| Belgian Darts Open |
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The Belgian Darts Open are the twelfth event of the PDC European Tour and will be played from 23. - 25. September in Wieze, Belgium.
The top 16 of the Pro Tour Order of Merit and 32 qualifiers will take part.
Belgian Darts Open Tournament Information |
| PDC World Grand Prix |
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The PDC World Grand Prix will be played from 3. - 9. October in Leicester. The Top 16 of the PDC Order of
Merit and the Top 16 of the Pro Tour Order of Merit will take part.
Participants, Schedule Tournament Information |
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1. June
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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
