to win three legs in a row to win 16:15. In the second quarterfinal between Gerwyn Price and Raymond van Barneveld Price was 3:8 in the lead. But the Dutchman won the seven following legs and took the lead which he protected to the end even though Price at one time reduced his arrears to one leg. Van Barneveld won 16:13.
Van Barneveld and Smith will meet in the semi-finals on Sunday.
Results
Bericht, Statistics Quarterfinals 1new

Grand Slam of Darts - Second Night Last 16

Though he didn't win the highclass match against a brilliant Michael van Gerwen it was Josh Rock who stood in the limelight - he threw a nine-darter in the match but lost 8:10. After this the last match of the night between Luke Humphries and Ross Smith felt almost boring - Humphries won with 10:8. Humphries and van Gerwen will meet in the quarterfinals on Saturday. The other two matches of the night were won by Nathan Aspinall and Alan Soutar. Aspinall defeated without problems Jermaine Wattimena with 10:6 while Soutar continued his dream debut and prevailed 10:8 over Jonny Clayton. So in the other quarterfinal on Saturday Nathan Aspinall will play against Alan Soutar.
Tonight the first two quarterfinals will take place: Joe Cullen will meet Michael Smith and Gerwyn Price will play against Raymond van Barneveld, .
Results Day 6
Report, Statistics Day 6new
Schedule Day 7 - Quarterfinals 1new



16. November

Grand Slam of Darts - First Night Last 16

The dream Grand Slam for Raymond van Barneveld goes on: he defeated in the last 16 Simon Whitlock with 10:8. Michael Smith as well won 10:8 against Rob Cross - Smith was the complete match in the lead, but couldn't really get rid of Cross. For the third match reigning champion Gerwyn Price came on stage but the match first was dominated by his opponent Danny Noppert. Price never gave in and finally drawed 8:8. Then he won the last two legs of the match - another 10:8 win. The last match between Joe Cullen and Dirk van Duijvenbode was a one-sided affair - Cullen won with 10:4.
In the quarterfinals on Friday Gerwyn Price will clash -as he did already in the group phase - with Raymond van Barneveld antreten, Joe Cullen will play against Michael Smith.
Resultsnew
Statistics Day 5new

Out of Darkness Cometh Light...

Global Darts is back in Wolverhampton! And so this year again a series of articles will accompany the tournament.
Here the first article which deals mostly with the first day of the tournament and the first group matches.
Out of Darkness Cometh Light...new

Grand Slam of Darts

After the Group Phase tonight the Knockout Phase of the tournament will begin. The first four matches will be played in which the first of the groups A-D will play seconds of the other groups.
Raymond van Barneveld opens the night against Simon Whitlock. Next on will be the match between Michael Smith and Rob Cross. In the third match Reigning Champion Gerwyn Price will meet Danny Noppert and in the last match Dirk van Duijvenbode and Joe Cullen will clash.
Schedule Day 5

Grand Slam of Darts - World Champion eliminated

Nathan Aspinall caused on the last day of the Group Phase of the Grand Slam the biggest upset - he defeated World Champion Peter Wright. By the win Aspinall moved on the top of Group E. As Alan Soutar won against Fallon Sherrock Wright was eliminated due to the leg difference while Aspinall and Soutar progressed into the Knockout Phase. Jermaine Wattimena defeated Leonard Gates and progressed alongside Jonny Clayton, who lost with a weak performance against Damon Heta, from Group F into the next round. From Group G Michael van Gerwen and Ross Smith progressed who clashed in a highclass match today which was won by Smith. From Group H Luke Humphries and Rosh Rock progessed who as well clashed today, Rock won the match.
The highest averages of the day played Ross Smith and Scott Williams with over 107.
Results Day 4
Report, Statistics Day 4new



15. November

Grand Slam of Darts

Tonight the last group matches of Groups E-F will be played. Luke Humphries, Jonny Clayton and Michael van Gerwen are already through to the next round. World Champion Peter Wright on the other side can't yet be sure to progress, in his group beside him Nathan Aspinall and Alan Soutar still have a chance, only Fallon Sherrock is eliminated. In the other groups as well not all is decided yet.
Schedule Day 4

Grand Slam of Darts - Reigning Champion battles into the next round

After a thrilling night the eight players are known who progress from Groups A - D into the Knockout Phase of the tournament. Three matches were especially hard fought. Danny Noppert prevailed in a close match against Mensur Suljovic. Noppert had both problems with his doubles and with Suljovic's throwing rhythm. In the highclass match of the night between Dave Chisnall and reigning champion Gerwyn Price it was the reigning champion who won with 5:4. As close but less highclass was the last match of the night between Rob Cross and Martin Schindler. Cross won it in a final comeback sprint while his opponent missed a lot of doubles.
Schedule, Results Day 3
Bericht, Statistics Day 3new



14. November

Grand Slam of Darts - Last Group Matches Groups A-D

Tonight the last group matches of Groups A-D will be played. So far only Raymond van Barneveld and Dirk van Duijvenbode as firsts of their groups A and D are through to the Knockout Phase while Ted Evetts and Adam Gawlas are already eliminated. Reigning Champion Gerwyn Price is one of the players who still has to fight - he has to win against Dave Chisnall. In Groups B and C nothing is decided yet, in Group D the winner of Rob Cross v Martin Schindler will progress.
Schedule, Results Day 3

Grand Slam of Darts - Day 2

After the second day of the tournament on which the second group matches of all groups were played already five players are thanks to their second wins through to the next round: Raymond van Barneveld, Dirk van Duijvenbode, Michael van Gerwen, Jonny Clayton and Luke Humphries, who played in the last match on Sunday with 107.4 the so far highest average of the tournament. Ted Evetts, Adam Gawlas and Fallon Sherrock are all already eliminated. Everything else will be only decided in the last group matches which will be played in Groups A-D on Monday and in Groups E-H on Tuesday.
Schedule, Results Day 2
Report, Statistics Day 2new



12. November

Grand Slam of Darts

On the first day of the tournament we did see wins for former champions Raymond van Barneveld and Michael van Gerwen and reigning champion Gerwyn Price. All other seeded players won their first group matches as well. Slightly astonishing were Luke Woodhouse, Alan Soutar and Jermaine Wattimena among the winners. The highest averages played Dirk van Duijvenbode, Rob Cross, Gerwyn Price and Michael van Gerwen.
Today again an afternoon- and an evening-session will be played and again in the afternoon Groups A-D will play and tonight groups E-H.
Report, Statistics - Day 1

Grand Slam of Darts

Today in Wolverhampton on a sunny and warm day the Grand Slam of Darts will begin. In an afternoon- and an evening-session the first group matches of all groups will be played. In the afternoon sessions groups A-D will stand at the oche, tonight groups E-H.
In the afternoon session on stage: Reigning champion Gerwyn Price, who will play against Ted Evetts and Lisa Ashton, who will play in the last ,atch of the afternoon against Michael Smith. The second woman in the field of participants, Fallon Sherrock, will meet in the evening-session against Peter Wright.
Schedule, Results Day 1, Tables
Statistics



11. November

Hempel wins PDC Europe Super League

Florian Hempel defeated in the final of this year's PDC Europe Super League Niko Springer with 10:8 and secured by this a place in the PDC World Championship. With Hempel the most consistent player won though had first to come back from 2:6 behind in the match to win it.
Hempel prevailed in the quarterfinals over Dragutin Horvat and then defeated Daniel Klose in the semi-finals who couldn't quite keep his nerve in the deciding leg. Springer reached the final with wins over Ricardo Pietreczko and Lukas Wenig.
PDC Europe Super League - Results Finals Day



10. November

PDC Europe Super League - Day 4

Florian Hempel, Rene Eidams, Lukas Wenig and Ricardo Pietreczko progressed from Main Group A into the quarterfinals, Niko Springer, Franz Rötzsch, Daniel Klose and Dragutin Horvat progressed from Main Group B.
Tomorrow the tournament will be played to the end. In the quarterfinals Florian Hempel will play against Dragutin Horvat, Franz Rötzsch will meet Lukas Wenig, Rene Eidams will clash with Daniel Klose and Niko Springer will play against Ricardo Pietreczko.
PDC Europe Super League - Final Standings, Quarterfinals

PDC Europe Super League

On the third day of the event, the first day of the second round, Florian Hempel again won all his seven matches. So he heads the table of main group A followed by Lukas Wenig and Rene Eidams with five wins each on places 2 and 3. Fourth is Nico Kurz with four wins who currently would progress into the quarterfinals as well.
In main group B Niko Springer is first in the table with six wins followed by Franz Rötzsch and Daniel Klose who both won five matches. David Schlichting and Dragutin Horvat at the moment sit in places 4 and 5. Both won four matches - they are seperated by the leg difference.
Today the second round will be played to the end.
PDC Europe Super League - Tables after Day 3



9. November

Grand Slam of Darts

On Saturday in Wolverhampton the Grand Slam of Darts will begin in which this year several big names will be missing which failed to qualify. Among them are Gary Anderson, James Wade, Kim Huybrechts, Dimitri van den Bergh and Jose de Sousa.
As always this year there is no clear favourite on the win. The preview has a first view on the tournament.
Preview

PDC Europe Super League

The first round is played. Today second round will follow with 16 players in two groups. Florian Hempel, Daniel Klose and Niko Springer won all their matches so far, Ricardo Pietreczko only one. Quie close it was for the former German number 1 Max Hopp but in the end he mangaed to profress with five wins.
PDC Europe Super League



8. November

Grand Slam of Darts

Yesterday the groups and the first group matches of the eight groups of the round robin phase were drawn.
Reigning champion and number 1 seed Gerwyn Price was drawn into Group A together with Raymond van Barneveld, Dave Chisnall and Ted Evetts. Price will start his campaign against Ted Evetts
Groups, Schedule First Group Matches

PDC Europe Super League

Yesterday the PDC Europe Super League started. In four groups with six players each every player played five matches in a round robin format.
Three of the 24 players had a flawless start and won all five matches: Florian Hempel, Daniel Klose and Niko Springer. Today in the same format the second half of the first round will follow. The top four of each group progress into the second round.
Dragutin Horvat therew a nine-darter yesterday but only sits in fifth place of his group.
PDC Europe Super League



7. November

Grand Slam of Darts

By the Tour Card Holders Qualifier the last free places in the tournament were on offer. For the tournament - which will begin on 12. November - Ritchie Edhouse, Raymond van Barneveld, Martin Schindler, Adam Gawlas, Alan Soutar, Luke Woodhouse, Mensur Suljovic and Jermaine Wattimena qualified.
Participants, Schedule

Players Championships Final

After the end of the Pro Tour season the 64 for participants in the Players Championships Final are known. The tournament will be played from 25. - 27. November in Minehead.
The first round draw already took place. Reigning champion Peter Wright will begin his campaign against Ross Smith while number 1 seed Damon Heta will play first round against German Ricardo Pietreczko.
Participants, Draw

Wins for Price qnd Wade on the Pro Tour

Gerwyn Price and James Wade were the winners of the last two Players Championships of the year.
Gerwyn Price defeated in the final of the 29. Players Championships on Friday Gian van Veen with 8:4. In the semi-finals stood Dave Chisnall and Mike de Decker.
On Saturday James Wade won the 30. Players Championship - he prevailed in the final 8:6 over Steve Beaton. Again Dave Chisnall reached the semi-finals. The second semi-finalist was German Martin Schindler
Results

PDC Ranking

The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated.
PDC Rankings
Pro Tour



3. November

PDC Pro Tour

At the weekend in Barnsley the Players Championships 29 and 30 will take place, the last Players Championships of the year. On Sunday at the same venue the Tour Card Holders Qualifier for the Grand Slam of Darts will follow.
Among the Tour Card Tour Card Holders who didn't register are Michael van Gerwen and Danny Noppert.
Participants, Results



30. October

Ross Smith wins European Championship

Ross Smith defeated in the final of the European Championship Michael Smith with 8:11 and secured his first Major title. Before he defeated on finals day in the quarterfinals world champion Peter Wright and prevailed in the semi-finals over Chris Dobey. Michael Smith reached the final by wins over Luke Humphries in the quarterfinals and Dirk van Duijvenbode in the semi-finals.
Results
Statisticsnew

PDC Women's Series

Beau Greaves managed to win the last two events of this year's Women Series as well. In the 19. event she defeated in the final Fallon Sherrock with 5:3 and played a sensational 107.86 average in the match, in the 20. event she prevailed 5:1 over Mikuru Suzuki. By this Greaves moved up on the second place of the ranking ousting Fallon Sherrock and secured beside Lisa Ashton- who heads the ranking - a place in the PDC World Championship.
In the semi-finals of the 19. event stood Lisa Ashton and Natalie Gilbert while in the 20. event Robyn Byrne and Rhian O'Sullivan reached the semi-finals.
Participants, Results
Ranking

European Championship - Day 3

Today in Dortmund in an afternoon-and an evening session the second round took place.
We did see two slightly surprising wins for Chris Dobey and Ross Smith who prevailed over Jose de Sousa and Dimitri van den Bergh respectively. In the all Dutch clash Danny Noppert won the close match 10:9 against Vincent van der Voort, Dirk van Duijvenbode defeated James Wade with 10:7. Luke Humphries was too strong for Ryan Searle, Michael Smith played imperiously and defeated an again great playing Josh Rock, Peter Wright gave Rowby-John Rodriguez no chance at all and Dave Chisnall somehow managed to beat Jonny Clayton.
Results
Statistics
Reportnew

PDC Women's Series

At the weekend in Wigan this year's Women's Series will be played to the end. Today and tomorrow two events each will take place.
Today both events were won by Beau Greaves who defeated in the final once Mikuru Suzuki and once Lisa Ashton. In event 17 Maria O'Brien and Lorraine Winstanley reached the semi-finals, in event 18 it were Fallon Sherrock and again Lorraine Winstanley.
Participants, Results



28. October

European Championship - Day 2

The second day of the tournament - on which the first round was played to the end - went not according to plan for some of the top players and both Michael van Gerwen and Gerwyn Price were elimnated.
Gerwyn Price lost whith 4:6 to Rowby-John Rodiguez who was more clinical on his doubles. Michael van Gerwen came back against Chris Dobey and had a 5:4 lead. But Dobey managed to win the last two legs after both players had missed some matchdarts. The other winners of the night were an outstanding Dave Chisnall, Dimitri van den Bergh and Ross Smith who both showed strong performances, Peter Wright and Jose de Sousa who both dominated their matches and a convincing Jonny Clayton.
Results
Statisticsnew



27. October

European Championship - Day 1

Already on the first night of the tournament in Dortmund several upsets happened and beside reigning champion Rob Cross with Damon Heta and Nathan Aspinall two more players out of the Top 10 of the European Tour Order of Merit were eliminated from the event.
Cross lost in a from both players unconvincing match to James Wade, Nathan Aspinall lost an as well very close match to debutant Josh Rock and Damon Heta was defeated by Vincent van der Voort who just hit his doubles better. The other winners of the night were Dirk van Duijvenbode, Ryan Searle, Danny Noppert, Luke Humphries and Michael Smith.
Results
Statistics
Reportnew



26. October

European Championship

Tomorrow in the Westfalenhalle in Dortmund, Germany, the European Championship 2022 will begin in which the Top 32 of the European Tour Order of Merit will take part.
The tournament will be opened tomorrow night with the match between Dirk van Duijvenbode and Madars Razma. As well among the players on stage during the first nigth of the tournament will be reigning champion Rob Cross who will play against James Wade.
Participants, Draw, Schedule
Previewnew



24. October

PDC Ranking

The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated.
PDC Rankings
Pro Tour

Wins for Cross and Rock on the Pro Tour

On Saturday and Sunday Rob Cross and Josh Rock won Players Championships 27 and 28.
Rob Cross defeated in the final of the 27. Players Championship Peter Wright with 8:4. The semifinals reached Callan Rydz and Ryan Meikle.
On Sunday Josh Rock got his first Pro Tour title - he won the final of the 28. Players Championship with 8:5 against Luke Humphries. In the semifinals stood Damon Heta and for the first time German Ricardo Pietreczko.
Participants, Results



21. October

Wins for Chisnall and Heta on the Pro Tour

The first two events of the weekend in Barnsley were won by Dave Chisnall and Damon Heta.
Chisnall won the 25. Players Championship with a 8:4 triumph over Josh Rock. Both players played outstanding during the day, Chisnall had at his quarterfinal win against Luke Humphries an unbelievable 114.62 average. In the semi-finals stood Gerwyn Price and Damon Heta.
Today Damon Heta won the 26. Players Championship, he defeated in the final Dirk van Duijvenbode after a great comeback with 8:4. With Heta the most consistent player of the day was the winner. The semi-finals reached Boris Krcmar and Gerwyn Price.
Tomorrow and on Sunday two more Players Championship will be played.
Participants, Results



20. October

PDC Pro Tour

From today till Sunday in Barnsley the Players Championships 25 - 28 will be played. Many of the participants still try to qualify for the Players Championship Finals, in which the Top 64 of the Players Championship Order of Merit will take part. Among them are John Henderson, Darius Labanauskas and Steve West.
Participants, Results



19. October

European Championship

The schedule of the first round of the European Championship was published. The first round match between Dirk van Duijvenbode and Madars Razma will open the tournament on Thursday night. Reigning champion Rob Cross will play against James Wade on the first evening as well. The second first round evening on Friday is headlined by players like Peter Wright, Michael van Gerwen and Gerwyn Price.
European Championship 2022 - Schedule first round



18. October

PDC World Championship

By now more qualifiers for the PDC World Championship took place. Diogo Portela won the Central-and South America Qualifier, Ben Robb won the New Zealand Qualifier and Vladyslav Omelchenko won the first ever Ukrainian Qualifier and will give his Alexandra Palace debut.
How the field of participants of the World Championship looks at the moment you can find here:
PDC World Championship 2022/23 - Field of Participants on 18. October



17. October

European Championship

After the Gibraltar Darts Torphy, the last event of the European Tour 2022, all participants in the European Championship are known. The tournament will take place from 27. - 30. October in Dortmund, Germany.
The draw for the first round already took place. Reigning champion Rob Cross will play his first round match against James Wade while number 1 seed Luke Humphries will open his campaign against Krzysztof Ratajski.
European Championship 2022

PDC Challenge Tour

At the weekend the last four events of this year's PDC Challenge Tour were played and they had four different winners. On Saturday was "French Day" on the Challenge Tour and Thibault Tricole and Jacques Labre both celebrated their first wins, on Sunday Andy Hamilton and Justin Smith won the last two events. But it had no effect on the Ranking, which is still headed by Scott Williams and Robert Owen.
As Williams is already qualified for the PDC World Championship the two Challenge Tour tournament places went to Robert Owen ranked on second place and Danny van Trijp ranked third. Williams and Owen both will get a Tour Card. Should Williams be after the World Championship under the Top 64 of the Order of Merit van Trijp will get the Tour Card. Williams is as well qualified for the Grand Slam of Darts.
Challenge Tour

PDC Ranking

The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit, the European Tour Order of Merit and the Challenge Tour Order of Merit were updated.
PDC Rankings
European Tour



16. October

Heta wins Gibraltar Darts Trophy

Damon Heta defeated in the final of the Gibraltar Darts Trohphy Peter Wright in a very close match with 8:7 and won his first title on the European Tour. Wright stormed into a 3:0 lead. Heta levelled and took the lead. But Wright managed to level as well and the match went into a deciding leg in which Wright already looked like the winner. But Heta didn't give in, both players missed several match darts before Heta finally hit the double 4 for the win.
In the semi-finals Peter Wright defeated Rob Cross with 7:1 while Heta won thanks to a convincing comeback a hard fought match against Michael van Gerwen with 7:6.
Schedule, Results
Statisticsnew
Report Finals Daynew



15. October

PDC Europe Super League

As the PDC Europe announced this year's PDC Europe Super League will be played from 7. - 11. November. As last year it will take place in the H+ Hotel in Niedernhausen. The format will be the same as last year. Beside the Top 16 of last year's ranking - with the exception of Martin Schindler who is already qualified by the Pro Tour Order of Merit for the PDC World Champion - nine wild cards will take part. The wild cards were allocated predominantly to young and upcoming players. The winner of the PDC Europe Super League will again be awarded with a place in the PDC World Championship.
PDC Europe Super League

Gibraltar Darts Trophy

Today on the second day of the event the second round will take place in an afternoon- and an evening session. The first round winners will play against the seeded players.
From the six Host Nation Qualifiers only Craig Galliano survived the first round. He will play tonight against Peter Wright. As well tonight on stage will be reigning champion Gerwyn Price who will play in a repeat of last year's final against Mensur Suljovic.
Schedule, Results
Statisticsnew



14. October

Gibraltar Darts Trophy

The Gibraltar Darts Trophy is the 13. and last event of this year's European Tour. After the tournament all 32 participants in the European Championship are known. As always on the first day of the tournament today the first round will take place in an afternoon - and an evening session. Only the qualifiers will stand at the oche.
Karel Sedlacek and Krzysztof Kiuc withdrew from the event. So by the Host Nation Qualifier six tournament places were on offer. Craig Galliano, Manuel Vilerio, Sean Negrette, Justin Hewitt, Dyson Parody and Dylan Duo Jr qualified.
Schedule, Resultsnew
Statisticsnew



13. October

Adam "Thorn" Smith around the World

Thorn and his travel companion stay for several days in San Jose. And of course once again Thorn tries to find darts in the town. He's quite surprised to make a find!
"The Unknown League Of Dardos Ticos"



10. October

PDC Ranking

The PDC Order of Merit was updated after the World Grand Prix.
PDC Rankings



9. October

Van Gerwen wins World Grand Prix

Michael van Gerwen defeated Nathan Aspinall in a thrilling final 5:3 and won his sixth World Grand Prix title. Van Gerwen stormed to a 4:0 lead winning two of the sets in a deciding leg. But he hadn't won the match yet as Aspinall found a way back into the match and won the next three sets all with 3:1. In the eighth set Aspinall managed to level 2:2 but couldn't find the Double 20 for his finish in the deciding leg and van Gerwen won the match and the title with a Double 6.
Bericht und Statistics Finalnew

PDC World Youth Championship

Today the PDC World Youth Championship in Wigan was played down till including the semi-finals. Nathan Girvan and Josh Rock were the winners of the two semi-finals, who will play during the Players Championship Finals on 27. November in Minehead the final. The losing semi-finalists were Callan Rydz and Geert Nentjes. Both Girvan and Jarred Cole threw during the tournament a nine-darter.
Winners of the last two Development Tour events of the year on Saturday were Nathan Rafferty and Joshua Richardson. By this Rafferty jumped above Josh Rock in the ranking. Josh Rock and Nathan Rafferty both will take part in the Grand Slam of Darts. Rafferty and the fourth ranked Lewy Williams both will get a place in the PDC World Championship as Rock and Keane Barry are already qualified by the Pro Tour Order of Merit. As all Top Four of the rankings already have a Tour Card Geert Nentjes and probably Jurjen van Velde will get the two Tour Cards for players from the Development Order of Merit.
World Youth Championship
Development Tour - Ranking Final Standings

PDC World Grand Prix

The semi-finals night was a night of upsets - especially as both Gerwyn Price and Peter Wright were never even near their A Game. In the first semi-final a powerful pugnacious Nathan Aspinall prevailed with 4:2 over an only in parts convincing Gerwyn Price. Much easier it was for Michael van Gerwen against Peter Wright who never at all was in the match and only won a single leg. Van Gerwen won 4:0.
Tonight in the final Nathan Aspinall will play against Michael van Gerwen.
Schedule, Results
Report and Statistics Semifinalsnew



8. October

PDC World Grand Prix

Michael van Gerwen showed the best performance in the quarterfinals and defeated Chris Dobey with 3:1. Gerwyn Price had no problems against Madars Razma, who couldn't keep up and won 3:0. The other two matches were hard fought and both were only decided in the fifth leg of the deciding fifth set. Nathan Aspinall prevailed over Martin Lukeman and Peter Wright over Dimitri van den Bergh.
Tonight in the semi-finals first Gerwyn Price and Nathan Aspinall will meet before Michael van Gerwen will play against Peter Wright.
Schedule, Results
Report and Statistics Quarterfinals
Statistics Semifinalsnew

PDC Development Tour

Yesterday and today the last Development Tour events of the year take place in Wigan. After that all participants in the World Youth Championship are known which will be played down tomorrow till including the semi-finals. The final will take place on 27. November during the Players Championship Finals in Minehead.
Yesterday first Josh Rock won his fifth event of the year before Nathan Rafferty got his fourth title. Josh Rock won his final against Rusty-Jake Rodriguez while Nathan Rafferty prevailed over German Nico Springer.
At the moment Rock and Rafferty head the ranking and by this would both get a two years Tour Card and and a place in the World Championship.
Development Tour
World Youth Championship



7. October

PDC World Grand Prix

Yesterday in Leicester the second round was played to the end. For the two debutants Martin Lukeman and Madars Razma the dream debut continued - they progressed with wins over Ross Smith and Daryl Gurney in the quarterfinals. The only seed of this half of the draw still in the tournament - Gerwyn Price - had a slow start in his match against Joe Cullen but played two brilliant last sets and progressed as well. The last match of the second round between Nathan Aspinall and Danny Noppert was hard fought - Noppert won the first two sets, Aspinall leveled and battled in the deciding set over the finishing line first.
Today is quarterfinals day in Leicester. Nathan Aspinall will play against Martin Lukeman, Gerwyn Price will meet Madars Razma, Michael van Gerwen will play against Chris Dobey and Peter Wright against Dimitri van den Bergh,
Schedule, Results
Report and Statistics fourth daynew



6. October

PDC World Grand Prix

On the third day of the tournament the first four second round matches were played and it was once again a long night as all matches were only decided in the fifth set. Headlines wrote especially Dimitri van den Bergh who eliminated reigning champion Jonny Clayton with a convincing display. Chris Dobey prevailed in the first match of the night over Adrian Lewis. Krzysztof Ratajski and Stephen Bunting went as the outsiders in their matches against Peter Wright and Michael van Gerwen, but they made their opponents work hard - though in both matches the favourites won.
Tonight the second round will be played to the end, beside the only seed of the night, Gerwyn Price, the two debutants Martin Lukeman and Madars Razma will stand at the oche.
Schedule, Results
Report and Statistics third day



5. October

PDC World Grand Prix

On the second day of the tournament the last eight first round matches took place. Martin Lukeman caused the biggest upset so far by eliminating James Wade - one of the seeded players. Wade never really was in the match and Lukeman used his chances. With Michael Smith in the last match of the first round another seed was eliminated - he lost to Nathan Aspinall. As well eliminated was number 8 seed Rob Cross who lost to Daryl Gurney. Only one of the seed of the second night - Gerwyn Price - progressed into the second round. Price had no problems at all against German Martin Schindler. The night's other winners were Joe Cullen, Ross Smith, Madars Razma and Danny Noppert.
Today the second round will begin in Leicester in which Monday's winners will stand on stage.
Schedule, Results
Report and Statistics second daynew



4. October

PDC World Grand Prix

Jose de Sousa was the only seed who was eliminated on the first night - he lost a highclass and thrilling match 0:2 to Adrian Lewis. Michael van Gerwen, Peter Wright and reigning champion Jonny Clayton won their first round matches though Clayton made it rather hard for him against Dirk van Duijvenbode due to a very slow start into the match. The other winners of the night were Krzystztof Ratajski, Chris Dobey, Stephen Bunting and Dimitri van den Bergh.
Tonight in Leicester the first round will be played to the end. Seeded players of the night are Gerwyn Price, James Wade, Michael Smith and Rob Cross. Today the three debutants Martin Schindler, Martin Lukeman and Madars Razma will stand on stage. They will play against Gerwyn Price, James Wade and Ryan Searle.
Schedule, Results
Report and Statistics First Day

WDF Europe Cup

Beau Greaves dominated the WDF Europe Cup as well - she won the Women's Singles and together with Deta Hedman the Women's Pairs. The English Team won the final of the Team competition against Team Netherlands with 9:1. That means England was the overall women's winner.
The Men's Singles for the first time ever had with Jacques Labre French winner. The Men's Pairs were won by the English Pair Williams/Richardson. The Team competition was won by Team England 9:8 against Team Netherlands. England was the overall men's winner as well.
WDF Europe Cup



3. October

PDC World Grand Prix

Tonight in Leicester the PDC World Grand Prix will begin. The first eight matches of the first round will be played. From the seeded players reigning champion Jonny Clayton, World Champion Peter Wright, Michael van Gerwen and Jose de Sousa will stand at the oche. The tournament will be opened by the match between Callan Rydz and Krzysztof Ratajski.
Schedule, Results



2. October

Provisional Tournament Calendar 2023

The PDC dates were added to the provisional Tournament Calendar 2023.
Provisional Tournament Calendar 2023
Premier League 2023
European Tour 2023
Players Championships 2023
Women's Series 2023
Challenge Tour 2023
Development Tour 2023



30. September

PDC World Grand Prix - Preview

On Monday in Leicester the PDC World Grand Prix will begin, a tournament which is played in the unusally modus of Double In, Double Out and in which the short format of the first round often produces some upsets.
BoyleSports, title sponsor and betting company, has in his betting ranking Gerwyn Price as first favourite to win the event followed by Peter Wright and Michael van Gerwen on second place and Jonny Clayton, the reigning champion, placed fourth.
Preview



27. September

PDC World Grand Prix

By now the PDC published the schedule for the first round.
The tournament will be opened on 3. October with the match between Callan Rydz and Krzysztof Ratajski. The reigning champion Jonny Clayton will stand on stage as well during the first night against Dirk van Duijvenbode as one of four seeded players The last match of the first round will be played on 4. October - the match between Michael Smith and Nathan Aspinall.
Schedule

WDF Europe Cup

Tomorrow in Gandia, Spain, the WDF Europe Cup 2022 will begin.
Men's Teams from 41 countrys and women's teams from 35 countries take part in it. Eight teams each will be seeded in the Team events. Played as well will be single and pairs events.
There will be a Live Stream for the event: Europe Cup Stream
WDF Europe Cup

World Series of Darts 2023

The PDC already published the venues and the dates of the World Series of Darts 2023.
Again the World Series will consist of five international events and the final. But next year only two events in Down Under will be played - the New Zealand Darts Masters and the New South Wales Darts Masters which again will take place in August. And again the Nordic Darts Masters and the U.S.Darts Masters will be played next year though the Nordic Darts Masters will already take place in January. As well in January the new Bahrain Darts Masters will be played. The final will as this year take place in September in Amsterdam.
World Series of Darts

PDC Asian Championship

At the weekend the first PDC Asian Championship was played in Fukuoka in Japan. Winner was Christian Perez from the Philippines who defeated in the final his fellow countryman Paolo Nebrida with 7:5. By this Perez qualified for both the PDC World Championship and the Grand Slam of Darts.
Beside Perez runner-up Nebrida and the two semifinalist of the tournament Lourence Ilagan - as well from the Philippines - and Japanese Toro Suzuki qualified for the PDC World Championship too.



26. September

PDC World Grand Prix

After the Belgian Darts Open the field of participants is known PDC World Grand Prix. The tournament will beplayed from 3. - 9. Ovtober in Leicester. Ross Smith secured himself the last qualifying spot by progessing into the second round of the Belgian Darts Open.
The draw already took place. Reigning champion Jonny Clayton will open his campaing against Dirk van Duijvenbode while the World Number 1 Gerwyn Price will begin against Martin Schindler and World Champion Peter Wright will play against Kim Huybrechts.
World Grand Prix, Participants, Draw First Round

PDC Rankings

The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the European Tour Order of Merit were updated after the Belgian Darts Open in Wieze.
PDC Rankings
European Tour



25. September

Chisnall wins Belgian Darts Open

With a 8:6 defeat of Andrew Gilding - the surprise player of the event - Dave Chisnall won the Belgian Darts Open. For Chisnall it was the first title since three years. Before Chisnall won on finals day in the third round against Nathan Aspinall and a prevailed in an astonishing one sided quarterfinal 6:2 over Jose des Sousa. In his outstanding semi-final against Danny Noppert Chisnall threw in the first leg a nine-darter. Gilding, who entered the tournament as an unseeded player, defeated on finals day first Niels Zonneveld, eliminated in the quarterfinals Martin Schindler and won a highclass semi-final against Jonny Clayton.
Statistics
Report Finals Daynew

Belgian Darts Open - Day 3

Today the tournament 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 be played.
Four of the seeded players were eliminated in the second round. Damon Heta lost a close match to Rusty-Jake Rodriguez, Dimitri van den Bergh was defeated 5:6 by Andrew Gilding. Peter Wright lost with the same result due to a comeback of his opponent Niels van Zonneveld. Michael van Gerwen was defeated 4:6 by Kim Huybrechts who ended the match with a sensational 134 finish (Triple 18, Double 20, Double 20)and punished the Dutchman for his many missed doubles. Huybrechts is the only Belgian player still in the tournament.
Schedule, Results



24. September

Belgian Darts Open - Day 2

On the second day of the tournament the seeded players join the tournament and play against the first round winners. Again an afternoon - and an evening session will take place.
To the disappointment of the impressive Belgian crowd all five Host Nation Qualifiers were eliminated first round while the two Belgian Tour Card Qualifiers Mike de Decker and Kim Huybrechts progressed with wins over Remo Mandiau (one of the Host Nation qualifiers) and Steve West into the second round.
Schedule, Results
Statistics



23. September

Belgian Darts Open

Today in Wieze in Belgium the Belgian Darts Open - the penultimate European Tour Event of the year and the last which still counts for World Grand Prix in October - will begin.
Luke Humphries, Gerwyn Price and Michael Smith withdrew before the draw. Martin Schindler, Gabriel Clemens and Adrian Lewis moved up as seeded players and by the Host Nation Qualifier five tournament places were on offer. Qualified have Andy Baetens, Wouter Vanrolleghem, Roberto Vandaele, Remo Mandiau and Francois Schweyen.
As always on the first day of the tournament today the first round will be played in an afternoon and an evening session. Only the qualifiers will stand at the oche.
Belgian Darts Open, Results
Statistics



21. September

PDC World Youth World Championship

This years World Youth Championship will take place after the last Development Tour weekend on 9. October in Wigan. By now already the international qualifiers and the PDC Tour Card holders of eligible age are known. The other tournament places will be secured over Development Order of Merit after the last Development Tour event of the year.
You can find the already known participants here:
PDC Winmau World Youth Championship, Participants



19. September

PDC Challenge Tour

At the weekend in Leicester five Events of the PDC Challenge Tour took place. They had with Robert Owen, Wesley Plaisier, Jurjen van der Velde, Christian Kist and Scott Williams five different winners. For Williams it was already the fourth win on the Challenge Tour this year, for van der Velde the second. Williams sits still far ahead on the first place of the Challenge Tour Ranking while Owen moved up to second place just ahead of Danny van Trijp.
PDC Challenge Tour



18. September

Price wins World Series of Darts Final

In an extremly close final Gerwyn Price defeated Dirk van Duijvenbode with 11:10 and for the second time won the World Series title. Van Duijvenbode had most of the times the lead but Price always managed to draw. In the deciding leg it was Price who reached with his higher scores a finish first and with a two-dart 90 Checkout won the match.
Before Price defeated in the semi-finals James Wade with 11:9 while van Duijvenbode prevailed 11:8 over Jonny Clayton.
Statistics
Report Final

World Series of Darts Finale - Finals Day

On the last day the tournament it will be played to the end in an afternoon- and an evening session.
The quarterfinals in the afternoon session were a thrilling affair. First Gerwyn Price defeated Joe Cullen with 10:8 in a match in which the lead changed several times and in which Price despite his much higher average never seemed to get rid of Cullen. After that Dirk van Duijvenbode prevailed in a very close and even match with 10:9 over Ryan Joyce. The third quarterfinal was far less hard fought as Michael Smith just never was really in the game - he lost 5:10 to James Wade. In the last quarterfinal reigning champion Jonny Clayton met crowd favourite Michael van Gerwen. Clayton was soon 4:1 in front but van Gerwen settled and got the lead. But Clayton didn't give in, got stronger and stronger and battled back. Van Gerwen had no chance - he lost 7:10.
Tonight in the semi-finals first Gerwyn Price will play against James Wade before reigning champion Clayton will meet Dirk van Duijvenbode, the last Dutchman still in the event.
Schedule, Results



17. September

World Series of Darts Final

In the first round of the event we did see some not expected results. American Leonard Gates prevailed over Devon Petersen and Canadian Matt Campbell won 6:3 against Vincent van der Voort. World Champion Peter Wright had some problems against Fallon Sherrock especially as he had problems to hit his doubles while his opponent was absolutely clinical but he won 6:4.
Wright will play tonight in round 2 against Michael Smith. Reigning champion Jonny Clayton will meet Danny Noppert and Michael van Gerwen will play against the last night convincing Damon Heta.
Schedule, Results
Statistics



16. September

World Series of Darts Final

Tonight in Amsterdam the final of this year's World Series of Darts will begin.
In the first round today sixteen players will stand at the oche who either were invited or qualified by the qualifier. Among them are beside World Champion Peter Wright - who couldnt take part in all World Series Events - players from the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, North America and South Africa. Wright will play for a place in the second round against Fallon Sherrock.
Tomorrow the seeds will enter the tournament. One of them will reigning champion Jonny Clayton who will play against the winner of the first round match between Simon Whitlock and Danny Noppert.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statisticsnew
Preview



14. September

PDC World Grand Prix

The PDC World Grand Prix is the next major PDC tournament. It will take place in October in Leicester. Only the Belgian Darts Open from 23. - 25. September in Wieze will still count for qualification.
How the field of participants looks before this event you can find here:
Participants World Grand Prix - on 14. September

WDF Rankings

The WDF Rankings were updated.
WDF Rankings



13. September

CDC Premier Darts Circuit

At the weekend the last events of this year's CDC Premier Darts Circuit were played in Waterdown, Canada. They were won by Danny Baggish, Jim Long and Jacob Taylor.
Danny Baggish is after the end of the season head of the table and by this qualified for the PDC World Championship. In second place sits Canadian David Cameron who as the best placed Canadian as well qualified for the PDC World Championship where he will give his debut.
CDC Circuit



12. September

Peter Wright wins in Jena

Peter Wright is the most consitent player of the tournament and wins the final against against Dimitri van den Bergh - who was not in the best of his health on Finals Day - deservedly with 8:6. For Wright it was the first title on the European Tour since 2017, for van den Bergh his second final.
In the semi-finals stood Jose de Sousa and Joe Cullen. Martin Schindler was the only host nation player still in the tournament on Sunday. He lost in the third round to Gerwyn Price.
German Darts Open - Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
Report Finals Daynew

PDC Rankings

The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the European Tour Order of Merit were updated after the German Darts Open in Jena.
PDC Rankings
European Tour



9. September

German Darts Open

Tomorrow in Jena, Germany, the German Darts Open will begin. As always on the first day for the first round only the qualifiers will stand at the oche. An afternoon and an evening session will take place.
Michael van Gerwen, Michael Smith, Adrian Lewis and Darren Webster withdrew from the tournament. As a result Dave Chisnall and Martin Schindler move up as seeded players while Ross Smith, Lewy Williams, Steve Beaton and Joe Murnan all get a bye in the first round.
German Darts Open - Participants, Schedule, Results
Statisticsnew



7. September

Darts Performance Centre

In all other sports coaches are the order of the day. Why not in the sport of darts even though the benefits of coaches are a well-known truth? The Darts Performance Centre coaching clinic blog trys to figure it out.
On the trail of a Darts Coach! We look at why there is a lack of coaches in darts!

WDF News...

Raymond Smith and Beau Greaves were the winners of the Australian Darts Open. At the Pacific Masters Lisa Ashton and WDF World Champion Neil Duff got the titles. The youth events were won by Mitchell Galby and Faith Kainuku.
Winners of the Australian Murray Bridge Classic were Brandon Weening and Melina van den Kieboom.
Winners of the Antwerp Open were Jamie Lewis and Aletta Wajer, the Belgium Open were won by Wesley Plaisier and Laura Turner. The youth events saw two players pick up title doubles - Enrico Frank and Jana Leys. The Swedish Open were won by Kai Fan Leung and Lorraine Winstanley, the Swedish Masters by Dennie Olde Kalter and Aileen de Graaf.
In New Zealand as well a ranking event took place. At the John Wilkie Memorial Jonathan Tata and Weny Harper got the titles while the youth event was won by Jack Sheppard.



5. September

PDC Rankings

The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the European Tour Order of Merit were updated after the Hungarian Darts Trophy in Budapest.
PDC Rankings
European Tour



4. September

Cullen wins Hungarian Darts Trophy

Joe Cullen defeated William O'Connor in the final of the Hungarian Darts Trophy with 8:2 and won the title. So in the end one of the seeded players was the winner. Cullen showed his best performances in the semi-final and final.
With Nathan Aspinall another seed reached the semi-finals. The other semi-finalist was Dave Chisnall.
Hungarian Darts Trophy - Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
Report Finals Daynew

Hungarian Darts Trophy

Today in Budapest the Hungarian Darts Trophy will be played to the end. In the afternoon-session the third round will take place, in the evening session quarterfinals, semi-finals and the final will follow.
Ten from fifteen seeded players didn't survive the second round - among them Michael van Gerwen who once again was defeated by Simon Whitlock. Peter Wright as well was eliminated despite he played really well at his first appearance after his surgery by Jim Williams.
Hungarian Darts Trophy - Participants, Schedule, Results



3. September

Hungarian Darts Trophy

On the second day of the Hungarian Darts Trophy the seeded players play against the first round winners. Again an afternoon and an evening session will take place.
All Hungarian qualifiers were eliminated first round. The best performances in the first round showed Daryl Gurney and Stephen Bunting who both averaged over 100.
Hungarian Darts Trophy - Participants, Schedule, Results



2. September

Hungarian Darts Trophy

Today in Budapest the Hungarian Darts Trophy will begin. As always on the first day for the first round only the qualifiers will stand at the oche. An afternoon and an evening session will take place.
The tournament will be opened by the match between German Frank Roetzsch and Latvian Madars Razma. With Andras Borbely, Levente Sarai, Pal Szekely and Janos Vegsö four Hungarian qualifiers will stand on stage today. One of the highlights probably will be the match between Raymond van Barneveld and Rowby-John Rodriguez in the evening session.
Gerwyn Price and Rowby-John Rodriguez withdrew on short notice.
Hungarian Darts Trophy - Participants, Schedule, Results



1. September

World Series of Darts - Final

All places in the field of participants of the World Series of Darts Final are now taken after the PDC invited Haupai Puha and Gordon Mathers for the event.
The final will be played this year from 16. - 18. September in Amsterdam.
WSOD Final, Participants
World Series of Darts



31. August

European Tour - Hungarian Darts Trophy

On Friday in Budapest the Hungarian Darts Trophy will begin, the tenth event of the European Tour this year.
All participants are known, the draw took place and the PDC published the schedule of the first and second round. Participants of the first round include Raymond van Barneveld who will play first round against Rowby-John Rodriguez.
Reigning champion Gerwyn Price will play his first match in the second round against the winner of the first round match between Franz Roetzsch and Madars Razma.
Hungarian Darts Trophy - Participants, Schedule



29. August

PDC Women's Series

All four events at the weekend were won convincingly by the reigning WDF World Champion Beau Greaves who defeated in three of the finals Mikuru Suzuki and in one Aileen de Graaf. Thanks to the successful weekend Greaves now sits in the fourth place of the ranking while Aileen de Graaf sits in third place and Suzuki moved up to the sixth place. Lisa Ashton, who heads the ranking, had not the best of weekends - best result was the semi -final in 14. Event where she lost to Mikuru Suzuki.
Most successful German participant was Stefanie Rennoch, who reached the quarterfinals in Event 14 und the semi-finale in Event 16.
The Women's Series Season will be played to the end on 29. and 30. October in Wigan.
Women's Series - Participants, Results



27. August

Price wins New Zealand Darts Masters

Gerwyn Price defeated Jonny Clayton in an all Welsh final 8:4 and got his first title on the World Series. Price defeated on the second day of the tournament James Wade and Dimitri van den Bergh while Clayton prevailed over Michael van Gerwen - who once again had a lot of double trouble - and Michael Smith. Smith elimnated in the quarterfinals the last Oceanic player still in the event - Kayden Milne - with 6:0.
Gordon Mathers was awarded as best Ozeanic player in the three events played in Australia and New Zealand the new Kyle Anderson Trophy. For Rod Harrington today begins the retirement.
New Zealand Darts Masters, Results, Statistics

Women's Series

Today and tomorrow the PDC Women's Series will continue with the events 13 - 16 in Hildesheim, Germany.
Beside Top players like Lisa Ashton, Beau Greaves and Mikuru Suzuki many German players will stand at the oche. Fallon Sherrock will the events as she still is in New Zealand where she stood on the World Series stage till yesterday.
Women's Series - Participants, Results



26. August

New Zealand Darts Masters Day 1

On the first day of the New Zealand Darts Masters with the exception of Fallon Sherrock all PDC players won their matches. Sherrock lost 5:6 against World Series debutant Kayden Mile who for the first time ever played on stage. Sherrock had a matchdart in the decider but she missed and again was defeated on the World Series.
The best performances showed Gerwyn Price againt Ben Robb and Dimitri van den Bergh against an as well strong playing Simon Whitlock.
New Zealand Darts Masters, Results, Statistics



25. August

World Series of Darts - New Zealand Darts Masters

Tomorrow in Hamilton, New Zealand, the New Zealand Darts Masters will begin. Again the eight PDC players will play against eight Ozeanic qualifiers.
Michael van Gerwen, who won the last New Zealand Darts Masters in 2019, will begin his way to defend the title against Bernie Smith. Jonny Clayton, the winner of last weeks New South Wales Darts Masters, was drawn against Mal Cuming while number 1 seed Dimitri van den Bergh will play against Simon Whitlock.
New Zealand Darts Masters
Oceanic Qualifiers

WDF Rankings

The WDF Rankings were updated.
WDF Rankings



23. August

PDC Development Tour

At the weekend in Hildesheim, Germany, five events of the PDC Development Tour were played. Two of the tournaments were won by Josh Rock who beside stood in another final. The other winners were Gian van Veen, Lewy Williams and Nathan Rafferty. Josh Rock now heads the ranking followed by Nathan Rafferty for whom it was the third win this year on the Development Tour.
Development Tour



20. August

Clayton gewinnt New South Wales Darts Masters

Jonny Clayton was dominant in the final of the New South Wales Darts Masters and defeated James Wade with 8:1 and won his first PDC title of the year.
Clayton, for whom it was the second World Series title, defeated yesterday Hauhai Puha and prevailed today over Michael Smith and Joe Cullen before he met Wade in the final. Wade reached the final with wins against Gordon Mathers, Dimitri van den Bergh and Gerwyn Price. Michael van Gerwen, who won last week the Queensland Darts Masters was eliminated first round by Simon Whitlock.
New South Wales Darts Masters, Results, Statistics



19. August

World Series of Darts - New South Wales Darts Masters

Today and tomorrow the World Series of Darts will continue with the New South Wales Darts Masters in Wollongong, Australia.
Again in the first round the eight PDC Top players will play against eight Ozeanic qualifiers. Six of the qualifiers already took part last week in the Queensland Darts Masters. Instead of Bailey Marsh and Joe Comito this week Mal Cuming and Raymond O'Donnell will stand at the oche. The winner of the Queensland Darts Masters Michael van Gerwen will play in the first round against Simon Whitlock.
New South Wales Darts Masters, Results, Statistics
Oceanic Qualifiers



18. August

Shot Darts Coach

This Shot Darts Coach Blog deals with the right stance at the oche, a topic which often is neglected, but which is nevertheless of vital importance for your accuracy.
Stand and Deliver: check your stance, hit your target



15. August

Nordic and Baltic Tour

At the weekend the Nordic and Baltic Tour ended with four events in Latvia.
Three events were won by Darius Labanauskas, one by Daniel Larsson. The two players sit on the first and second place of the ranking and by this qualify for the PDC World Championship 2022/23.
Nordic and Baltic Tour
PDC World Championship 2022/23

Championship Darts

On the Circuit of the Championship Darts Corporation as well events took place at the weekend - three tournaments were played in Brownsville, Indiana. There were three different winners. Beside Jacob Taylor and Matt Campbell - who already celebrated wins on the Circuit this year - Larry Butler brilliantely won an event. In the other two events he once reached a semi-final and once a quarterfinal.
Championship Darts Circuit



13. August

Van Gerwen wins Queensland Darts Masters

Michael van Gerwen recovered from 1:4 behind against Gerwyn Price, prevailed with 8:5 and won the Queensland Darts Masters. Before he defeated in the quarterfinals Haupai Puha and in the semi-finals Joe Cullen. Against Cullen he had a hitting rate on the doubles of 100 percent. Price defeated in the quarterfinals Simon Whitlock and prevailed in the semi-finals over Gordon Mathers, the only oceanic player in the semi-finals who eliminated Michael Smith in the quarters.
The World Series will continue on 19. and 20. August with the New South Wales Darts Masters.
Queensland Darts Masters, Results, Statistics



12. August

World Series of Darts - Queensland Darts Masters - Day 1

With James Wade, Jonny Clayton and Fallon Sherrock on the first day already three PDC Pros were elimnated by Simon Whitlock, Haupai Puha and Gordon Mathers. Gerwyn Price and Michael van Gerwen only just won in the deciding leg against Damon Heta and Bailey Marsh. No problems on the other side had Dimitri van den Bergh, Joe Cullen and Michael Smith, who progressed with commanding wins into the quarterfinals. Joe Cullen impressed with an 108.65 average - the highest of the first round.
Queensland Darts Masters, Schedule, Results, Statistics



11. August

World Series of Darts - Queensland Darts Masters

Tomorrow the World Series of Darts will continue with the Queensland Darts Masters. Eight PDC players will play against eight Oceanic players.
The draw already took place. As in the final of the PDC World Cup Damon Heta will meet Gerwyn Price. At the World Cup Heta won the the match 4:0.
Queensland Darts Masters
Oceanic Qualifiers



9. August

WDF News...

Winners of the New Zealand Open in Rotorua were Victoria Monaghan and Ben Robb.
At the England Open Beau Greaves and David Pallett won the titles. Winners of the England National Singles were Scott Marsh and Rhian O'Sullivan. Luke Littler and Hannah Meek won the youth events of the England Open.
Paul Lim won in Tokyo both the Bud Brick Memorial and the Japan Open. The women's event of the Japan Open won Mikuru Suzuki, the women's event of the Bud Brick Memorials won Mayumi Ouchi.
Veronika Ihasz won the titles of both the Apatin Open and the Serbian Open. The men's titles went to Dean Biskupic and Patrick Kovacs.

PDC World Grand Prix

The PDC World Grand Prix will be the next important PDC Major. As last year it will take place in the Morningside Arena in Leicester as the Citywest Hotel in Dublin is not available at the date.
Before the tournament will begin on 3. October only three more European Tour Events will be played which count for the qualification. The schedule and how the field of participants looks at the moment you can find here:
World Grand Prix



7. August

World Series of Darts

By the World Series of Darts Tour Card Holder Qualifier - which was played yesterday in Barnsley - Danny Baggish, Matt Campbell, Danny Noppert, Vincent van der Voort, Dave Chisnall, Ryan Joyce, Jamie Hughes and Devon Petersen for the World Series of Darts Final in Amsterdam.
Ben Robb and Warren Parry secured the last two places in the New Zealand Darts Masters.
World Series of Darts Final
World Series of Darts

PDC Rankings

The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the Players Championships Order of Merit were updated after the Players Championships in Barnsley.
PDC Rankings
Pro Tour



6. August

Wins for Aspinall, Brown and Cross in Barnsley

At the Players Championships in Barnsley Nathan Aspinall, Keegan Brown and Rob Cross were successful.
Nathan Aspinall won the 22. Players Championship with a 8:3 defeat of Krzysztof Ratajski, the semi-finals reached Ryan Searle and Danny Noppert.
Keegan Brown secured at the 23. Players Championship his first PDC title since seven years. He defeated in the final Nathan Aspinall with 8:7. Ted Evetts and Peter Wright stood in the semi-finals.
Rob Cross prevailed in Players Championship 24 with 8:3 over Luke Humphries and won his first PDC title of the year. The semi-finals reached Martin Schindler and Chris Dobey.
Participants Barnsley, Results



3. August

Pro Tour Barnsley

Nine players managed yesterday to qualify for both the European Tour Event in Belgium and the European Tour Event in Gibraltar: Martin Schindler, Gabriel Clemens, Steve Beaton, Vincent van der Voort, Rusty-Jake Rodriguez, Chris Dobey, Keane Barry, Ryan Meikle and Jeff Smith.
During the qualifiers Jamie Hughes, Cameron Menzies and William Borland threw a nine-darter.
Today in Barnsley the 22. Players Championship of the year will follow.
Belgian Darts Open
Gibraltar Darts Trophy



2. August

Pro Tour Barnsley

Today in Barnsley the next Pro Tour unit will begin with the Tour Card Holder Qualifiers for the European Tour Events 12 and 13 in Wieze in Belgium and in Gibraltar. From Wednesday to Friday the Players Championships 22 - 24 will follow. On 6. August the Tour Card Holders Qualifier for the World Series of Darts Finale will take place - eight tournament places are on offer.
Several Tour Card holders - headed by Michael van Gerwen - will not be in Barnsley.
Participants Barnsley, Results