News 2023
31. December
On the 13. day of the World Championship the fourth round was played to the end. While even Raymond van Barneveld couldn't stop Luke Littler who played with 105.01 the highest
average of the day, Gary Anderson run aground with a mediocre performance against Brendan Dolan. Especially at the start of the match Anderson
couldn't hit his doubles. Other winners of the day were Scott Williams - to be sure one of the surprise winners in the World Championship -, Dave Chisnall,
a strong playing Rob Cross and Luke Humphries who once again won a dramatic match - this time in the sudden death leg against Joe Cullen.
The tournament will continue on the first of January 2024 with the quarterfinals. Chris Dobey will play against Rob Cross, Luke Littler will meet Brendan Dolan, Michael van Gerwen will clash with Scott Williams and Dave Chisnall will play against Luke Humphries.
Day 13 Resultsnew
Report, Statistics Day 13new
29. December
Again in an afternoon- and an evening-session three matches each will be played - in the afternoon-session it will be three third round matches, in the evening-session
session the last third round match and two fourth round matches.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Jim Williams v Raymond van Barneveld. Impartial: Michael van Gerwen v Stephen Bunting
Debutants of the day: Berry van Peer
Today's Day's Specials: Croatian Boris Krcmar was for many years one of the best or the best soft-darts player in the world. He won numerous titles and several times the World Championship. 2011 he for the first time qualified for the PDC World Championship. Since 2020 Krcmar has got a Tour Card but only in 2022 managed to qualified for the World Championship by the Order of Merit. 2021 and 2023 he both times qualified last minute by the PDPA Qualifier. That he reached the third round this year is his so far best result in his steel-darts career.
What you should know as well: So far only a single debutant progressed into the fourth round - Luke Littler. Berry van Peer could today manage it as well by defeating Damon Heta.
Schedule Day 12, Resultsnew
Statistics Day 12new
Day 12 started with a strong performance of Stephen Bunting to win 4:0 against German Florian Hempel. After that Joe Cullen defeated Rynan Searle and Chris Dobey prevailed in a
highclass match over Ross Smith. In the evening followed one of the biggest upsets of the tournament so far when Bredan Dolan threw with Gerwyn Price one of the favourites to win out of
tournament. The second match of the night was to be sure one of the most thrilling matches so far - Luke Humphries showed an unbelievable comeback to eliminate German Ricardo
Pietreczko. In the last match of the day Dolan's World Cup Partner Gurney as well progressed - he defeated Ricky Evans.
Report, Statistics Day 11new
28. December
Again in an afternoon- and an evening-session three third round matches each will be played.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Luke Humphries v Ricardo Pietreczko. Impartial: Gerwyn Price v Brendan Dolan
Debutants of the day: Ricardo Pietreczko
Today's Day's Specials: With Stephen Bunting and Ryan Searle today the the player who plays with the lightest and the player who plays with the heaviest darts in the World Championship will stand on stage though the weight difference is no longer as big as it was some time ago. Searle plays with 32g darts and used to play with 34g. Bunting now plays with 18g darts but in the past for a long time played with 12g.
What you should know as well: Four German players progressed into the third round but two of them yesterday already lost their third round matches: Martin Schindler and Gabriel Clemens. Today Florian Hempel and Ricardo Pietreczko will get the chance to progress.
Schedule Day 11, Resultsnew
Statistics Day 11new
On the first day after the Christmas Break in the Alexandra Palace in London the third round of the tournament started. Most of the six matches played were one sided and Michael van Gerwen progressed
with a 4:0 win while Michael Smith, Dave Chisnall and Luke Littler defeated their opponents 4:1. Rob Cross prevailed with 4:2 over Jeffrey de Graaf. Only Scott Williams
had to fight hard to defeat Martin Schindler with 4:3.
Report, Statistics Day 10new
27. December
The Christmas Break is over and the tournament continues with the first matches of the third round - in an afternoon- and an evening-session three matches each will be played.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Scott Williams v Martin Schindler. Impartial: Matt Campbell v Luke Littler
Debutants of the day: Richard Veenstra, Luke Littler
Today's Day's Specials: Six of the players on stage today never before stood in the third round of the PDC World Championship: Jeffrey de Graaf, Luke Littler, Richard Veenstra, Scott Williams, Matt Campbell and Madars Razma. And at least one of them will progress even further as Matt Campbell and Luke Littler will play each other.
What you should know as well: After the first and second round eleven seeds were already eliminated. With Ricardo Pietreczko, Luke Littler and Richard Veenstra three debutants are still in the tournament and four of the players still in neither qualified by the Order of Merit nor by the Pro Tour Order of Merit for the World Championship: Littler, Boris Krcmar, Florian Hempel und Jeffrey de Graaf.
Schedule Day 10, Resultsnew
Statistics Day 10new
24. December
On the last day of the second round and before the Christmas break four more seeds were eliminated from the tournament.
The best performance of the tournament so far showed Stephen Bunting against whom Ryan Joyce had no chance at all. A good match showed seed Daryl Gurney who defeated Steve Beaton.
Seed Ryan Searle did enough to defeat Tomoya Goto while Jonny Clayton profited from Steve Lennon's double trouble to get over the line.
Ricardo Pietreczko prevailed convincingly over seed Callan Rydz, Richard Veenstra demolished Kim Huybrechts, Berry van Peer impressed against Josh Rock and Ricky Evans not only delighted
the crowd with his walk-on but with a great performance to throw number 6 seed Nathan Aspinall out of the tournament.
Report, Statistics Day 9new
23. December
Steve Beaton announced that he will end his PDC career end of 2024.
The complete statement you can find here:
Steve Beaton Retirementnew
On day 9 again an afternoon- and an evening-session will be played - each with four second round matches. After that the second round is complete and the Christmas Break will begin.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Jonny Clayton v Steve Lennon. Impartial: Stephen Bunting v Ryan Joyce
Debutants of the day: Richard Veenstra, Ricardo Pietrezcko, Tomoya Goto, Berry van Peer
Today's Day's Specials: With Stephen Bunting another former BDO World Champion will stand at the oche. His best result in the PDC World Championship so far was the semi-finals in 2021.
What you should know as well: Many of the young players who'll stand at the oche today gained first experiences not in the BDO but in the PDC Youth. Callan Rydz, Nathan Aspinall, Steve Lennon, Ricky Evans, Berry van Peer and Josh Rock all played on the Develpment Tour and took part in the PDC World Youth Championship. Ricky Evans and Berry van Peer reached the final of the event, Josh Rock won it in 2022.
Schedule Day 9, Resultsnew
Statistics Day 9new
The eighth day of the PDC World Championship was a thrilling day. Especially hard fought were the all Irish clash between Brendan Dolan and Mickey Mansell, the match between Dimitri van den Bergh and
Florian Hempel and the last match of the day between Chris Dobey and William O'Connor. While in two of the matches the seeded players - Dolan and Dobey - prevailed, Florian Hempel who gave it all won the third. Convincing were Raymond van Barneveld and the second German player of
the day - Martin Schindler. Krzysztof Ratajski had no problems against Jamie Hughes. Jeffrey de Graaf and Boris Krcmar elimnated the seed Jose de Sousa and Dirk van Duijvenbode.
Statistics Day 8new
22. December
On day 8 again an afternoon- and an evening-session will be played - each with four second round matches.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Dimitri van den Bergh v Florian Hempel. Impartial: Martin Schindler v Jermaine Wattimena
Debutants of the day: Radek Szaganski
Today's Day's Specials: Today an in Sweden living and for Sweden playing Dutchman - Jeffrey de Graaf - and an in Ireland living Pole - Radek Szaganski - stand on stage. De Graaf first played in the BDO and from 2016 - 2018 had a PDC Tour Card, he took part four times in the BDO World Championship and this year for the third time in the PDC World Championship. Reaching this year the second round is his so far best World Championship result. Szaganski on the other side is a PDC Tour Card holder and this PDC World Championship is his first ever World Championship.
What you should know as well: For Raymond van Barneveld it is the 31. World Championship and the 17. PDC World Championship. While Steve Beaton took part from 1992 every year first in the BDO and from 2002 in the PDC World Championship Barneveld's first World Championship was already 1991 but he couldn't qualify 1992, 1994 and 2021. Beaton lost 1998 and 2001 in the BDO World Championship to the Dutchman. Van Barneveld threw in January 2009 the very first PDC World Championship Nine-Darter and in December 2009 the second.
Schedule Day 8, Resultsnew
Statistics Day 8new
On the sevent day of the tournament the last two first round matches were won by Mickey Mansell and Barry van Peer.
After those six matches of the second round were played and seeds Andrew Gilding and Danny Noppert were eliminated. Scott Williams defeated Noppert sensational with 3:0 - Noppert experienced a lot of double trouble. Luke Littler threw Andrew Gilding out of the tournament. The other winners of the day were Madars Razma - who for the first time progressed into the third round, Rob Cross, whose opponent Thibault Tricole had even more problems to hit the doubles than Noppert, Gabriel Clemens - whose finishing was too good for Man Lok Leung, and Damon Heta who with his foam flame crown during the walk-on once again took the cake...
Report, Statistics Day 7new
21. December
On day 7 again an afternoon- and an evening-session will be played - in the afternoon session two first round and two second round matches will be played,
in the evening session four second round matches.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Gabriel Clemens v Man Lok Leung. Impartial: Andrew Gilding v Luke Littler
Debutants of the day: Berry van Peer, Thibault Tricole, Luke Littler, Man Lok Leung
Today's Day's Specials: Mickey Mansell's match against Jim Long at the PDC World Championship 2019 made history as one of the worst World Championship matches of all times and had for Mansell a bitter sequel - the DRA imposed him with a fine af 500 pound "for not perform and compete to the best of his ability". Mansell suffered for a long time under that very controversial penalization... Both players had averages around 75.
What you should know as well: Berry van Peer who this year won Dutch Open and the WDF World Cup singles and qualified for the World Championship as first of the Challenge Tour Order of Merit for many years suffered from Dartitis.
Schedule Day 7, Resultsnew
Statistics Day 7new
The six tournament day brought a sensational performance of teenage debutant Luke Littler - who gave a solid playing Christian Kist no chance - and
the upset elimination of number 4 seed Peter Wright who had with an under par performance no chance against Jim Williams. Beside we saw strong performances from Ryan Joyce against a good playing
American debutant Alex Spellmann and from William O'Connor against Indian debutant Bhav Patel. Other winners were Radek Szaganski in the weakest match of the day, Steve Lennon, Ross Smith and
Richard Veenstra.
Report, Statistics Day 6new
20. December
On day 6 again an afternoon- and an evening-session will be played - both with
three first round matches and one second round match each.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Christian Kist v Luke Littler. Impartial: Peter Wright v Jim Williams
Debutants of the day: Radek Szaganski, Owen Bates, Bhav Patel, Alex Spellman, Richard Veenstra, Luke Littler
Seeded Player of the day: Ross Smith, Peter Wright
Today's Day's Specials: To be sure Luke Littler's debut in the PDC Weltmeisterschaft is a match many fans eagerly anticipate. Littler is one of the most talented young players and his has won more or less everything which is offered in youth darts - including the JDC World Championship last Sunday in the Alexandra Palace. On the PDC Development Tour he celebrated five wins this year and he won the PDC World Youth Championship 2023. 2022 he qualified as 14 year old for the WDF World Championship - this year he prefered to take part in the PDC World Championship instead.
What you should know as well: Bhav Patel lives as his better known Indian country fellow man Prakash Jiwa in London. He took part in Q School 2023 but couldn't get a Tour Card and played on the PDC Challenge Tour. In the Indian Qualifier for the PDC World Championship he lost in the final to Jiwa. Now Patel nevertheless got the place in the field of participants as Jiwa was suspended at the beginning of November because of betting fraud by the DRA.
Schedule Day 6, Resultsnew
Statistics Day 6new
On the fifth day James Wade was the first seeded player to be eliminated - he lost a close match 2:3 to Canadian Matt Campbell. Michael van Gerwen on the other side
won 3:0 Sieg against Keane Barry who couldn't find the doubles. While German Dragutin Horvat lost 3:0 to Mike de Decker German Ricardo Pietreczko won with the same result against a weak Mikuru Suzuki. Other winners of the day were Japanese
debutant Tomoya Goto, Boris Krcmar, Jeffrey de Graaf and a cheerful Steve Beaton.
Report, Statistics Day 5new
19. December
Today again an afternoon- and an evening-session will be played - both with
three first round matches and one second round match each.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Mike de Decker v Dragutin Horvat. Impartial: James Wade v Matt Campbell
Debutants of the day: Tomoya Goto, Wessel Nijman, Ricardo Pietreczko
Seeded Player of the day: James Wade, Michael van Gerwen
Today's Day's Specials: Today three World Championships with together sex titles stand at the oche - Mikuru Suzuki, Steve Beaton and Michael van Gerwen.
What you should know as well: For Steve Beaton it is already the 23. World Championship in a a row but so far he never got past the Last 16. James Wade took already time twenty times in a row and reached the semi-finals four times while for Michael van Gerwen it is the 17. World Champion in a row. He won it three times and three times lost in the final so far.
Schedule Day 5, Resultsnew
Statistics Day 5new
Though on the fourth day with the exception of Gerwyn Price no big name stood on stage but many debutants it was a thrilling night.
Price had no problems at all to get rid of Connor Scutt and convinced. Tricole wrote more history - as he was not only the first Frenchman in a PDC World Championship but the first Frenchman who won a
match on this stage. Martin Lukeman with a seasoned appearance defeated Haupai Puha from New Zealand who took too long to really get into the match. Man Lok Leung caused the so far biggest upset of the tournament as he
steamrolled with a highclass and dominate performance the highly valued upcoming Gian van Veen.
Report, Statistics Day 4new
18. December
On the fourth day only an evening-session will be played - with
three first round matches and one second round match.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Martin Lukeman v Haupai Puha. Impartial: Gerwyn Price v Connor Scutt
Debutants of the day: Connor Scutt, Thibault Tricole, Gian van Veen, Mario Vandenbogaerde, Man Lok Leung
Seeded Player of the day: Gerwyn Price
Today's Day's Specials: On the fourth day of the tournament five of the eight players involved are debutants. Beside it is an international day: two Englishman, one Welshman, one Bedian, one Dutchman, one Frenchman, one player from New Zealand and one from Hongkong.
What you should know as well: Thibault Tricole was not a finalist in a BDO World Championship but he was runner-up in last year's inauguralPDC WDF World Championship. It is more then probable he will not reach this results in this year's PDC World Championship but he nevertheless will write history as he is the first ever Frenchman in a PDC World Championship. He has not Tour Card but qualified by the Westeurope Qualifier for the World championship. The first French player to win a Tour Card was Jacques Labre who won it in the PDC Qualifying School 2023.
Schedule Day 4, Resultsnew
Statistics Day 4new
On the third day of the PDC World Championship again the two seeded players - Joe Cullen and Luke Humphries - progressed into the third round. Both won their matches
3:0 though it was not quite easy for Humphries. There was no happy end for Fallon Sherrock fourth PDC world Championship campaign though she had a chance in the fourth set against Jermaine Wattimena
to force a decider - she lost 1:3. Florian Hempel on the other side managed to beat a courageous fighting
Dylan Slevin with 3:1. Other winners were Ricky Evans, Jim Williams - who didn't lose a leg against Norman Madhoo, Matt Campbell and Niels Zonneveld in the so far weakest match of the World Championship.
Report, Statistics Day 3new
17. December
On the third day an afternoon-session and an evening-session will be played - both with
three first round matches and one second round match.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Matt Campbell v Lourence Ilagan. Impartial: Luke Humphries v Lee Evans
Debutants of the day: Lee Evans, Darren Penhall, Simon Adams, Dylan Slevin
Seeded Player of the day: Joe Cullen, Luke Humphries
Today's Day's Specials: Florian Hempel and Darren Webster both qualified by the Tour Card Holders Qualifier for the World Championship and for both players that could have been the key factor to keep the Tour Card. While Hempel's best World Championship results was the third round Webster stood 2007 and 2018 in the quarterfinals.
What you should know as well: As it happens with Jim Williams today another runner-up in the BDO stands at the oche. In the PDC World Championship so far the third round last year was his best result.
Schedule Day 3, Resultsnew
Statistics Day 3new
16. December
On the second day an afternoon-session and an evening-session will be played - both with
three first round matches and one second round match.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Connor Scutt v Krzysztof Kciuk. Impartial: Gary Anderson v. Simon Whitlock
Debutants of the day: Lee Evans, Sando Eric Sosing, Connor Scutt, Jules van Dongen, Darren Penhall, Reynaldo Rivera
Seeded Player of the day: Dave Chisnall, Gary Anderson
Today's Day's Specials: In the afternoon-session in the first round with the exception of Krzysztof Kciuk only debutants will stand on stage. Kciuk qualified 2010 as well for the PDC World Championship - and lost in the preliminary round to Haruki Muramatsu who will play as well today his first round match in the evening session. Muramatsu qualified beside 2010 and this year in 2012 and 2013 for the PDC World Championship.
What you should know as well: Dave Chisnall is another BDO World Championship Finalist - he reached the final in 2010. So far he never managed it in the PDC but in 2021 he at least reached the semi-finals.
Schedule Day 2, Resultsnew
Statistics Day 2new
On the first day of the PDC World Championship yesterday as usual in the the second round match - the last of the night - the reigning champion stood at the oche.
Michael Smith had to give it all to stay in the tournament but in the end managed to defeat Kevin Doets with 3:2. As close was the first round match beteen
Simon Whitlock and Paolo Nebrida in which Whitlock prevailed with 3:2. The other two first round matches were more one-sided and were won by Kevin Doets and
Cameron Menzies both with 3:0.
Report, Statistics Day 1new
15. Dezember
Today in the Alexandra Palace in London the PDC World Championship 2023/24 will begin. Only an evening session will be played
with three first round - and one second round match.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Cameron Menzies v Rusty-Jake Rodriguez. Impartial: Michael Smith v Doets/Buntz
Debutants of the day: Kevin Doets, Stowe Buntz
Seeded Player of the day: Reigning Champion Michael Smith
Today's Day's Specials: With Simon Whitlock today a player stands at the oche who reached in his career twice a World Championship final - 2008 in the BDO and 2010 in the PDC.
What you should know as well: Rusty-Jake Rodriguez is the only Austrian player in this year's World Championship and he had to play the Tour Card Holder Qualifier to get into it.
Schedule, Results Day 1
In the PDC Preview beside reigning champion Michael Smith, Gary Anderson, Luke Humphries, Michael van Gerwen and Nathan Aspinall have their say.
Previewnew
14. December
The following World Championships participants were added to the Who is Who: Wesley Plaisier, Alexander Merkx,
Barry Copeland, Liam Maendl-Lawrance,
Martyn Turner, Jonny Tata, Moreno Blom,
Thomas Junghans, Edwin Torbjörnsson, Reece Colley,
Christian Goedl, Aletta Wajer, Paula Murphy,
Christian Kist, Wessel Nijman, Owen Bates,
Simon Adams, Stowe Buntz, Alex Spellman,
Tomoya Goto and Man Lok Leung.
10. December
Today in Lakeside the WDF World Championships were played to the end. All finals were quite clear and one-sided matches.
In the girl's final Italian Aurora Fochesato won 2:0 against Hungarian Krisztina Turai. The boy's title went to Dutchman
Bradley van der Velden with a 3:0 over Adam Dee. Reigning champion Beau Greaves was far too strong for the courageous fighting Aileen de Graaf and with a 4:1 win for the second time in a row
crowned herself women's World Champion. In the last final of the night Belgian Andy Baetens defeated with a dominant performance Chris Landman 6:1 to become the first ever Belgian World Champion.
Results Finals new
Statisticsnew
Report Finals Daynew
9. December
Semi-Finals day in the Lakeside Country Club. In each of the two session one boy's semi-final, one women's semi-final and
one semi-final of the men will take place.
While reigning women's champion Beau Greaves is still in the event men's champion Neil Duff was eliminated yesterday in the quarter-finals by Chris Landman.
Schedule, Results Semi-Finalsnew
Statisticsnew
8. Dezember
In the last two women's second round matches yesterday Lisa Ashton and Kirsty Hutchinson prevailed. They will meet today in the quarterfinals.
The men's winners were Jonny Tata, Dennis Nilsson, Chris Landman, Jelle Klaasen, Neil Duff and - in the last thrilling all American match - Danny Lauby.
Today both in the men's and the women's event the quarterfinals will be played - two each in both of the sessions. Both reigning champions will stand on stage in the evening session.
Schedule, Results Quarterfinalsnew
Statisticsnew
7. December
On the fifth day of the tournament yesterday the last men's second round matches were won by Chris Landman, Thomas Junghans, Dennie Olde Kalter and Danny Lauby who today will return for
their third round games. The first two third round matches in yesterday's evening session were won convincingly by Andy Baetens and Wesley Plaisier. The two second round matches of the Women's World Championships were won by
Lorraine Winstanley and Aileen de Graaf.
In the women's event today the last two second round matches will be played and among others fourtimes world champion Lisa Ashton will stand at the oche. In the men's event the third round will be played to the end.
Schedule, Results Day 6new
Statisticsnew
6. December
The PDC World Series of Darts next year will consist of seven international events and the final. The first event will be the Bahrain Darts Masters from 18. - 19. January. As well in January
the Dutch Darts Masters will be played. End of May/beginning of June the US Darts Masters will follow. In June the Nordic Darts Masters and the Poland Darts Masters will take place,
in August the Australian and the New Zealand Darts Masters. The conclusion will be the WSOD Final from 13. - 15. September in Amsterdam.
In each of the international events eight PDC players and eight regional representatives will take part.
World Series of Darts 2024
Reigning champion Neil Duff prevailed yesterday with 3:1 over Moreno Blom but much more impressive and convincing was the former BDO World Champion
Jelle Klaasen who defeated Swede Edwin Torbjörnsson in no time 3:0. Beside Alexander Merkx, Martyn Turner, Wesley Plaisier and
Leonard Gates progressed in the men's event into the Third Round. Rhian O'Sullivan played in the women's evnt with 85.08 the so far
second highest average and progressed together with Deta Hedman into the next round.
In the men's event today the last three Second Round and the first two Third Round matches will be played in which Andy Baetens and Wesley Plaisier will play against Gary Stone and James Richardson respectively. In the women's event the Secpond Round will continue.
Schedule, Results Day 5new
Statisticsnew
5. December
Both Beau Greaves and Andy Beatens lived up to expectations on the first day of the second round of the World Championships in Lakeside.
Reigning champion Beau Greaves gave a good playing Lorraine Hyde no chance and secured with an 88.79 average a 3:0 win.
Number 1 seed Belgian Andy Baetens won his match against a courageous Sebastian Bialecki 3:0 with the so far highest average of the tournmant of 94.82.
The other winners of the day were Paula Murphy in the women's event and James Richardson, Jim Widmayer, Gary Stone, Jonny Tata and Dennis Nilsson in the event of the men.
Today the second round will continue. Among others Deta Hedman and reigning champion Neil Duff will be on stage.
Schedule, Results Day 4new
Statisticsnew
4. December
Today in the Lakeside Country Club the second round of the tournament will begin. Again an afternoon- and an evening-session will take place both with
one women's- and three men's matches. The seeded players join the tournament and will play against the first round winners.
In the evening-session in the men's event the number 1 seed Belgian Andy Baetens and in the women's event the number 1 seed and reigning champion Beau Greaves will stand at the oche.
Yesterday the first round was played to the end. Leonard Gates played with 92.11 so far highest average of the tournament and progressed into the next round as did Liam Maendl-Lawrance, Edwin Torbjörnsson, Moreno Blom, Jarno Bottenberg, David Kirwan, Dennie Olde Kalter and Thomas Junghans. In the women's event Kirsty Hutchinson, Priscilla Steenbergen, Suzanne Smith and Nicole Regnaud progressed into the second round.
Participants, Schedule and Results Day 3new
Statisticsnew
3. December
Yesterday in the Lakeside Country Club in Frimley Green the WDF World Championships 2023 began. Both the women and the men played matches of the First Round.
The best men's match was the match between James Richardson and Christian Gödl which was won by Richardson with an average of 88.14 2:1.
The other men's winners were Sebastian Bialecki, Ricky Naumann, Reece Colley, Dennis Nilsson, Jim Widmayer,
Jonny Tata and Arjan Kontermann. The most convincing match of the women was the match between Paula Murphy and Almudena Fajardo - both with averages over 72. American Murphy
won it and progressed as Veronika Ihasz, Aletta Wajer and Lorraine Hyde in the next round.
Today the tournament will continue and the First Round both of the women and the men will be played to the end.
Participants, Schedule, Resultsnew
Statisticsnew
To tune in for the WDF World Championships which will begin on Saturday 2. December Global Darts made an interview with American Jim Widmayer.
Widmayer - one of the few players who took part in the inauguralPDC World Matchplay and is still an active player will this year take part for the
fourth time in the World Championship. Since this year he is the president of the ADO - American Darts Organisation.
To the Interview
30. November
The PDC by now published the schedule of the First and Second Round of the tournamentt. The First and Second Round will take place from 15. - 23. December.
As always the reigning champion will play his second round match on the first night - Michael Smith will play against Kevin Doets or Stowe Buntz who will open with their match the World Championship. Number 2 seed Michael van Gerwen will play on 19. December against the winner of the match between Keane Barry and Reynaldo Rivera while number three seed Luke Humphries will play on 17. December either against Lee Evans or Eric Sosing.
Schedule First and Second Roundnew
29. November
PDC Rankings
The positions of the players qualified for the PDC World Championship in the complete PDC Order of Merit you can find here:
Participants PDC World Championship 2023/2024 in the Order of Merit
28. November
Yesterday in Barnsley the Tour Card Holders Qualifier for the PDC World Championship 2023/2024 took place. The four places in the field of participants on offer
got Florian Hempel, Darren Webster, Boris Krcmar and Rusty-Jake Rodriguez. The field of participants of the World Championship was complete and the draw was made.
Reigning champion Michael Smith will begin his fight to defend the title in the second round against the winner of the first round match between Kevin Doets and American Stowe Buntz. Number two seed Michael van Gerwen will begin his campaign either against Keane Barry or Reynaldo Rivera while World Grand Prix, Grand Slam and Players Championship Finals winner Luke Humphries will start into the tournament against Lee Evans or Sandro Eric Sosing.
Participants, Draw First and Second Round
27. November
In a close and highclass final an outstanding Humphries defeated with a comeback from 5:9 down
reigning champion Michael van Gerwen with 11:9 and for the third time in two month won a PDC TV-Event.
Van Gerwen threw a nine-darter in the final.
Humphries defeated on finals day James Wade and Ryan Joyce while van Gerwen prevailed over Stephen Bunting and Gabriel Clemens.
Report Finalnew
Statisticsnew
Schedule and Results Finals Day
Luke Littler defeated in the final of the World Youth Championship Gian van Veen with 6:4 and is new PDC World Youth Champion. It was from both
players a highclass final. By the win Littler secured a place in the PDC World Championship for which van Veen already is qualified
by the Pro Tour Order of Merit. Beside both players got a place in the Grand Slam of Darts 2024.
Report and Statisticsnew
25. November
Today the tournament in Minehead will continue. In the afternoon the second round will be played, tonight the third round will take place.
Reigning champion Michael van Gerwen will play against Ross Smith in the second round. Number 1 seed Gerwyn Price will clash with Kim Huybrechts.
Schedule and Results Second and Third Roundnew
Statisticsnew
24. November
Richard Veenstra caused for the biggest upset of the first round today - he eliminated World Champion Michael Smith from the event. James Wade and Niels Zonneveld played with over 100 the highest averages.
Reigning champion Michael van Gerwen defeated Callan Rydz with 6:3 and progressed into the second round.
Results First Roundnew
Statisticsnew
23. November
Tomorrow in Minehead the Players Championship Finals will begin. In an afternoon- and an evening-session the first round will be played.
In the PDC preview reigning champion Michael van Gerwen, Gary Anderson and Rob Cross have their say.
Previewnew
22. November
The West Europe Qualifier for the PDC World Championship was played at the weekend. The winner was Frenchman
Thibault Tricole who won through a strong field of participants to win the final against Dutchman Wesley Plaisier. Tricole is the
first Frenchman ever to qualify for the PDC World Championship.
Tricole was already qualified for the WDF World Championship at the start of December but decided in favour of the PDC World Championship. He will be replaced in the WDF World Championship by Englishman John Scott.
PDC World Championship - Participants, Schedulenew
Danny Noppert withdrew from the Players Championship Finals due to the imminent arrival of his second child. For him young Irishman
Dylan Slevin moved up, who will play instead of Noppert against Canadier Matt Campbell in the first round.
The detailed schedule of the first round of the event was published - reigning champion Michael van Gerwen will start his campaign to defend the title in the evening session on Friday on the main stage against Callan Rydz.
Participants, Schedule First Roundnew
PDC Rankings
19. November
In a from both players highclass but slightly one-sided final Luke Humphries defeated Rob Cross with 16:8 and won his first Grand Slam title. Both players
averaged over 103 but all in all Humphries scored better and had the higher hitting rate on the doubles.
Before Humphries defeated in the semi-finals James Wade with 16:10 while Cross prevailed with 16:13 over Stephen Bunting
Finals Day Results
Report and Statistics Finals Daynew
In Wolverhampton today in an afternoon and an evening session semi-finals and final of the Grand Slam will take place.
In the afternoon in the first semi-final James Wade will meet Luke Humphries. After that Stephen Bunting will play against Rob Cross. Tonight the final will follow.
Schedule Finals Daynew
The last two quarterfinals were quite one-sided matches. Neither Stowe Buntz nor Damon Heta could keep up their performances.
So first Stephen Bunting defeated Buntz with 16:8 and after that Rob Cross Damon Heta with 16:6. Bunting and Cross progressed into the semi-finals.
Report and Statistics Quarterfinals 2 new
18. November
Tonight in Wolverhampton again two quarterfinals will be played.
In the first match American debutant Stowe Buntz will meet Stephen Bunting. After that in the last quarterfinal Damon Heta will play against Rob Cross.
Schedule Quarterfinals 2, Results
Both quarterfinals on the seventh day of the tournament in Wolverhampton were hard fougth and thrilling matches and both went quite similar.
James Wade stormed against Josh Rock in the first quarterfinal into a 3:0 lead and for a long time stayed ahead before Josh Rock got the 11:10 and kept his lead till 15:12.
The young player from Northern Ireland missed one matchdart and Wade came back and won a very close deciding leg. Gary Anderson as well had an
early lead against Luke Humphries but Humphries too outrun him. Anderson for a short while got the lead back but it was Humphries who won the last three legs of the match.
Wade and Humphries will meeat in the semi-finals on Sunday.
Report and Statistics Seventh Day new
17. November
In Wolverhampton the tournament will continue today with the first two quarterfinals.
In the first quarterfinal James Wade will play against Josh Rock. Iin the second quarterfinal Gary Anderson and Luke Humphries will clash.
Schedule Quarterfinals 1, Results
With the exception of the last match the second second round night was not as highclass as the first but it was thrilling nevertheless. In the first match the dream debut of American Stowe Buntz
continued - he defeated Andrew Gilding who was far from beeing clinical on his doubles and progressed as first American ever in the quarterfinals of the tournament.
In the second match it was an under par Danny Noppert who experienced a lot of double trouble and Stephen Bunting sailed through. Damon Heta caused a big upset in the third match as he
eliminated Michael van Gerwen with a convincing performance. A highclass and dramatic match between Rob Cross and Nathan Aspinall ended the night
in which Cross prevailed 10:8.
Report and Statistics Sixth Day new
16. November
Tonight the last four matches of the second round will take place.
Nathan Aspinall will open the night against Rob Cross. After that American debutant Stowe Buntz will play against Andrew Gilding. In the third match Danny Noppert and Stephen Bunting will meet. In the last match of the second round Michael van Gerwen will play against Damon Heta.
Schedule Sixth Day, Results
On a thrilling and highlass second round night
Josh Rock, James Wade, Gary Anderson and Luke Humphries progresssed into the quarterfinals. They won their matches against Krzysztof Ratajski, Chris Dobey,
Gerwyn Price and Ryan Searle. Gary Anderson and Luke Humphries played outstanding and will meet in the quarterfinals as will
Josh Rock and James Wade.
Report and Statistics fifth day
15. November
Tonight the Knockout Phase will begin. Four matches will be played.
Josh Rock will open the night against Krzysztof Ratajski. After that James Wade will play against Chris Dobey. In the third match as in the final of 2018 Gerwyn Price and Gary Anderson will clash. In the last match Luke Humphries and Ryan Searle will stand at the oche.
Schedule Fifth Day, Results
Neither Beau Greaves nor Fallon Sherrock managed to win their deciding group matches - they lost to Rob Cross and Damon Heta
who by this progressed to the next round. Stephen Bunting won the deciding match against Peter Wright who was eliminated from the
event. Danny Nopper and Andrew Gilding as well won deciding matches to progress.
Report and Statistics Fourth Day
Group Tables E-H Final Standings
14. November
Tonight the group will end with the third groud matches of Groups E-H.
From those groups Stowe Buntz, Michael van Gerwen and Nathan Aspinall already qualified for the next round. Out of the tournament are Dave Chisnall, Martijn Kleermaker and Ricardo Pietreczko. Among those who still have a chance to progress are Fallon Sherrock and Beau Greaves.
Schedule Fourth Day, Results
Though there were some suprises in the final group matches of Groups A-D it was Ryan Searle who made the head lines. He threw against
Nathan Rafferty a nine-darter to win the match 5:3. Gary Anderson and Luke Humphries won in Group C their matches and progressed. In Group A James Wade
defeated reigning champion Michael Smith who by this was eliminated while Wade topped the group. As well from this group Krzysztof Ratajski is in the next round.
From Group B Josh Rock and Chris Dobey are in the second round, from Group D beside Gerwyn Price Ryan Searle.
Report and Statistics Third Day
Group Tables A-D Final Standings
13. November
Tonight the third and last group matches of Groups A - D will take place.
Not much is decided so far - only Gerwyn Price and Josh Rock are already through to the second round and Gian van Veen is already eliminated from the tournament.
Schedule Third Day, Results
On the scond day again American Stowe Buntz surprised - he defeated Stephen Bunting as well and is one of five players who are already through to the second round
after the second group matches. The others are Gerwyn Price, Josh Rock, Michael van Gerwen and Nathan Aspinall.
Already out of the tournament are Gian van Veen, Dave Chisnall, Martijn Kleermaker and Ricardo Pietreczko. Kleermaker lost his second group match to Fallon Sherrock who by this still is
able to progress as is Beau Greaves who with another strong performances defeated Pietreczko 5:1.
Report and Statistics Second Day
Group Tables
12. November
The biggest upset of the first day of the tournament caused American debutan Stowe Buntz who stormed to a 5:1 win over number 2 seed
Peter Wright. Buntz played with 102.28 the highest average of the day. All in all we did see quite a lot of close matches with 5:4 wins.
Beau Greaves lost 4:5 to Nathan Aspinall while Fallon Sherrock only managed to win one leg against Michael van Gerwen.
Today the second group matches will be played again in an afternoon and an evening session. The losers of the groups will play one another and the winners will play the winners. In the afternoon groups B,D,F and H will stand on stage, tonight groups A,C,E and G.
Schedule Second Day, Results
11. November
Today in Wolverhampton an afternoon - and an evening session will take place. In all groups the first group matches will be played - in the afternoon in
Groups B,D,F and H, tonight in Groups A,C,E and G.
German debutant Ricardo Pietreczko will clash in the first match of the tournament in the afternoon session with Damon Heta. Reigning champion Michael Smith will play in the last match of the evening session against debutant Nathan Girvan.
Schedule First Day, Results
Group Tables
Statistics
10. November
Dragutin Horvat defeated in the final of the PDC Super League Tour Card Holder Pascal Rupprecht with 8:3 and after 2017 for the
second time takes part in the PDC World Championship in London. Before he defeated on finals day in the quarterfinals
Nico Kurz and prevailed in the semi-finals over Lukas Wenig. Rupprecht defeated on his way to the final Daniel Klose and Kai Gotthardt.
Results
Tomorrow in Wolverhampton the Grand Slam of Darts will begin.
It is difficult to spot a clear favourite, statistically Ross Smith was over the last few weeks the strongest player. But unfortunately he didn't manage to qualify for the Grand Slam...
Previewnew
Last night the Last 16 matches took place and the primal twentyfour participants are now reduced to eight who fight for a place in the PDC World Championship:
Lukas Wenig, Dominik Grüllich, Nico Kurz, Dragutin Horvat, Kai Gotthardt, Niko Springer and the two Tour Card holders Pascal Rupprecht and Daniel Klose
who will clash in the quarterfinals. Most Last 16 matches were hard fought, only Pascal Rupprecht had a clear
6:1 win over Arno Merk.
Tonight the tournament will be played to the end.
Schedule
9. November
The group phase of the tournament was played to the end yesterday and from each group the two last in the table were eliminated
from the event.
Lukas Wenig is the only player who won all his group matches and he progressed into the last 16 as did Niko Springer who won nine of his ten matches. Among the 16 players who progressed is as well the former German number 1 Max Hopp.
Today the Last 16 will be played.
Schedule, Final Standings Groups
8. November
Yesterday in Bitburg, Germany, this year's PDC Europe Superleague started with the group phase. The winner of the
tournament will be rewarded with a place in the PDC World Championship.
Lukas Wenig and Dragutin Horvat won in their groups all five matches and now head Groups A and C. Pascal Rupprecht heads Group B with four wins. In Group D both Niko Springer and Nico Kurz won four matches, Springer is first in the table due to the better leg difference. Springer was the outstanding player of the first day - he not only won four of his matches but threw a nine-darter as well and twice played an average of over 100 in his matches.
Today the second day of the group phase will take place.
Superleague 2023
The PDC published the Group Draw and the draw and schedule of the first group matches.
Reigning champion Michael Smith heads Group A to which beside him James Wade, Krzysztof Ratajski and debutant Nathan Girvan belong. He start his campaign in the evening session on Saturday against Nathan Girvan. The tournament will be opened in the afternoon session with the match between German Ricardo Pietreczko and Damon Heta in Group F.
Groups
Schedule First Group Matches
6. November
All participants in the WDF World Championships 2023 are known. The tournament will be played from 2. - 10. December in the Lakeside Country Club in
Frimley Green.
The WDF already published the draw and the schedule of the first and second round both of the women's and the men's event. Reigning champion Beau Greaves will begin her tournament in the second round against the winner of the match Lorraine Hyde v Laura Turner. Reigning champion Neil Duff as well starts in the second round . He will play either against Moreno Blom or against Gabor Takacs.
Participants, Schedule
3. November
Today in Barnsley the Tour Card Inhaber Qualifier for the Grand Slam of Darts was played. The tournament will take place from 11. - 19. November in Wolverhampton.
The qualifiers are: Danny Noppert, Stephen Bunting, Ryan Searle, Nathan Rafferty, Damon Heta, Steve Lennon, Martijn
Kleermaker and Brendan Dolan. The field of participants is now complete.
Grand Slam of Darts
After the last two Players Championships all 64 participants in the Players Championship Finales in Minehead are known.
The draw already took place. Reigning champion Michael van Gerwen will start his campaign against Callan Rydz. Top seed
Gerwyn Price will play against Ricky Evans first round.
Peter Wright, Nathan Aspinall, Mensur Suljovic and Mervyn King didn't manage to qualify.
Players Championship Finals
Gerwyn Price and Dave Chisnall won in Barnsley the last two Players Championships of the year.
Gerwyn Price won the 29. Players Championship and defeated in the final Dave Chisnall with 8:3. Rob Cross and Damon Heta stood in the semi-finals.
Dave Chisnall won on Thursday the 30. and last Players Championship - he defeated in the final Jim Williams with 8:4. Beside Gian van Veen again Damon Heta reached the semi-finals. For Chisnall it was the fifth win on the Pro Tour this year. Ricky Evans threw a nine-darter in the first round.
PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
31. October
Tomorrow and on Thrusday in Barnsley the Players Championships 29 and 30 will take place - the last two
Players Championships of the year. After those all participants in the Players Championship Finals are known.
One place in the Grand Slam of Darts will be decided as well. At the moment it is
occupoied by Dirk van Duijvenbode who can*t take part in the Players Championships due to an shoulder injury. Should Danny Noppert win
one of the events he will oust his fellow countryman..
Participants, Resultsnew
How the field of participants of the Grand Slam looks at the mopment you can find here:
Grand Slam of Darts
30. October
At the weekend this year's PDC Challenge Tour was played to the end. The last five events were played and they had with
John Henderson, Dom Taylor, Andy Boulton, Viteszlav Sedlak and James Hurrell five different winners. Berry van Peer and
Owen Bates stayed on the places 1 and 2 of the PDC Challenge Tour Order of Merit and by this are qualified for the PDC
World Championship.
PDC Challenge Tour
PDC Rankings
29. October
Peter Wright defeated in the final of the European Championship in Dortmund as 2020 James Wade and for the second time is European Champion.
For Wright it is the first Major Title since almost two years. Before defeated Wright on Finals Day in the quarterfinals Chris Dobey and fought back to win
in his semi-final against Danny Noppert. James Wade defeated in the quarterfinals Luke Humphries and defeated in his semi-final
Gian van Veen with a comeback. Van Veen eliminated in the quarterfinals Michael van Gerwen.
Results Finals Daynew
Statisticsnew
Michael van Gerwen got a hard fought 10:7 win over German Ricardo Pietreczko and progressed together with Chris Dobey, Danny Noppert, Gerwyn Price,
Peter Wright, James Wade, Luke Humphries and Gian van Veen into the quarterfinals. For van Veen it will be his first Major quarterfinal and he will play
against his fellow country man Michael van Gerwen.
Today the tournament will be played to the end. In the afternoon-session the quarterfinals will be played, in the evening-session semi-finals and final will take place.
Schedulenew
Statistics
28. October
While yesterday both German players lost their matches today Ricardo Pietreczko once again made the headlines - he eliminated
the reigning champion Ross Smith.
The other winners of the night were Gian van Veen, Kryzsztof Ratajski, Daryl Gurney, Jonny Clayton, James Wade (in the weakest match if the night), Luke Humphries and
Michael van Gerwen who survived two matchdarts of the strong playing Madars Razma.
Tomorrow in Dortmund the second round will be played in an afternoon- and an evening-session. Ricardo Pietreczko will play in the evening-session against Michael van Gerwen spielen.
Schedule Third Day
Results Second Day
Statistics
One the first day of the tournament both German players Gabriel Clemens and Martin Schindler lost their matches to Peter Wright and
Stephen Bunting respectively. Number 1 seed Dave Chisnall was beaten by Chris Dobey. Other winners on this first round night were Danny Noppert,
Nathan Aspinall, Rob Cross, Gerwyn Price and Michael Smith.
Tonight the first round will be played to the end. Among others reigning champion Ross Smith will play against Ricardo Pietreczko antreten.
ScheduleSecond Daynew
26. October
Tonight in Dortmund the European Championship will begin. The first eight matches of the first round will take place.
Danny Noppert will open the tournament against Andrew Gilding. Among others number 1 seed Dave Chisnall will begin his campaign against Chris Dobey while World Champion Michael Smith will play against Raymond van Barneveld.
In the preview reigning champion Ross Smith, Luke Humphries and Dave Chisnall have their say.
Preview
Schedule, Results First Daynew
Statisticsnew
23. October
PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
The four Players Championships in Barnsley had four different winners - Gary Anderson, Ryan Joyce, Radek Szaganski and Ross Smith.
Anderson was the most successfull player of the four days - beside winning the 25. Players Championship he twice reached a quarterfinal
and threw a nine-darter. Pole Szaganski to be sure was a surprise winner - the 43 years old - who by now lives in Ireland -
was the only second Polish winner of a PDC ranking event.
Participants, Results
18. October
From today till Saturday in Barnsley the Players Championships 25 - 28 will be played.
With the exception of Corey Cadby, Adrian Lewis, Christian Perez and Lewy Williams all Tour Card holders registered, Pascal Rupprecht will not take part on Saturday. They will be replaced by Berry van Peer, Christian Kist, Cameron Crabtree and Owen Bates, for Rupprecht John Henderson will move up.
Participants, Results
PDC Nordic and Baltic Tour
Tournament Calendar 2024
17. October
After the German Darts Championship last weekend all participants of the European Championship were known and the PDC by now
published the draw and the schedule of the first round.
Number 1 seed Dave Chisnall will play against Chris Dobey while reigning champion Ross Smith was drawn against German Ricardo Pietreczko. The match between Danny Noppert and Andrew Gilding will open the tournament.
The tournament will take place from 26. - 29. October in Dortmund.
Participants, Schedule
16. October
PDC Rankings
European Tour
Women's Series
15. October
Ricardo Pietreczko defeated in Hildesheim in the final of the German Darts Championship Peter Wright with 8:4 and as the only second
German darts player after Max Hopp secured himself a PDC ranking title. Pietreczko defeated today on his way into the final
George Killington, Stephen Bunting and Michael van Gerwen. A large part in his success had his accuracy on the doubles. In the final
he hit all eight in the first attempt. Peter Wright reached the final with wins over
Nico Kurz, Damon Heta and Luke Humphries.
Schedule, Results Day 3new
Statisticsnew
Fallon Sherrock was this weekend the outstanding player of the Women"s Series - she won three of the events.
The fourth and last tournament was won by Nathalie Gilbert. Beau Greaves was not as successfull as one was used to but
twice stood in the quarterfinals and twice in the semi-finals.
Participants, Resultsnew
14. October
Today in Hildesheim the second round of the German Darts Championship took place. The seeds entered the event and
played against the first round winners - among them with Nico Kurz, Gabriel Clemens and Ricardo Pietreczko three
German players. All three survived the second round as well at the expense of the seeds Jonny Clayton, Dave Chisnall and Martin Schindler.
Seeds Ryan Searle, Danny Noppert, Dirk van Duijvenbode, Josh Rock and Nathan Aspinall were eliminated as well.
Participants, Schedule, Results Day 2new
Statisticsnew
In Wigan this weekend the last four events of this year's PDC Women's Series will be played. As with Beau Greaves the head of the ranking decided to relinquish her place
in the PDC World Championship and instead will try to defend her WDF World Champion title it is already clear before the
weekend that Mikuru Suzuki and Fallon Sherrock will represent the women in the PDC World Championship.
Participants, Resultsnew
12. Oktober
Tomorrow in Hildesheim, Germany, the last European Tour Event of the year will begin - the German Darts Championship. The tournament is
for the participating players the last chance to qualify for the European Championship which will take place from 26. - 29. October in
Dortmund.
Tomorrow the first round of the event will be played in which as always only the qualifiers will take part. Today the Host Nation Qualifier took place by which Marcus Kirchmann and Nico Kurz qualified. Gerwyn Price withdrew from the tournament and is replaced by Ross Smith.
Participants, Schedule, Results Day 1
11. Oktober
The WDF Championships will take place from 2. - 10. December in the Lakeside Country Club.
The PDC doesn't allow players who qualified both for the PDC World Championship and the WDF World Championships to take part in both events - the players have to decide in which they want to take part. The WDF would have had no problems with it - especially in respect of the female players. Among the affected players are Beau Greaves and Luke Littler. While Greaves decided to defend her title in the WDF Littler decided to take part in the PDC World Championship.
The qualification period for the WDF Championships is not over yet - it will end on 30. October. But 73 participants are already known.
WDF Championships 2023 - Schedule, already known Participantsnew
10. October
PDC Rankings
8. October
Luke Humphries defeated in the final of the World Grand Prix Gerwyn Price with 5:2 and won his first Major title. Price made a strong start into the match and won
the first set without reply. But Humphries reacted immediately and won the next three sets in a row. Set five went in the deciding leg to the Welshman. The following two sets needed a
deciding leg as well but both times Humphries was the winner. In the seventh and final set Humphries lived up to his
nickname "Cool Hand" and hit a 138 finish to victory.
Report, Statistics Finalnew
7. October
Gerwyn Price and Luke Humphries will meet tomorrow night in the final of the World Grand Prix in Leicester.
Gerwyn Price defeated in the first semi-final Michael Smith with 4:2. It was no highclass match and Michael Smith only had one really good set which was not enpough against a slick playing Price. The second semi-final was a rather one-sided affair and won 4:0 by Luke Humphries. The only highlight from Joe Cullen was a 150 Finish in the last set of the match. Apart from that Cullen had no chance at although Humphries was far from outstanding himself.
Results Semi-Finalsnew
Report, Statistics Semi-Finalsnew
Tonight in Leicester the semi-finals of the World Grand Prix will take place.
First Michael Smith will play against Gerwyn Price. After that in the second semi-final Joe Cullen and Luke Humphries will meet. Price is the only former winner from the four remaining players.
Schedule
6. October
The first two quarterfinals between Gerwyn Price and Martin Schindler and Michael Smith and Andrew Gilding respectively were both
one-sided affairs and were both won 3:0 - by Price and Smith. Much closer was the quarterfinal between Peter Wright and Luke Humphries, in which Humphries first was 0:2 behind but
then won the match 3:2 in a dramatic final leg. The final quarterfinal between Chris Dobey and Joe Cullen was rather close
as well but not quite so high-class as the match between Wright and Humphries. In the end Joe Cullen won it 3:2
Tonorrow in the semi-finals Michael Smith will play against Gerwyn Price and Luke Humphries against Joe Cullen
Schedule, Results Fifth Day
Statistics Fifth Daynew
On the second secondround night Chris Dobey caused the so far biggest upset of the tournament - he defeated reigning champion Michael van Gerwen with 3:2. Till the 2:2 it had been a head-to-head race
but then Dobey won the last set without losing a leg and crossed the finishing line with an 156 finish. The other winners of the night were Luke Hunmphries,
Peter Wright and Joe Cullen.
Tonight the quarterfinals will take place - Gerwyn Price will meet Martin Schindler, Michael Smith will play against Andrew Gilding, Peter Wright against Luke Humphries and Chris Dobey will clash with Joe Cullen.
Schedule Day 4, Results
Statistics Fourth Daynew
5. October
On the first second round evening two one-sided and two hard-fought matches took place. Michael Smith and Gerwyn Price had no problems at all
and progressed with 3:0 wins into the quarterfinals, Smith for the first time. The matches between Gary Anderson and Andrew Gilding and Stephen Bunting and Martin Schindler
respectively were hard-fought and had with Gilding and Schindler some kind of surprise winners.
Tonight the other four matches of the second round will take place. Among others reigning champion Michael van Gerwen will play against Chris Dobey.
Schedule Day 4
Report, Statistics Third Daynew
4. October
The second first round evening was a rather one-sided affair - with the exception of the match between Damon Heta and Ryan Searle - which Searle
won 2:1 - all matches were won 2:0. Among the winners was reigning champion Michael van Gerwen against whom Josh Rock had no chance at all. With
Jonny Clayton another seeded player was eliminated. The upset of the night was the 0:2 defeat of the highly-fancied Dave Chisnall against debutant Luke Woodhouse
who had only managed to qualify for the World Grand Prix last-minute.
Tonight the second round will begin - the first four matches will be played.
Schedule Day 3, Resultsnew
Report, Statistics Second Day
3. October
Two of the seeded players were eliminated on the first day - Nathan Aspinall lost to Stephen Bunting and Rob Cross was defeated in the last and weakest match
of the night by Andrew Gilding. Beside Brendan Dolan, Gary Anderson, Krzysztof Ratajski, Martin Schindler, Gerwyn Price and Michael Smith - who played with 96.14
the highest average of the night - won their matches.
Today the first round will be played to the end. Among others Michael van Gerwen, Peter Wright and Jonny Clayton will stand at the oche.
Schedule Second Day, Resultsnew
Report, Statistics First Day
2. October
Tonight in Leicester the PDC World Cup will begin. The first eight matches of the first round will be played.
The tournament will be opened by the match between Dirk van Duijvenbode and Brendan Dolan. Among others Gary Anderson, Michael Smith and Gerwyn Price
will stand on stage as well.
In the PDC preview Michael van Gerwen, Jonny Clayton and Gary Anderson have their say.
Schedule First Round, Results
Preview
Winners of the Singles titles of the WDF World Cup were in the adult events Berry van Peer and Beau Greaves and in the youth events Walker Jenson and Paige Pauling, both from England. The men's pairs
were won by the New Zealand pair Haupai Puha and Ben Robb, the women's pairs by the English pair Beau Greaves and Deta Hedman. The youth pairs events all had English winners:
Banks/Walker and Pauling/Meek and Thomas Banks together with Paige Pauling won the mixed youth pairs. The men's team event was won by Team Netherlands
and the women's team event by Team Ireland.
Participants, Results
PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
29. September
After he lost yesterday in the semi-finals against Luke Humphries Gary Anderson - who reached the quarterfinals of Players Championship 22 too -
today won the 24. Players Championship. He defeated in the final Ryan Joyce with 8:4. In the semi-finals stood Jonny Clayton and Stephen Bunting. Michael van Gerwen lost in the
quarterfinals to Ryan Joyce but played strong and threw in the Last 16 a nine-darter against Chris Dobey. In the the first round of the event Luke Woodhouse
as well threw a nine-darter.
Yesterday Dave Chisnall won Players Championship 23.
Participants, Resultsnew
28. September
Danny Noppert yesterday won the 22. Players Championship - he defeated in the final Christian Kist with 8:7.
In the semifinals stood Damon Heta and Michael Smith. Jim Williams had with 114 the highest average on a highclass day, Jeff Smith his first nine-darter in the PDC.
Today Players Championship 23 will follow.
Participants, Resultsnew
27. September
From today till Friday in Barnsley the Players Championships 22,23 and 24 will take place.
With the exception of Corey Cadby, Adrian Lewis, Christian Perez and Luc Peters all Tour Card Holders registered. They are replaced by Christian Kist, Cameron Crabtree, Owen Bates and John Henderson.
Participants, Resultsnew
26. September
From today till Saturday in Esbjerg in Denmark the WDF World Cup takes place.
Today the Women's Singles were played till including the quarterfinals and the Men's Pairs, the Boys'Singles and the Girl's Pairs till including the semi-finals. Beau Greaves and Deta Hedman both reached the semi-finals of the Women's Singles.
Participants, Results
The field of the participants of the PDC World Grand Prix is after the Hungarian Darts Trophy complete and the draw for the first round already took place.
The tournament - which will take place from 2. - 8. October in Leicester - is the only PDC event in Double-In Double Out format.
Reigning champion Michael van Gerwen will play first round against Josh Rock. Dave Chisnall - winner of the Hungarian Darts Trophy at the weekend - was drawn against Luke Woodhouse who was the last player to qualify for the tournament.
Participants, Schedule first and second round
PDC Rankings
European Tour
25. September
With Dave Chisnall and Luke Humphries the two strongest players of the event reached the outstanding and close final, in which Humphries threw a 170 Finish and
a nine-darter. Nevertheless Dave Chisnall was the winner.
Gerwyn Price reached with a convincing performance the semi-finals as did the surprise player of the event Scott Williams. Luke Woodhouse played himself in the quarterfinals and by this at the expense of Gian van Veen secured the last place in the World Grand Prix field.
Report Finals Daynew
24. September
In Budapest is Finals Day today. In the afternoon the third round took place, tonight quarterfinals, semi-finals and final will be played.
From the seeds Ryan Searle, Josh Rock, Rob Cross, Dirk van Duijvenbode and Nathan Aspinall were eliminated in the second round yesterday. Most players who still had a chance to qualify for the World Grand Prix are out by now. Only Luke Woodhouse is after the third round still in the tournament and has a good chance to qualify.
Schedule, Results
Statisticsnew
23. September
Today on the second day of the tournament the seeded players join and will play against the first round winners. Again an
afternoon-and an evening-session will be played.
With Nandor Major one of the Hungarian qualifiers survived the first round and celebrated the first ever Hungarian win on the European Tour. He will play today against Damon Heta. The outstanding performance yesterday showed European Champion Ross Smith.
Schedule, Results
Report Day 1
Statisticsnew
22. September
In Budapest today the Hungarian Darts Trophy will begin - the twelfth and penultimate European Tour event of the year.
It is the last event that still counts for the qualification for World Grand Prix in October.
As always in the European Tour events on the first day in an afternoon- and an evening session the first round will be played in which only the qualifiers stand at the oche. By the host nation qualifier yesterday Gabor Jagicza, Mihaly Vida and Nandor Major qualified.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statisticsnew
20. September
The next major PDC Tournament will be the PDC World Grand Prix from 2. - 8. October. Die Hungarian Darts Trophy this weekend
is the last chance for the players to qualify for it.
How the field of participants looks at the moment you can find here:
World Grand Prix - Participants
18. September
With a clear 11:4 win over Nathan Aspinall Michael van Gerwen won in front of the delighted home crowd in Amsterdam
the World Series of Darts Finals. It was already the fifth time he won this event.On finals day he defeated in the quarterfinals
Dimitri van den Bergh and in the semi-finals Luke Humphries. In the second leg of the semi-final he threw the first ever nine-darter
of the tournament.
Aspinall reached the final with wins over Keegan Brown and Peter Wright.
Results
Statistics
Report Finals Daynew
Four events of the Women's Series were played this weekend and they had four different winners: Mikuru Suzuki, Lisa Ashton, Fallon Sherrock and
Beau Greaves. Due to this not too much changed in the ranking - Beau Greaves still sits in first place followed by Mikuru Suzuki, Fallon Sherrock
and Lisa Ashton. Anastasia Dobromyslova reached two finals at the weekend and moved up to the ninth place of the ranking.
The last Women's Series eekend of the year will take place on 14. and 15. October again in Wigan.
Participants, Resultsnew
Rankingnew
17. September
In the second round of the tournament Keegan Brown caused an upset - he eliminated reigning champion Gerwyn Price.
With Raymond van Barneveld another qualifier beside Brown reached the quarterfinals - he defeated World Champion Michael Smith.
All other seeds won their matches.
Today the tournament will be played to the end. In the afternoon the quarterfinals will be played, tonight semi-finals and final will follow.
Report Second Daynew
16. September
This weekend in Wigan four more events of the PDC Women's Series will be played.
The participants now compete for the two places in the PDC World Championship.
Paricipants, Resultsnew
On the first day of the event Danny Noppert showed the outstanding performance - he won the match in which he and his opponents
Dirk van Duijvenbode had averaged of over 100 with 6:4 and progressed into the second round where he'll clash with Nathan Aspinall. Raymond van Barneveld
as well progressed with an 6:2 win over Jeff Smith. Beside the two Australians Damon Heta and Simon Whitlock all three German players
and TV Debutant Graham Usher were elimnated while Krzyzstof Ratajski, Haupai Puah, William O'Connor, Keegan Brown, Jonny Clayton and Ricky Evans were
the other players to progress.
Today the second round will take place. The seeds join the event and will play against the first round winners.
Report First Daynew
15. September
Tonight in Amsterdam the final of this year's World Series of Darts will begin. In the first round only the qualifiers and the
invited players will stand at the oche. Among them are with Danny Noppert, Raymond van Barneveld and Dirk van Duijvenbode three Dutch players.
While Noppert and Duijvenbode will play one another van Barneveld will meet Canadian Jeff Smith.
Resultsnew
Statisticsnew
Preview
14. September
You can find the dates for the European Tour 2024. Next year fewer events will be played in Germany - Trier and Jena have been dropped. Instead there will be a second European Tour event in Belgium and an event in Switzerland.
Provisional Tournament Calendar 2024
European Tour
Pro Tour
Challenge Tour
Development Tour
12. September
Next weekend the final of this year's World Series of Darts will be played in Amsterdam. Beside the eight seeds - the top eight
of the World Series Order of Merit - eight invited players and eight qualifiers will take part. As in the European Tour Events the seeded players
will join the tournament in the second round.
Reigning champion Gerwyn Price will begin his campaign on Saturday, 16. September, against the winner of the first round match between Keegan Brown and Simon Whitlock.
Participants, Schedule
PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
European Tour
11. September
With an 8:3 win over Stephen Bunting Krzysztof Ratajski won in Jena the German Darts Open title. For Ratajski it was
after four years the second win on the European Tour. In the semi-finals stood Wesley Plaisier and Josh Rock. It was only the second time
an Associate Member Qualifier reached the semi-finals.
Martin Schindler and Florian Hempel were the best German participants, both lost on Finals Day in the third round.
Results
Statistics
Report Finals Daynew
9. September
On the second day of the German Darts Open the second round will be played in an afternoon- and an evening-session. The first round winners will
meet the seeded players.
German Florian Hempel caused the biggest upset of the first round when he eliminated James Wade. He'll meet today Damon Heta. Josh Rock played with over 108 the highest average of the tournament so far.
Participants, Results
Statistics
7. September
Tomorrow in Jena the German Darts Open - the eleventh event of the European Tour 2023 - will begin.
On the first day as always in an afternoon- and an evening-session the first round will be played in which only the qualifiers take part. Among those are beside six German players players like James Wade, Daryl Gurney and Simon Whitlock.
Participants, Schedule First and Second Round
5. September
Since Saturday in Barnsley the Players Championships 19, 20 and 21 took place. They were won by Callan Rydz, Luke Humphries and Gerwyn Price,
who defeated today in the final of the 21. Players Championships strong playing German Daniel Klose. In the semi-finals today stood Peter Wright and Daryl Gurney.
It was Price third Pro Tour title of the year.
Tomorrow in Barnsley the Tour Card holders Qualifier for the 13. European Tour event of the year and the WSOD Final Qualifier will be played.
Participants, Results
21. August
In the final of the PDC World Youth Championship - which will take place on 26. November during the Players Championship Final
in Minehead - Gian van Veen and Luke Littler will clash and by this the numbers 1 and 2 of the Development Tour Order of Merit.
In the semi-finals stood Wessel Nijmann and Sebastian Bialecki. Reigning champion Josh Rock lost in the quarterfinals to Gian van Veen.
PDC World Youth Championship 2023
19. August
The last four Development Tour Eventsof the year which were played yesterday and today in Milton Keynes were won by Rusty-Jake Rodriguez, Sebastian Bialecki, Gian
van Veen and Luke Littler. Littler beside once reached a semi-final. Van Veen and Littler ended the season on first and second place
of the Development Tour Order of Merit. Van Veen will get a place in the Grand Slam of Darts while 16 years old teenager
Littler secured a Tour Card and as van Veen a place in the PDC World Championship 2023/2024.
After the four events the field of participants in the PDC World Youth Championship is complete. fest, die morgen in Milton Keynes ausgetragen wird.
Development Tour
18. August
On Sunday after another Development Tour weekend in Milton Keynes the first part of the PDC World Youth Championship
2023 will take place, in which the tournament in a round-robin and a knockout phase is played down to
the final. The final will take place on 26. November during the Players Championship Finals in Minehead.
The international qualifiers and the age qualified Tour Card Holders - among them reigning champion Josh Rock - are already known, the places by the Development Tour Order of Merit will be finally decided by the four events on the Development Tour this weekend.
PDC World Youth Championship 2023
14. August
At the weekend in Toronto in Canada Events 7 - 9 of the Championship Darts Circuit took place. All three tournaments were won by American Stowe Buntz who never before
won an event on the Circuit. In the finals he defeated Alex Spellmann twice and once Jim Long. During the weekend
Ross Snook threw the first TV nine-darter of the CDC Main Tour.
Championship Darts Circuit
13. August
At the weekend in Milton Keynes five morePDC Challenge Tour events took place. With Wesley Plaisier, Darryl Pilgrim, Cam Crabtree,
Robert Grundy and Owen Bates they had five different winners. Berry van Peer and Christian Kist still head the Challenge Tour Order of Merit.
Challenge Tour
Rob Cross triumphed in Australia as well and won the New South Wales Darts Masters with 8:1 over Damon Heta. On his way to the final
Cross defeated John Hurring, Danny Noppert and Peter Wright. Heta prevailed against Joe Comito, Gerwyn Price and Dimitri van den Bergh. As most successful Australian
an emotional Heta was awarded the Kyle Anderson Trophy which is dedicated to the Australian darts player who died two years
ago and who was a close friend of Heta.
Schedule, Results, Statistics
10. August
Tomorrow and on Sunday in Wollongong in Australia the New South Wales Darts Masters will take place, in which Rob Cross, Damon Heta, Dimitri van den Bergh, Peter
Wright, Nathan Aspinall, Gerwyn Price, Michael Smith and Danny Noppert as PDC represantatives will play
against the Oceanic represantatives Simon Whitlock, Darren Penhall, Brenton Lloyd, Dave Marland, Joe Comito, John Hurring, Harley Kemp
and Mal Cuming.
Schedule, Results, Statisticsnew
Preview
In the second part of his "Check It Out" series American Steve Brown suggest possible checkout paths for low finishs between 3 and 60 points and argues the case for combinations with which you can't bust your score.
Check It Out! - Part 2
9.August
This year again the PDC Europe Super League will take place in which 24 German darts players will take
part. The winner will get a place in the PDC World Championship 2023/24. Tour Card holders can't take part though neither last year's winner Florian Hempel and Ricardo Pietreczko
will not participate in the Super League. This year four qualifying events will take place by which six players will qualify for the Super League.
PDC Europe Super League 2023
5. August
Rob Cross won today the New Zealand Darts Masters - another event of the World Series of Darts. He defeated in the highclass and
close final Nathan Aspinall with 8:7. Before Cross today defeated in the quarterfinals Jonny Tata and in the
semi-finals Gerwyn Price. Aspinall reached the final with a quarterfinal win over Haupai Puha and a semi-final win over
Michael Smith in the outstanding match of the tournament.
Schedule, Results, Statistics
4. August
Today and tomorrow in Hamilton in New Zealand the New Zealand Darts Masters take place, in which Rob Cross, Damon Heta, Dimitri van den Bergh, Peter
Wright, Nathan Aspinall, Gerwyn Price, Michael Smith and Danny Noppert as PDC representatives play against Warren Parry, Darren Herewini, Haupai Puha,
Jonny Tata, Kayden Milne, Simon Whitlock, Darren Penhall and Ben Robb as Oceanic representatives.
Today the first round took place and Dimitri van den Bergh and Peter Wright were eliminated by Haupai Puha and Jonny Tata respectively. All other PDC representatives progressed.
Schedule, Results, Statistics
WDF Rankings
The PDC World championship 2023/2024 will be played from 15. December 2023 to 3. January 2024 in the Alexandra Palace in London.
With Paddy Power it has this year a new sponsor.
Tickets
You can only buy tickets by seetickets.
There will be three windows.
PDC World Championship 2023/24new
31. Juli
Beau Greaves won all four events of the weekend and continues to dominate the PDC Women's Series.
She defeated in the finals Lisa Ashton and Fallon Sherrock once each and two times Mikuru Suzuki. Ashton beside twice
stood in the semifinals while Sherrock beside reached one quarterfinal. Rhian O'Sullivan was a three times semi-finalist.
Results
Rankingnew
29. Juli
Today and tomorrow in Milton Keynes four more events of the PDC Women's Series will be played.
With Beau Greaves and Mikuru Suzuki the winner and the runner-up of the Women's World Matchplays will stand at the oche.
Participants, Resultsnew
Due to family reasons Jonny Clayton has withdrawn from the World Series Events in New Zealand und Australia in August.
For him Damon Heta moves up as PDC representative. In New Zealand Warren Parry will replace Heta as DartPlayers New Zealand representative. In Australian Harley Kemp will be the DartPlayers Australia replacement.
World Series of Dartsnew
25. July
PDC Rankings
23. July
With Nathan Aspinall four years after Rob Cross another Englishman won the Phil Taylor Trophy. Aspinall defeated in a rather one-sided final
Jonny Clayton with 18:6. The players went with 5:5 in the second break. After the break Aspinall hit more or less everything -
even an 170 finish - and pulled further and further away while Clayton was completely left in the lurch by his doubles.
Aspinall is a deserved winner who was cheered by an enthusiatic crowd.
Report, Statisticsnew
Though Beau Greaves didn't play her best game she nevertheless won the Women's World Matchplay final in Blackpool 6:1 against
Mikuru Suzuki and by this qualified both for the Grand Slam and the PDC World Championship. Greaves defeated in the
quarterfinals Noa-Lynn van Leuven and in the semi-finals Robyn Byrne while Mikuru Suzuki won against Aileen de Graaf in the quarter-finals
and prevailed in the semi-finals against Lisa Ashton. Against de Graaf she played with
92.16 the highest average of the event. Reigning champion Fallon Sherrock lost in the quarterfinals to Lisa Ashton.
Report, Results, Statisticsnew
In the Final of the World Matchplay tonight after the Women's World Matchplay Nathan Aspinall and Jonny Clayton will meet.
Aspinall reached the final with wins over Krzysztof Ratajski, Danny Noppert, Chris Dobey and Joe Cullen. Clayton defeated on his way to the final
Gabriel Clemens, Dimitri van den Bergh, Ryan Searle and Luke Humphries. Both players were in their matches
similar strong-nerved in the final phase - it could be a thrilling final. For both players it is the first World Matchplay final.
Today in Blackpool the second Women's World MAtchplay will take place.
Beau Greaves, Fallon Sherrock, Lisa Ashton, Mikuru Suzuki, Auleen de Graaf, Robyn Byrne, Noa-Lynn van Leuven and Rhian O'Sullivan are the participants.
In the PDC preview Greaves, Sherrock uand Suzuki have their say.
Preview Women's World Matchplaynew
On an entertaining semi-final night Nathan Aspinall won the first semi-final with 17:9 against John Cullen. Both players
looked nervous but Aspinal was able to handle it better as Cullen who had big problems to hit his doubles. The second semi-final was a much
closer affair and Luke Humphries first the better player. But Jonny Clayton improved, managed to draw and in the end even won 17:15.
Report, Statisticsnew
22. July
No other player dominated the World Matchplay as much as Phil Taylor who for many years was just better than all the other players. But there were other players
from Great Britain who won the tournament or played an important part in it. The last player from Great Britain who won the event was Scotsman Peter Wright In
2021. And there will be a winner from Great Britain this year once again...
Thirty Years World Matchplay - 3 - The Players from Great Britainnew
Semi-Finals Day in Blackpool!
First Bathan Aspinall will play against Joe Cullen. In the second semi-final Jonny Clayton and Luke Humphries will clash.
Schedule, Resultsnew
21. July
The second quarterfinal night of the World Matchplays started with the match between Ryan Searle and Jonny Clayton which was at the beginning quite balanced. But than Searle
couldn't keep up any longer while Clayton as so often improved and Clayton won 16:12. At the start the second match was rather close as well and it was 5:5 at the second break.
But Humphries started to pull away. Heta managed a comeback. Humphries lead was just enough
to win the match 16:13.
Report, Statisticsnew
Today the quarterfinals will be played to the end.
In the first quarterfinal of the night Ryan Searle will play against Jonny Clayton. After that Damon Heta will meet Luke Humphries who is now the favourite to win the event.
Schedule, Resultsnew
The first quarterfinal was dominated from the start by Joe Cullen who hindered Daryl Gurney for a long time to get into the match at all
- Cullen won with 16:11. The second quarterfinal ended almost similar 16:12 as well but was much less straight forward. First it was Chris Dobey who
who controlled the match but Aspinall got stronger and stronger. When the finishing line came nearer Aspinall looked nervous and made mistakes.
Dobey used his chances and won a few more legs. Aspinall finally managed to win the match.
Report, Statisticsnew
20. July
On the sixth day of the World Matchplay the first two quarterfinals will be played.
First Joe Cullen will play against Daryl Gurney. After that Chris Dobey will stand at the oche agaionst Nathan Aspinall.
Schedule, Resultsnew
The second night with second round matches started with a very one sided match as well - Brendan Dolan was far less impressive as
against Michael van Gerwen in the first round and lost 1:11 to Damon Heta. The following match between
Jonny Clayton and Dimitri van den Bergh was first rather close but Clayton managed to pull away and won
with 11:6.
After that Ryan Searle eliminated the number two of the world, Peter Wright but was far less convincing
than in his first match. In the last match of the night and of the second round the new favourite to win the tournament Luke Humphries
Dirk van Duijvenbode. For a long time the Dutchman looked slightly stronger but Humphries battled back and kept his nerves
in the tiebreak - he won 14:12.
Report, Statisticsnew
19. July
Tonight the second round will be played to the end in the Empress Ballroom - again four matches will take place.
Peter Wright and Luke Humphries will be in the limelight as they are after the elimination of van Gerwen, Gerwyn Price and Michael Smith the highest ranked players still in the tournament. Wright wiill play against Ryan Searle, Humphries against Dirk van Duijvenbode - both to be sure not really easy matches. But first Brendan Dolan - who eliminated van Gerwen - will play against Damon Heta and Jonny Clayton will meet former World Matchplay Champion Dimitri van den Bergh.
Schedule, Resultsnew
Till today the World Matchplay is diminated by players from Great Britian, but the number of Contintantal European players
in the field of participants increased over the years. Once again Roland Scholten was one of the first Continental Europeans to qualify
for this PDC event but he was not the very first...The first Continental European to win the tournament was Michael van Gerwen.
Thirty Years World Matchplay - 2 - The Continental Europeansnew
The second round started with a rather one-sided match between Daryl Gurney and Gary Anderson, who had throughout the match
problems to hit his doubles. So Gurney soon was far in the lead and Anderson had no chance to close the gap.
Much closer was the match between Danny Noppert and Nathan Aspinall, as Aspinall was not able to get rid of the less good
scoring Dutchman. In the end Aspinall just won with 11:9 and avoided the tiebreak. In the following match between Joe Cullen and
Gerwyn Price it was Cullen didn't score as well as his oponent but was far more clinical in his finishing. Cullen couldn't prevent that Price drew 11:11
but immediately got the two legs necessary to win the match. The night ended with the match between World Champion
Michael Smith and Chris Dobey. Dobey showed no nerves and was clinical on his doubles. Smith lost as well on this
exceptional night.
Report, Statisticsnew
18. July
At the weekend in Leicester five more events of the PDC Development Tour were played. Two of those were won by Luke Littler, one each by Gian van Veen,
Wessel Nijmann and Nathan Rafferty. In the last event, in which Littler threw a nine-darter, Littler and van Veen met in the final.
Littler won but nevertheless van Veen still heads the Development Tour Order of Merit.
Development Tournew
Today in Blackpool the World Matchplay will continue with the first four matches of the second round.
First Gary Anderson will play against Daryl Gurney. After that the match between Danny Noppert and Nathan Aspinall will follow. Gerwyn Price will clash with Joe Cullen and in the last match of the night World Champion Michael Smith will play against Chris Dobey.
Schedule, Resultsnew
On the day after the shocking elimination of top favourite Michael van Gerwen from the tournament the first round of the World Matchplay was played to the end and
we saw the so far best match of the event and the so far best perfomance. In the so far best match Dimitri van den
Bergh defeated Ross Smith with 10:8. The so far best perfomranc showed Ryan Searle - who never before won a match in Blackpool - at his
10:4 win over Raymond van Barneveld. Other winners of the night were an okay playing Peter Wright and an undistinguished
Jonny Clayton against luckless Gabriel Clemens.
Report, Statisticsnew
16. July
Today in Blackpool the World Matchplay will continue with an afternoon- and an evening session. In each session four first round
matches will be played.
In the afternoon session the second debutant this year, Josh Rock, will stand on stage as will former World Matchplay winner James Wade. Tonight reigning champion Michael van Gerwen and world champion Michael Smith will begin their campaingns. They will play against Brendan Dolan and Steve Beaton respectively.
Schedule, Results
Statistics Day 2new
On an entertaining opening night of the tournament there were quite clear wins for Joe Cullen, Gary Anderson and Gerwyn Price. Price was most
convincing in his win over Stephen Bunting. Very hard fought was the match between Rob Cross and Daryl Gurney which was won in the Tiebreak with 12:10 by Gurney. In the
last three legs of the match Cross no longer could keep up.
Report, Statisticsnew
15. July
Tonight in Blackpool the World Matchplay will begin and in the Empress Ballroom the first four matches of the first round will be played.
The match between Joe Cullen and Belgian debutant Mike de Decker will open the tournament. Beside Rob Cross will play against Daryl Gurney, Gerwyn Price against Stephen Bunting and Gary Anderson against Dave Chisnall.
Schedule, Results
14. July
In the tournament preview of the PDC reigning champion Michael van Gerwen, debutatn Josh Rock, the number 1 of the world Michael Smith and returnee Raymond van Barneveld have their say.
Tournament Previewnew
Tomorrow in Blackpool the thirtieth World Matchplay will begin.
For thirty years the tournament is played now more or less unchanged - we'll have a look at the history of the event.
Not only the first World Matchplay was won by an American - Larry Butler - but in the first years the North Americans were beside
the English the second biggest group of participants. Successful were only Larry Butler and John Part - the so far last
North American participant in the tournament.
Thirty Years World Matchplay - 1
The PDC World championship 2023/2024 will be played from 15. December 2023 to 3. January 2024 in the Alexandra Palace in London.
With Paddy Power it has this year a new sponsor.
Tickets
You can only buy tickets by seetickets.
There will be three windows.
Other details like session times or ticket prices are not yet known.
12.July
The 16. Players Championship on Tuesday was won by Damon Heta. He defeated in the final Ryan Joyce with 8:4. The smi-finals reached Joe Cullen and Jose de Sousa. Christian Kist threw a nine-darter during the event.
Participants, Results
PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
11. Juli
The boy's title of the WDF Europe Cup Youth in Vienna went to German Yorick Hofkens who together with Alexander Steinmetz ended on the second place of the boys pairs. Winner of the boys pairs were Thomas Banks and Archie Self. The girdl singles won Italian Aurora Fochesato. The girls pairs title went to Zehra Gemi and Belinay Pelivan from Turky. The Team Managers Cup gwon Petur Rudrik Guodmundsson from Iceland.
The Swiss Open in Kloten had with Liam Maendl-Lawrence a German Winner as well who now has a good chance for a place in the WDF World Championship. Maendl-Lawrence won the Helvetia Open as well. Rhian O'Sullivan won the Swiss Open women title and Sophie McKinlay the Helvetia Open women title and the Helvetia Open Youthfinal as well. The Swiss Open Youth final won gewann Adam Dee. Danny Porter and Corrine Hammond won the Australian Masters. The Kassiaru Cup title winners were Valters Melderis and Marika Sarrapik while the Kassiaru Open were won by Margeret Suttona nd Edwin Torbjörnssin.
Hannes Schnier won both the Balaton Darts Masters and the Balaton Darts Classic. Jitka Cisarova won the Classic women title while Verokika Ihasz prevailed in the Balaton Masters. The boys' youth title went to Matej Cverha and Andras Borbely, the girls titles to Bibiana Bugylova and Kriztina Turai. The New Zealand Open were won by Haupai Puha and Mary- Anne Teinaki who both secured a place in the WDF World Championship 2014 by this. Kevin Luke won the men's title of the Oregon Open. The women's event won Sally Kelly.
10.July
Today and tomorrow in Leicester Players Championships 15 and 16 take place.
Several Tour Card holders don't take part - among them Michael Smith, Peter Wright, Gerwyn Price and Michael van Gerwen. They are replaced by players from the Challenge Tour Order of Merit.
Today Luke Humphries won the 15. Players Championship. He defeated in the highclass and thrilling final Dave Chisnall. In the semi-finals stood Ryan Searle and Brendan Dolan.
Participants, Results
9. July
Michael van Gerwen defeated Dimitri van den Bergh in the final of the first Poland Darts Masters 8:3. Both players showed in the final a strong performance but
nevertheless the Belgian couldn't keep up.
Van Gerwen reached the final with wins over Adam Gawlas, Luke Humphries and Michael Smith. Van den Bergh
prevailed over Karel Sedlacek, Kryzsztof Ratajski and Gerwyn Price.
Results, Statisticsnew
4. July
After the European Darts Matchplay all participants in the event are known.
Today the first round draw took place. Reigning champion Michael van Gerwen will begin his campaign against Brendan Dolan while World Champion and number 1 seed Michael Smith will play against Steve Beaton first round.
Participants, Draw first round, Schedule first and second roundnew
Schedule Women's World Matchplaynew
Last weekend in Parkhill, Ontario, Canada once again Rocky's Annual Roadside Outdoor Dart Tournament took place which was
first played in 2007.
A few years ago Dartoid took part in the tournament and of course wrote a column.
Rocky's Annual Roadside Outdoor Dart Tournament
3. July
PDC Rankings
European Tour
In a very close final in Trier Luke Humphries defeated Dirk van Duijvenbode - who had several matchdarts but missed - with 8:7 and defended his European Darts Matchplay title.
Before Humphries won in the quarterfinals against Nathan Aspinall and prevailed over an in this event strong playing James Wade in the semi-finals. Van Duijvenbode
reached the final with a win over World Champion Michael Smith in the quarterfinals and a close win against Joe Cullen
in the semi-finals.
Results
Statistics
Report Finals Daynew
2. July
On Finals day in the afternoon the third round took place while in the evening session quarterfinals, semi-finals and final will conclude
the tournament.
Only one host nationa player reached the finals day - Martin Schindler - but lost in the third round this afternoon against Gian van Veen. Raymond van Barneveld, who defeated in the second round Michael van Gerwen, prevailed in the third round roday over Ryan Searle and is beside van Veen and James Wade the third non seeded player who progressed into the quarterfinals. The other quarterfinalists are seeds Joe Cullen, Michael Smith, Dirk van Duijvenbode, Nathan Aspinall and Luke Humphries.
Schedulenew
1. July
On the second day of the tournament the seeds join the event and play in an afternoon- and an evening-session against the
first round winners.
Gian van Veen, East Europe qualifier Vitezslav Sedlak and James Wade impressed with the highest first round averages and won their matches yesterday. Among yesterday's winners was as well Raymond van Barneveld who will play today against Michael van Gerwen. With his win van Barneveld secured his place in the World Matchplay.
Schedule, Results-
Statistics
30. June
Today in Trier the European Darts Matchplay - the tenth event of the European Tour 2023 will begin.
As always on the first day of the tournament in the afternoon- and the evening-session only the qualifiers will stand at the oche.
The tournament is the last event which counts for the qualification for the World Matchplay.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statisticsnew
Participants World Matchplay before European Darts Matchplay
26. June
Beau Greaves was once again the most successful player of the weekend. She won on Saturday one of the events and on Sunday both.
The second event on saturday was won by Fallon Sherrock who beside twice stood in the quarterfinales and once lost to Greaves in the final. Mikuru Suzuki
had a good weekend too - she stood in one final, in two semi-finals and one quarterfinal. She is ranked second behind Greaves and in front of Sherrock.
After the weekend the eight participants in the Women's World Matchplay are known - beside Greaves, Suzuki and Sherrock Robyn Byrne, Lisa Ashton, Rhian O'Sullivan, Aileen de Graaf and Noa-Lynn van Leuven qualified.
Results, Rankingnew
Women's World Matchplaynew
At the weekend in Yeovil in Englandthe second World Seniors Masters was played.
It was won by American Leonard Gates who defeated in the final Richie Howson with 6:2. In the semi-finals stood Dennis Harbour and Robert Thornton. But in the focus of the Tournament stood Bob Anderson as it was his final tournament. Though he lost his first match to Richie Howson he and all what he did for the sport of darts nevertheless was celebrated and praised.
World Seniors Masters 2023new
23. June
Tomorrow and on Sunday the PDC Women's Series will continue in Hildesheim, Germany, with the events 9 - 12.
Beside numerous German players many female Top darters will stand at the oche. The tournament counts for the qualification for the Women's World Matchplay in July in Blackpool.
Participants, Results, Rankingnew
The PDC announced which players will represent the PDC in the two World Series Events in Australia and New Zealand:
Michael Smith, Peter Wright, Gerwyn Price, Rob Cross, Jonny Clayton, Danny Noppert,
Nathan Aspinall and Dimitri van den Bergh.
Both events will take place in August. The first Oceanic representatives are known already as well.
World Series of Darts
19. June
Team Wales with Gerwyn Price and Jonny Clayton won the one-sided final with 8:2 against Team Scotland and for the second time won the PDC World Cup.
On Finals Day Wales first defeated Team Sweden and then prevailed in a close semi-final over Team Belgium. The Sotsmen Gary Anderson and Peter Wright started with a whitewash against Team France in the final day of the tournament and after that ended all German hopes in the semi-final.
Report, Statistics Finals Daynew
To recognise her services to women's darts Fallon Sherrock was awarded an MBE.
Sherrock is after Trina Gulliver the second woman in the sport of darts to get this award. Eric Bristow was the very first dart player to get an award. Fourth in the group of dart players with an MBE is John Lowe.
18. June
Today is Finals Day at the PDC World Cup in Frankfurt and only eight teams are still in the tournament - Wales, Sweden, Australia, Belgium, Scotland, France, England and
Germany. A very determined Belgian team won in the second round a very close match against the number 3 seed Netherlands. Wales and England - the number 1 and 2 seeds - celebrated in contrast
quite easy wins over Denmark and Latvia resepctively while Scotland - the number 4 seed - had a lot more problems against the strong playing
team from the Philippines. The German team showed a solid performance against Team Poland and progressed as well into the quarterfinals.
Schedule, Resultsnew
Statistics Finals Daynew
17. June
After the group phase several seeded teams are already out of the tournament - Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Spain and Austria
didn't survive the first round. In Austria's Gourp F it was dramatic, all three teams had won one match and the leg difference of one leg decided which team progressed.
Very impressive was Team Poland against Lithunia - it played a new record average of 118.10.
After the group phase the draw for the second round took place and the four top seeds entered the tournament. Scotland will play against the Philippines, Wales against Denmark, England against Latvia and the Netherlands against Belgium. The German team was drawn against Poland and reigning champion Australia will play against Croatia.
Schedule, Resultsnew
Statistics Day 3new
16. June
On the first night of the World Cup there were some upsets and several seeded Teams lost their first group matches, among them Team Austria which lost to
Team Denmark and especially the Danish star of the night, Benjamin Reus, with 4:2. Team Switzerland lost to Team Italy which celebrated the first
World Cup win ever. Team Northern Ireland lost to Team France and Team Spain to Team South Africa. Belgium, Germany and
reigning champion Australia whitewashed their opponents.
Today the tournament will continue. In the afternoon-session yesterday's losers play against the third Teams of their groups. In the last group matches in the evening-session yesterday's winners will play against the third Teams. After that the draw of the Last 16 will take place and the Top Four seeds will enter the fray.
Schedule, Resultsnew
Gruppen Tabellennew
Statistics Day 2new
Report, Statistics Day 1
15. June
Tonight in Frankfurt the PDC World Cup will begin.
In all groups the first group matches will take place in which the seeded teams of the groups will meet the second of the groups. All matches are pairs matches in the format Best of Seven.
Reigning champion Australia (Damon Heta, Simon Whitlock) will meet the debutants from Guyana (Sudesh Fitzgerald, Norman Madhoo). Host Nation Germany (Gabriel Clemens, Martin Schindler) will play against Team Hongkong (Paul Lim, Harith Lim). In the opening match of the tournament Switzerland (Stefan Bellmont, Marcel Walpen) will meet Italy (Michele Turetta, Massimo Dante).
PDC World Cup - Preview
Results
Group Tables
Statistics
14. June
Michael van Gerwen had to withdraw from the World Cup of Darts - which will begin tomorrow in Frankfurt - as he didn't recover fast enough from
a dental operation on Monday.
He will be replaced by Dirk van Duijvenbode. Team Netherlands is now no longer the number 2 seed but the numer 3 seed and the Welsh Team is seeded second.
PDC World Cup
Before the World Cup the following players were added to the Who is Who:
Patrik Kovacs, Harith Lim, Stefan Bellmont,
Marcel Walpen, Hallgrimur Egilsson,
Vitor Charrua, Mindaugas Barrauskas,
Craig Galliano, Justin Hewitt,
Jun Matsuda, Benjamin Drue Reus,
Jacques Labre and Oskar Lukasiak.
Who is Who
Michael Smith and Damon Heta won the two Players Championships in Hildesheim on Monday and Tuesday.
Michael Smith won Players Championship 13 and defeated in the final Gary Anderson with 8:7. In the semi-finals stood Connor Scutt and Damon Heta. Dave Chisnall threw a nine-darter.
In the 14. Players Championship Damon Heta finally could celbrate a win. He prevailed in the final over Luke Woodhouse. The semi-finals reached Christian Kist and Mensur Suljovic. Josh Rock and Bradley Brooks threw nine-darters.
Participants, Results
PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
12. June
Today and tomorrow in Hildesheim, Germany, the Players Championships 13 and 14 will be played. The two Players Championships are beside the European Tour Event in Trier
the last events which count for the qualification for the World Matchplay.
Christian Perez will stand at the oche on the Pro Tour for the first time since he won his Tour Card. Several Tour Card holders will miss out among them Nathan Aspinall, Jonny Clayton and Michael van Gerwen.
Participants, Ergebnisse
Only threee more events will take place by which the Tour Card holders can qualify for the World Matchplay
which will take place in Blackpool from 15. - 23. July.
How the field of participants looks ahead of those three events you can find here:
Participants
At the weekend in Hildesheim, Germany, five events of the PDC Development Tour took place. There were five different winners. On Friday Wessel Nijmann and Bradley Brooks won the events 11 and 12, on Saturday events
13 and 14 were won by Gian van Veen and Jared Cole and on Sunday Adam Gawlas won the final 15. event. Both for
Cole as for Gawlas it was the first title on the Development Tour.
After his fourth win in this year Gian van Veen heads the ranking ahead of Luke Littler. Wessel Nijmann is third.
Development Tour
10. June
The group draw for the group phase of the PDC World Cup took place.
Reigning champion Australia is together with Guyana and Gibraltar in Group C and will begin its campaing to defend the title against Guyana.
England, the Netherlands, Wales and Scotland are based on the lowest cumulative PDC Order of Merit ranking of the two competing players the Top four seeds and will enter the tournament in Round 2.
PDC World Cup
8. June
After the Nordic and Baltic weekend all participants in the PDC World Cup are known.
Benjamin Reus will play together with Vladimir Andersen for Denmark, Paavo Myller and Marko Kantele will be Team Finland. For Iceland Hallgrimur Egilsson and Vitor Charrua will stand at the oche and Mindaugas Barauskas joins Darius Labanauskas in Team Lithunia.
Tomorrow the draw for the group phase will take place.
PDC World Cup
7. June
On the PDC Nordic and Baltic Tour at the weekend in Finland two European Tour Qualifiers and two Pro Tour Events took place.
One Pro Tour Event and one European Tour Qualifier each won both Marko Kantele and Jeffrey de Graaf. Kantele will take part in the European Darts Matchplay in Trier, de Graaf in the German Darts Open in Jena.
Kantele and de Graaf now ist in first and second place of the Nordic and Baltic Tour Order of Merit. For Kantele it was already the fourth Win on the tour this year and he is by this qualified for the PDC World Championship 2023/24.
Nordic and Baltic Tour
4. June
Michael van Gerwen won the US Darts Masters in New York with an 8:0 defeat of Canadian Jeff Smith. Especially Jeff Smith was not able to keep up his earlier performances
in the very one-sided final. Van Gerwen defeated in the quarterfinals Jim Long with 6:2 and in the very close semi-final Rob Cross with 7:6.
Jeff Smith reached the final with a 6:2 win over Nathan Aspinall in the quarterfinals and as van Gerwen with a 7:6 close semi-final win
over Luke Humphries.
Results, Statistics
During the PDC weekend in in New York this year's North American Championship took place as well in which the eight North American players
took part who had qualified for the US Darts Masters. Jeff Smith won the final in the deciding leg against his fellow country man and World Cup
partner Matt Campbell with 6:5. In the semi-finals stood Alex Spellman and Jules van Dongen. Due to a PDC rule Smith as Tour Card holder
is not as normally as winner of the North American Championship qualified for the PDC World Championship and the
Grand Slam of Darts - which
CDC player will be awarded instead is not yet known.
3. June
In the first round of the event Canadian Jim Long caused an upset - he defeated reigning champion Michael Smith with 6:2 and progressed into the
quarterfinals where he'll meet Michael van Gerwen. Beside Smith Peter Wright didn't survive the first round -
he lost with the same result to Long's country fellow man Jeff Smith. Jeff Smith will play in the quarterfinals against Nathan Aspinall who
showed an impressive performance against as as well strong playing Matt Campbell. Both Michael Smith and Peter Wright experienced a lot of
double trouble.
Results, Statistics
1. June
Tomorrow in New York the US Darts Masters - an event of the PDC World Series of Darts - will begin.
Eight PDC representatives will play in the first round against eight players from North America. Reigning champion Michael Smith will begin his campaign against Canadian Jim Long who qualified for the event as winner of the CDC Cross Border Challenge.
US Darts Masters
29. May
With a few exceptions all participants in the PDC World Cup - which will take place from 15. - 18. June in Frankfurt - are now known.
The English team will for the third time constist of Michael Smith and Rob Cross, 2020 they reached the final. Danny Noppert and Michael van Gerwen
will be for the only second time Team Netherlands, last year Noppert stood together with Dirk van Duijvenbode in the semi-finals. For reigning champion Team Australia
again Damon Heta and Simon Whitlock will compete.
PDC World Cup
PDC Rankings
European Tour
28. May
Rob Cross defeated in the final of the German Darts Grand Prix in Sindelfingen Luke Humphries with 8:6 and by this revenged his defeat in last year's final of the tournament against Humphries.
For Cross it was the first title on the European Tour and he decided with it his battle with Humphries for the second place
in the English World Cup team in his favour.
The semi-finals reached Damon Heta and Ross Smith.
Results
Statistics
26. May
Today in Sindelfingen, Germany the ninth event of the European Tour began - the German Darts Grand Prix.
Again on the first day for the first round of the event only the qualifiers stood at the oche. Among them were with Pascal Rupprecht, Nico Kurz, Ricardo Petreczko, Liam Maendel-Lawrance and Gabriel Clemens five German players. Only Pascal Rupprecht and Gabriel Clemens survived the first round. They will play tomorrow against Dave Chisnall and Martin Schindler respectively - the only German among the seeds.
An afternoon - and an evening session were played.
Participants, Schedule first and second round, Results
Statistics
25. May
Michael van Gerwen defeated in the quite one-sided final of the Premier League Gerwyn Price with
5:11 and by this defended his Premier League title. Before he prevailed in the semi-finals over Michael Smith, who had a very slow start in the match
but managed to close the gap to 8:10. Gerwyn Price defeated in a very one-sided semi-final Jonny Clayton with 10:2 but couldn't keep up this performance in the final.
Schedule, Resultsnew
Statisticsnew
24. May
Tomorrow in the O2 Arena in London the Premier League Play-Offs will take place.
The first semi-final will be an all Welsh affair between Jonny Clayton and Gerwyn Price. In the second semi-final reigning champion Michael van Gerwen and World Champion Michael Smith will meet.
Schedulenew
Preview Play-Offsnew
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Imagery and Simulation
23. May
Two more World Cup teams were confirmed.
For Gibraltar in the third year in a row Development Tour players Craig Galliano and Justin Hewitt will take part.
For Italy debutant Massimo Dante and Michele Turetta - who gave his debut in 2021 - will stand at the oche.
PDC World Cup
At the weekend in Hildesheim several Host Nation and Associate Members qualifiers took place.
The field of participants for the event in Sindelfingen is now complete while for Trier the East Europe Qualifier has yet to take place.
For Sindelfingen by the Associate Members Qualifier Marcel Walpen uand Christian Kist qualified and by the Host Nation Qualifier Liam Maendl-Lawrance and Nico Kurz.
For Trier qualified by the Associate Members Qualifier Christian List and Darryl Pilgrim and by the Host Nation Qualifier Fabian Herz and again Liam Maendl- Lawrance.
ET 9 Sindelfingen
ET 10 Trier
The field of participants of the US Darts Masters which will take place in New York in June - is complete.
At the weekend by the qualifiers North Americans Jason Brandon and JT Davis and Canadian Jake Macmillan
qualified for the event. All three will give their TV debut at the event which is the third tournament of the World Series of Darts this year.
World Series of Darts
22. May
The two Players Championships at the weekend were won by Rob Cross and Jonny Clayton.
On Saturday Rob Cross won his first title of the year. He defeated in the final of the 11. Players Championship Mike de Decker with 8:3. The semi-finals reached Radek Szaganski and Niels Zonneveld. For de Decker it was the first Pro Tour final, for Szaganski the first semi-final on the Pro Tour.
On Sunday Jonny Clayton defeated in the final of the 12. Players Championship Josh Rock with 8:5 and won his first Players Championship title in more than two years. In the semi-finals stood Damon Heta and Andrew Gilding.
Participants, Resultsnew
PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
19. May
Tour Card holders missing the weekend will be Corey Cadby, Adrian Lewis, Mickey Mansell, John O'Shea, Christian Perez, Jeff Smith and Peter Wright. They will be replaced by players from the Challenge Tour Order of Merit.
Participants, Results
17. May
The sixteenth League Day was a League Day full of surprises and won in the end by Dimitri van den Bergh. It was his first win of the season by which he moved up to the sixth
place in the ranking. Van den Bergh defeated in the quarterfinals a today luckless Michael Smith
before he got a bye in the semi-finals as Michael van Gerwen come by an injury in his quarterfinal against Chris Dobey
and withdrew from today's event. The final a freed playing van den Bergh won with 6:5 against
Gerwyn Price. Nathan Aspinall won his quarterfinal against Jonny Clayton but lost in the semi-finals to Gerwyn Price
- so Clayton got the fourth play-off place. Nothing changed at the head of the table - Gerwyn Price
goes as first in the table into the play-offs in London next week and will play in the semi-finals against Jonny Clayton. In the Second
semi-final Michael Smith and Michael van Gerwen will meet.
Results
Table
Report, Statistics
Tomorrow the 16. and last League Day of Premier League will take place in Aberdeen.
In the limelight will be the quarterfinal between Jonny Clayton and Nathan Aspinall - a direct clash to decide who will get the fourth play-off place. When Clayton wins he is qualified. Aspinall on the other side needs to reach the final to qualify. Beside Gerwyn Price, Michael Smith and Michael van Gerwen will fight for the first place in the table. Before the League Day Price is first, World Champion Smith is second and reigning champion Michael van Gerwen is thid.
Schedulenew
Table
Preview Sixteenth League Daynew
16. May
Lee Evans, Michael Flynn, Graham Hall,
Daniel Klose, Robbie Knops,
Owen Roelofs, Pascal Rupprecht,
Dylan Slevin, Jeffrey Sparidaans,
Graham Usher, Jurjen van der Velde,
Gian van Veen, Adam Warner
and Lukas Wenig were added.
Who is Who
15. May
Peter Wright defeated after a brilliant finals day in the final of the Czech Darts Open Dave Chisnall with 8:6 and celebrated
his first ranking title of the year.
Wright won on finals day against Danny Noppert, reigning champion Luke Humphries and Damon Heta before he showed top form in the final as well. Chisnall reached the final with wins over Andrew Gilding, Nathan Aspinall and Rob Cross. Cross defeated in the quarterfinals Michael van Gerwen.
Report Finals Daynew
The events 7 + 8 on Sunday were won by Robyn Byrne and Mikuru Suzuki. Beau Greaves couldn't quite keep up
her perfomances she showed on the Women's Series so far and had had to be content as Fallon Sherrock - who didn't win an tournament at the weekend - with a
quarterfinal and a semi-final. Byrne defeated in her final Laura Turner, Suzuki prevailed over Noa-Lynn van Leuven.
Greaves still heads the ranking followed by Suzuki and Rhian O'Sullivan. Beside at the moment Robin Byrne, reigning champion Fallon Sherrock, Lisa Ashton, Noa-Lynn van Leuven and Kim Holden would be qualified for the World Matchplay in July. But before on 24. and 25. June another tournament weekend will take place in Hildesheim, Germany.
Participants, Results
Rankingnew
PDC Rankings
European Tour
14. May
The first two events of the Women's Series this weekend were won by Beau Greaves and Rhian O'Sullivan, who won their finals against
Fallon Sherrock and Beau Greaves respectively. The semi-finals of event five reached Kirsty Hutchinson and Lisa Ashton,
in the semi-finals of the sixth event stood Aileen de Graaf and Trina Gulliver.
Today events 7 + 8 will take place.
Participants, Resultsnew
Today is the finals day of the Czech Darts Open in Prag. In the afternoon-session the third round will take place, in the evening-session
quarterfinals, semi-finals and the final will be played.
Only two not seeded players are in Prag still in the event: local favourite Karel Sedlacek defeated in the second round Joe Cullen and will meet today in the third round Rob Cross. Kim Huybrechts was too strong for Martin Schindler as well and will play today in the second round against Damon Heta.
Finals Day, Resultsnew
Statisticsnew
13. May
This weekend the second weekend of the PDC Women's Series will take place. Today and tomorrow in Milton Keynes two events each will be played. All top players registered for the weekend - including Beau Greaves and Anastasia Dobromyslova.
Participants, Resultsnew
Today is the second day of the Czech Darts Open in Prague. The second round will be played and the seeds will enter the tournament.
With Dalibor Smolik and Karel Sedlacek two Czech players are still in the event. Smolik will play in the afternoon against Josh Rock while Sedlacek will face tonight Joe Cullen.
An afternoon and an evening session will take place.
Second Round, Results
Statistics
12. May
This weekend the European Tour 2023 is in Prague in the Czech Republic.
Again on the first day for the first round only qualifiers will stand at the oche. By the Host Nation Qualifier yesterday Dalibor Smolik and David Pisek qualified for the tournament. Filip Sebesta and Adam Gawlas are qualified as the in the PDC Ranking highest ranked Czech Tour Card holders, Karel Sedlacek qualified by the Toru Card Holders Qualifier. There is no Czech player among the seeds.
Michael Smith and Gary Anderson withdrew from the event. For them Dimitri van den Bergh (seeds) and Rowby-John Rodriguez (Tour Card Qualifier) move up.
An afternoon- and an evening-session will be played.
Participants, Schedule and Draw first and second round, Results
Statistics
11. May
On the fifteenth League Day of Premier League again Michael Smith was the dominant player. He defeated in the final Gerwyn Price
with 6:5 and secured his third day win in a row. By this he overtook Michael van Gerwen - whom he defeated in the quarterfinals -
in the league table By reaching the final Gerwyn Price got some important points for the table which he now heads with a lead of
three points on Michael Smith and five points on Michael van Gerwen.
In the battle for the fourth Play-Off place Jonny Clayton got by his win over Dimitri van den Bergh in the quarterfinals two valuable points - he is now two points ahead of Nathan Aspinal who lost his quarterfinal against Gerwyn Price.
Peter Wright, Nathan Aspinall, Dimitri van den Bergh and Michael van Gerwen lost their quarterfinals in Sheffield.
Results
Table
Report, Statisticsnew
The 15. and penulitimate League Day of Premier League takes place in Sheffield.
The battles for the first place in the table and the fourth play-off place will dominate the night. Peter Wright, Dimitri van den Bergh and Chris Dobey have no longer a chance to qualify for the play-offs. Michael van Gerwen, Gerwyn Price and Michael Smith already have qualified. Head of the table Gerwyn Price is only two points clear off second of the table Michael van Gerwen. Jonny Clayton and Nathan Aspinall on the places four and five have both 22 points.
Gerwyn Price will play in the first quarterfinal against Nathan Aspinall, Chris Dobey will meet in the second quarterfinal Peter Wright. In the third match Michael Smith and Michael van Gerwen will clash. Jonny Clayton and Dimitri van den Bergh will stand on stage in the fourth quarterfinal.
Schedule, Resultsnew
Preview Fifteenth League Daynew
8. May
In Milton Keynes at the weekend five events of the PDC Challenge Tour were played. Most successfull player was Berry van Peer who won three
of the events and now heads the table. One tournament each won Wayne Jones and Conan Whitehead.
On the second place of the ranking follows Chris Landman who reached three quarterfinals and one semi-final at the weekend. In third place sits another Dutchman - Christian Kist.
Challenge Tour
PDC Rankings
European Tour
Michael van Gerwen defeated in the final of the Belgian Darts Open Luke Humphries with 8:6 and for the first time in a
year won a title on the European Tour.
On finals day van Gerwen prevailed over Martin Schindler, Gary Anderson and Josh Rock before he met Humphries in the final who first played very well and was clinical on his doubles. But then he started to miss and van Gerwen used his chances. For Humphries it was already the third lost final in a row on the European Tour. He reached it with wins over Andy Baetens, Nathan Aspinall and Dirk van Duijvenbode on finals day.
Schedule Finals Day, Results
Statistics
Report Finals Daynew
6. May
Today the second round of the Belgian Darts Open will be played. The seeds enter the tournament and will play against the
first round winners.
Two Belgian players are still in the tournament - Andy Baetens and Dimitri van den Bergh won their first round matches while Francois Schweyen and Kim Huybrechts were eliminated. Reigning champion Dave Chisnall will start his campaign today against Ricky Evans.
An afternoon - and an evening seession will take place.
Schedule Second Round, Resultsnew
Statisticsnew
5. May
This weekend the European Tour 2023 visits Wieze in Belgium.
Again on the first day of the tournament for the first round only the qualifiers will stand at the oche. By the Host Nation Qualifier yesterday Francois Schweyen and Andy Baetens qualified for the event. Kim Huybrechts and Dimitri van den Bergh qualified as the in the PDC ranking highest ranked Tour Card holders for the tournament. There is no Belgian player among the seeds.
An afternoon - and an evening seession will take place.
Participants, Draw and Schedule First and Second Round, Resultsnew
Statisticsnew
An outstanding Michael Smith got in Manchester his second day win in a row. In the final he defeated
Jonny Clayton with 6:3 and only just missed a nine-darter. Before he won in the quarterfinals against Nathan Aspinall and in the semi-finals
against Michael van Gerwen. Clayton defeated in the quarterfinals Peter Wright and in the semi-finals Chris Dobey and is back on the fourth place of the table.
Gerwyn Price lost his quarterfinal against Michael van Gerwen but stayed at the head of the table.
Peter Wright, Nathan Aspinall, Dimitri van den Bergh and Gerwyn Price couldn't win a point in Manchester.
Results
Table
Report, Statisticsnew
4. May
Today the Premier League travels for the 14. League Day to Manchester.
The fight for the play-off places and the fight for the first place in the table are heating up. The match between Peter Wright and Jonny Clayton opens the League Day - Wright has to win to preserve his small play-off chances. In the second quarterfinal Chris Dobey and Dimitri van den Bergh will meet - both outside the Top Four. After that Michael Smith will play against Nathan Aspinall - for both players a very important match. In the fourth quarterfinal first of the table Gerwyn Price and second of the table Michael van Gerwen will meet.
Schedule, Resultsnew
Preview Fourteenth League Daynew
2. May
More World Cup Teams were by now announced. For Hong Kong Man Lok Leung and Lok Yin Lee will play, for the
Philippines Christian Perez and
Lourence Ilagan. For Japan Jun Matsuda and Tomoya Goto will stand on stage, for Singapore again Paul Lim and Harith Lim and
for Thailand Attapol Eupakaree and Yong Gaweenuntavong.
PDC World Cup
At the weekend in in Wigan five events of the PDC Development Tour took place. Most sucessful was young
Dutchman Gian van Veen who won two of the events and moved up to the second place of the ranking.
The other winners were Wessel Nijmann, Sebastian Bialecki and Ciaran Teehan.
Development Tour
PDC Rankings
European Tour
30. April
Dave Chisnall defeated in the final in Leeuwarden Luke Humphries with 8:5 and won the Dutch Darts Championship.
On his way to the final he defeated today Josh Rock, Peter Wright and Michael van Gerwen who was supported by a quite unfair Dutch crowd.
Humphries reached the final with wins over Andrew Gilding, Danny Noppert
and Damon Heta.
Results Finals Daynew
Statisticsnew
29. April
Today the second round of the event will take place in Leeuwarden in which the first round winners will play against
the seeded players.
From the Dutch qualifiers only Berry van Peer survived the first round. He will play in the evening session against Jonny Clayton. Among the seeds are with Danny Noppert, Dirk van Duijvenbode and Michael van Gerwen three more Dutch players.
An afternoon- and an evening session will take place.
Second Round, Resultsnew
Statisticsnew
28. April
The next stop of the European Tour is Leeuwarden, where today the Dutch Darts Championship will begin - the sixth event of
this year's Tour.
Again on the first day of the tournament only the qualifiers will stand at the oche. Yesterday by the Host Nation Qualifier Martijn Dragt and Berry van Peer qualified. Jermaine Wattimena and Raymond van Barneveld were already qualified as as highest ranked Tour Card holders, Gian van Veen qualified by the Tour Card Holders Qualifier. Among the seeds are with Michael van Gerwen, Dirk van Duijvenbode and Danny Noppert three more Dutchman but they will enter the tournament not until tomorrow.
An afternoon- and an evening session will take place.
Participants, Draw and Schedule First and Second Round, Results
Statistics
27. April
Michael Smith defeated in the final of the thirteenth League Day Gerwyn Price and got his second day win of the season. By this win
he ousted Nathan Aspinall from the third place of the table. On his way to the final Smith defeated Chris Dobey and
Peter Wright. Price reached the final with wins over Jonny Clayton and Nathan Aspinall.
Chris Dobey, Michael van Gerwen,Jonny Clayton and Dimitri van den Bergh couldn't collect points in Leeds - they lost their quarterfinals.
Results
Table
Report, Statisticsnew
The thirteenth League Day will be played tonight in Leeds.
In the first quarterfinal tonight World Champion Michael Smith will play against Chris Dobey - both need a win to maintain their play-off chances. After that reigning champion Michael van Gerwen will meet Peter Wright who needs a win even more urgently. The third quarterfinal is an all Welsh affair between Gerwyn Price and Jonny Clayton. In the last quarterfinal Nathan Aspinall will compete with Dimitri van den Bergh. Aspinall defeated van den Bergh last week in the semi-finals.
Schedule, Resultsnew
Preview Thirteenth League Daynew
25. April
Two times PDC World Champion Adrian Lewis takes a break from darts and will neither take part in the German Darts Grand Prix
nor play on the Pro Tour. It is not known how long the break will be or what the reasons for the decision are.
Canadian Jeff Smith won the CDC Cross Boder Challenge in which eight Americans and eight Canadians took part. In the final of the by the Canadians dominated event Smith defeated his fellow country man Jim Long with 6:0.
Luke Littler won at the weekend three from four events on the JDC Advanced Tour. Only in one event he was defeated in the final by Lewis Bell.
PDC Rankings
European Tour
23. April
Jonny Clayton defeated in Graz Josh Rock with 8:6 and for the second time won the Austrian Darts Open.
On finals day Clayton defeated Damon Heta, Joe Cullen and Daryl Gurney. Rock reached for the first
time a European Tour final. He prevailed on finals day over Mickey Mansell, Mensur Suljovic and
Michael van Gerwen.
Schedule, Resultsnew
Statisticsnew
22. April
Today on the second day of the tournament the second round will be played and the seeded players join the tournament.
Again an afternoon- and an evening session will take place.
With Mensur Suljovic and Hannes Schnier two Austrian players survived the first round. They will play today against Peter Wright and Nathan Aspinall respectively. Reigning Champion Michael van Gerwen will play against John Henderson who showed a convincing performance in his first round win against Dylan Slevin.
Schedule, Resultsnew
21. April
Today in Premstätten near Graz the Austrian Open will begin, the fifth event of the European Tour 2023.
As always on the first day of the tournament today in the first round only qualifiers will stand at the oche. Yesterday by the Host Nation Qualifier Hannes Schnier and Marcus Haider qualified while Mensur Suljovic and Rowby-John Rodriguez were already qualified as the highest ranked Austrian Tour Card holders. All four will be in action today.
An afternoon- and an evening-session will be played.
Participants, Schedule, Resultsnew
Statisticsnew
Nathan Aspinall celebrated his first day win of this year's Premier League in Rotterdam. He defeated in the final Gerwyn Price
with 4:6. Aspinall reached the final with wins over Michael van Gerwen and Dimitri van den Bergh. Price defeated on his way to the final
Michael Smith and Jonny Clayton. By reaching the final Price superseded van Gerwen as head of the table
while Aspinall moved up to third place.
Chris Dobey, Michael van Gerwen, Michael Smith and Peter Wright lost in Rotterdam their quarterfinals and couldn't win a point.
Results
Table
Report, Statisticsnew
20. April
Tonight the twelfth League Day of Premier League will take place in Rotterdam
The quarterfinal between Chris Dobey and Jonny Clayton will open the League Day. In the second quarterfinal Gerwyn Price and Michael Smith will meet in a replay of last week's final. Last week Gerwyn Price won 6:3. In the third quarterfinal the last two of the table will clash - Dimitri van den Bergh will play against Peter Wright. In the last quarterfinal local favourite Michael van Gerwen will play in front of his home crowd against Nathan Aspinall.
Schedule
Preview Twelfth League Daynew
18. April
Last weekend a Nordic and Baltic Tour weekend took place. In Iceland the Pro Tour Events 5 and 6 and
the qualifiers for the European Tour Events 7, 8 and 9 were played.
Once again Marko Kantele was the most successful player of the weekend - he won the sixth Pro Tour Event and the qualifier for the ninth European Tour Event in Sindelfingen. The fifth Pro Tour Event was won by Vladimir Anderson. Dennis Nilsson qualified for the seventh European Tour Event in Wieze in Belgium, young Fin Jani Laurila will take part in the Czech Darts Open, the eighth European Tour Event.
Nordic and Baltic Tour
Yesterday in Wigan the Tour Card Holder Qualifiers for the European Tour Events 9 and 10 in Sindelfingen and
Trier took place. Six players qualified for both Event: Gian van Veen, Raymond van Barneveld,
Jose de Sousa, Simon Whitlock, Ryan Joyce and Graham Hall. Gian van Veen threw a nine-darter during the
qualifier for the tenth event.
European Tour Event 9 Sindelfingen
European Tour Event 10 Trier
The Gallery for this year's UK Open is finally online.
UK Open Gallery
Beau Greaves won at the Isle of Man Festival of Darts both women's events and both in the Isle of Man Classic and
in Isle of Man Masters she defeated in the final Rhian O'Sullivan. Luke Litter won the men's event of the Classic and Barry Copeland
the men's event of the Masters.
Paula Murphy won both the St. Patrick's Open in Missouri and the Virginia Beach Classic. Leonard Gates was the winner of the men's event of the St. Patrick's Open, while Danny Baggish won the Virginia Beach Classic.
The titles of the Budapest Masters went to Jelle Klaasen and Veronika Ihasz. Ihasz won the Budapest Classic as well, winner of the men's event was Moreno Blum. There was a twice winner of the girls events as well - both titles went to Krisztina Turai. The boys events won Andras Borbely(Masters) and Balazs Szotak (Classic). Winners of the Egypt Darts Open were Basem Mahmood from Bahrain and Sarah Makanga from Uganda. The youth titles went to Ahmed Gomaa and Maryam Hamdy Kamel - both from Egypt.
The International Youth Challenge in Austria was won by German Yorick Hofkens. The girl's event was won by Italian Aurora Fochesato.
17. April
PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
Krysztof Ratajski and Dirk van Duijvenbode won the two Players Championships at the weekend in Wigan.
Ratajski won Players Championship 9 on Saturday. He defeated in the final Chris Landman with 8:1. In the semi-finals stood Brendan Dolan and Jonny Clayton. For Ratajski it was the first ranking title since November 2021, for Landman, one of the PDPA Associate Member replacements without a Tour Card, it was the first final on the Pro Tour.
On Sunday Dirk van Duijvenbode defeated in the final of the 10. Players Championship Jose de Sousa with 8:3 schlagen and won his third Pro Tour title pf the year. The semi-finals reached Ian White and Dimitri van den Bergh. Josh Rock and Martin Schindler threw a nine-darter.
Today in Wigan the Tour Card Holders Qualifiers for the Europen Tour Events 9 and 10 will take place.
Participants, Results
14. AprilPro Tour Weekend Wigan
PDC World Championship - Day 13
On the 13. day of the World Championship the fourth round was played to the end. While even Raymond van Barneveld couldn't stop Luke Littler who played with 105.01 the highest
average of the day, Gary Anderson run aground with a mediocre performance against Brendan Dolan. Especially at the start of the match Anderson
couldn't hit his doubles. Other winners of the day were Scott Williams - to be sure one of the surprise winners in the World Championship -, Dave Chisnall,
a strong playing Rob Cross and Luke Humphries who once again won a dramatic match - this time in the sudden death leg against Joe Cullen.
The tournament will continue on the first of January 2024 with the quarterfinals. Chris Dobey will play against Rob Cross, Luke Littler will meet Brendan Dolan, Michael van Gerwen will clash with Scott Williams and Dave Chisnall will play against Luke Humphries.
Day 13 Resultsnew
Report, Statistics Day 13new
29. December
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 12
Again in an afternoon- and an evening-session three matches each will be played - in the afternoon-session it will be three third round matches, in the evening-session
session the last third round match and two fourth round matches.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Jim Williams v Raymond van Barneveld. Impartial: Michael van Gerwen v Stephen Bunting
Debutants of the day: Berry van Peer
Today's Day's Specials: Croatian Boris Krcmar was for many years one of the best or the best soft-darts player in the world. He won numerous titles and several times the World Championship. 2011 he for the first time qualified for the PDC World Championship. Since 2020 Krcmar has got a Tour Card but only in 2022 managed to qualified for the World Championship by the Order of Merit. 2021 and 2023 he both times qualified last minute by the PDPA Qualifier. That he reached the third round this year is his so far best result in his steel-darts career.
What you should know as well: So far only a single debutant progressed into the fourth round - Luke Littler. Berry van Peer could today manage it as well by defeating Damon Heta.
Schedule Day 12, Resultsnew
Statistics Day 12new
PDC World Championship - Day 11
Day 12 started with a strong performance of Stephen Bunting to win 4:0 against German Florian Hempel. After that Joe Cullen defeated Rynan Searle and Chris Dobey prevailed in a
highclass match over Ross Smith. In the evening followed one of the biggest upsets of the tournament so far when Bredan Dolan threw with Gerwyn Price one of the favourites to win out of
tournament. The second match of the night was to be sure one of the most thrilling matches so far - Luke Humphries showed an unbelievable comeback to eliminate German Ricardo
Pietreczko. In the last match of the day Dolan's World Cup Partner Gurney as well progressed - he defeated Ricky Evans.
Report, Statistics Day 11new
28. December
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 11
Again in an afternoon- and an evening-session three third round matches each will be played.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Luke Humphries v Ricardo Pietreczko. Impartial: Gerwyn Price v Brendan Dolan
Debutants of the day: Ricardo Pietreczko
Today's Day's Specials: With Stephen Bunting and Ryan Searle today the the player who plays with the lightest and the player who plays with the heaviest darts in the World Championship will stand on stage though the weight difference is no longer as big as it was some time ago. Searle plays with 32g darts and used to play with 34g. Bunting now plays with 18g darts but in the past for a long time played with 12g.
What you should know as well: Four German players progressed into the third round but two of them yesterday already lost their third round matches: Martin Schindler and Gabriel Clemens. Today Florian Hempel and Ricardo Pietreczko will get the chance to progress.
Schedule Day 11, Resultsnew
Statistics Day 11new
PDC World Championship - Day 10
On the first day after the Christmas Break in the Alexandra Palace in London the third round of the tournament started. Most of the six matches played were one sided and Michael van Gerwen progressed
with a 4:0 win while Michael Smith, Dave Chisnall and Luke Littler defeated their opponents 4:1. Rob Cross prevailed with 4:2 over Jeffrey de Graaf. Only Scott Williams
had to fight hard to defeat Martin Schindler with 4:3.
Report, Statistics Day 10new
27. December
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 10
The Christmas Break is over and the tournament continues with the first matches of the third round - in an afternoon- and an evening-session three matches each will be played.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Scott Williams v Martin Schindler. Impartial: Matt Campbell v Luke Littler
Debutants of the day: Richard Veenstra, Luke Littler
Today's Day's Specials: Six of the players on stage today never before stood in the third round of the PDC World Championship: Jeffrey de Graaf, Luke Littler, Richard Veenstra, Scott Williams, Matt Campbell and Madars Razma. And at least one of them will progress even further as Matt Campbell and Luke Littler will play each other.
What you should know as well: After the first and second round eleven seeds were already eliminated. With Ricardo Pietreczko, Luke Littler and Richard Veenstra three debutants are still in the tournament and four of the players still in neither qualified by the Order of Merit nor by the Pro Tour Order of Merit for the World Championship: Littler, Boris Krcmar, Florian Hempel und Jeffrey de Graaf.
Schedule Day 10, Resultsnew
Statistics Day 10new
24. December
Merry Christmas to all!!!
PDC World Championship - Day 9
On the last day of the second round and before the Christmas break four more seeds were eliminated from the tournament.
The best performance of the tournament so far showed Stephen Bunting against whom Ryan Joyce had no chance at all. A good match showed seed Daryl Gurney who defeated Steve Beaton.
Seed Ryan Searle did enough to defeat Tomoya Goto while Jonny Clayton profited from Steve Lennon's double trouble to get over the line.
Ricardo Pietreczko prevailed convincingly over seed Callan Rydz, Richard Veenstra demolished Kim Huybrechts, Berry van Peer impressed against Josh Rock and Ricky Evans not only delighted
the crowd with his walk-on but with a great performance to throw number 6 seed Nathan Aspinall out of the tournament.
Report, Statistics Day 9new
23. December
Steve Beaton Retirement
Steve Beaton announced that he will end his PDC career end of 2024.
The complete statement you can find here:
Steve Beaton Retirementnew
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 9
On day 9 again an afternoon- and an evening-session will be played - each with four second round matches. After that the second round is complete and the Christmas Break will begin.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Jonny Clayton v Steve Lennon. Impartial: Stephen Bunting v Ryan Joyce
Debutants of the day: Richard Veenstra, Ricardo Pietrezcko, Tomoya Goto, Berry van Peer
Today's Day's Specials: With Stephen Bunting another former BDO World Champion will stand at the oche. His best result in the PDC World Championship so far was the semi-finals in 2021.
What you should know as well: Many of the young players who'll stand at the oche today gained first experiences not in the BDO but in the PDC Youth. Callan Rydz, Nathan Aspinall, Steve Lennon, Ricky Evans, Berry van Peer and Josh Rock all played on the Develpment Tour and took part in the PDC World Youth Championship. Ricky Evans and Berry van Peer reached the final of the event, Josh Rock won it in 2022.
Schedule Day 9, Resultsnew
Statistics Day 9new
PDC World Championship - Day 8
The eighth day of the PDC World Championship was a thrilling day. Especially hard fought were the all Irish clash between Brendan Dolan and Mickey Mansell, the match between Dimitri van den Bergh and
Florian Hempel and the last match of the day between Chris Dobey and William O'Connor. While in two of the matches the seeded players - Dolan and Dobey - prevailed, Florian Hempel who gave it all won the third. Convincing were Raymond van Barneveld and the second German player of
the day - Martin Schindler. Krzysztof Ratajski had no problems against Jamie Hughes. Jeffrey de Graaf and Boris Krcmar elimnated the seed Jose de Sousa and Dirk van Duijvenbode.
Statistics Day 8new
22. December
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 8
On day 8 again an afternoon- and an evening-session will be played - each with four second round matches.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Dimitri van den Bergh v Florian Hempel. Impartial: Martin Schindler v Jermaine Wattimena
Debutants of the day: Radek Szaganski
Today's Day's Specials: Today an in Sweden living and for Sweden playing Dutchman - Jeffrey de Graaf - and an in Ireland living Pole - Radek Szaganski - stand on stage. De Graaf first played in the BDO and from 2016 - 2018 had a PDC Tour Card, he took part four times in the BDO World Championship and this year for the third time in the PDC World Championship. Reaching this year the second round is his so far best World Championship result. Szaganski on the other side is a PDC Tour Card holder and this PDC World Championship is his first ever World Championship.
What you should know as well: For Raymond van Barneveld it is the 31. World Championship and the 17. PDC World Championship. While Steve Beaton took part from 1992 every year first in the BDO and from 2002 in the PDC World Championship Barneveld's first World Championship was already 1991 but he couldn't qualify 1992, 1994 and 2021. Beaton lost 1998 and 2001 in the BDO World Championship to the Dutchman. Van Barneveld threw in January 2009 the very first PDC World Championship Nine-Darter and in December 2009 the second.
Schedule Day 8, Resultsnew
Statistics Day 8new
PDC World Championship - Day 7
On the sevent day of the tournament the last two first round matches were won by Mickey Mansell and Barry van Peer.After those six matches of the second round were played and seeds Andrew Gilding and Danny Noppert were eliminated. Scott Williams defeated Noppert sensational with 3:0 - Noppert experienced a lot of double trouble. Luke Littler threw Andrew Gilding out of the tournament. The other winners of the day were Madars Razma - who for the first time progressed into the third round, Rob Cross, whose opponent Thibault Tricole had even more problems to hit the doubles than Noppert, Gabriel Clemens - whose finishing was too good for Man Lok Leung, and Damon Heta who with his foam flame crown during the walk-on once again took the cake...
Report, Statistics Day 7new
21. December
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 7
On day 7 again an afternoon- and an evening-session will be played - in the afternoon session two first round and two second round matches will be played,
in the evening session four second round matches.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Gabriel Clemens v Man Lok Leung. Impartial: Andrew Gilding v Luke Littler
Debutants of the day: Berry van Peer, Thibault Tricole, Luke Littler, Man Lok Leung
Today's Day's Specials: Mickey Mansell's match against Jim Long at the PDC World Championship 2019 made history as one of the worst World Championship matches of all times and had for Mansell a bitter sequel - the DRA imposed him with a fine af 500 pound "for not perform and compete to the best of his ability". Mansell suffered for a long time under that very controversial penalization... Both players had averages around 75.
What you should know as well: Berry van Peer who this year won Dutch Open and the WDF World Cup singles and qualified for the World Championship as first of the Challenge Tour Order of Merit for many years suffered from Dartitis.
Schedule Day 7, Resultsnew
Statistics Day 7new
PDC World Championship - Day 6
The six tournament day brought a sensational performance of teenage debutant Luke Littler - who gave a solid playing Christian Kist no chance - and
the upset elimination of number 4 seed Peter Wright who had with an under par performance no chance against Jim Williams. Beside we saw strong performances from Ryan Joyce against a good playing
American debutant Alex Spellmann and from William O'Connor against Indian debutant Bhav Patel. Other winners were Radek Szaganski in the weakest match of the day, Steve Lennon, Ross Smith and
Richard Veenstra.
Report, Statistics Day 6new
20. December
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 6
On day 6 again an afternoon- and an evening-session will be played - both with
three first round matches and one second round match each.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Christian Kist v Luke Littler. Impartial: Peter Wright v Jim Williams
Debutants of the day: Radek Szaganski, Owen Bates, Bhav Patel, Alex Spellman, Richard Veenstra, Luke Littler
Seeded Player of the day: Ross Smith, Peter Wright
Today's Day's Specials: To be sure Luke Littler's debut in the PDC Weltmeisterschaft is a match many fans eagerly anticipate. Littler is one of the most talented young players and his has won more or less everything which is offered in youth darts - including the JDC World Championship last Sunday in the Alexandra Palace. On the PDC Development Tour he celebrated five wins this year and he won the PDC World Youth Championship 2023. 2022 he qualified as 14 year old for the WDF World Championship - this year he prefered to take part in the PDC World Championship instead.
What you should know as well: Bhav Patel lives as his better known Indian country fellow man Prakash Jiwa in London. He took part in Q School 2023 but couldn't get a Tour Card and played on the PDC Challenge Tour. In the Indian Qualifier for the PDC World Championship he lost in the final to Jiwa. Now Patel nevertheless got the place in the field of participants as Jiwa was suspended at the beginning of November because of betting fraud by the DRA.
Schedule Day 6, Resultsnew
Statistics Day 6new
PDC World Championship - Day 5
On the fifth day James Wade was the first seeded player to be eliminated - he lost a close match 2:3 to Canadian Matt Campbell. Michael van Gerwen on the other side
won 3:0 Sieg against Keane Barry who couldn't find the doubles. While German Dragutin Horvat lost 3:0 to Mike de Decker German Ricardo Pietreczko won with the same result against a weak Mikuru Suzuki. Other winners of the day were Japanese
debutant Tomoya Goto, Boris Krcmar, Jeffrey de Graaf and a cheerful Steve Beaton.
Report, Statistics Day 5new
19. December
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 5
Today again an afternoon- and an evening-session will be played - both with
three first round matches and one second round match each.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Mike de Decker v Dragutin Horvat. Impartial: James Wade v Matt Campbell
Debutants of the day: Tomoya Goto, Wessel Nijman, Ricardo Pietreczko
Seeded Player of the day: James Wade, Michael van Gerwen
Today's Day's Specials: Today three World Championships with together sex titles stand at the oche - Mikuru Suzuki, Steve Beaton and Michael van Gerwen.
What you should know as well: For Steve Beaton it is already the 23. World Championship in a a row but so far he never got past the Last 16. James Wade took already time twenty times in a row and reached the semi-finals four times while for Michael van Gerwen it is the 17. World Champion in a row. He won it three times and three times lost in the final so far.
Schedule Day 5, Resultsnew
Statistics Day 5new
PDC World Championship - Day 4
Though on the fourth day with the exception of Gerwyn Price no big name stood on stage but many debutants it was a thrilling night.
Price had no problems at all to get rid of Connor Scutt and convinced. Tricole wrote more history - as he was not only the first Frenchman in a PDC World Championship but the first Frenchman who won a
match on this stage. Martin Lukeman with a seasoned appearance defeated Haupai Puha from New Zealand who took too long to really get into the match. Man Lok Leung caused the so far biggest upset of the tournament as he
steamrolled with a highclass and dominate performance the highly valued upcoming Gian van Veen.
Report, Statistics Day 4new
18. December
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 4
On the fourth day only an evening-session will be played - with
three first round matches and one second round match.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Martin Lukeman v Haupai Puha. Impartial: Gerwyn Price v Connor Scutt
Debutants of the day: Connor Scutt, Thibault Tricole, Gian van Veen, Mario Vandenbogaerde, Man Lok Leung
Seeded Player of the day: Gerwyn Price
Today's Day's Specials: On the fourth day of the tournament five of the eight players involved are debutants. Beside it is an international day: two Englishman, one Welshman, one Bedian, one Dutchman, one Frenchman, one player from New Zealand and one from Hongkong.
What you should know as well: Thibault Tricole was not a finalist in a BDO World Championship but he was runner-up in last year's inauguralPDC WDF World Championship. It is more then probable he will not reach this results in this year's PDC World Championship but he nevertheless will write history as he is the first ever Frenchman in a PDC World Championship. He has not Tour Card but qualified by the Westeurope Qualifier for the World championship. The first French player to win a Tour Card was Jacques Labre who won it in the PDC Qualifying School 2023.
Schedule Day 4, Resultsnew
Statistics Day 4new
PDC World Championship - Day 3
On the third day of the PDC World Championship again the two seeded players - Joe Cullen and Luke Humphries - progressed into the third round. Both won their matches
3:0 though it was not quite easy for Humphries. There was no happy end for Fallon Sherrock fourth PDC world Championship campaign though she had a chance in the fourth set against Jermaine Wattimena
to force a decider - she lost 1:3. Florian Hempel on the other side managed to beat a courageous fighting
Dylan Slevin with 3:1. Other winners were Ricky Evans, Jim Williams - who didn't lose a leg against Norman Madhoo, Matt Campbell and Niels Zonneveld in the so far weakest match of the World Championship.
Report, Statistics Day 3new
17. December
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 3
On the third day an afternoon-session and an evening-session will be played - both with
three first round matches and one second round match.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Matt Campbell v Lourence Ilagan. Impartial: Luke Humphries v Lee Evans
Debutants of the day: Lee Evans, Darren Penhall, Simon Adams, Dylan Slevin
Seeded Player of the day: Joe Cullen, Luke Humphries
Today's Day's Specials: Florian Hempel and Darren Webster both qualified by the Tour Card Holders Qualifier for the World Championship and for both players that could have been the key factor to keep the Tour Card. While Hempel's best World Championship results was the third round Webster stood 2007 and 2018 in the quarterfinals.
What you should know as well: As it happens with Jim Williams today another runner-up in the BDO stands at the oche. In the PDC World Championship so far the third round last year was his best result.
Schedule Day 3, Resultsnew
Statistics Day 3new
16. December
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 2
On the second day an afternoon-session and an evening-session will be played - both with
three first round matches and one second round match.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Connor Scutt v Krzysztof Kciuk. Impartial: Gary Anderson v. Simon Whitlock
Debutants of the day: Lee Evans, Sando Eric Sosing, Connor Scutt, Jules van Dongen, Darren Penhall, Reynaldo Rivera
Seeded Player of the day: Dave Chisnall, Gary Anderson
Today's Day's Specials: In the afternoon-session in the first round with the exception of Krzysztof Kciuk only debutants will stand on stage. Kciuk qualified 2010 as well for the PDC World Championship - and lost in the preliminary round to Haruki Muramatsu who will play as well today his first round match in the evening session. Muramatsu qualified beside 2010 and this year in 2012 and 2013 for the PDC World Championship.
What you should know as well: Dave Chisnall is another BDO World Championship Finalist - he reached the final in 2010. So far he never managed it in the PDC but in 2021 he at least reached the semi-finals.
Schedule Day 2, Resultsnew
Statistics Day 2new
PDC World Championship - Day 1
On the first day of the PDC World Championship yesterday as usual in the the second round match - the last of the night - the reigning champion stood at the oche.
Michael Smith had to give it all to stay in the tournament but in the end managed to defeat Kevin Doets with 3:2. As close was the first round match beteen
Simon Whitlock and Paolo Nebrida in which Whitlock prevailed with 3:2. The other two first round matches were more one-sided and were won by Kevin Doets and
Cameron Menzies both with 3:0.
Report, Statistics Day 1new
15. Dezember
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 1
Today in the Alexandra Palace in London the PDC World Championship 2023/24 will begin. Only an evening session will be played
with three first round - and one second round match.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Cameron Menzies v Rusty-Jake Rodriguez. Impartial: Michael Smith v Doets/Buntz
Debutants of the day: Kevin Doets, Stowe Buntz
Seeded Player of the day: Reigning Champion Michael Smith
Today's Day's Specials: With Simon Whitlock today a player stands at the oche who reached in his career twice a World Championship final - 2008 in the BDO and 2010 in the PDC.
What you should know as well: Rusty-Jake Rodriguez is the only Austrian player in this year's World Championship and he had to play the Tour Card Holder Qualifier to get into it.
Schedule, Results Day 1
PDC World Championship - Preview
In the PDC Preview beside reigning champion Michael Smith, Gary Anderson, Luke Humphries, Michael van Gerwen and Nathan Aspinall have their say.
Previewnew
14. December
Additions Who is Who
The following World Championships participants were added to the Who is Who: Wesley Plaisier, Alexander Merkx,
Barry Copeland, Liam Maendl-Lawrance,
Martyn Turner, Jonny Tata, Moreno Blom,
Thomas Junghans, Edwin Torbjörnsson, Reece Colley,
Christian Goedl, Aletta Wajer, Paula Murphy,
Christian Kist, Wessel Nijman, Owen Bates,
Simon Adams, Stowe Buntz, Alex Spellman,
Tomoya Goto and Man Lok Leung.
10. December
WDF World Championships 2023
Today in Lakeside the WDF World Championships were played to the end. All finals were quite clear and one-sided matches.
In the girl's final Italian Aurora Fochesato won 2:0 against Hungarian Krisztina Turai. The boy's title went to Dutchman
Bradley van der Velden with a 3:0 over Adam Dee. Reigning champion Beau Greaves was far too strong for the courageous fighting Aileen de Graaf and with a 4:1 win for the second time in a row
crowned herself women's World Champion. In the last final of the night Belgian Andy Baetens defeated with a dominant performance Chris Landman 6:1 to become the first ever Belgian World Champion.
Results Finals new
Statisticsnew
Report Finals Daynew
9. December
WDF World Championships 2023
Semi-Finals day in the Lakeside Country Club. In each of the two session one boy's semi-final, one women's semi-final and
one semi-final of the men will take place.
While reigning women's champion Beau Greaves is still in the event men's champion Neil Duff was eliminated yesterday in the quarter-finals by Chris Landman.
Schedule, Results Semi-Finalsnew
Statisticsnew
8. Dezember
WDF World Championships 2023
In the last two women's second round matches yesterday Lisa Ashton and Kirsty Hutchinson prevailed. They will meet today in the quarterfinals.
The men's winners were Jonny Tata, Dennis Nilsson, Chris Landman, Jelle Klaasen, Neil Duff and - in the last thrilling all American match - Danny Lauby.
Today both in the men's and the women's event the quarterfinals will be played - two each in both of the sessions. Both reigning champions will stand on stage in the evening session.
Schedule, Results Quarterfinalsnew
Statisticsnew
7. December
WDF World Championships 2023
On the fifth day of the tournament yesterday the last men's second round matches were won by Chris Landman, Thomas Junghans, Dennie Olde Kalter and Danny Lauby who today will return for
their third round games. The first two third round matches in yesterday's evening session were won convincingly by Andy Baetens and Wesley Plaisier. The two second round matches of the Women's World Championships were won by
Lorraine Winstanley and Aileen de Graaf.
In the women's event today the last two second round matches will be played and among others fourtimes world champion Lisa Ashton will stand at the oche. In the men's event the third round will be played to the end.
Schedule, Results Day 6new
Statisticsnew
6. December
World Series of Darts 2024
The PDC World Series of Darts next year will consist of seven international events and the final. The first event will be the Bahrain Darts Masters from 18. - 19. January. As well in January
the Dutch Darts Masters will be played. End of May/beginning of June the US Darts Masters will follow. In June the Nordic Darts Masters and the Poland Darts Masters will take place,
in August the Australian and the New Zealand Darts Masters. The conclusion will be the WSOD Final from 13. - 15. September in Amsterdam.
In each of the international events eight PDC players and eight regional representatives will take part.
World Series of Darts 2024
WDF World Championships 2023
Reigning champion Neil Duff prevailed yesterday with 3:1 over Moreno Blom but much more impressive and convincing was the former BDO World Champion
Jelle Klaasen who defeated Swede Edwin Torbjörnsson in no time 3:0. Beside Alexander Merkx, Martyn Turner, Wesley Plaisier and
Leonard Gates progressed in the men's event into the Third Round. Rhian O'Sullivan played in the women's evnt with 85.08 the so far
second highest average and progressed together with Deta Hedman into the next round.
In the men's event today the last three Second Round and the first two Third Round matches will be played in which Andy Baetens and Wesley Plaisier will play against Gary Stone and James Richardson respectively. In the women's event the Secpond Round will continue.
Schedule, Results Day 5new
Statisticsnew
5. December
WDF World Championships 2023
Both Beau Greaves and Andy Beatens lived up to expectations on the first day of the second round of the World Championships in Lakeside.
Reigning champion Beau Greaves gave a good playing Lorraine Hyde no chance and secured with an 88.79 average a 3:0 win.
Number 1 seed Belgian Andy Baetens won his match against a courageous Sebastian Bialecki 3:0 with the so far highest average of the tournmant of 94.82.
The other winners of the day were Paula Murphy in the women's event and James Richardson, Jim Widmayer, Gary Stone, Jonny Tata and Dennis Nilsson in the event of the men.
Today the second round will continue. Among others Deta Hedman and reigning champion Neil Duff will be on stage.
Schedule, Results Day 4new
Statisticsnew
4. December
WDF World Championships 2023
Today in the Lakeside Country Club the second round of the tournament will begin. Again an afternoon- and an evening-session will take place both with
one women's- and three men's matches. The seeded players join the tournament and will play against the first round winners.
In the evening-session in the men's event the number 1 seed Belgian Andy Baetens and in the women's event the number 1 seed and reigning champion Beau Greaves will stand at the oche.
Yesterday the first round was played to the end. Leonard Gates played with 92.11 so far highest average of the tournament and progressed into the next round as did Liam Maendl-Lawrance, Edwin Torbjörnsson, Moreno Blom, Jarno Bottenberg, David Kirwan, Dennie Olde Kalter and Thomas Junghans. In the women's event Kirsty Hutchinson, Priscilla Steenbergen, Suzanne Smith and Nicole Regnaud progressed into the second round.
Participants, Schedule and Results Day 3new
Statisticsnew
3. December
WDF World Championships 2023
Yesterday in the Lakeside Country Club in Frimley Green the WDF World Championships 2023 began. Both the women and the men played matches of the First Round.
The best men's match was the match between James Richardson and Christian Gödl which was won by Richardson with an average of 88.14 2:1.
The other men's winners were Sebastian Bialecki, Ricky Naumann, Reece Colley, Dennis Nilsson, Jim Widmayer,
Jonny Tata and Arjan Kontermann. The most convincing match of the women was the match between Paula Murphy and Almudena Fajardo - both with averages over 72. American Murphy
won it and progressed as Veronika Ihasz, Aletta Wajer and Lorraine Hyde in the next round.
Today the tournament will continue and the First Round both of the women and the men will be played to the end.
Participants, Schedule, Resultsnew
Statisticsnew
Interview with Jim Widmayer
To tune in for the WDF World Championships which will begin on Saturday 2. December Global Darts made an interview with American Jim Widmayer.
Widmayer - one of the few players who took part in the inauguralPDC World Matchplay and is still an active player will this year take part for the
fourth time in the World Championship. Since this year he is the president of the ADO - American Darts Organisation.
To the Interview
30. November
PDC World Championship 2023/2024
The PDC by now published the schedule of the First and Second Round of the tournamentt. The First and Second Round will take place from 15. - 23. December.
As always the reigning champion will play his second round match on the first night - Michael Smith will play against Kevin Doets or Stowe Buntz who will open with their match the World Championship. Number 2 seed Michael van Gerwen will play on 19. December against the winner of the match between Keane Barry and Reynaldo Rivera while number three seed Luke Humphries will play on 17. December either against Lee Evans or Eric Sosing.
Schedule First and Second Roundnew
29. November
PDC Rankings
All PDC Rankings are on the final standings of the season.PDC Rankings
The positions of the players qualified for the PDC World Championship in the complete PDC Order of Merit you can find here:
Participants PDC World Championship 2023/2024 in the Order of Merit
28. November
PDC World Championship 2023/2024
Yesterday in Barnsley the Tour Card Holders Qualifier for the PDC World Championship 2023/2024 took place. The four places in the field of participants on offer
got Florian Hempel, Darren Webster, Boris Krcmar and Rusty-Jake Rodriguez. The field of participants of the World Championship was complete and the draw was made.
Reigning champion Michael Smith will begin his fight to defend the title in the second round against the winner of the first round match between Kevin Doets and American Stowe Buntz. Number two seed Michael van Gerwen will begin his campaign either against Keane Barry or Reynaldo Rivera while World Grand Prix, Grand Slam and Players Championship Finals winner Luke Humphries will start into the tournament against Lee Evans or Sandro Eric Sosing.
Participants, Draw First and Second Round
27. November
Humphries wins Players Championship Finals
In a close and highclass final an outstanding Humphries defeated with a comeback from 5:9 down
reigning champion Michael van Gerwen with 11:9 and for the third time in two month won a PDC TV-Event.
Van Gerwen threw a nine-darter in the final.
Humphries defeated on finals day James Wade and Ryan Joyce while van Gerwen prevailed over Stephen Bunting and Gabriel Clemens.
Report Finalnew
Statisticsnew
Schedule and Results Finals Day
Littler wins World Youth Championship
Luke Littler defeated in the final of the World Youth Championship Gian van Veen with 6:4 and is new PDC World Youth Champion. It was from both
players a highclass final. By the win Littler secured a place in the PDC World Championship for which van Veen already is qualified
by the Pro Tour Order of Merit. Beside both players got a place in the Grand Slam of Darts 2024.
Report and Statisticsnew
25. November
Players Championship Finals
Today the tournament in Minehead will continue. In the afternoon the second round will be played, tonight the third round will take place.
Reigning champion Michael van Gerwen will play against Ross Smith in the second round. Number 1 seed Gerwyn Price will clash with Kim Huybrechts.
Schedule and Results Second and Third Roundnew
Statisticsnew
24. November
Players Championship Finals
Richard Veenstra caused for the biggest upset of the first round today - he eliminated World Champion Michael Smith from the event. James Wade and Niels Zonneveld played with over 100 the highest averages.
Reigning champion Michael van Gerwen defeated Callan Rydz with 6:3 and progressed into the second round.
Results First Roundnew
Statisticsnew
23. November
Players Championship Finals
Tomorrow in Minehead the Players Championship Finals will begin. In an afternoon- and an evening-session the first round will be played.
In the PDC preview reigning champion Michael van Gerwen, Gary Anderson and Rob Cross have their say.
Previewnew
22. November
PDC World Championship 2023/2024
The West Europe Qualifier for the PDC World Championship was played at the weekend. The winner was Frenchman
Thibault Tricole who won through a strong field of participants to win the final against Dutchman Wesley Plaisier. Tricole is the
first Frenchman ever to qualify for the PDC World Championship.
Tricole was already qualified for the WDF World Championship at the start of December but decided in favour of the PDC World Championship. He will be replaced in the WDF World Championship by Englishman John Scott.
PDC World Championship - Participants, Schedulenew
Players Championship Finals
Danny Noppert withdrew from the Players Championship Finals due to the imminent arrival of his second child. For him young Irishman
Dylan Slevin moved up, who will play instead of Noppert against Canadier Matt Campbell in the first round.
The detailed schedule of the first round of the event was published - reigning champion Michael van Gerwen will start his campaign to defend the title in the evening session on Friday on the main stage against Callan Rydz.
Participants, Schedule First Roundnew
PDC Rankings
After the Grand Slam of Darts the PDC Order of Merit was updated.PDC Rankings
19. November
Humphries wins Grand Slam of Darts
In a from both players highclass but slightly one-sided final Luke Humphries defeated Rob Cross with 16:8 and won his first Grand Slam title. Both players
averaged over 103 but all in all Humphries scored better and had the higher hitting rate on the doubles.
Before Humphries defeated in the semi-finals James Wade with 16:10 while Cross prevailed with 16:13 over Stephen Bunting
Finals Day Results
Report and Statistics Finals Daynew
Grand Slam of Darts
In Wolverhampton today in an afternoon and an evening session semi-finals and final of the Grand Slam will take place.
In the afternoon in the first semi-final James Wade will meet Luke Humphries. After that Stephen Bunting will play against Rob Cross. Tonight the final will follow.
Schedule Finals Daynew
Grand Slam of Darts
The last two quarterfinals were quite one-sided matches. Neither Stowe Buntz nor Damon Heta could keep up their performances.
So first Stephen Bunting defeated Buntz with 16:8 and after that Rob Cross Damon Heta with 16:6. Bunting and Cross progressed into the semi-finals.
Report and Statistics Quarterfinals 2 new
18. November
Grand Slam of Darts
Tonight in Wolverhampton again two quarterfinals will be played.
In the first match American debutant Stowe Buntz will meet Stephen Bunting. After that in the last quarterfinal Damon Heta will play against Rob Cross.
Schedule Quarterfinals 2, Results
Grand Slam of Darts
Both quarterfinals on the seventh day of the tournament in Wolverhampton were hard fougth and thrilling matches and both went quite similar.
James Wade stormed against Josh Rock in the first quarterfinal into a 3:0 lead and for a long time stayed ahead before Josh Rock got the 11:10 and kept his lead till 15:12.
The young player from Northern Ireland missed one matchdart and Wade came back and won a very close deciding leg. Gary Anderson as well had an
early lead against Luke Humphries but Humphries too outrun him. Anderson for a short while got the lead back but it was Humphries who won the last three legs of the match.
Wade and Humphries will meeat in the semi-finals on Sunday.
Report and Statistics Seventh Day new
17. November
Grand Slam of Darts
In Wolverhampton the tournament will continue today with the first two quarterfinals.
In the first quarterfinal James Wade will play against Josh Rock. Iin the second quarterfinal Gary Anderson and Luke Humphries will clash.
Schedule Quarterfinals 1, Results
Grand Slam of Darts
With the exception of the last match the second second round night was not as highclass as the first but it was thrilling nevertheless. In the first match the dream debut of American Stowe Buntz
continued - he defeated Andrew Gilding who was far from beeing clinical on his doubles and progressed as first American ever in the quarterfinals of the tournament.
In the second match it was an under par Danny Noppert who experienced a lot of double trouble and Stephen Bunting sailed through. Damon Heta caused a big upset in the third match as he
eliminated Michael van Gerwen with a convincing performance. A highclass and dramatic match between Rob Cross and Nathan Aspinall ended the night
in which Cross prevailed 10:8.
Report and Statistics Sixth Day new
16. November
Grand Slam of Darts
Tonight the last four matches of the second round will take place.
Nathan Aspinall will open the night against Rob Cross. After that American debutant Stowe Buntz will play against Andrew Gilding. In the third match Danny Noppert and Stephen Bunting will meet. In the last match of the second round Michael van Gerwen will play against Damon Heta.
Schedule Sixth Day, Results
Grand Slam of Darts
On a thrilling and highlass second round night
Josh Rock, James Wade, Gary Anderson and Luke Humphries progresssed into the quarterfinals. They won their matches against Krzysztof Ratajski, Chris Dobey,
Gerwyn Price and Ryan Searle. Gary Anderson and Luke Humphries played outstanding and will meet in the quarterfinals as will
Josh Rock and James Wade.
Report and Statistics fifth day
15. November
Grand Slam of Darts
Tonight the Knockout Phase will begin. Four matches will be played.
Josh Rock will open the night against Krzysztof Ratajski. After that James Wade will play against Chris Dobey. In the third match as in the final of 2018 Gerwyn Price and Gary Anderson will clash. In the last match Luke Humphries and Ryan Searle will stand at the oche.
Schedule Fifth Day, Results
Grand Slam of Darts
Neither Beau Greaves nor Fallon Sherrock managed to win their deciding group matches - they lost to Rob Cross and Damon Heta
who by this progressed to the next round. Stephen Bunting won the deciding match against Peter Wright who was eliminated from the
event. Danny Nopper and Andrew Gilding as well won deciding matches to progress.
Report and Statistics Fourth Day
Group Tables E-H Final Standings
14. November
Grand Slam of Darts
Tonight the group will end with the third groud matches of Groups E-H.
From those groups Stowe Buntz, Michael van Gerwen and Nathan Aspinall already qualified for the next round. Out of the tournament are Dave Chisnall, Martijn Kleermaker and Ricardo Pietreczko. Among those who still have a chance to progress are Fallon Sherrock and Beau Greaves.
Schedule Fourth Day, Results
Grand Slam of Darts
Though there were some suprises in the final group matches of Groups A-D it was Ryan Searle who made the head lines. He threw against
Nathan Rafferty a nine-darter to win the match 5:3. Gary Anderson and Luke Humphries won in Group C their matches and progressed. In Group A James Wade
defeated reigning champion Michael Smith who by this was eliminated while Wade topped the group. As well from this group Krzysztof Ratajski is in the next round.
From Group B Josh Rock and Chris Dobey are in the second round, from Group D beside Gerwyn Price Ryan Searle.
Report and Statistics Third Day
Group Tables A-D Final Standings
13. November
Grand Slam of Darts
Tonight the third and last group matches of Groups A - D will take place.
Not much is decided so far - only Gerwyn Price and Josh Rock are already through to the second round and Gian van Veen is already eliminated from the tournament.
Schedule Third Day, Results
Grand Slam of Darts
On the scond day again American Stowe Buntz surprised - he defeated Stephen Bunting as well and is one of five players who are already through to the second round
after the second group matches. The others are Gerwyn Price, Josh Rock, Michael van Gerwen and Nathan Aspinall.
Already out of the tournament are Gian van Veen, Dave Chisnall, Martijn Kleermaker and Ricardo Pietreczko. Kleermaker lost his second group match to Fallon Sherrock who by this still is
able to progress as is Beau Greaves who with another strong performances defeated Pietreczko 5:1.
Report and Statistics Second Day
Group Tables
12. November
Grand Slam of Darts
The biggest upset of the first day of the tournament caused American debutan Stowe Buntz who stormed to a 5:1 win over number 2 seed
Peter Wright. Buntz played with 102.28 the highest average of the day. All in all we did see quite a lot of close matches with 5:4 wins.
Beau Greaves lost 4:5 to Nathan Aspinall while Fallon Sherrock only managed to win one leg against Michael van Gerwen.
Today the second group matches will be played again in an afternoon and an evening session. The losers of the groups will play one another and the winners will play the winners. In the afternoon groups B,D,F and H will stand on stage, tonight groups A,C,E and G.
Schedule Second Day, Results
11. November
Grand Slam of Darts
Today in Wolverhampton an afternoon - and an evening session will take place. In all groups the first group matches will be played - in the afternoon in
Groups B,D,F and H, tonight in Groups A,C,E and G.
German debutant Ricardo Pietreczko will clash in the first match of the tournament in the afternoon session with Damon Heta. Reigning champion Michael Smith will play in the last match of the evening session against debutant Nathan Girvan.
Schedule First Day, Results
Group Tables
Statistics
10. November
Horvat wins Superleague
Dragutin Horvat defeated in the final of the PDC Super League Tour Card Holder Pascal Rupprecht with 8:3 and after 2017 for the
second time takes part in the PDC World Championship in London. Before he defeated on finals day in the quarterfinals
Nico Kurz and prevailed in the semi-finals over Lukas Wenig. Rupprecht defeated on his way to the final Daniel Klose and Kai Gotthardt.
Results
Grand Slam of Darts
Tomorrow in Wolverhampton the Grand Slam of Darts will begin.
It is difficult to spot a clear favourite, statistically Ross Smith was over the last few weeks the strongest player. But unfortunately he didn't manage to qualify for the Grand Slam...
Previewnew
PDC Europe Superleague
Last night the Last 16 matches took place and the primal twentyfour participants are now reduced to eight who fight for a place in the PDC World Championship:
Lukas Wenig, Dominik Grüllich, Nico Kurz, Dragutin Horvat, Kai Gotthardt, Niko Springer and the two Tour Card holders Pascal Rupprecht and Daniel Klose
who will clash in the quarterfinals. Most Last 16 matches were hard fought, only Pascal Rupprecht had a clear
6:1 win over Arno Merk.
Tonight the tournament will be played to the end.
Schedule
9. November
PDC Europe Superleague
The group phase of the tournament was played to the end yesterday and from each group the two last in the table were eliminated
from the event.
Lukas Wenig is the only player who won all his group matches and he progressed into the last 16 as did Niko Springer who won nine of his ten matches. Among the 16 players who progressed is as well the former German number 1 Max Hopp.
Today the Last 16 will be played.
Schedule, Final Standings Groups
8. November
PDC Europe Superleague
Yesterday in Bitburg, Germany, this year's PDC Europe Superleague started with the group phase. The winner of the
tournament will be rewarded with a place in the PDC World Championship.
Lukas Wenig and Dragutin Horvat won in their groups all five matches and now head Groups A and C. Pascal Rupprecht heads Group B with four wins. In Group D both Niko Springer and Nico Kurz won four matches, Springer is first in the table due to the better leg difference. Springer was the outstanding player of the first day - he not only won four of his matches but threw a nine-darter as well and twice played an average of over 100 in his matches.
Today the second day of the group phase will take place.
Superleague 2023
Grand Slam of Darts
The PDC published the Group Draw and the draw and schedule of the first group matches.
Reigning champion Michael Smith heads Group A to which beside him James Wade, Krzysztof Ratajski and debutant Nathan Girvan belong. He start his campaign in the evening session on Saturday against Nathan Girvan. The tournament will be opened in the afternoon session with the match between German Ricardo Pietreczko and Damon Heta in Group F.
Groups
Schedule First Group Matches
6. November
WDF World Championships 2023
All participants in the WDF World Championships 2023 are known. The tournament will be played from 2. - 10. December in the Lakeside Country Club in
Frimley Green.
The WDF already published the draw and the schedule of the first and second round both of the women's and the men's event. Reigning champion Beau Greaves will begin her tournament in the second round against the winner of the match Lorraine Hyde v Laura Turner. Reigning champion Neil Duff as well starts in the second round . He will play either against Moreno Blom or against Gabor Takacs.
Participants, Schedule
3. November
Grand Slam of Darts
Today in Barnsley the Tour Card Inhaber Qualifier for the Grand Slam of Darts was played. The tournament will take place from 11. - 19. November in Wolverhampton.
The qualifiers are: Danny Noppert, Stephen Bunting, Ryan Searle, Nathan Rafferty, Damon Heta, Steve Lennon, Martijn
Kleermaker and Brendan Dolan. The field of participants is now complete.
Grand Slam of Darts
Players Championship Finals
After the last two Players Championships all 64 participants in the Players Championship Finales in Minehead are known.
The draw already took place. Reigning champion Michael van Gerwen will start his campaign against Callan Rydz. Top seed
Gerwyn Price will play against Ricky Evans first round.
Peter Wright, Nathan Aspinall, Mensur Suljovic and Mervyn King didn't manage to qualify.
Players Championship Finals
Price and Chisnall win in Barnsley
Gerwyn Price and Dave Chisnall won in Barnsley the last two Players Championships of the year.
Gerwyn Price won the 29. Players Championship and defeated in the final Dave Chisnall with 8:3. Rob Cross and Damon Heta stood in the semi-finals.
Dave Chisnall won on Thursday the 30. and last Players Championship - he defeated in the final Jim Williams with 8:4. Beside Gian van Veen again Damon Heta reached the semi-finals. For Chisnall it was the fifth win on the Pro Tour this year. Ricky Evans threw a nine-darter in the first round.
PDC Rankings
After the last two Players Championships the PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated.PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
31. October
PDC Pro Tour
Tomorrow and on Thrusday in Barnsley the Players Championships 29 and 30 will take place - the last two
Players Championships of the year. After those all participants in the Players Championship Finals are known.
One place in the Grand Slam of Darts will be decided as well. At the moment it is
occupoied by Dirk van Duijvenbode who can*t take part in the Players Championships due to an shoulder injury. Should Danny Noppert win
one of the events he will oust his fellow countryman..
Participants, Resultsnew
How the field of participants of the Grand Slam looks at the mopment you can find here:
Grand Slam of Darts
30. October
PDC Challenge Tour
At the weekend this year's PDC Challenge Tour was played to the end. The last five events were played and they had with
John Henderson, Dom Taylor, Andy Boulton, Viteszlav Sedlak and James Hurrell five different winners. Berry van Peer and
Owen Bates stayed on the places 1 and 2 of the PDC Challenge Tour Order of Merit and by this are qualified for the PDC
World Championship.
PDC Challenge Tour
PDC Rankings
After the weekend the PDC Order of Merit and the Challenge Tour Order of Merit were updated.PDC Rankings
29. October
Wright wins European Championship
Peter Wright defeated in the final of the European Championship in Dortmund as 2020 James Wade and for the second time is European Champion.
For Wright it is the first Major Title since almost two years. Before defeated Wright on Finals Day in the quarterfinals Chris Dobey and fought back to win
in his semi-final against Danny Noppert. James Wade defeated in the quarterfinals Luke Humphries and defeated in his semi-final
Gian van Veen with a comeback. Van Veen eliminated in the quarterfinals Michael van Gerwen.
Results Finals Daynew
Statisticsnew
European Championship
Michael van Gerwen got a hard fought 10:7 win over German Ricardo Pietreczko and progressed together with Chris Dobey, Danny Noppert, Gerwyn Price,
Peter Wright, James Wade, Luke Humphries and Gian van Veen into the quarterfinals. For van Veen it will be his first Major quarterfinal and he will play
against his fellow country man Michael van Gerwen.
Today the tournament will be played to the end. In the afternoon-session the quarterfinals will be played, in the evening-session semi-finals and final will take place.
Schedulenew
Statistics
28. October
European Championship
While yesterday both German players lost their matches today Ricardo Pietreczko once again made the headlines - he eliminated
the reigning champion Ross Smith.
The other winners of the night were Gian van Veen, Kryzsztof Ratajski, Daryl Gurney, Jonny Clayton, James Wade (in the weakest match if the night), Luke Humphries and
Michael van Gerwen who survived two matchdarts of the strong playing Madars Razma.
Tomorrow in Dortmund the second round will be played in an afternoon- and an evening-session. Ricardo Pietreczko will play in the evening-session against Michael van Gerwen spielen.
Schedule Third Day
Results Second Day
Statistics
European Championship
One the first day of the tournament both German players Gabriel Clemens and Martin Schindler lost their matches to Peter Wright and
Stephen Bunting respectively. Number 1 seed Dave Chisnall was beaten by Chris Dobey. Other winners on this first round night were Danny Noppert,
Nathan Aspinall, Rob Cross, Gerwyn Price and Michael Smith.
Tonight the first round will be played to the end. Among others reigning champion Ross Smith will play against Ricardo Pietreczko antreten.
ScheduleSecond Daynew
26. October
European Championship
Tonight in Dortmund the European Championship will begin. The first eight matches of the first round will take place.
Danny Noppert will open the tournament against Andrew Gilding. Among others number 1 seed Dave Chisnall will begin his campaign against Chris Dobey while World Champion Michael Smith will play against Raymond van Barneveld.
In the preview reigning champion Ross Smith, Luke Humphries and Dave Chisnall have their say.
Preview
Schedule, Results First Daynew
Statisticsnew
23. October
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated after the four Players Championships in Barnsley.PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
PDC Pro Tour
The four Players Championships in Barnsley had four different winners - Gary Anderson, Ryan Joyce, Radek Szaganski and Ross Smith.
Anderson was the most successfull player of the four days - beside winning the 25. Players Championship he twice reached a quarterfinal
and threw a nine-darter. Pole Szaganski to be sure was a surprise winner - the 43 years old - who by now lives in Ireland -
was the only second Polish winner of a PDC ranking event.
Participants, Results
18. October
PDC Pro Tour
From today till Saturday in Barnsley the Players Championships 25 - 28 will be played. With the exception of Corey Cadby, Adrian Lewis, Christian Perez and Lewy Williams all Tour Card holders registered, Pascal Rupprecht will not take part on Saturday. They will be replaced by Berry van Peer, Christian Kist, Cameron Crabtree and Owen Bates, for Rupprecht John Henderson will move up.
Participants, Results
Procisional Tournament Calendar 2024
The dates of the PDC Nordic and Baltic Tour were added to the Tournament Calendar 2024.PDC Nordic and Baltic Tour
Tournament Calendar 2024
17. October
European Championship
After the German Darts Championship last weekend all participants of the European Championship were known and the PDC by now
published the draw and the schedule of the first round.
Number 1 seed Dave Chisnall will play against Chris Dobey while reigning champion Ross Smith was drawn against German Ricardo Pietreczko. The match between Danny Noppert and Andrew Gilding will open the tournament.
The tournament will take place from 26. - 29. October in Dortmund.
Participants, Schedule
16. October
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour ORder of Merit, the European Tour Order of Merit and the Women's Series Order of Merit were updated after the weekend.PDC Rankings
European Tour
Women's Series
15. October
Pietreczko wins in Hildesheim
Ricardo Pietreczko defeated in Hildesheim in the final of the German Darts Championship Peter Wright with 8:4 and as the only second
German darts player after Max Hopp secured himself a PDC ranking title. Pietreczko defeated today on his way into the final
George Killington, Stephen Bunting and Michael van Gerwen. A large part in his success had his accuracy on the doubles. In the final
he hit all eight in the first attempt. Peter Wright reached the final with wins over
Nico Kurz, Damon Heta and Luke Humphries.
Schedule, Results Day 3new
Statisticsnew
PDC Women's Series
Fallon Sherrock was this weekend the outstanding player of the Women"s Series - she won three of the events.
The fourth and last tournament was won by Nathalie Gilbert. Beau Greaves was not as successfull as one was used to but
twice stood in the quarterfinals and twice in the semi-finals.
Participants, Resultsnew
14. October
European Tour
Today in Hildesheim the second round of the German Darts Championship took place. The seeds entered the event and
played against the first round winners - among them with Nico Kurz, Gabriel Clemens and Ricardo Pietreczko three
German players. All three survived the second round as well at the expense of the seeds Jonny Clayton, Dave Chisnall and Martin Schindler.
Seeds Ryan Searle, Danny Noppert, Dirk van Duijvenbode, Josh Rock and Nathan Aspinall were eliminated as well.
Participants, Schedule, Results Day 2new
Statisticsnew
PDC Women's Series
In Wigan this weekend the last four events of this year's PDC Women's Series will be played. As with Beau Greaves the head of the ranking decided to relinquish her place
in the PDC World Championship and instead will try to defend her WDF World Champion title it is already clear before the
weekend that Mikuru Suzuki and Fallon Sherrock will represent the women in the PDC World Championship.
Participants, Resultsnew
12. Oktober
European Tour
Tomorrow in Hildesheim, Germany, the last European Tour Event of the year will begin - the German Darts Championship. The tournament is
for the participating players the last chance to qualify for the European Championship which will take place from 26. - 29. October in
Dortmund.
Tomorrow the first round of the event will be played in which as always only the qualifiers will take part. Today the Host Nation Qualifier took place by which Marcus Kirchmann and Nico Kurz qualified. Gerwyn Price withdrew from the tournament and is replaced by Ross Smith.
Participants, Schedule, Results Day 1
11. Oktober
WDF World Championships
The WDF Championships will take place from 2. - 10. December in the Lakeside Country Club.
The PDC doesn't allow players who qualified both for the PDC World Championship and the WDF World Championships to take part in both events - the players have to decide in which they want to take part. The WDF would have had no problems with it - especially in respect of the female players. Among the affected players are Beau Greaves and Luke Littler. While Greaves decided to defend her title in the WDF Littler decided to take part in the PDC World Championship.
The qualification period for the WDF Championships is not over yet - it will end on 30. October. But 73 participants are already known.
WDF Championships 2023 - Schedule, already known Participantsnew
10. October
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit was updated after the World Grand Prix.PDC Rankings
8. October
Humphries wins World Grand Prix
Luke Humphries defeated in the final of the World Grand Prix Gerwyn Price with 5:2 and won his first Major title. Price made a strong start into the match and won
the first set without reply. But Humphries reacted immediately and won the next three sets in a row. Set five went in the deciding leg to the Welshman. The following two sets needed a
deciding leg as well but both times Humphries was the winner. In the seventh and final set Humphries lived up to his
nickname "Cool Hand" and hit a 138 finish to victory.
Report, Statistics Finalnew
7. October
Price and Humphries in Final
Gerwyn Price and Luke Humphries will meet tomorrow night in the final of the World Grand Prix in Leicester.
Gerwyn Price defeated in the first semi-final Michael Smith with 4:2. It was no highclass match and Michael Smith only had one really good set which was not enpough against a slick playing Price. The second semi-final was a rather one-sided affair and won 4:0 by Luke Humphries. The only highlight from Joe Cullen was a 150 Finish in the last set of the match. Apart from that Cullen had no chance at although Humphries was far from outstanding himself.
Results Semi-Finalsnew
Report, Statistics Semi-Finalsnew
PDC World Grand Prix
Tonight in Leicester the semi-finals of the World Grand Prix will take place.
First Michael Smith will play against Gerwyn Price. After that in the second semi-final Joe Cullen and Luke Humphries will meet. Price is the only former winner from the four remaining players.
Schedule
6. October
PDC World Grand Prix
The first two quarterfinals between Gerwyn Price and Martin Schindler and Michael Smith and Andrew Gilding respectively were both
one-sided affairs and were both won 3:0 - by Price and Smith. Much closer was the quarterfinal between Peter Wright and Luke Humphries, in which Humphries first was 0:2 behind but
then won the match 3:2 in a dramatic final leg. The final quarterfinal between Chris Dobey and Joe Cullen was rather close
as well but not quite so high-class as the match between Wright and Humphries. In the end Joe Cullen won it 3:2
Tonorrow in the semi-finals Michael Smith will play against Gerwyn Price and Luke Humphries against Joe Cullen
Schedule, Results Fifth Day
Statistics Fifth Daynew
PDC World Grand Prix
On the second secondround night Chris Dobey caused the so far biggest upset of the tournament - he defeated reigning champion Michael van Gerwen with 3:2. Till the 2:2 it had been a head-to-head race
but then Dobey won the last set without losing a leg and crossed the finishing line with an 156 finish. The other winners of the night were Luke Hunmphries,
Peter Wright and Joe Cullen.
Tonight the quarterfinals will take place - Gerwyn Price will meet Martin Schindler, Michael Smith will play against Andrew Gilding, Peter Wright against Luke Humphries and Chris Dobey will clash with Joe Cullen.
Schedule Day 4, Results
Statistics Fourth Daynew
5. October
PDC World Grand Prix
On the first second round evening two one-sided and two hard-fought matches took place. Michael Smith and Gerwyn Price had no problems at all
and progressed with 3:0 wins into the quarterfinals, Smith for the first time. The matches between Gary Anderson and Andrew Gilding and Stephen Bunting and Martin Schindler
respectively were hard-fought and had with Gilding and Schindler some kind of surprise winners.
Tonight the other four matches of the second round will take place. Among others reigning champion Michael van Gerwen will play against Chris Dobey.
Schedule Day 4
Report, Statistics Third Daynew
4. October
PDC World Grand Prix
The second first round evening was a rather one-sided affair - with the exception of the match between Damon Heta and Ryan Searle - which Searle
won 2:1 - all matches were won 2:0. Among the winners was reigning champion Michael van Gerwen against whom Josh Rock had no chance at all. With
Jonny Clayton another seeded player was eliminated. The upset of the night was the 0:2 defeat of the highly-fancied Dave Chisnall against debutant Luke Woodhouse
who had only managed to qualify for the World Grand Prix last-minute.
Tonight the second round will begin - the first four matches will be played.
Schedule Day 3, Resultsnew
Report, Statistics Second Day
3. October
PDC World Grand Prix
Two of the seeded players were eliminated on the first day - Nathan Aspinall lost to Stephen Bunting and Rob Cross was defeated in the last and weakest match
of the night by Andrew Gilding. Beside Brendan Dolan, Gary Anderson, Krzysztof Ratajski, Martin Schindler, Gerwyn Price and Michael Smith - who played with 96.14
the highest average of the night - won their matches.
Today the first round will be played to the end. Among others Michael van Gerwen, Peter Wright and Jonny Clayton will stand at the oche.
Schedule Second Day, Resultsnew
Report, Statistics First Day
2. October
PDC World Grand Prix
Tonight in Leicester the PDC World Cup will begin. The first eight matches of the first round will be played.
The tournament will be opened by the match between Dirk van Duijvenbode and Brendan Dolan. Among others Gary Anderson, Michael Smith and Gerwyn Price
will stand on stage as well.
In the PDC preview Michael van Gerwen, Jonny Clayton and Gary Anderson have their say.
Schedule First Round, Results
Preview
WDF World Cup
Winners of the Singles titles of the WDF World Cup were in the adult events Berry van Peer and Beau Greaves and in the youth events Walker Jenson and Paige Pauling, both from England. The men's pairs
were won by the New Zealand pair Haupai Puha and Ben Robb, the women's pairs by the English pair Beau Greaves and Deta Hedman. The youth pairs events all had English winners:
Banks/Walker and Pauling/Meek and Thomas Banks together with Paige Pauling won the mixed youth pairs. The men's team event was won by Team Netherlands
and the women's team event by Team Ireland.
Participants, Results
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
29. September
PDC Pro Tour
After he lost yesterday in the semi-finals against Luke Humphries Gary Anderson - who reached the quarterfinals of Players Championship 22 too -
today won the 24. Players Championship. He defeated in the final Ryan Joyce with 8:4. In the semi-finals stood Jonny Clayton and Stephen Bunting. Michael van Gerwen lost in the
quarterfinals to Ryan Joyce but played strong and threw in the Last 16 a nine-darter against Chris Dobey. In the the first round of the event Luke Woodhouse
as well threw a nine-darter.
Yesterday Dave Chisnall won Players Championship 23.
Participants, Resultsnew
28. September
PDC Pro Tour
Danny Noppert yesterday won the 22. Players Championship - he defeated in the final Christian Kist with 8:7.
In the semifinals stood Damon Heta and Michael Smith. Jim Williams had with 114 the highest average on a highclass day, Jeff Smith his first nine-darter in the PDC.
Today Players Championship 23 will follow.
Participants, Resultsnew
27. September
PDC Pro Tour
From today till Friday in Barnsley the Players Championships 22,23 and 24 will take place. With the exception of Corey Cadby, Adrian Lewis, Christian Perez and Luc Peters all Tour Card Holders registered. They are replaced by Christian Kist, Cameron Crabtree, Owen Bates and John Henderson.
Participants, Resultsnew
26. September
WDF World Cup
From today till Saturday in Esbjerg in Denmark the WDF World Cup takes place.
Today the Women's Singles were played till including the quarterfinals and the Men's Pairs, the Boys'Singles and the Girl's Pairs till including the semi-finals. Beau Greaves and Deta Hedman both reached the semi-finals of the Women's Singles.
Participants, Results
PDC World Grand Prix
The field of the participants of the PDC World Grand Prix is after the Hungarian Darts Trophy complete and the draw for the first round already took place.
The tournament - which will take place from 2. - 8. October in Leicester - is the only PDC event in Double-In Double Out format.
Reigning champion Michael van Gerwen will play first round against Josh Rock. Dave Chisnall - winner of the Hungarian Darts Trophy at the weekend - was drawn against Luke Woodhouse who was the last player to qualify for the tournament.
Participants, Schedule first and second 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 Hungarian Darts Trophy.PDC Rankings
European Tour
25. September
Chisnall wins in Budapest
With Dave Chisnall and Luke Humphries the two strongest players of the event reached the outstanding and close final, in which Humphries threw a 170 Finish and
a nine-darter. Nevertheless Dave Chisnall was the winner.
Gerwyn Price reached with a convincing performance the semi-finals as did the surprise player of the event Scott Williams. Luke Woodhouse played himself in the quarterfinals and by this at the expense of Gian van Veen secured the last place in the World Grand Prix field.
Report Finals Daynew
24. September
PDC European Tour
In Budapest is Finals Day today. In the afternoon the third round took place, tonight quarterfinals, semi-finals and final will be played.
From the seeds Ryan Searle, Josh Rock, Rob Cross, Dirk van Duijvenbode and Nathan Aspinall were eliminated in the second round yesterday. Most players who still had a chance to qualify for the World Grand Prix are out by now. Only Luke Woodhouse is after the third round still in the tournament and has a good chance to qualify.
Schedule, Results
Statisticsnew
23. September
PDC European Tour
Today on the second day of the tournament the seeded players join and will play against the first round winners. Again an
afternoon-and an evening-session will be played.
With Nandor Major one of the Hungarian qualifiers survived the first round and celebrated the first ever Hungarian win on the European Tour. He will play today against Damon Heta. The outstanding performance yesterday showed European Champion Ross Smith.
Schedule, Results
Report Day 1
Statisticsnew
22. September
PDC European Tour
In Budapest today the Hungarian Darts Trophy will begin - the twelfth and penultimate European Tour event of the year.
It is the last event that still counts for the qualification for World Grand Prix in October.
As always in the European Tour events on the first day in an afternoon- and an evening session the first round will be played in which only the qualifiers stand at the oche. By the host nation qualifier yesterday Gabor Jagicza, Mihaly Vida and Nandor Major qualified.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statisticsnew
20. September
World Grand Prix
The next major PDC Tournament will be the PDC World Grand Prix from 2. - 8. October. Die Hungarian Darts Trophy this weekend
is the last chance for the players to qualify for it.
How the field of participants looks at the moment you can find here:
World Grand Prix - Participants
18. September
Van Gerwen wins World Series of Darts Finals
With a clear 11:4 win over Nathan Aspinall Michael van Gerwen won in front of the delighted home crowd in Amsterdam
the World Series of Darts Finals. It was already the fifth time he won this event.On finals day he defeated in the quarterfinals
Dimitri van den Bergh and in the semi-finals Luke Humphries. In the second leg of the semi-final he threw the first ever nine-darter
of the tournament.
Aspinall reached the final with wins over Keegan Brown and Peter Wright.
Results
Statistics
Report Finals Daynew
PDC Women's Series
Four events of the Women's Series were played this weekend and they had four different winners: Mikuru Suzuki, Lisa Ashton, Fallon Sherrock and
Beau Greaves. Due to this not too much changed in the ranking - Beau Greaves still sits in first place followed by Mikuru Suzuki, Fallon Sherrock
and Lisa Ashton. Anastasia Dobromyslova reached two finals at the weekend and moved up to the ninth place of the ranking.
The last Women's Series eekend of the year will take place on 14. and 15. October again in Wigan.
Participants, Resultsnew
Rankingnew
17. September
World Series of Darts Finals
In the second round of the tournament Keegan Brown caused an upset - he eliminated reigning champion Gerwyn Price.
With Raymond van Barneveld another qualifier beside Brown reached the quarterfinals - he defeated World Champion Michael Smith.
All other seeds won their matches.
Today the tournament will be played to the end. In the afternoon the quarterfinals will be played, tonight semi-finals and final will follow.
Report Second Daynew
16. September
PDC Women's Series
This weekend in Wigan four more events of the PDC Women's Series will be played.
The participants now compete for the two places in the PDC World Championship.
Paricipants, Resultsnew
World Series of Darts Finals
On the first day of the event Danny Noppert showed the outstanding performance - he won the match in which he and his opponents
Dirk van Duijvenbode had averaged of over 100 with 6:4 and progressed into the second round where he'll clash with Nathan Aspinall. Raymond van Barneveld
as well progressed with an 6:2 win over Jeff Smith. Beside the two Australians Damon Heta and Simon Whitlock all three German players
and TV Debutant Graham Usher were elimnated while Krzyzstof Ratajski, Haupai Puah, William O'Connor, Keegan Brown, Jonny Clayton and Ricky Evans were
the other players to progress.
Today the second round will take place. The seeds join the event and will play against the first round winners.
Report First Daynew
15. September
World Series of Darts Finals
Tonight in Amsterdam the final of this year's World Series of Darts will begin. In the first round only the qualifiers and the
invited players will stand at the oche. Among them are with Danny Noppert, Raymond van Barneveld and Dirk van Duijvenbode three Dutch players.
While Noppert and Duijvenbode will play one another van Barneveld will meet Canadian Jeff Smith.
Resultsnew
Statisticsnew
Preview
14. September
Provisional Tournament Calendar 2024
After the PDC published its Tournament Calendar for 2024 you now can find on Globaldarts a provisional Tournament Calendar for the next year complemented by already known WDF dates.You can find the dates for the European Tour 2024. Next year fewer events will be played in Germany - Trier and Jena have been dropped. Instead there will be a second European Tour event in Belgium and an event in Switzerland.
Provisional Tournament Calendar 2024
European Tour
Pro Tour
Challenge Tour
Development Tour
12. September
World Series of Darts Finals
Next weekend the final of this year's World Series of Darts will be played in Amsterdam. Beside the eight seeds - the top eight
of the World Series Order of Merit - eight invited players and eight qualifiers will take part. As in the European Tour Events the seeded players
will join the tournament in the second round.
Reigning champion Gerwyn Price will begin his campaign on Saturday, 16. September, against the winner of the first round match between Keegan Brown and Simon Whitlock.
Participants, Schedule
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit, the European Tour Order of Merit and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated.PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
European Tour
11. September
Ratajski wins in Jena
With an 8:3 win over Stephen Bunting Krzysztof Ratajski won in Jena the German Darts Open title. For Ratajski it was
after four years the second win on the European Tour. In the semi-finals stood Wesley Plaisier and Josh Rock. It was only the second time
an Associate Member Qualifier reached the semi-finals.
Martin Schindler and Florian Hempel were the best German participants, both lost on Finals Day in the third round.
Results
Statistics
Report Finals Daynew
9. September
PDC European Tour
On the second day of the German Darts Open the second round will be played in an afternoon- and an evening-session. The first round winners will
meet the seeded players.
German Florian Hempel caused the biggest upset of the first round when he eliminated James Wade. He'll meet today Damon Heta. Josh Rock played with over 108 the highest average of the tournament so far.
Participants, Results
Statistics
7. September
PDC European Tour
Tomorrow in Jena the German Darts Open - the eleventh event of the European Tour 2023 - will begin.
On the first day as always in an afternoon- and an evening-session the first round will be played in which only the qualifiers take part. Among those are beside six German players players like James Wade, Daryl Gurney and Simon Whitlock.
Participants, Schedule First and Second Round
5. September
PDC Pro Tour
Since Saturday in Barnsley the Players Championships 19, 20 and 21 took place. They were won by Callan Rydz, Luke Humphries and Gerwyn Price,
who defeated today in the final of the 21. Players Championships strong playing German Daniel Klose. In the semi-finals today stood Peter Wright and Daryl Gurney.
It was Price third Pro Tour title of the year.
Tomorrow in Barnsley the Tour Card holders Qualifier for the 13. European Tour event of the year and the WSOD Final Qualifier will be played.
Participants, Results
21. August
PDC World Youth Championship
In the final of the PDC World Youth Championship - which will take place on 26. November during the Players Championship Final
in Minehead - Gian van Veen and Luke Littler will clash and by this the numbers 1 and 2 of the Development Tour Order of Merit.
In the semi-finals stood Wessel Nijmann and Sebastian Bialecki. Reigning champion Josh Rock lost in the quarterfinals to Gian van Veen.
PDC World Youth Championship 2023
19. August
PDC Development Tour
The last four Development Tour Eventsof the year which were played yesterday and today in Milton Keynes were won by Rusty-Jake Rodriguez, Sebastian Bialecki, Gian
van Veen and Luke Littler. Littler beside once reached a semi-final. Van Veen and Littler ended the season on first and second place
of the Development Tour Order of Merit. Van Veen will get a place in the Grand Slam of Darts while 16 years old teenager
Littler secured a Tour Card and as van Veen a place in the PDC World Championship 2023/2024.
After the four events the field of participants in the PDC World Youth Championship is complete. fest, die morgen in Milton Keynes ausgetragen wird.
Development Tour
18. August
PDC World Youth Championship
On Sunday after another Development Tour weekend in Milton Keynes the first part of the PDC World Youth Championship
2023 will take place, in which the tournament in a round-robin and a knockout phase is played down to
the final. The final will take place on 26. November during the Players Championship Finals in Minehead.
The international qualifiers and the age qualified Tour Card Holders - among them reigning champion Josh Rock - are already known, the places by the Development Tour Order of Merit will be finally decided by the four events on the Development Tour this weekend.
PDC World Youth Championship 2023
14. August
Championship Darts Circuit
At the weekend in Toronto in Canada Events 7 - 9 of the Championship Darts Circuit took place. All three tournaments were won by American Stowe Buntz who never before
won an event on the Circuit. In the finals he defeated Alex Spellmann twice and once Jim Long. During the weekend
Ross Snook threw the first TV nine-darter of the CDC Main Tour.
Championship Darts Circuit
13. August
PDC Challenge Tour
At the weekend in Milton Keynes five morePDC Challenge Tour events took place. With Wesley Plaisier, Darryl Pilgrim, Cam Crabtree,
Robert Grundy and Owen Bates they had five different winners. Berry van Peer and Christian Kist still head the Challenge Tour Order of Merit.
Challenge Tour
Cross wins in Australia as well
Rob Cross triumphed in Australia as well and won the New South Wales Darts Masters with 8:1 over Damon Heta. On his way to the final
Cross defeated John Hurring, Danny Noppert and Peter Wright. Heta prevailed against Joe Comito, Gerwyn Price and Dimitri van den Bergh. As most successful Australian
an emotional Heta was awarded the Kyle Anderson Trophy which is dedicated to the Australian darts player who died two years
ago and who was a close friend of Heta.
Schedule, Results, Statistics
10. August
World Series of Darts
Tomorrow and on Sunday in Wollongong in Australia the New South Wales Darts Masters will take place, in which Rob Cross, Damon Heta, Dimitri van den Bergh, Peter
Wright, Nathan Aspinall, Gerwyn Price, Michael Smith and Danny Noppert as PDC represantatives will play
against the Oceanic represantatives Simon Whitlock, Darren Penhall, Brenton Lloyd, Dave Marland, Joe Comito, John Hurring, Harley Kemp
and Mal Cuming.
Schedule, Results, Statisticsnew
Preview
Checkouts from 3 - 60
In the second part of his "Check It Out" series American Steve Brown suggest possible checkout paths for low finishs between 3 and 60 points and argues the case for combinations with which you can't bust your score.
Check It Out! - Part 2
9.August
PDC Europe Super League
This year again the PDC Europe Super League will take place in which 24 German darts players will take
part. The winner will get a place in the PDC World Championship 2023/24. Tour Card holders can't take part though neither last year's winner Florian Hempel and Ricardo Pietreczko
will not participate in the Super League. This year four qualifying events will take place by which six players will qualify for the Super League.
PDC Europe Super League 2023
5. August
Cross wins in New Zealand
Rob Cross won today the New Zealand Darts Masters - another event of the World Series of Darts. He defeated in the highclass and
close final Nathan Aspinall with 8:7. Before Cross today defeated in the quarterfinals Jonny Tata and in the
semi-finals Gerwyn Price. Aspinall reached the final with a quarterfinal win over Haupai Puha and a semi-final win over
Michael Smith in the outstanding match of the tournament.
Schedule, Results, Statistics
4. August
World Series of Darts
Today and tomorrow in Hamilton in New Zealand the New Zealand Darts Masters take place, in which Rob Cross, Damon Heta, Dimitri van den Bergh, Peter
Wright, Nathan Aspinall, Gerwyn Price, Michael Smith and Danny Noppert as PDC representatives play against Warren Parry, Darren Herewini, Haupai Puha,
Jonny Tata, Kayden Milne, Simon Whitlock, Darren Penhall and Ben Robb as Oceanic representatives.
Today the first round took place and Dimitri van den Bergh and Peter Wright were eliminated by Haupai Puha and Jonny Tata respectively. All other PDC representatives progressed.
Schedule, Results, Statistics
WDF Rankings
The WDF Rankings were updated.WDF Rankings
PDC World Championship 2023/2024
The PDC World championship 2023/2024 will be played from 15. December 2023 to 3. January 2024 in the Alexandra Palace in London.
With Paddy Power it has this year a new sponsor.
Tickets
You can only buy tickets by seetickets.
There will be three windows.
- From Monday 31. July 1200 BST for Annual Members (active annual subscription at 1200 BST on Friday July 28).
- From Tuesday 1. August 1200 BST for everybody who has registered here for Priority Access before 28. July 1200 BST.
- On Wednesday 2. August 1200 BST the General Sale will begin.
PDC World Championship 2023/24new
31. Juli
PDC Women's Series
Beau Greaves won all four events of the weekend and continues to dominate the PDC Women's Series.
She defeated in the finals Lisa Ashton and Fallon Sherrock once each and two times Mikuru Suzuki. Ashton beside twice
stood in the semifinals while Sherrock beside reached one quarterfinal. Rhian O'Sullivan was a three times semi-finalist.
Results
Rankingnew
29. Juli
PDC Women's Series
Today and tomorrow in Milton Keynes four more events of the PDC Women's Series will be played.
With Beau Greaves and Mikuru Suzuki the winner and the runner-up of the Women's World Matchplays will stand at the oche.
Participants, Resultsnew
World Series of Darts
Due to family reasons Jonny Clayton has withdrawn from the World Series Events in New Zealand und Australia in August.
For him Damon Heta moves up as PDC representative. In New Zealand Warren Parry will replace Heta as DartPlayers New Zealand representative. In Australian Harley Kemp will be the DartPlayers Australia replacement.
World Series of Dartsnew
25. July
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit was updated after the World Matchplay. aktualisiert.PDC Rankings
23. July
Aspinall wins in Blackpool
With Nathan Aspinall four years after Rob Cross another Englishman won the Phil Taylor Trophy. Aspinall defeated in a rather one-sided final
Jonny Clayton with 18:6. The players went with 5:5 in the second break. After the break Aspinall hit more or less everything -
even an 170 finish - and pulled further and further away while Clayton was completely left in the lurch by his doubles.
Aspinall is a deserved winner who was cheered by an enthusiatic crowd.
Report, Statisticsnew
Greaves wins Women's World Matchplay
Though Beau Greaves didn't play her best game she nevertheless won the Women's World Matchplay final in Blackpool 6:1 against
Mikuru Suzuki and by this qualified both for the Grand Slam and the PDC World Championship. Greaves defeated in the
quarterfinals Noa-Lynn van Leuven and in the semi-finals Robyn Byrne while Mikuru Suzuki won against Aileen de Graaf in the quarter-finals
and prevailed in the semi-finals against Lisa Ashton. Against de Graaf she played with
92.16 the highest average of the event. Reigning champion Fallon Sherrock lost in the quarterfinals to Lisa Ashton.
Report, Results, Statisticsnew
Final World Matchplay
In the Final of the World Matchplay tonight after the Women's World Matchplay Nathan Aspinall and Jonny Clayton will meet.
Aspinall reached the final with wins over Krzysztof Ratajski, Danny Noppert, Chris Dobey and Joe Cullen. Clayton defeated on his way to the final
Gabriel Clemens, Dimitri van den Bergh, Ryan Searle and Luke Humphries. Both players were in their matches
similar strong-nerved in the final phase - it could be a thrilling final. For both players it is the first World Matchplay final.
Women's World Matchplay
Today in Blackpool the second Women's World MAtchplay will take place.
Beau Greaves, Fallon Sherrock, Lisa Ashton, Mikuru Suzuki, Auleen de Graaf, Robyn Byrne, Noa-Lynn van Leuven and Rhian O'Sullivan are the participants.
In the PDC preview Greaves, Sherrock uand Suzuki have their say.
Preview Women's World Matchplaynew
World Matchplay - Day 8
On an entertaining semi-final night Nathan Aspinall won the first semi-final with 17:9 against John Cullen. Both players
looked nervous but Aspinal was able to handle it better as Cullen who had big problems to hit his doubles. The second semi-final was a much
closer affair and Luke Humphries first the better player. But Jonny Clayton improved, managed to draw and in the end even won 17:15.
Report, Statisticsnew
22. July
Thirty Years World Matchplay
No other player dominated the World Matchplay as much as Phil Taylor who for many years was just better than all the other players. But there were other players
from Great Britain who won the tournament or played an important part in it. The last player from Great Britain who won the event was Scotsman Peter Wright In
2021. And there will be a winner from Great Britain this year once again...
Thirty Years World Matchplay - 3 - The Players from Great Britainnew
World Matchplay
Semi-Finals Day in Blackpool!
First Bathan Aspinall will play against Joe Cullen. In the second semi-final Jonny Clayton and Luke Humphries will clash.
Schedule, Resultsnew
21. July
World Matchplay - Day 7
The second quarterfinal night of the World Matchplays started with the match between Ryan Searle and Jonny Clayton which was at the beginning quite balanced. But than Searle
couldn't keep up any longer while Clayton as so often improved and Clayton won 16:12. At the start the second match was rather close as well and it was 5:5 at the second break.
But Humphries started to pull away. Heta managed a comeback. Humphries lead was just enough
to win the match 16:13.
Report, Statisticsnew
World Matchplay
Today the quarterfinals will be played to the end.
In the first quarterfinal of the night Ryan Searle will play against Jonny Clayton. After that Damon Heta will meet Luke Humphries who is now the favourite to win the event.
Schedule, Resultsnew
World Matchplay - Day6
The first quarterfinal was dominated from the start by Joe Cullen who hindered Daryl Gurney for a long time to get into the match at all
- Cullen won with 16:11. The second quarterfinal ended almost similar 16:12 as well but was much less straight forward. First it was Chris Dobey who
who controlled the match but Aspinall got stronger and stronger. When the finishing line came nearer Aspinall looked nervous and made mistakes.
Dobey used his chances and won a few more legs. Aspinall finally managed to win the match.
Report, Statisticsnew
20. July
World Matchplay
On the sixth day of the World Matchplay the first two quarterfinals will be played.
First Joe Cullen will play against Daryl Gurney. After that Chris Dobey will stand at the oche agaionst Nathan Aspinall.
Schedule, Resultsnew
World Matchplay - Day 5
The second night with second round matches started with a very one sided match as well - Brendan Dolan was far less impressive as
against Michael van Gerwen in the first round and lost 1:11 to Damon Heta. The following match between
Jonny Clayton and Dimitri van den Bergh was first rather close but Clayton managed to pull away and won
with 11:6.
After that Ryan Searle eliminated the number two of the world, Peter Wright but was far less convincing
than in his first match. In the last match of the night and of the second round the new favourite to win the tournament Luke Humphries
Dirk van Duijvenbode. For a long time the Dutchman looked slightly stronger but Humphries battled back and kept his nerves
in the tiebreak - he won 14:12.
Report, Statisticsnew
19. July
World Matchplay
Tonight the second round will be played to the end in the Empress Ballroom - again four matches will take place.
Peter Wright and Luke Humphries will be in the limelight as they are after the elimination of van Gerwen, Gerwyn Price and Michael Smith the highest ranked players still in the tournament. Wright wiill play against Ryan Searle, Humphries against Dirk van Duijvenbode - both to be sure not really easy matches. But first Brendan Dolan - who eliminated van Gerwen - will play against Damon Heta and Jonny Clayton will meet former World Matchplay Champion Dimitri van den Bergh.
Schedule, Resultsnew
Thirty Years World Matchplay
Till today the World Matchplay is diminated by players from Great Britian, but the number of Contintantal European players
in the field of participants increased over the years. Once again Roland Scholten was one of the first Continental Europeans to qualify
for this PDC event but he was not the very first...The first Continental European to win the tournament was Michael van Gerwen.
Thirty Years World Matchplay - 2 - The Continental Europeansnew
World Matchplay - Day 4
The second round started with a rather one-sided match between Daryl Gurney and Gary Anderson, who had throughout the match
problems to hit his doubles. So Gurney soon was far in the lead and Anderson had no chance to close the gap.
Much closer was the match between Danny Noppert and Nathan Aspinall, as Aspinall was not able to get rid of the less good
scoring Dutchman. In the end Aspinall just won with 11:9 and avoided the tiebreak. In the following match between Joe Cullen and
Gerwyn Price it was Cullen didn't score as well as his oponent but was far more clinical in his finishing. Cullen couldn't prevent that Price drew 11:11
but immediately got the two legs necessary to win the match. The night ended with the match between World Champion
Michael Smith and Chris Dobey. Dobey showed no nerves and was clinical on his doubles. Smith lost as well on this
exceptional night.
Report, Statisticsnew
18. July
PDC Development Tour
At the weekend in Leicester five more events of the PDC Development Tour were played. Two of those were won by Luke Littler, one each by Gian van Veen,
Wessel Nijmann and Nathan Rafferty. In the last event, in which Littler threw a nine-darter, Littler and van Veen met in the final.
Littler won but nevertheless van Veen still heads the Development Tour Order of Merit.
Development Tournew
World Matchplay
Today in Blackpool the World Matchplay will continue with the first four matches of the second round.
First Gary Anderson will play against Daryl Gurney. After that the match between Danny Noppert and Nathan Aspinall will follow. Gerwyn Price will clash with Joe Cullen and in the last match of the night World Champion Michael Smith will play against Chris Dobey.
Schedule, Resultsnew
World Matchplay - Day 3
On the day after the shocking elimination of top favourite Michael van Gerwen from the tournament the first round of the World Matchplay was played to the end and
we saw the so far best match of the event and the so far best perfomance. In the so far best match Dimitri van den
Bergh defeated Ross Smith with 10:8. The so far best perfomranc showed Ryan Searle - who never before won a match in Blackpool - at his
10:4 win over Raymond van Barneveld. Other winners of the night were an okay playing Peter Wright and an undistinguished
Jonny Clayton against luckless Gabriel Clemens.
Report, Statisticsnew
16. July
World Matchplay
Today in Blackpool the World Matchplay will continue with an afternoon- and an evening session. In each session four first round
matches will be played.
In the afternoon session the second debutant this year, Josh Rock, will stand on stage as will former World Matchplay winner James Wade. Tonight reigning champion Michael van Gerwen and world champion Michael Smith will begin their campaingns. They will play against Brendan Dolan and Steve Beaton respectively.
Schedule, Results
Statistics Day 2new
World Matchplay - Day 1
On an entertaining opening night of the tournament there were quite clear wins for Joe Cullen, Gary Anderson and Gerwyn Price. Price was most
convincing in his win over Stephen Bunting. Very hard fought was the match between Rob Cross and Daryl Gurney which was won in the Tiebreak with 12:10 by Gurney. In the
last three legs of the match Cross no longer could keep up.
Report, Statisticsnew
15. July
World Matchplay - Day 1
Tonight in Blackpool the World Matchplay will begin and in the Empress Ballroom the first four matches of the first round will be played.
The match between Joe Cullen and Belgian debutant Mike de Decker will open the tournament. Beside Rob Cross will play against Daryl Gurney, Gerwyn Price against Stephen Bunting and Gary Anderson against Dave Chisnall.
Schedule, Results
14. July
World Matchplay - Preview
In the tournament preview of the PDC reigning champion Michael van Gerwen, debutatn Josh Rock, the number 1 of the world Michael Smith and returnee Raymond van Barneveld have their say.
Tournament Previewnew
World Matchplay
Tomorrow in Blackpool the thirtieth World Matchplay will begin.
For thirty years the tournament is played now more or less unchanged - we'll have a look at the history of the event.
Not only the first World Matchplay was won by an American - Larry Butler - but in the first years the North Americans were beside
the English the second biggest group of participants. Successful were only Larry Butler and John Part - the so far last
North American participant in the tournament.
Thirty Years World Matchplay - 1
PDC World Championship 2023/2024
The PDC World championship 2023/2024 will be played from 15. December 2023 to 3. January 2024 in the Alexandra Palace in London.
With Paddy Power it has this year a new sponsor.
Tickets
You can only buy tickets by seetickets.
There will be three windows.
- From Monday 31. July 1200 BST for Annual Members (active annual subscription at 1200 BST on Friday July 28).
- From Tuesday 1. August 1200 BST for everybody who has registered here for Priority Access before 28. July 1200 BST.
- On Wednesday 2. August 1200 BST the General Sale will begin.
Other details like session times or ticket prices are not yet known.
12.July
PDC Pro Tour
The 16. Players Championship on Tuesday was won by Damon Heta. He defeated in the final Ryan Joyce with 8:4. The smi-finals reached Joe Cullen and Jose de Sousa. Christian Kist threw a nine-darter during the event.
Participants, Results
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated after the Players Championships in Leicester.PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
11. Juli
WDF News and Results
This year there will be no WDF World Masters - the next will take place 2024 as the WDF is looking for long-term deals and not for one year deals to give the players more clarity.The boy's title of the WDF Europe Cup Youth in Vienna went to German Yorick Hofkens who together with Alexander Steinmetz ended on the second place of the boys pairs. Winner of the boys pairs were Thomas Banks and Archie Self. The girdl singles won Italian Aurora Fochesato. The girls pairs title went to Zehra Gemi and Belinay Pelivan from Turky. The Team Managers Cup gwon Petur Rudrik Guodmundsson from Iceland.
The Swiss Open in Kloten had with Liam Maendl-Lawrence a German Winner as well who now has a good chance for a place in the WDF World Championship. Maendl-Lawrence won the Helvetia Open as well. Rhian O'Sullivan won the Swiss Open women title and Sophie McKinlay the Helvetia Open women title and the Helvetia Open Youthfinal as well. The Swiss Open Youth final won gewann Adam Dee. Danny Porter and Corrine Hammond won the Australian Masters. The Kassiaru Cup title winners were Valters Melderis and Marika Sarrapik while the Kassiaru Open were won by Margeret Suttona nd Edwin Torbjörnssin.
Hannes Schnier won both the Balaton Darts Masters and the Balaton Darts Classic. Jitka Cisarova won the Classic women title while Verokika Ihasz prevailed in the Balaton Masters. The boys' youth title went to Matej Cverha and Andras Borbely, the girls titles to Bibiana Bugylova and Kriztina Turai. The New Zealand Open were won by Haupai Puha and Mary- Anne Teinaki who both secured a place in the WDF World Championship 2014 by this. Kevin Luke won the men's title of the Oregon Open. The women's event won Sally Kelly.
10.July
PDC Pro Tour
Today and tomorrow in Leicester Players Championships 15 and 16 take place.
Several Tour Card holders don't take part - among them Michael Smith, Peter Wright, Gerwyn Price and Michael van Gerwen. They are replaced by players from the Challenge Tour Order of Merit.
Today Luke Humphries won the 15. Players Championship. He defeated in the highclass and thrilling final Dave Chisnall. In the semi-finals stood Ryan Searle and Brendan Dolan.
Participants, Results
9. July
PDC World Series of Darts
Michael van Gerwen defeated Dimitri van den Bergh in the final of the first Poland Darts Masters 8:3. Both players showed in the final a strong performance but
nevertheless the Belgian couldn't keep up.
Van Gerwen reached the final with wins over Adam Gawlas, Luke Humphries and Michael Smith. Van den Bergh
prevailed over Karel Sedlacek, Kryzsztof Ratajski and Gerwyn Price.
Results, Statisticsnew
4. July
PDC World Matchplay
After the European Darts Matchplay all participants in the event are known.
Today the first round draw took place. Reigning champion Michael van Gerwen will begin his campaign against Brendan Dolan while World Champion and number 1 seed Michael Smith will play against Steve Beaton first round.
Participants, Draw first round, Schedule first and second roundnew
Schedule Women's World Matchplaynew
Dartoids World
Last weekend in Parkhill, Ontario, Canada once again Rocky's Annual Roadside Outdoor Dart Tournament took place which was
first played in 2007.
A few years ago Dartoid took part in the tournament and of course wrote a column.
Rocky's Annual Roadside Outdoor Dart Tournament
3. July
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order and the European Tour Order of Merit were updated after the European Darts Matchplay in Trier.PDC Rankings
European Tour
Humphries defends Title
In a very close final in Trier Luke Humphries defeated Dirk van Duijvenbode - who had several matchdarts but missed - with 8:7 and defended his European Darts Matchplay title.
Before Humphries won in the quarterfinals against Nathan Aspinall and prevailed over an in this event strong playing James Wade in the semi-finals. Van Duijvenbode
reached the final with a win over World Champion Michael Smith in the quarterfinals and a close win against Joe Cullen
in the semi-finals.
Results
Statistics
Report Finals Daynew
2. July
European Tour
On Finals day in the afternoon the third round took place while in the evening session quarterfinals, semi-finals and final will conclude
the tournament.
Only one host nationa player reached the finals day - Martin Schindler - but lost in the third round this afternoon against Gian van Veen. Raymond van Barneveld, who defeated in the second round Michael van Gerwen, prevailed in the third round roday over Ryan Searle and is beside van Veen and James Wade the third non seeded player who progressed into the quarterfinals. The other quarterfinalists are seeds Joe Cullen, Michael Smith, Dirk van Duijvenbode, Nathan Aspinall and Luke Humphries.
Schedulenew
1. July
European Tour
On the second day of the tournament the seeds join the event and play in an afternoon- and an evening-session against the
first round winners.
Gian van Veen, East Europe qualifier Vitezslav Sedlak and James Wade impressed with the highest first round averages and won their matches yesterday. Among yesterday's winners was as well Raymond van Barneveld who will play today against Michael van Gerwen. With his win van Barneveld secured his place in the World Matchplay.
Schedule, Results-
Statistics
30. June
European Tour
Today in Trier the European Darts Matchplay - the tenth event of the European Tour 2023 will begin.
As always on the first day of the tournament in the afternoon- and the evening-session only the qualifiers will stand at the oche.
The tournament is the last event which counts for the qualification for the World Matchplay.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statisticsnew
Participants World Matchplay before European Darts Matchplay
26. June
PDC Women's Series
Beau Greaves was once again the most successful player of the weekend. She won on Saturday one of the events and on Sunday both.
The second event on saturday was won by Fallon Sherrock who beside twice stood in the quarterfinales and once lost to Greaves in the final. Mikuru Suzuki
had a good weekend too - she stood in one final, in two semi-finals and one quarterfinal. She is ranked second behind Greaves and in front of Sherrock.
After the weekend the eight participants in the Women's World Matchplay are known - beside Greaves, Suzuki and Sherrock Robyn Byrne, Lisa Ashton, Rhian O'Sullivan, Aileen de Graaf and Noa-Lynn van Leuven qualified.
Results, Rankingnew
Women's World Matchplaynew
World Seniors Masters
At the weekend in Yeovil in Englandthe second World Seniors Masters was played.
It was won by American Leonard Gates who defeated in the final Richie Howson with 6:2. In the semi-finals stood Dennis Harbour and Robert Thornton. But in the focus of the Tournament stood Bob Anderson as it was his final tournament. Though he lost his first match to Richie Howson he and all what he did for the sport of darts nevertheless was celebrated and praised.
World Seniors Masters 2023new
23. June
PDC Women's Series
Tomorrow and on Sunday the PDC Women's Series will continue in Hildesheim, Germany, with the events 9 - 12.
Beside numerous German players many female Top darters will stand at the oche. The tournament counts for the qualification for the Women's World Matchplay in July in Blackpool.
Participants, Results, Rankingnew
World Series of Darts
The PDC announced which players will represent the PDC in the two World Series Events in Australia and New Zealand:
Michael Smith, Peter Wright, Gerwyn Price, Rob Cross, Jonny Clayton, Danny Noppert,
Nathan Aspinall and Dimitri van den Bergh.
Both events will take place in August. The first Oceanic representatives are known already as well.
World Series of Darts
19. June
Wales wins World Cup
Team Wales with Gerwyn Price and Jonny Clayton won the one-sided final with 8:2 against Team Scotland and for the second time won the PDC World Cup.
On Finals Day Wales first defeated Team Sweden and then prevailed in a close semi-final over Team Belgium. The Sotsmen Gary Anderson and Peter Wright started with a whitewash against Team France in the final day of the tournament and after that ended all German hopes in the semi-final.
Report, Statistics Finals Daynew
Sherrock awarded MBE
To recognise her services to women's darts Fallon Sherrock was awarded an MBE.
Sherrock is after Trina Gulliver the second woman in the sport of darts to get this award. Eric Bristow was the very first dart player to get an award. Fourth in the group of dart players with an MBE is John Lowe.
18. June
PDC World Cup Finals Day
Today is Finals Day at the PDC World Cup in Frankfurt and only eight teams are still in the tournament - Wales, Sweden, Australia, Belgium, Scotland, France, England and
Germany. A very determined Belgian team won in the second round a very close match against the number 3 seed Netherlands. Wales and England - the number 1 and 2 seeds - celebrated in contrast
quite easy wins over Denmark and Latvia resepctively while Scotland - the number 4 seed - had a lot more problems against the strong playing
team from the Philippines. The German team showed a solid performance against Team Poland and progressed as well into the quarterfinals.
Schedule, Resultsnew
Statistics Finals Daynew
17. June
PDC World Cup
After the group phase several seeded teams are already out of the tournament - Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Spain and Austria
didn't survive the first round. In Austria's Gourp F it was dramatic, all three teams had won one match and the leg difference of one leg decided which team progressed.
Very impressive was Team Poland against Lithunia - it played a new record average of 118.10.
After the group phase the draw for the second round took place and the four top seeds entered the tournament. Scotland will play against the Philippines, Wales against Denmark, England against Latvia and the Netherlands against Belgium. The German team was drawn against Poland and reigning champion Australia will play against Croatia.
Schedule, Resultsnew
Statistics Day 3new
16. June
PDC World Cup
On the first night of the World Cup there were some upsets and several seeded Teams lost their first group matches, among them Team Austria which lost to
Team Denmark and especially the Danish star of the night, Benjamin Reus, with 4:2. Team Switzerland lost to Team Italy which celebrated the first
World Cup win ever. Team Northern Ireland lost to Team France and Team Spain to Team South Africa. Belgium, Germany and
reigning champion Australia whitewashed their opponents.
Today the tournament will continue. In the afternoon-session yesterday's losers play against the third Teams of their groups. In the last group matches in the evening-session yesterday's winners will play against the third Teams. After that the draw of the Last 16 will take place and the Top Four seeds will enter the fray.
Schedule, Resultsnew
Gruppen Tabellennew
Statistics Day 2new
Report, Statistics Day 1
15. June
PDC World Cup
Tonight in Frankfurt the PDC World Cup will begin.
In all groups the first group matches will take place in which the seeded teams of the groups will meet the second of the groups. All matches are pairs matches in the format Best of Seven.
Reigning champion Australia (Damon Heta, Simon Whitlock) will meet the debutants from Guyana (Sudesh Fitzgerald, Norman Madhoo). Host Nation Germany (Gabriel Clemens, Martin Schindler) will play against Team Hongkong (Paul Lim, Harith Lim). In the opening match of the tournament Switzerland (Stefan Bellmont, Marcel Walpen) will meet Italy (Michele Turetta, Massimo Dante).
PDC World Cup - Preview
Results
Group Tables
Statistics
14. June
Van Gerwen withdraws from World Cup
Michael van Gerwen had to withdraw from the World Cup of Darts - which will begin tomorrow in Frankfurt - as he didn't recover fast enough from
a dental operation on Monday.
He will be replaced by Dirk van Duijvenbode. Team Netherlands is now no longer the number 2 seed but the numer 3 seed and the Welsh Team is seeded second.
PDC World Cup
Additions who is Who
Before the World Cup the following players were added to the Who is Who:
Patrik Kovacs, Harith Lim, Stefan Bellmont,
Marcel Walpen, Hallgrimur Egilsson,
Vitor Charrua, Mindaugas Barrauskas,
Craig Galliano, Justin Hewitt,
Jun Matsuda, Benjamin Drue Reus,
Jacques Labre and Oskar Lukasiak.
Who is Who
Wins for Michael Smith and Damon Heta in Hildesheim
Michael Smith and Damon Heta won the two Players Championships in Hildesheim on Monday and Tuesday.
Michael Smith won Players Championship 13 and defeated in the final Gary Anderson with 8:7. In the semi-finals stood Connor Scutt and Damon Heta. Dave Chisnall threw a nine-darter.
In the 14. Players Championship Damon Heta finally could celbrate a win. He prevailed in the final over Luke Woodhouse. The semi-finals reached Christian Kist and Mensur Suljovic. Josh Rock and Bradley Brooks threw nine-darters.
Participants, Results
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order and the Players Championships Order of Merit were updated after the two Players Championships in Hildesheim.PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
12. June
PDC Pro Tour
Today and tomorrow in Hildesheim, Germany, the Players Championships 13 and 14 will be played. The two Players Championships are beside the European Tour Event in Trier
the last events which count for the qualification for the World Matchplay.
Christian Perez will stand at the oche on the Pro Tour for the first time since he won his Tour Card. Several Tour Card holders will miss out among them Nathan Aspinall, Jonny Clayton and Michael van Gerwen.
Participants, Ergebnisse
PDC World Matchplay
Only threee more events will take place by which the Tour Card holders can qualify for the World Matchplay
which will take place in Blackpool from 15. - 23. July.
How the field of participants looks ahead of those three events you can find here:
Participants
PDC Development Tour
At the weekend in Hildesheim, Germany, five events of the PDC Development Tour took place. There were five different winners. On Friday Wessel Nijmann and Bradley Brooks won the events 11 and 12, on Saturday events
13 and 14 were won by Gian van Veen and Jared Cole and on Sunday Adam Gawlas won the final 15. event. Both for
Cole as for Gawlas it was the first title on the Development Tour.
After his fourth win in this year Gian van Veen heads the ranking ahead of Luke Littler. Wessel Nijmann is third.
Development Tour
10. June
PDC World Cup
The group draw for the group phase of the PDC World Cup took place.
Reigning champion Australia is together with Guyana and Gibraltar in Group C and will begin its campaing to defend the title against Guyana.
England, the Netherlands, Wales and Scotland are based on the lowest cumulative PDC Order of Merit ranking of the two competing players the Top four seeds and will enter the tournament in Round 2.
PDC World Cup
8. June
PDC World Cup
After the Nordic and Baltic weekend all participants in the PDC World Cup are known.
Benjamin Reus will play together with Vladimir Andersen for Denmark, Paavo Myller and Marko Kantele will be Team Finland. For Iceland Hallgrimur Egilsson and Vitor Charrua will stand at the oche and Mindaugas Barauskas joins Darius Labanauskas in Team Lithunia.
Tomorrow the draw for the group phase will take place.
PDC World Cup
7. June
PDC Nordic and Baltic Tour
On the PDC Nordic and Baltic Tour at the weekend in Finland two European Tour Qualifiers and two Pro Tour Events took place.
One Pro Tour Event and one European Tour Qualifier each won both Marko Kantele and Jeffrey de Graaf. Kantele will take part in the European Darts Matchplay in Trier, de Graaf in the German Darts Open in Jena.
Kantele and de Graaf now ist in first and second place of the Nordic and Baltic Tour Order of Merit. For Kantele it was already the fourth Win on the tour this year and he is by this qualified for the PDC World Championship 2023/24.
Nordic and Baltic Tour
4. June
Van Gerwen wins US Darts Masters
Michael van Gerwen won the US Darts Masters in New York with an 8:0 defeat of Canadian Jeff Smith. Especially Jeff Smith was not able to keep up his earlier performances
in the very one-sided final. Van Gerwen defeated in the quarterfinals Jim Long with 6:2 and in the very close semi-final Rob Cross with 7:6.
Jeff Smith reached the final with a 6:2 win over Nathan Aspinall in the quarterfinals and as van Gerwen with a 7:6 close semi-final win
over Luke Humphries.
Results, Statistics
Jeff Smith wins North American Championship
During the PDC weekend in in New York this year's North American Championship took place as well in which the eight North American players
took part who had qualified for the US Darts Masters. Jeff Smith won the final in the deciding leg against his fellow country man and World Cup
partner Matt Campbell with 6:5. In the semi-finals stood Alex Spellman and Jules van Dongen. Due to a PDC rule Smith as Tour Card holder
is not as normally as winner of the North American Championship qualified for the PDC World Championship and the
Grand Slam of Darts - which
CDC player will be awarded instead is not yet known.
3. June
US Darts Masters
In the first round of the event Canadian Jim Long caused an upset - he defeated reigning champion Michael Smith with 6:2 and progressed into the
quarterfinals where he'll meet Michael van Gerwen. Beside Smith Peter Wright didn't survive the first round -
he lost with the same result to Long's country fellow man Jeff Smith. Jeff Smith will play in the quarterfinals against Nathan Aspinall who
showed an impressive performance against as as well strong playing Matt Campbell. Both Michael Smith and Peter Wright experienced a lot of
double trouble.
Results, Statistics
1. June
World Series of Darts
Tomorrow in New York the US Darts Masters - an event of the PDC World Series of Darts - will begin.
Eight PDC representatives will play in the first round against eight players from North America. Reigning champion Michael Smith will begin his campaign against Canadian Jim Long who qualified for the event as winner of the CDC Cross Border Challenge.
US Darts Masters
29. May
PDC World Cup
With a few exceptions all participants in the PDC World Cup - which will take place from 15. - 18. June in Frankfurt - are now known.
The English team will for the third time constist of Michael Smith and Rob Cross, 2020 they reached the final. Danny Noppert and Michael van Gerwen
will be for the only second time Team Netherlands, last year Noppert stood together with Dirk van Duijvenbode in the semi-finals. For reigning champion Team Australia
again Damon Heta and Simon Whitlock will compete.
PDC World Cup
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order and the European Tour Order of Merit were updated after the weekand.PDC Rankings
European Tour
28. May
Cross wins in Sindelfingen
Rob Cross defeated in the final of the German Darts Grand Prix in Sindelfingen Luke Humphries with 8:6 and by this revenged his defeat in last year's final of the tournament against Humphries.
For Cross it was the first title on the European Tour and he decided with it his battle with Humphries for the second place
in the English World Cup team in his favour.
The semi-finals reached Damon Heta and Ross Smith.
Results
Statistics
26. May
European Tour
Today in Sindelfingen, Germany the ninth event of the European Tour began - the German Darts Grand Prix.
Again on the first day for the first round of the event only the qualifiers stood at the oche. Among them were with Pascal Rupprecht, Nico Kurz, Ricardo Petreczko, Liam Maendel-Lawrance and Gabriel Clemens five German players. Only Pascal Rupprecht and Gabriel Clemens survived the first round. They will play tomorrow against Dave Chisnall and Martin Schindler respectively - the only German among the seeds.
An afternoon - and an evening session were played.
Participants, Schedule first and second round, Results
Statistics
25. May
Van Gerwen wins Premier League
Michael van Gerwen defeated in the quite one-sided final of the Premier League Gerwyn Price with
5:11 and by this defended his Premier League title. Before he prevailed in the semi-finals over Michael Smith, who had a very slow start in the match
but managed to close the gap to 8:10. Gerwyn Price defeated in a very one-sided semi-final Jonny Clayton with 10:2 but couldn't keep up this performance in the final.
Schedule, Resultsnew
Statisticsnew
24. May
PDC Premier League
Tomorrow in the O2 Arena in London the Premier League Play-Offs will take place.
The first semi-final will be an all Welsh affair between Jonny Clayton and Gerwyn Price. In the second semi-final reigning champion Michael van Gerwen and World Champion Michael Smith will meet.
Schedulenew
Preview Play-Offsnew
Imagery and Simulation
Imagery and Simulation are in sports approved trainigs methods of mental workout. With their aid you can
simulate you sequences of movement, imagine demanding situation and how to cope with them and much more.
The first article of the series is an introduction to the matter.
Imagery and Simulation
23. May
PDC World Cup
Two more World Cup teams were confirmed.
For Gibraltar in the third year in a row Development Tour players Craig Galliano and Justin Hewitt will take part.
For Italy debutant Massimo Dante and Michele Turetta - who gave his debut in 2021 - will stand at the oche.
PDC World Cup
PDC European Tour
At the weekend in Hildesheim several Host Nation and Associate Members qualifiers took place.
The field of participants for the event in Sindelfingen is now complete while for Trier the East Europe Qualifier has yet to take place.
For Sindelfingen by the Associate Members Qualifier Marcel Walpen uand Christian Kist qualified and by the Host Nation Qualifier Liam Maendl-Lawrance and Nico Kurz.
For Trier qualified by the Associate Members Qualifier Christian List and Darryl Pilgrim and by the Host Nation Qualifier Fabian Herz and again Liam Maendl- Lawrance.
ET 9 Sindelfingen
ET 10 Trier
World Series of Darts
The field of participants of the US Darts Masters which will take place in New York in June - is complete.
At the weekend by the qualifiers North Americans Jason Brandon and JT Davis and Canadian Jake Macmillan
qualified for the event. All three will give their TV debut at the event which is the third tournament of the World Series of Darts this year.
World Series of Darts
22. May
Cross and Clayton win in Leicester
The two Players Championships at the weekend were won by Rob Cross and Jonny Clayton.
On Saturday Rob Cross won his first title of the year. He defeated in the final of the 11. Players Championship Mike de Decker with 8:3. The semi-finals reached Radek Szaganski and Niels Zonneveld. For de Decker it was the first Pro Tour final, for Szaganski the first semi-final on the Pro Tour.
On Sunday Jonny Clayton defeated in the final of the 12. Players Championship Josh Rock with 8:5 and won his first Players Championship title in more than two years. In the semi-finals stood Damon Heta and Andrew Gilding.
Participants, Resultsnew
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated after the weekend.PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
19. May
PDC Pro Tour
Tomorrow and on Sunday in Leicester Players Championships 11 and 12 will take place.Tour Card holders missing the weekend will be Corey Cadby, Adrian Lewis, Mickey Mansell, John O'Shea, Christian Perez, Jeff Smith and Peter Wright. They will be replaced by players from the Challenge Tour Order of Merit.
Participants, Results
17. May
Van den Bergh wins last Premier League League Day
The sixteenth League Day was a League Day full of surprises and won in the end by Dimitri van den Bergh. It was his first win of the season by which he moved up to the sixth
place in the ranking. Van den Bergh defeated in the quarterfinals a today luckless Michael Smith
before he got a bye in the semi-finals as Michael van Gerwen come by an injury in his quarterfinal against Chris Dobey
and withdrew from today's event. The final a freed playing van den Bergh won with 6:5 against
Gerwyn Price. Nathan Aspinall won his quarterfinal against Jonny Clayton but lost in the semi-finals to Gerwyn Price
- so Clayton got the fourth play-off place. Nothing changed at the head of the table - Gerwyn Price
goes as first in the table into the play-offs in London next week and will play in the semi-finals against Jonny Clayton. In the Second
semi-final Michael Smith and Michael van Gerwen will meet.
Results
Table
Report, Statistics
PDC Premier League
Tomorrow the 16. and last League Day of Premier League will take place in Aberdeen.
In the limelight will be the quarterfinal between Jonny Clayton and Nathan Aspinall - a direct clash to decide who will get the fourth play-off place. When Clayton wins he is qualified. Aspinall on the other side needs to reach the final to qualify. Beside Gerwyn Price, Michael Smith and Michael van Gerwen will fight for the first place in the table. Before the League Day Price is first, World Champion Smith is second and reigning champion Michael van Gerwen is thid.
Schedulenew
Table
Preview Sixteenth League Daynew
16. May
Additions who is Who
Lee Evans, Michael Flynn, Graham Hall,
Daniel Klose, Robbie Knops,
Owen Roelofs, Pascal Rupprecht,
Dylan Slevin, Jeffrey Sparidaans,
Graham Usher, Jurjen van der Velde,
Gian van Veen, Adam Warner
and Lukas Wenig were added.
Who is Who
15. May
Wright wins in Prague
Peter Wright defeated after a brilliant finals day in the final of the Czech Darts Open Dave Chisnall with 8:6 and celebrated
his first ranking title of the year.
Wright won on finals day against Danny Noppert, reigning champion Luke Humphries and Damon Heta before he showed top form in the final as well. Chisnall reached the final with wins over Andrew Gilding, Nathan Aspinall and Rob Cross. Cross defeated in the quarterfinals Michael van Gerwen.
Report Finals Daynew
PDC Women's Series
The events 7 + 8 on Sunday were won by Robyn Byrne and Mikuru Suzuki. Beau Greaves couldn't quite keep up
her perfomances she showed on the Women's Series so far and had had to be content as Fallon Sherrock - who didn't win an tournament at the weekend - with a
quarterfinal and a semi-final. Byrne defeated in her final Laura Turner, Suzuki prevailed over Noa-Lynn van Leuven.
Greaves still heads the ranking followed by Suzuki and Rhian O'Sullivan. Beside at the moment Robin Byrne, reigning champion Fallon Sherrock, Lisa Ashton, Noa-Lynn van Leuven and Kim Holden would be qualified for the World Matchplay in July. But before on 24. and 25. June another tournament weekend will take place in Hildesheim, Germany.
Participants, Results
Rankingnew
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order, the European Tour Order of Merit and the Women's Series Order of Merit were updated after the weekend.PDC Rankings
European Tour
14. May
PDC Women's Series
The first two events of the Women's Series this weekend were won by Beau Greaves and Rhian O'Sullivan, who won their finals against
Fallon Sherrock and Beau Greaves respectively. The semi-finals of event five reached Kirsty Hutchinson and Lisa Ashton,
in the semi-finals of the sixth event stood Aileen de Graaf and Trina Gulliver.
Today events 7 + 8 will take place.
Participants, Resultsnew
European Tour
Today is the finals day of the Czech Darts Open in Prag. In the afternoon-session the third round will take place, in the evening-session
quarterfinals, semi-finals and the final will be played.
Only two not seeded players are in Prag still in the event: local favourite Karel Sedlacek defeated in the second round Joe Cullen and will meet today in the third round Rob Cross. Kim Huybrechts was too strong for Martin Schindler as well and will play today in the second round against Damon Heta.
Finals Day, Resultsnew
Statisticsnew
13. May
PDC Women's Series
This weekend the second weekend of the PDC Women's Series will take place. Today and tomorrow in Milton Keynes two events each will be played. All top players registered for the weekend - including Beau Greaves and Anastasia Dobromyslova.
Participants, Resultsnew
European Tour
Today is the second day of the Czech Darts Open in Prague. The second round will be played and the seeds will enter the tournament.
With Dalibor Smolik and Karel Sedlacek two Czech players are still in the event. Smolik will play in the afternoon against Josh Rock while Sedlacek will face tonight Joe Cullen.
An afternoon and an evening session will take place.
Second Round, Results
Statistics
12. May
European Tour
This weekend the European Tour 2023 is in Prague in the Czech Republic.
Again on the first day for the first round only qualifiers will stand at the oche. By the Host Nation Qualifier yesterday Dalibor Smolik and David Pisek qualified for the tournament. Filip Sebesta and Adam Gawlas are qualified as the in the PDC Ranking highest ranked Czech Tour Card holders, Karel Sedlacek qualified by the Toru Card Holders Qualifier. There is no Czech player among the seeds.
Michael Smith and Gary Anderson withdrew from the event. For them Dimitri van den Bergh (seeds) and Rowby-John Rodriguez (Tour Card Qualifier) move up.
An afternoon- and an evening-session will be played.
Participants, Schedule and Draw first and second round, Results
Statistics
11. May
Third Day Win in a row for Smith
On the fifteenth League Day of Premier League again Michael Smith was the dominant player. He defeated in the final Gerwyn Price
with 6:5 and secured his third day win in a row. By this he overtook Michael van Gerwen - whom he defeated in the quarterfinals -
in the league table By reaching the final Gerwyn Price got some important points for the table which he now heads with a lead of
three points on Michael Smith and five points on Michael van Gerwen.
In the battle for the fourth Play-Off place Jonny Clayton got by his win over Dimitri van den Bergh in the quarterfinals two valuable points - he is now two points ahead of Nathan Aspinal who lost his quarterfinal against Gerwyn Price.
Peter Wright, Nathan Aspinall, Dimitri van den Bergh and Michael van Gerwen lost their quarterfinals in Sheffield.
Results
Table
Report, Statisticsnew
PDC Premier League
The 15. and penulitimate League Day of Premier League takes place in Sheffield.
The battles for the first place in the table and the fourth play-off place will dominate the night. Peter Wright, Dimitri van den Bergh and Chris Dobey have no longer a chance to qualify for the play-offs. Michael van Gerwen, Gerwyn Price and Michael Smith already have qualified. Head of the table Gerwyn Price is only two points clear off second of the table Michael van Gerwen. Jonny Clayton and Nathan Aspinall on the places four and five have both 22 points.
Gerwyn Price will play in the first quarterfinal against Nathan Aspinall, Chris Dobey will meet in the second quarterfinal Peter Wright. In the third match Michael Smith and Michael van Gerwen will clash. Jonny Clayton and Dimitri van den Bergh will stand on stage in the fourth quarterfinal.
Schedule, Resultsnew
Preview Fifteenth League Daynew
8. May
PDC Challenge Tour
In Milton Keynes at the weekend five events of the PDC Challenge Tour were played. Most successfull player was Berry van Peer who won three
of the events and now heads the table. One tournament each won Wayne Jones and Conan Whitehead.
On the second place of the ranking follows Chris Landman who reached three quarterfinals and one semi-final at the weekend. In third place sits another Dutchman - Christian Kist.
Challenge Tour
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order, the European Tour Order of Merit and the Challenge Tour Order of Merit were updated after the weekend.PDC Rankings
European Tour
Van Gerwen wins in Wieze
Michael van Gerwen defeated in the final of the Belgian Darts Open Luke Humphries with 8:6 and for the first time in a
year won a title on the European Tour.
On finals day van Gerwen prevailed over Martin Schindler, Gary Anderson and Josh Rock before he met Humphries in the final who first played very well and was clinical on his doubles. But then he started to miss and van Gerwen used his chances. For Humphries it was already the third lost final in a row on the European Tour. He reached it with wins over Andy Baetens, Nathan Aspinall and Dirk van Duijvenbode on finals day.
Schedule Finals Day, Results
Statistics
Report Finals Daynew
6. May
European Tour
Today the second round of the Belgian Darts Open will be played. The seeds enter the tournament and will play against the
first round winners.
Two Belgian players are still in the tournament - Andy Baetens and Dimitri van den Bergh won their first round matches while Francois Schweyen and Kim Huybrechts were eliminated. Reigning champion Dave Chisnall will start his campaign today against Ricky Evans.
An afternoon - and an evening seession will take place.
Schedule Second Round, Resultsnew
Statisticsnew
5. May
European Tour
This weekend the European Tour 2023 visits Wieze in Belgium.
Again on the first day of the tournament for the first round only the qualifiers will stand at the oche. By the Host Nation Qualifier yesterday Francois Schweyen and Andy Baetens qualified for the event. Kim Huybrechts and Dimitri van den Bergh qualified as the in the PDC ranking highest ranked Tour Card holders for the tournament. There is no Belgian player among the seeds.
An afternoon - and an evening seession will take place.
Participants, Draw and Schedule First and Second Round, Resultsnew
Statisticsnew
Sieg für Smith in Leeds
An outstanding Michael Smith got in Manchester his second day win in a row. In the final he defeated
Jonny Clayton with 6:3 and only just missed a nine-darter. Before he won in the quarterfinals against Nathan Aspinall and in the semi-finals
against Michael van Gerwen. Clayton defeated in the quarterfinals Peter Wright and in the semi-finals Chris Dobey and is back on the fourth place of the table.
Gerwyn Price lost his quarterfinal against Michael van Gerwen but stayed at the head of the table.
Peter Wright, Nathan Aspinall, Dimitri van den Bergh and Gerwyn Price couldn't win a point in Manchester.
Results
Table
Report, Statisticsnew
4. May
PDC Premier League
Today the Premier League travels for the 14. League Day to Manchester.
The fight for the play-off places and the fight for the first place in the table are heating up. The match between Peter Wright and Jonny Clayton opens the League Day - Wright has to win to preserve his small play-off chances. In the second quarterfinal Chris Dobey and Dimitri van den Bergh will meet - both outside the Top Four. After that Michael Smith will play against Nathan Aspinall - for both players a very important match. In the fourth quarterfinal first of the table Gerwyn Price and second of the table Michael van Gerwen will meet.
Schedule, Resultsnew
Preview Fourteenth League Daynew
2. May
PDC World Cup
More World Cup Teams were by now announced. For Hong Kong Man Lok Leung and Lok Yin Lee will play, for the
Philippines Christian Perez and
Lourence Ilagan. For Japan Jun Matsuda and Tomoya Goto will stand on stage, for Singapore again Paul Lim and Harith Lim and
for Thailand Attapol Eupakaree and Yong Gaweenuntavong.
PDC World Cup
PDC Development Tour
At the weekend in in Wigan five events of the PDC Development Tour took place. Most sucessful was young
Dutchman Gian van Veen who won two of the events and moved up to the second place of the ranking.
The other winners were Wessel Nijmann, Sebastian Bialecki and Ciaran Teehan.
Development Tour
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order, the European Tour Order of Merit and the Development Tour Order of Merit were updated after the weekand.PDC Rankings
European Tour
30. April
Chisnall wins Dutch Darts Championship
Dave Chisnall defeated in the final in Leeuwarden Luke Humphries with 8:5 and won the Dutch Darts Championship.
On his way to the final he defeated today Josh Rock, Peter Wright and Michael van Gerwen who was supported by a quite unfair Dutch crowd.
Humphries reached the final with wins over Andrew Gilding, Danny Noppert
and Damon Heta.
Results Finals Daynew
Statisticsnew
29. April
European Tour
Today the second round of the event will take place in Leeuwarden in which the first round winners will play against
the seeded players.
From the Dutch qualifiers only Berry van Peer survived the first round. He will play in the evening session against Jonny Clayton. Among the seeds are with Danny Noppert, Dirk van Duijvenbode and Michael van Gerwen three more Dutch players.
An afternoon- and an evening session will take place.
Second Round, Resultsnew
Statisticsnew
28. April
European Tour
The next stop of the European Tour is Leeuwarden, where today the Dutch Darts Championship will begin - the sixth event of
this year's Tour.
Again on the first day of the tournament only the qualifiers will stand at the oche. Yesterday by the Host Nation Qualifier Martijn Dragt and Berry van Peer qualified. Jermaine Wattimena and Raymond van Barneveld were already qualified as as highest ranked Tour Card holders, Gian van Veen qualified by the Tour Card Holders Qualifier. Among the seeds are with Michael van Gerwen, Dirk van Duijvenbode and Danny Noppert three more Dutchman but they will enter the tournament not until tomorrow.
An afternoon- and an evening session will take place.
Participants, Draw and Schedule First and Second Round, Results
Statistics
27. April
Win for Smith in Leeds
Michael Smith defeated in the final of the thirteenth League Day Gerwyn Price and got his second day win of the season. By this win
he ousted Nathan Aspinall from the third place of the table. On his way to the final Smith defeated Chris Dobey and
Peter Wright. Price reached the final with wins over Jonny Clayton and Nathan Aspinall.
Chris Dobey, Michael van Gerwen,Jonny Clayton and Dimitri van den Bergh couldn't collect points in Leeds - they lost their quarterfinals.
Results
Table
Report, Statisticsnew
PDC Premier League
The thirteenth League Day will be played tonight in Leeds.
In the first quarterfinal tonight World Champion Michael Smith will play against Chris Dobey - both need a win to maintain their play-off chances. After that reigning champion Michael van Gerwen will meet Peter Wright who needs a win even more urgently. The third quarterfinal is an all Welsh affair between Gerwyn Price and Jonny Clayton. In the last quarterfinal Nathan Aspinall will compete with Dimitri van den Bergh. Aspinall defeated van den Bergh last week in the semi-finals.
Schedule, Resultsnew
Preview Thirteenth League Daynew
25. April
PDC News
Two times PDC World Champion Adrian Lewis takes a break from darts and will neither take part in the German Darts Grand Prix
nor play on the Pro Tour. It is not known how long the break will be or what the reasons for the decision are.
Canadian Jeff Smith won the CDC Cross Boder Challenge in which eight Americans and eight Canadians took part. In the final of the by the Canadians dominated event Smith defeated his fellow country man Jim Long with 6:0.
Luke Littler won at the weekend three from four events on the JDC Advanced Tour. Only in one event he was defeated in the final by Lewis Bell.
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order and the European Tour Order of Merit were updated after the Austrian Darts Open.PDC Rankings
European Tour
23. April
Clayton wins in Graz
Jonny Clayton defeated in Graz Josh Rock with 8:6 and for the second time won the Austrian Darts Open.
On finals day Clayton defeated Damon Heta, Joe Cullen and Daryl Gurney. Rock reached for the first
time a European Tour final. He prevailed on finals day over Mickey Mansell, Mensur Suljovic and
Michael van Gerwen.
Schedule, Resultsnew
Statisticsnew
22. April
European Tour
Today on the second day of the tournament the second round will be played and the seeded players join the tournament.
Again an afternoon- and an evening session will take place.
With Mensur Suljovic and Hannes Schnier two Austrian players survived the first round. They will play today against Peter Wright and Nathan Aspinall respectively. Reigning Champion Michael van Gerwen will play against John Henderson who showed a convincing performance in his first round win against Dylan Slevin.
Schedule, Resultsnew
21. April
European Tour
Today in Premstätten near Graz the Austrian Open will begin, the fifth event of the European Tour 2023.
As always on the first day of the tournament today in the first round only qualifiers will stand at the oche. Yesterday by the Host Nation Qualifier Hannes Schnier and Marcus Haider qualified while Mensur Suljovic and Rowby-John Rodriguez were already qualified as the highest ranked Austrian Tour Card holders. All four will be in action today.
An afternoon- and an evening-session will be played.
Participants, Schedule, Resultsnew
Statisticsnew
Aspinall wins in Rotterdam
Nathan Aspinall celebrated his first day win of this year's Premier League in Rotterdam. He defeated in the final Gerwyn Price
with 4:6. Aspinall reached the final with wins over Michael van Gerwen and Dimitri van den Bergh. Price defeated on his way to the final
Michael Smith and Jonny Clayton. By reaching the final Price superseded van Gerwen as head of the table
while Aspinall moved up to third place.
Chris Dobey, Michael van Gerwen, Michael Smith and Peter Wright lost in Rotterdam their quarterfinals and couldn't win a point.
Results
Table
Report, Statisticsnew
20. April
PDC Premier League
Tonight the twelfth League Day of Premier League will take place in Rotterdam
The quarterfinal between Chris Dobey and Jonny Clayton will open the League Day. In the second quarterfinal Gerwyn Price and Michael Smith will meet in a replay of last week's final. Last week Gerwyn Price won 6:3. In the third quarterfinal the last two of the table will clash - Dimitri van den Bergh will play against Peter Wright. In the last quarterfinal local favourite Michael van Gerwen will play in front of his home crowd against Nathan Aspinall.
Schedule
Preview Twelfth League Daynew
18. April
Nordic and Baltic Tour
Last weekend a Nordic and Baltic Tour weekend took place. In Iceland the Pro Tour Events 5 and 6 and
the qualifiers for the European Tour Events 7, 8 and 9 were played.
Once again Marko Kantele was the most successful player of the weekend - he won the sixth Pro Tour Event and the qualifier for the ninth European Tour Event in Sindelfingen. The fifth Pro Tour Event was won by Vladimir Anderson. Dennis Nilsson qualified for the seventh European Tour Event in Wieze in Belgium, young Fin Jani Laurila will take part in the Czech Darts Open, the eighth European Tour Event.
Nordic and Baltic Tour
European Tour
Yesterday in Wigan the Tour Card Holder Qualifiers for the European Tour Events 9 and 10 in Sindelfingen and
Trier took place. Six players qualified for both Event: Gian van Veen, Raymond van Barneveld,
Jose de Sousa, Simon Whitlock, Ryan Joyce and Graham Hall. Gian van Veen threw a nine-darter during the
qualifier for the tenth event.
European Tour Event 9 Sindelfingen
European Tour Event 10 Trier
UK Open Gallery
The Gallery for this year's UK Open is finally online.
UK Open Gallery
WDF Results
Beau Greaves won at the Isle of Man Festival of Darts both women's events and both in the Isle of Man Classic and
in Isle of Man Masters she defeated in the final Rhian O'Sullivan. Luke Litter won the men's event of the Classic and Barry Copeland
the men's event of the Masters.
Paula Murphy won both the St. Patrick's Open in Missouri and the Virginia Beach Classic. Leonard Gates was the winner of the men's event of the St. Patrick's Open, while Danny Baggish won the Virginia Beach Classic.
The titles of the Budapest Masters went to Jelle Klaasen and Veronika Ihasz. Ihasz won the Budapest Classic as well, winner of the men's event was Moreno Blum. There was a twice winner of the girls events as well - both titles went to Krisztina Turai. The boys events won Andras Borbely(Masters) and Balazs Szotak (Classic). Winners of the Egypt Darts Open were Basem Mahmood from Bahrain and Sarah Makanga from Uganda. The youth titles went to Ahmed Gomaa and Maryam Hamdy Kamel - both from Egypt.
The International Youth Challenge in Austria was won by German Yorick Hofkens. The girl's event was won by Italian Aurora Fochesato.
17. April
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated after the Pro Tour weekend in Wigan.PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
Wins for Ratajski and van Duijvenbode in Wigan
Krysztof Ratajski and Dirk van Duijvenbode won the two Players Championships at the weekend in Wigan.
Ratajski won Players Championship 9 on Saturday. He defeated in the final Chris Landman with 8:1. In the semi-finals stood Brendan Dolan and Jonny Clayton. For Ratajski it was the first ranking title since November 2021, for Landman, one of the PDPA Associate Member replacements without a Tour Card, it was the first final on the Pro Tour.
On Sunday Dirk van Duijvenbode defeated in the final of the 10. Players Championship Jose de Sousa with 8:3 schlagen and won his third Pro Tour title pf the year. The semi-finals reached Ian White and Dimitri van den Bergh. Josh Rock and Martin Schindler threw a nine-darter.
Today in Wigan the Tour Card Holders Qualifiers for the Europen Tour Events 9 and 10 will take place.
Participants, Results
14. April
Pro Tour Weekend Wigan
From tomorrow till Monday in Wigan the Players Championships 9 and 10 and the European Tour Qualifiers ffor the events
in Sindelfingen and Trier will be played.
Some of the Tour Card holders didn't register - among them
the Premier League players Peter Wright, Michael van Gerwen, Gerwyn Price and Michael Smith. The missing Tour Card holders
will be replaced by PDC Associate Members.
Participants, Resultsnew
European Tour Event 9 Sindelfingen
European Tour Event 10 Trier
Fourth win for Price
Gerwyn Price won the League Day in Brighton defeating Michael Smith in the final with 6:3. It was the fourth day win for Price
and he now is only two points behind Michael van Gerwen who still heads the table. Price reached the final with wins over Chris Dobey and Michael van Gerwen.
Smith defeated in the quarterfinals Nathan Aspinall and prevailed in a close semi-final over Peter Wright.
Dimitri van den Bergh, Chris Dobey, Jonny Clayton and Nathan Aspinall stayed in Brighton without points.
Results
Tablenew
Report, Statisticsnew
13. April
PDC Premier League
The eleventh League Day of Premier League will be played tonight in Brighton.
The League Day starts with the quarterfinal between Dimitri van den Bergh and Michael van Gerwen - van den Bergh sits in seventh place of the table
while van Gerwen still heads it. After that Chris Dobey will take on Gerwyn Price. In the third quarterfinal Peter
Wright will play against Nathan Aspinall. Wright last week for the first time stood in the final. In the last quarterfinal
Jonny Clayton and Michael Smith will meet - both are at the moment on a play-off place.
Schedule, Resultsnew
Statisticsnew
Tablenew
Preview Eleventh League Daynew
11. April
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order and the European Order of Merit were updated after the German
Darts Grand Prix.
PDC Rankings
European Tour
10. April
Smith gewinnt German Darts Grand Prix
Michael Smith wins in Munic the German Darts Grand Prix - he defeated in the final Nathan Aspinall with 8:5. For Aspinall
it was the first European Tour final. For Smith it was the first ranking title since the World Championship.
Smith defeated on finals day Gerwyn Price, Keane Barry and crowd favourite Damon Heta. Aspinall prevailed over Jim Williams, Andrew Gilding and
Joe Cullen.
Schedule, Results
Tournament Statistics
Report Finals Daynew
European Tour
Today the German Darts Grand Prix in München will be played to the end. In the afternoon-session the third round will
be played, in the evening-session quarterfinals, semi-finals and the final will take place.
Six seeds were already eliminated in the second round: Josh Rock, Martin Schindler, Rob Cross, Jonny Clayton, Dimitri van den Bergh and Peter Wright.
Reigning champion Luke Humphries meanwhile impressed at his 6:2 win over Jeffrey de Zwaan and progressed.
Schedule, Results
Tournament Statistics
9. April
European Tour
Today at the German Darts Grand Prix in München the second round takes place. In an afternoon- and an evening
session the first round players will play against the seeds.
Most impressive in the first round were Ross Smith, Chris Dobey and Raymond van Barneveld who all had
averages over 100.
Schedule, Resultsnew
Tournament Statisticsnew
7. April
European Tour
From tomorrow till Easter Monday the German Darts Grand Prix will take place in München, it's the fourth European Tour Event of the year.
Michael van Gerwen will not take part but the number 1 seed and reigning champion Luke Humphries will be back
on stage. He will play in the second round on Sunday against the winner of the first round match Brendan Dolan v Jeffrey de Zwaan.
Participants, Schedule, Resultsnew
Tournament Statisticsnew
Second win in a row for Clayton
Jonny Clayton won the League Day in Birmingham as well and moved up to the third place in the table. In the
close final he defeated Peter Wright with 6:5. On his way to the final he first won against Nathan Aspinall before
he prevailed in the semi-finals against Michael van Gerwen. Peter Wright reached his first final of the season
with wins over Michael Smith and Gerwyn Price and got three vital points.
Dimitri van den Bergh, Chris Dobey, Michael Smith and Nathan Aspinall stayed in Birmingham without points.
Results
Table
Report, Statisticsnew
6. April
PDC Premier League
Tonight the tenth League Day of Premier League will take place in Birmingham.
In the first quarterfinal Michael van Gerwen and Chris Dobey will meet - three weeks ago in
Nottingham Dobey defeated van Gerwen with 6:0. After that Jonny Clayton - the winner of last weeks League Day in Berlin - will play against Nathan Aspinall.
In the third quarterfinal Dimitri van den Bergh will meet the at the moment outstanding Gerwyn Price. In the last quarterfinal Peter Wright -
who still sits in the last place of the table - will play against Michael Smith.
Schedulenew
Preview Tenth League Daynew
3. April
PDC Development Tour
At the weekend in Milton Keynes the first five events of the year took place.
Luke Littler was with two wins, one lost final and two quarterfinals the dominating player of the weekend. He
heads the ranking by a large margin. The other three events were won by German Christopher Toonders,
Irishman Dylan Slevin and Dutchman Gian van Veen.
Development Tour
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order and the European Order of Merit were updated after the International
Darts Open. The Development Tour Order of Merit was updated as well.
PDC Rankings
European Tour
2. April
Price defends Title
Gerwyn Price this year again won the International Darts Open and by this defended his title. He defeated in the
final an in parts chanceless Michael van Gerwen with 8:4. Before Price prevailed on finals day over Mike de Decker, Rob Cross
and Dirk van Duijvenbode while Michael van Gerwen defeated on finals day Jose de Sousa, Peter Wright and Martin
Schindler.
Results
Statistics
Report Finals Daynew
International Darts Open
Today the International Darts Open in Riesa will be played to the end. In the afternoon session the third round will be played,
in the evening session quarterfinals, semi-finals and the final will take place.
From the seeded players Joe Cullen, Dimitri van den Bergh and Michael Smith were eliminated second round.
Dave Chisnall, Michael van Gerwen and Gerwyn Price impressed with averages over 100.
Schedule, Result
Statistics
1. April
International Darts Open
In the second round of the International Darts Open today the seeded players join the tournament and will play against
the first round winners.
There were a few surprise winners in the first round for exampel Lee Evans defeated Kim Huybrechts and Ian White
lost to Jose Justicia. The only average over 100 played UK Open Champion Andrew Gilding who defeated Mike de Decker 6:4 and will
meet today in the afternoon session Dave Chisnall.
Schedulenew
31. March
International Darts Open
Today in Riesa the International Darts Open will begin - the third event of the European Tour 2023.
Again on the first day only the qualifiers will stand at the oche, among them with Pascal Rupprecht, Liam Maendl-Lawrance,
Niko Springer, Florian Hempel and Gabriel Clemens five German players. UK Open winner Andrew Gilding will make his first European Tour
appearance this year as will Richie Burnett.
Participants, Schedule, Resultsnew
Statisticsnew
Win for Clayton in Berlin
Jonny Clayton won the Premier League League Day in Berlin. He won the final against Michael
Smith with 6:4. Before he defeated in the quarterfinals Michael van Gerwen and prevailed in the semi-finals
over Gerwyn Price. For Clayton it was the first win of the season. By the win he moved up to fifth place
in the table. Smith defeated on the way to the final Dimitri van den Bargh and Nathan Aspinall.
Without a point stayed in Berlin Dimitri van den Bergh, Peter Wright, Chris Dobey and Michael van Gerwen.
Results
Table
Report, Statisticsnew
30. March
PDC Premier League
The ninth League Day of the Premier League will be played tonight in Berlin, Germany.
The night begins with the quarterfinal between Dimitri van den Bergh and Michael Smith. After that Nathan Aspinall - who makes his first appearance in Berlin - will meet Chris Dobey. Aspinall
has three points more in the table than Dobey. In the third quarterfinal head of the tabel Michael van Gerwen will
play against Jonny Clayton. In the last quarterfinal last in the table Peter Wright will meet Gerwyn Price.
Schedule
28. March
World Series of Darts
As the PDC announced the World Series of Darts this year will be completed by the
Polish Darts Open in Warsaw. The event will be played on 7. and 8. July in Warsaw. Most of the participants are known already.
The PDC will be represented by Michael Smith, Michael van Gerwen, Gerwyn Price, Rob Cross, Luke Humphries, Danny Noppert,
Dimitri van den Bergh and Nathan Aspinall.
The PDC representatives of the U.S Darts Masters on 2. and 3. June were already announced as well. With one exception
it will be the same players as in Warsaw - only Danny Noppert will be replaced by Peter Wright.
World Series of Darts
27. March
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order and the European Order of Merit were updated after the European
Darts Open.
PDC Rankings
European Tour
.
26. March
Price wins European Darts Open
Gerwyn Price defeated in a close and highclass final Dirk van Duijvenbode with 8:7. Price showed throughout
the tournament strong, in parts sensational performances and reached the final with wins over
Krzysztof Ratajski, Michael Smith, Michael van Gerwen and Danny Noppert. Dirk van Duijvenbode
defeated on the way into his first European Tour final Ted Evetts, Ross Smith, Josh Rock and Rob Cross.
Ricardo Pietrezko was the best German player and reached the quarterfinals where he lost 4:6 to Rob Cross.
Results
Tournament Statistics
Report Finalnew
European Tour
Today the European Darts Open will be played to the end. In the afternoon session the third round will take place,
In the evening session quarterfinals, semi-finals and final will follow.
From the German participants only Ricardo Pietreczko is still in the tournament who used his chances against
a below par Peter Wright. Beside Peter Wright from the seeds Joe Cullen, Jonny Clayton,
Ryan Searle and Martin Schindler were eliminated as well. Luke Humphries had to withdraw as he was taken ill.
Schedule
25. March
European Tour
Today the European Darts Open in Leverkusen continue with the second round. Again in an afternoon- and an evening
session the first round winners will play against the seeded players.
The highest first round averages played Ross Smith and Ryan Meikle both with over 100. Impressive as well were German Ricardo Pietrczko, Ian White and
Raymond van Barneveld who will now play today in the evening session against reigning champion Michael van Gerwen.
Schedule, Results
Tournament Statisticsnew
24. March
European Tour
Today in Leverkusen, Germany, the European Darts Open will begin. It is the second European Tour Event of the year.
As always on the first day only qualifiers will stand at the oche - among them with Ricardo Pietreczko, Pascal Rupprecht,
Gabriel Clemens, Florian Hempel, Rene Eidams and Nico Kurz six German players. An afternoon- and an evening session will be played.
Participants, Schedule, Resultsnew
Tournament Statisticsnew
Price siegt auch in Newcastle
Gerwyn Price got in Newcastle his second day win in a row - he played a sensational final and defeated
Michael van Gerwen with 6:1. Both van Gerwen as Price now have won three League days and and sit in the first and
the second place of the table. Price reached the final with wins over Jonny Clayton and local hero Chris Dobey. In the
final he played an 114.96 average. Van Gerwen defeated in the quarterfinals Peter Wright and in the semi-finals
Nathan Aspinall.
Without a point stayed in Newcastle Dimitri van den Bergh, Peter Wright, Jonny Clayton and Michael Smith.
Results
Table
Report, Statisticsnew
23. March
PDC Premier League
For the eighth League Day the Premier League travels to Newcastle.
Tonight the places in the table determine the quarterfinal fixtures - by pure chance they are the same
as last week. But they will be played in another order. The quarterfinal between
Michael van Gerwen and Peter Wright will open the night. After that Nathan Aspinall will play against Dimitri van den Bergh.
The third quarterfinal is the all Welsh clash between Jonny Clayton and Gerwyn Price. In the last quarterfinal
local hero Chris Dobey will play against World Champion Michael Smith - last week Dobey won.
Schedule
Preview Eighth League Day
22. March
European Tour
At the Tour Card holders qualifiers for the European Tour Events 7 + 8 in Hildesheim nine players managed
to qualify for both events: Gary Anderson, Jose de Sousa, Ross Smith, Ian White, Dylan Slevin, Bradley Brooks, Matt Campbell,
Richard Veenstra and Martijn Kleermaker.
ET 7 Wieze
ET 8 Prag
21. March
PDC Pro Tour
The two Players Championships in Hildesheim were won by Michael van Gerwen and Gary Anderson.
Michael van Gerwen won on Sunday the seventh Players Championship. He defeated in the final Josh Rock with 8:4. In the semi-finals stood
Krzysztof Ratajski and Bardley Brooks. For van Gerwen it was the first ranking title of the year. Brendan Dolan threw a nine-darter..
On Monday Gary Anderson for the first time since three years won an PDC title. He defeated in the final of the eighth Players Championship a
strong playing Krzysztof Ratajski. While Ratajski threw in his semi-final against Ricardo Pietreczko a 170 finish Anderson managed it in the final. German Ricardo Pietreczko and
Gerwyn Price were the semifinalists. Price before eliminated Michael van Gerwen in the Last 16. This time William O'Connor threw a nine-darter.
Today in Hildesheim the Tour Card Holders Qualifiers for the ET Events 7 + 8 will be played.
Pro Tour - Participants, Results
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order, the Players Championship Order of Merit and the Challenge Tour Order of Merit
were updated after the weekend.
PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
Challenge Tour
20. March
WDF Results
Winner of the Canterbury Classic in New Zealand were Kym Mitchell and Haupai Puha. At the Shoot for the Moon in Alabama
in the USA the titles went to Paula Murphy and Jason Brandon. The youth titles of the Port City Open went to Seth Patenaude und Taylor Farrell.
The Slovak Open had two German winners: Irina Armstrong won the women's event, Liam
Maendl-Lawrence the men's event. The titles of the Slovak Masters won Maud Jansson and Benjamin Pratnemer.
The men's tournament of the Scottish Open was won by Jordan Brooks - it was his maiden WDF title. In the women's event Deta Hedman
prevailed in the final over Rhian O'Sullivan.
PDC Challenge Tour
The foor Challenge Tour Events of the weekend had four different winners - Berry van Peer and John Henderson won on Friday,
, Ron Meulenkamp and Dragutin Horvat on Saturday. Horvat is only the second German player who won a Challenge Tour Event.
Once again history wrote Fallon Sherrock in the ninth event - as the first woman ever she threw a nine-darter in a PDC Event.
Challenge Tour
18. March
PDC Pro Tour
This wekend again Pro Tour events will take place - but they'll start on Sunday.
Tomorrow and on Monday in Hildesheim the Players Championships 7 + 8 will be played, on Tuesday the Tour Card holders
Qualifiers for the European Tour Events in Wieze and Prague will follow.
Missing Tour Card holders are Nathan Aspinall, Corey Cadby, Christian Perez, Ryan Searle, Peter Wright. Nathan Rafferty, Joe Murnan,
Adam Smith-Neale and James Wilson. They will be replaced by Andy Boulton, Cameron Crabtree, Christian Kist, Chris Landman, Thibault Tricole, James Hurrell, Lukas Wenig, Alex Spellman and
Berry van Peer.
Yesterday and today as well in Hildesheim the events 6 - 9 of the Challenge Tour are played.
Pro Tour - Participants, Results
ET 7 Wieze
ET 8 Prag
17. March
Second win for Price
Gerwyn Price got on the seventh League Day in Nottingham his second day win. He defeated in the quarterfinals Jonny Clayton, in the semi-finals
Dimitri van den Bergh and in the final Chris Dobey - all with 6:4. By this he moved up to the second place in the table.
Chris Dobey reached the final with wins over Michael Smith and Michael van Gerwen. He demolished the Dutchman imperiously with 6:0. Van den Bergh and van Gerwen
both got 2 points by reaching the semifinals. Without a point in Nottingham stayed Jonny Clayton, Peter Wright, Nathan Aspinall and Michael Smith who all lost
their quarterfinals.
Results
Table
Report, Statisticsnew
16. March
PDC Premier League
The seventh League Day of the Premier League takes place today in Nottingham.
The night will start with the quarterfinal between Dimitri van den Bergh and Nathan Aspinall. After that we'll see an all Welsh clash
between Jonny Clayton and Gerwyn Price. In the third quarterfinal bottom of the table Peter Wright and head of
the table Michael van Gerwen will meet - Wright hopes for a win. In the last quarterfinal Chris Dobey and Michael Smith will play - Dobey
won the first League Day and since then not a single match.
Schedule
Preview Seventh League Day
14. March
European Tour
In conclusion of the Pro Tour weekend in Barnsley yesterday the Tour Card holders qualifiers for the European Tour
Events 5 and 6 in Graz and in Leeuwarden were played.
For both events the following players qualified: Jim Williams, Ian White, Dylan Slevin, Madars Razma, Krzysztof Ratajski, Ricardo Pietrezcko
Kim Huybrechts and Daryl Gurney. For the first time since 2016 Gary Anderson qualified for a European Tour Event - he will take part in the event in Leeuwarden.
ET 5 Graz, Participants, Schedule
ET 6 Leeuwarden, Participants, Schedule
13. März
PDC Pro Tour
The two Players Championships in Barnsley at the weekend were won by Ross Smith and Dirk van Duijvenbode.
Ross Smith won on Saturday the fifth Players Championship - he defeated in the final Gary Anderson with 8:6. In the semi-finals
stood Gerwyn Price and Martin Schindler.
On Sunday Dirk van Duijvenbode prevailed in the final over Ryan Searle. The semi-finals reached Luke Humphries
and Mike de Decker. For the Dutchman it was already the second Pro Tour title of the year.
Participants, Results
Nordic and Baltic Tour
At the weekend the second Nordic and Baltic weekend of the year was played in Gotenburg in Sweden.
Marko Kantele was the dominating player of the weekend. He won both the third Pro Tour Event and the qualifier for ET 6 in Leeuwarden
in the Netherlands. The fourth Pro Tour Event was won by Daniel Larsson. For ET 4 in Munic Oskar Lukasiak qualified, at ET 5 in Graz Dimitrijs Zukovs
will stand as the Nordic and Baltic Qualifier at the oche.
Nordic und Baltic Tour
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order, the Players Championship Order of Merit and the Nordic and Baltic Tour Order of Merit
were updated after the weekend.
PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
11. March
PDC Pro Tour
This weekend in Barnsley the third Pro Tour weekend of the year will take place. Today and tomorrow Players Championship 5 + 6 will be played.
On Monday the Tour Card Holders Qualifiers for the European Tour Events 5 + 6 in Graz and in Leeuwarden will follow.
Tour Card Holders Vladimir Andersen, Corey Cadby, Nick Kenny, Christian Perez and Peter Wright didn't register for Barnsley. They will be replaced by players from the Challenge Tour Order of Merit:
Owen Bates, Andy Boulton, Cameron Crabtree, Chris Landman and Thibault Tricole.
Participants, Resultsnew
ET 5 Graz, Participants, Schedule
ET 6 Leeuwarden, Participants, Schedule
10. March
Third win in a row for Van Gerwen
In the final in Liverpool Michael van Gerwen prevailed over Michael Smith with 6:4 and got his third day win in a row.
By this he has now a lead of eight points before Michael Smith on second place with 12 points and Nathan Aspinall on third place with
11 points.
In the quarterfinals Michael van Gerwen defeated Jonny Clayton and in the semi-finals Peter Wright, who got his first two points on the board
due to his victory over Gerwen Price in the quarterfinals. Michael Smith won in the quarterfinals against Dimitri van den Bergh
and in the semi-finals over Nathan Aspinall. Quarterfinal losers on the sixth League Day were beside Dimitri van den Bergh and
Jonny Clayton Gerwyn Price and Chris Dobey.
Results
Table
Report, Statisticsnew
8. March
PDC Premier League
For the sixth League Day Premier League travels to Liverpool.
In the first quarterfinal Gerwyn Price and Peter Wright will meet. Wright still has no point in the table and sits on bottom place.
After that Michael van Gerwen will play against Jonny Clayton - van Gerwen hopes for a third day win in a row.
Following that Chris Dobey will clash with Nathan Aspinall - Dobey couldn't win a match since the first League Day. In the last quarterfinal
UK Open Semifinalist Dimitri van den Bergh and World Champion Michael Smith will meet.
Schedule, Results
Preview Sixth League Day
UK Open
The Exmoor National Park is a region where myths and legends are still very much alive.
So the year Global Darts while beside telling about the tournament has a look
on some of the creatures who beside all the dartplayers and fans who can found here at the moment populate the region.
Meetings with the Devil around here have been very rare - luckily - in recent times but what about the Pixies?
It's scary to walk through the moor... - The Pixiesnew
6. March
Gilding wins UK Open
In a close final Andrew Gilding defeated Michael van Gerwen 11:10 and won the titel - another surprise in a tournament whiuch had a lot upsets to offer.
Van Gerwen couldn't get rid of Gilding who showed no nerves in the deciding leg.
Before Gilding awon on finals day against Martin Schindler and Adam Gawlas, van Gerwen reacheds the final with wins over Nathan Aspinall and Dimitri van den Bergh.
UK Open - Results Finals Day
Statistics Finals Day
UK Open - Report Finals Daynew
5. March
UK Open second day
The second day was more relaxed as less matches were played and less players were involved. It was an interesting day,
on which Richie Burnett provided the emotional moments and players like van Gerwen, O'Connor and Price added the highest averages.
And there was something to laugh as well - we had an invasion of dinos..
UK Open - Report second daynew
4. März
UK Open - Day 2 Evening
In the evening-sesion only on the mainstage and on the second stage matches were played and the upsets continued.
Jonny Clayton, Peter Wright, Gary Anderson, Joe Cullen, Brendan Dolan, Jeffrey de Zwaan, William O'Connor and Luke Humphries were eliminated
while Martin Schindler, Richie Burnett, Dimitri van den Bergh, Nathan Aspinall, Andrew Gilding, Rob Cross, Adam Gawlas and Michael van Gerwen progressed
into the quarterfinals, which wil be played on Suday afternoon.
UK Open - Results Round 6, Draw Quarterfinals
Statistics Round Six
UK Open first Day
The first day of the UK Open offered as always a high number of matches and it is completely
Impossible to watch all you would like to watch.
What I managed to watch and other news from the Butlin's resort you can read in my report of the first day of the tournament.
UK Open - Report first daynew
UK Open - Day 2 Afternoon
In the afternoon-Ssession today the fifth round of the tournament took place - on the reduced number of four Boards - and there were some upsets.
Beside Gerwyn Price and World Champion Michael Smith reigning champion Danny Noppert was eliminated 9:10 by William O'Connor.
Dirk van Duijvenbode and Chris Dobey as well were eliminated fifth round.
Still in the tournament among others are Richie Burnett and German Martin Schindler.
UK Open - Results Round 5, Draw 6. Roundnew
Statistic Main- and Second Stage Round 5new
3. March
UK Open - Day 1 Evening
In the evening session reigning champion Danny Noppert was one of many players who
prevailed in close matches and progressed into the fifth round. Some of the matches were won with
the very last dart for example in the match Nathan Aspinall v Alan Soutar
or Jonny Clayton v Ross Smith, which were won by Aspinall and Clayton.
So far there were no real upsets - the Top Eight of the World are all still in the tournament.
UK Open - Results Round 4, Draw Fifth round
Statistic Main- and Second Stage Rounds 1-4
UK Open - Day 1 Afternoon
This afternoon the first three rounds of the tournament took place and from the players who qualified by the Development Tour Order of Merit, the Challenge Tour
Order and by the Riley's Amateur Qualifiers only Jelle Klaasen, Luke Littler and Thomas Banks are still in the tournament.
Tonight the fourth round will be played and the Top 32 of the PDC Order of Merit will join the
survivors of the first three rounds - among them big names like Adrian Lewis, Ian White and Simon Whitlock.
UK Open - Results Rounds 1 - 3, Draw 4. Round
UK Open
The Exmoor National Park is a region where myths and legends are still very much alive.
So the year Global Darts while beside telling about the tournament has a look
on some of the creatures who beside all the dartplayers and fans who can found here at the moment populate the region.
The first article deals with the devil who was very active here in shaping the landscape.
It's scary to walk through the moor... - The Devilnew
2. March
Van Gerwen wins in Exeter as well
Michael van Gerwen defeated in the final in Exeter Jonny Clayton with 6:3 and got his second day win in a row.
By this he now heads the table with 15 points - followed by Michael Smith and Nathan Aspinall who both have
nine points.
Van Gerwen defeated in the quarterfinals Gerwyn Price and in the semi-finals Nathan Aspinall. Jonny Clayton won in the quarterfinals against Peter Wright -
who still has no point - and prevailed in the semi-finals over Dimitri van den Bergh durch. Beside Wright and Price today neither Michael Smith nor
Chris Dobey got a point.
Results
Table
Statisticsnew
UK Open
Tomorrow in Minehead the UK Open will begin.
In the PDC preview reigning champion Danny Noppert, Luke Humphries and Adrian Lewis have their say. Lewis
this year takes part for the 20. time in the UK Open.
Preview
PDC Premier League
The fifth League Day of Premier League takes place in Exeter.
In the first quarterfinal the finalists of last weeks League Day will meet - Michael van Gerwen and Gerwyn Price.
Van Gerwen won the close final. After that Nathan Aspinall wilk play against Michael Smith. In the third quarterfinal Dimitri van den Bergh and Chris
Dobey will clash before in the last quarterfinal the two players at the bottom of the table
- Jonny Clayton and Peter Wright - will stand at the oche.
Schedule, Results
Preview Fifth League Day
27. February
UK Open
The PDC confirmed today the participants and published the draw and the schedule of the first three rounds.
The UK Open have no tournament bracket, there will be a new draw before every round. All Tour Card holders with the exception of Corey Cadby and Christian Perez
will take part. Added are players who qualified by the Challenge Tour Order of Merit, the Development Tour Order of Merit and
the Riley's Amateur Qualifiers.
UK Open - Participants, Draw/Schedule 1. - 3. Round
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order, the European Tour Order of Merit and the Women's Series Order of Merit
were updated after the weekend.
PDC Rankings
European Tour
Women's Series
26. February
Chisnall wins Baltic Sea Darts Open
Dave Chisnall was the winner of the first Baltic Sea Darts Open in Kiel. He defeated in the final Luke Humphries with 8:5.
Before Chisnall won on finals day against Gerwyn Price in the best match of the tournament, against Martin Schindler and
in the semi-finals against Jonny Clayton. For Chisnall it was the fourth win on the
European Tour.
Humphries defeated on finals day Dimitri van den Bergh, Dirk van Duijvenbode and - in a high class semi-final - Ryan Searle.
Results Day 3
Statistics
Report Finals Daynew
PDC Women Series
Once again Beau Greaves was the outstanding player of the Women's Series weekend. She won three of the four events. Only
the third event she lost in the quarterfinals to Mikuru Suzuki who went on to win the final against Rhian O'Sullivan.
Suzuki lost two times in the semi-finals and once in the final to Greaves. Lisa Ashton once reached a semi-final while
Fallon Sherrock's best placing was a quarterfinal.
Participants, Results
Baltic Sea Darts Open - Day 3
The Baltic Sea Darts Open will be played to the end today.
In the afternoon-session the third round took place. In the evening session quarterfinals, semifinals and final will follow.
With Keegan Brown and Steve Beaton two unseeded players will stand at the oche in the quarterfinals.
Participants, Schedule
25. February
Baltic Sea Darts Open - Day 2
Today the Baltic Sea Darts Open will continue with the second round.
In an afternoon- and an evening-session the first round winners will play against the seeds.
Participants, Schedule, Results Day 2
Statisticsnew
PDC Women Series
This weekend in Leicester the first events of the PDC Women's Series 2023 take place - on Saturday and Sunday two events
each will be played.
Lisa Ashton, Beau Greaves and Fallon Sherrock will stand at the oche as will Mikuru Suzuki, Aileen de Graaf, Lorraine Winstanley and for the
first time again Anastasia Dobromyslova.
Participants, Results
24. February
Baltic Sea Darts Open - Day 1
Steve Beaton produced in the last first round match against Adrian Lewis in a highclass contest the highlight of the day
- he defeated Lewis with 6:2 and played an 106.10 average.
As well impressive played Steve Bunting against William O'Connor, Lewy Williams against Dennis Nilsson, Niko Springer against Jermaine Wattimana and
Daryl Gurney against Gabriel Clemens who all played at their wins averages of 97 or higher.
Participants, Schedule
Win for van Gerwen in Dublin
In Dublin Michael van Gerwen got his first win of the season. He defeated in a close final
Gerwyn Price - who missed in the deciding leg two match darts - with 6:5. In the semi-finals stood
Michael Smith and Jonny Clayton.
Peter Wright lost already in the quarterfinals a close match against Michael Smith and still is without a point. Other quarterfinal losers were
Dimitri van den Bergh, Chris Dobey and Nathan Aspinall.
Results
Table
Report, Statisticsnew
23. February
European Tour
Tomorrow in Kiel the Baltic Sea Darts Open will begin - the first event of the European Tour 2023.
The PDC pubblished the draw and the detailled schedule of the first and second round.
Participants, Schedule
22. February
PDC Premier League
For the fourth League Day Premier League travels to Dublin.
Peter Wright is still the only player without a win in this year's campaign. He will meet in Dublin in the
first quarterfinal World Champion Michael Smith. After that
Gerwyn Price will play against Dimitri van den Bergh. In the third quarterfinal Jonny Clayton and Nathan Aspinall
will meet. In the last quarterfinal reigning champion Michael van Gerwen and Masters winner Chris Dobey
will stand at the oche.
Schedule
Preview Fourth League Day
UK Open
After the weekend all Riley's Qualifiers for the UK Open are known. On Saturday and Sunday the last
qualifiers took place and Lewis Gurney, Noel Grant, Garey Davy and Jonathan Wynn were the winners. Only Grant
already took part once in the UK Open, the other three players will give their debut.
The PDC announced that this year for the first time the matches from all boards will be televised.
The matches at the Boards 3 - 8 on Friday and on the Boards 3 and 4 on Staturday will be streamed
on PDCTV.
The draw and the schedule of the first three rounds will be announced on Monday, 27. February.
UK Open
20. February
European Tour Tour Card Holders Qualifier
In conclusion of the second Pro Tour weekend in Barnsley today the Tour Card Holders qualifiers for the European Tour Events 3 and 4
took place. Ross Smith, Simon Whitlock, Daryl Gurney, Brendan Dolan, Andrew Gilding, Alan Soutar, Mario Vandenbogaerde, Matt Campbell and Lee Evans
qualified for both events.
With the exception of the Nordic and Baltic Qualifier of the European Tour Event in München now all participants in both events are known.
ET 3 Riesa, Participants, Schedule
ET 4 München, Participants, Schedule
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated
after the second Players Championship Weekend.
PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
PDC Pro Tour
Winners of the two Players Championships of the weekend were Kim Huybrechts and Dirk van Duijvenbode.
Kim Huybrechts defeated in the final of the third Players Championship on Saturday Gabriel Clemens with
8:1. In the semi-finals stood Gerwyn Price and Canadian Matt Campbell.
Today Dirk van Duijvenbode won Players Championship 4 - he defeated in the final Ryan Searle with 8:2.
The semi-finals reached Dave Chisnall and Joe Cullen.
Participants, Results
Nordic and Baltic Tour
This weekend was as well Nordic and Baltic Tour weekend. The first two Pro Tour Events and
the qualifiers for the European Tour Events 1 - 3 took place.
The two Pro Tour events were won by Marko Kantele and Mindaugas Barauskas. For the first European Tour Event in Kiel
Dennis Nilsson qualified, Marko Kantele will stand at the oche of the second Event in Leverkusen. For the third Event in Riesa
Finn Paavo Myller qualified.
Nordic and Baltic Tour
18. February
PDC Pro Tour
Again this weekend the PDC Pro Tour will be played in Barnsley. Today and tomorrow Players Championship 3 + 4 will take place.
On Monday the Tour Card Holders Qualifiers for the European Tour Events 3 + 4 in Riesa and München will follow.
Beside other Tour Card Holders the Premier League players Michael Smith, Peter Wright and Michael van Gerwen will not be
in Barnsley. For all missing players players from the Challenge Tour Order of Merit will move up.
Participants, Results
ET 3 Riesa, Participants, Schedule
ET 4 München, Participants, Schedule
17. February
Smith wins in Glasgow
An outstanding Michael Smith defeated in the final an as well strong playing Dimitri van den Bergh and got his first day win.
Before Smith defeated in the quarterfinals a far from convincing Gerwyn Price and prevailed in a close semi-final over Jonny Clayton.
Dimitri van den Bergh disappointed the Scottish crowd by defeating Peter Wright (who still is without a point) in the quarterfinals
and was too strong in the semi-finals for Nathan Aspinall.
Aspinall defeated in the quarterfinals Michael van Gerwen who played a strange match, Jonny Clayton defeated Chris Dobey
- had a lot of double trouble - and got his first two points.
Results
Table
Bericht, Statisticsnew
Increase in Price Money
After an increase in price money for the für Challenge Tour, Development Tour and Women's Series now the price money of
the European Tour and the UK Open were increased as well.
Challenge Tour
Development Tour
Women Series
European Tour
UK Open
16. February
PDC Premier League
The third League Day of the Premier League will take place today in Glasgow.
Peter Wright hopes his Scottish fans will ignite him and he will finally get his first points
- he will meet in the second quarterfinal Dimitri van den Bergh. Jonny Clayton as well hopes for his first win - he will play
in the last quarterfinal against Chris Dobey. The night will be opened with the quarterfinal between
Nathan Aspinall and reigning champion Michael van Gerwen. Beside last league day's winner, Gerwyn Price, will play in the quarterfinals against
World Champion Michael Smith.
Schedule
Preview Third League Daynew
14. February
European Tour Tour Card Inhaber Qualifikationen
At yesterday's qualifiers for the European Tour Events 1 and 2 in Barnsley James Wade, Raymond van Barneveld,
Stephen Bunting, Daryl Gurney, William O'Connor, Ryan Joyce, Jermaine Wattimena, Bradley Brooks, Ryan Meikle and Ted Evetts
qualified for both events.
So now with the exception of the Nordic and Baltic Qualifiers all participants of the European Tour Events in Kiel and Leverkusen
are known. The Nordic and Balic Qualifiers for the
European Tour Events 1,2 and 3 will take place during the first Nordic and Baltic Pro Tour weekend next weekend in Denmark.
ET 1 Kiel, Participants, Schedule
ET 2 Leverkusen, Participants, Schedule
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated
after the first two Players Championships.
PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
12. February
Searle and Noppert win in Barnsley
Ryan Searle and Danny Noppert won the first two Players Championships of the year.
Searle won on Saturday Players Championship 1 - he defeated in the final Jamie Hughes with 8:4. In the semi-finals
stood Jonny Clayton and Tour Card debutant Dylan Slevin.
On Sunday Danny Noppert won the second Players Championship with a 8:3 win over Simon Whitlock. The semi-finals
reached Luke Humphries and Brendan Dolan.
Today in Barnsley the Tour Card Holders Qualifiers for the European Tour Events 1 and 2 will take place.
Participants, Results
ET 1 Kiel, Participants, Results
ET 2 Leverkusen, Participants, Results
Thornton defends Title
Robert Thornton managed to defend his World Seniors Darts Champion title with a 5:2 win over Richie Howson. With Thornton
once again won the most consistent player who had in almost every match an over 90 average. In the semifinals stood
the surprise player of the event American Leonard Gates and - as last time - Kevin Painter. As in the first staging of the event
a not really good playing Phil Taylor was already eliminated in the quarterfinals.
Participants, Results
11. Februar
PDC Pro Tour
Today in Barnsley this years PDC Pro Tour will begin with the first Players Championshipship of the year. Tomorrow Players Championship 2 will follow,
on Monday the Tour Card holders Qualifier for the first two European Tour Events in Kiel and Leverkusen will end the weekend.
Already since yesterday in Hildesheim the Host Nation and the Associate Members Qualifiers for the European Tour Events 1 - 5 take place.
By the Host Nation Qualifiers Nico Kurz and Niko Springer qualified for ET 1 and Nico Kurz and Rene Eidams for ET 2. By the Associate Members Qualifiers
Martijn Dragt and Jeroen Mioch qualified for ET 1 and Andy Boulton and John Henderson for ET 2.
Participants, Results
ET 1 Kiel, Participants, Schedule
ET 2 Leverkusen, Participants, Schedule
World Seniors Darts Championship
Yesterday in der Circus Tavern the first round of the event was played to the end and reigning champion Robert Thornton
showed at his 3:0 win over Roland Scholten the so far best performance of the tournament. As well with 3:0 wins Andy Jenkins, American
Leonard Gates and Mark Dudbridge progressed into round two. Als winners of hard fought matches
progressed Neil Duff and Keith Deller (both in overtime) as did John Part and Phil Taylor.
Today in an afternoon and an evening session the second round will be played.
Participants, Results, Schedule
10. February
Price wins in Cardiff
While Jonny Clayton disappointed his Welsh fans Gerwyn Price delighted them playing a great
Premier League night, won in the quarterfinals a close match against Chris Dobey before he prevailed in the semis even closer over Michael van Gerwen
who had the far higher average. In the final he met Nathan Aspinall - who couldn't quite keep up the performance of his two
prvious matches - and defeated him 3:6.
His first two points got Michael Smith with his win over Jonny Clayton. Clayton and Peter Wright are the only players
still without a point.
Results
Table
Report, Statisticsnew
World Seniors Darts Championship
On the first day of the World Seniors Darts Championship in the afternoon session four close matches were played which were won by
Terry Jenkins, Darryl Fitton, Ritchie Howson und Darren Johnson with 3:2. Terry Jenkins played the highest average of the day with 88.89
The matches of the evening session all four were a one sided affair, only Martin Adams lost one set to Dave Prins. The other three matches were won with
3:0 by Kevin Painter, Dennis Harbour (against Trina Gulliver) and Scott Mitchell.
Today the first round will be played to the end - again in an afternoon and an evening session.
Participants, Results, Schedule
9. February
PDC Premier League
On the second League Day the PDC travels to Cardiff.
In Wales Welshman Jonny Clayton and Gerwyn Price hope to get their first points. Jonny Clayton opens the quarterfinals
against World Champion Michael Smith. After that Nathan Aspinall meets Peter Wright, Gerwyn Price will play in the third quarterfinal
against the winner of the first night - Chris Dobey. In the last quarterfinal reigning champion Michael van Gerwen
will play against Dimitri van den Bergh.
Schedule
Preview Second League Daynew
8. February
World Seniors Darts Championship
Tomorrow in the Circus Tavern in London the second World Seniors Darts Championship will begin.
Beside reigning champion Robert Thornton a lot of illustrious players will stand at the oche - headed by Phil Taylor who finally hopes
to win a title on the seniors tour. Former World Champions Trina Gulliver, Lisa Ashton, Martin Adams, Keith Deller, Bob Anderson,
Scott Mitchell, Glen Durrant and John Part and the reigning WDF World Champion Neil Duff can be found in the field of participants.
Participants, Results, Schedule
30 Years PDC World Championship - 30 years Dutch participants? - Part 4
In the last article of the series "Dutchmen in the PDC World Championship" beside Raymond van Barneveld and
Michael van Gerwen to more not really well-known Dutch players who took part in the tournament are in the lime-light -
Erwin Extercatte and Rico Vonck who both by now have disappeared from the sport.
30 Years PDC World Championship - 30 years Dutch participants? - Part 4new
6. February
"Tend your darts"
Well "tended" darts can help to improve your game and so this blog by darts manufacturer Shot
deals with the right sharpening of the darts points and the right cleaning of the dart barrels.
Sharpen your game: how to clean and care for your darts
UK Open
Around a month away are this year's UK Open and till the 21. January Riley's Amateur Qualifiers take place
for the event. Nine players have qualified so far. Three of the qualifiers - JDC World Junior Champion Luke Littler, Jim Moston and
Harry Lane - for the first time qualified for the UK Open. The other six - American Danny Lauby, Dan Read, Stuart White, Daniel Lee,
Brett Claydon and James Richardson - all have already some UK Open experience. James Richardson joins his son Joshua who
already was qualified by the Development Tour Order of Merit.
UK Open
3. February
Dobey wins in Belfast
Premier League debutant Chris Dobey won the first League Night - he defeated in the final Michael van Gerwen with 6:5.
Before he prevailed in the quarterfinals against Peter Wright and in the semi-finals over Nathan Aspinall.
Michael van Gerwen defeated in the quarterfinals World Champion Michael Smith with 6:2 and in the semi-finals
Dimitri van den Bergh with 6:4. Without a point stayed on the first night beside Michael Smith and Peter Wright Gerwyn Price and
Jonny Clayton.
Results
Statisticsnew
2. February
PDC Premier League
Today the PDC travels for the first league night to Belfast.
In the limelight tonight will stand the the second quarterfinal between World Champion Michael Smith and reigning champion
Michael van Gerwen. The league night will be opened by the match between Dimitri van den Bergh and Jonny Clayton.
In the third quarterfinal Peter Wright will meet Masters Champion Chris Dobey, in the last quarterfinal Gerwyn Price
will play against Nathan Aspinall.
First League Night Schedule
Preview First League Nightnew
1. February
PDC Awards
This year again the PDC handed out several awards to the players.
Three awards collected World Champion Michael Smith - he is PDC Player of the Year, Fans Player of the Year and PDPA
Player of the Year. Best Pro Tour Player of the Year is Luke Humphries, best newcomer und Young Player of the Year
is Josh Rock. Ross Smith was awarded for the best TV Performance of the Year - for the final of the European
Darts Championship against Michael Smith.
Results...
Winners of Romanian Open were Romanian Laszlo Kadar and Beau Greaves. Gary Stone won the Romanian Classic, the women's title got as well Beau Greaves.
The Las Vegas Open were won by Chris Lim, son of Paul Lim, and Paula Murphy. Winners of the Youth Pacific Masters
were Australians Alan Hellmuth and Janiya Finlay.
Winners of the singles events of the renowned Dutch Open were Aileen de Graaf and Berry van Peer. The youth titles went to Sydnee Vries
, Ruben Baalmans (U14) and Sophie McKinlay from Scotland. In the pairs events the English women pair Beau Greaves/Deta Hedman
and the Dutch men pair Christian Kist/Michael Stoeten were successful. The Wheelchair Darter title secured
Belgian Vincent d'Hondt, the Standing Darters title won German Heiko Bohnhorst who won together with Ralf Huesmann the Paradart pairs event as well.
30. January
PDC Premier League
The PDC today announced the participants in this year's Premier League.
Beside the Top Four of the Order of Merit - Michael Smith, Peter Wright, Michael van Gerwen and Gerwyn Price - who already had ensured their participation
Jonny Clayton, Nathan Aspinall, Dimitri van den Bergh and Chris Dobey were nominated.
The fixtures of all matchdays were by now published as well.
Premier League 2023new
Dobey wins Masters
With Chris Dobey again an unseeded player wins the Masters - he defeated in a slightly weary final
Rob Cross with 11:7. While Cross couldn't keep up his previous performances
Dobey was consistent till the last dart.
Dobey defeated Dirk van Duijvenbode in the quarterfinals and World Champion Michael Smith in the semi-finals on Finals Day, Cross
prevailed on his way into the final over Michael van Gerwen in the quarterfinals and over
Peter Wright in the semis.
Results, Schedule Day 3
Report, Statistics Day 3new
29. January
PDC The Masters
In the second round of the event with the exception of Luke Humphries and Gerwyn Price all seeded players won their matches -
Humphries lost to Chris Dobey, Price to Dirk van Duijvenbode. In the afternoon-session
Rob Cross and Gary Anderson played the match of the day. Cross won 10:6 with an average of 112.32 while Anderson
played an average of 111.17. The other winners of the day were Michael Smith, Michael van Gerwen, Peter Wright, Jonny Clayton and Danny
Noppert.
Today the tournament in Milton Keynes will be played to the end. In the afternoon the quarterfinals will take place, tonight semi-finals and finals will be played.
Report, Statistics Day 2new
28. January
PDC The Masters
The first day of The Masters brought a big upset - Chris Dobey eliminated reigning champion Joe Cullen from the event.
Beside it brought wins for James Wade and Gary Anderson, Jose de Sousa defeated Gabriel Clemens, Ross Smith prevailed over the luckless
Damon Heta, Dirk van Duijvenbode was in the end to clinical on his doubles for Krzysztof Ratajski, Stephen Bunting prevented a
comeback of Nathan Aspinall and Dave Chisnall defeated with an 161 finish in the deciding leg Ryan Searle.
Today the tournament will continue with the second round. Yesterday's winners will play against the seeds.
Report, Statistics Day 1
Results, Schedule Second Round
26. January
PDC The Masters
Tomorrow in Milton Keynes The Masters - the first big PDC event since the World Championship - will begin.
The Top 24 of PDC Order of Merit will take part. The Top Eight are seeded and will enter the tournament
in the second round which will be played on Saturday. Tomorrow the unseeded players will play the first round
and the winners will progress into round 2.
Last year's winner Joe Cullen is one of the unseeded players and he will begin his campaign tomorrow against
Chris Dobey.
The PDC increased the price money this year.
Results, Schedule Day 1new
Preview
PDC Challenge Tour
After the first weekend of the PDC Challenge Tour Frenchman Thibault Tricole has the lead in the Challenge Tour
Ranking. Tricole won one of the five events of the weekend and beside once stood in the
quarterfinals.
The other four winners of the weekend - Andy Boulton, Cameron Crabtree, Christian Kist and Chris Landman -
follow on the places 2 - 5.
Challenge Tour
20. January
Nordic Darts Masters
On the first day of the Nordic Darts Masters today the first round matches will take place. Tomorrow the tournament
will be played to the end.
Luke Humphries will open the tournament against Finn Marko Kantele.
Participants, Schedule, Results, Statistics
Previewnew
European Tour
The dates Home Nation and Associate Members Qualifiers of the European Tour were added to the Tournament Calendar.
Tournament Calendar 2023
19. January
Dartoids World
Dartoid travels to Greece and hopes to meet John Michael. Unluckily that doesn't happen.
But Dartoid had the chance to eavesdrop on a discussion between a Greece and an Italian...
Girls, Geezers and Greece
18. January
Nordic Darts Masters
On Friday in Copenhagen the Nordic Darts Masters will begin - the second World Series of Darts Event of the year.
Again eight PDC representatives will stand of stage, this time instead Raymond van Barneveld Michael van Gerwen is in the mix.
They will play in the first around against the leading players of the Nordic and Baltic region.
Dimitri van den Bergh- the reigning champion - will play against Madars Razma. World Champion Michael Smith, who won in Bahrain
the first World Series Event of the year, was drawn against Darius Labanauskas.
Participants, Schedule
Jann Hoffmann passed away
Danish darts player Jann Hoffmann - one of the founders of the Nordic and Baltic Tour - passed away on Monday
following a lengthy illness.
Hoffmann played many years on the BDO/WDF Circuit and qualified several times for the BDO World Championship. He switched to the PDC and
played for seven years on the PDC Circuit. Twice he was nominated in those years for the PDC World Cup. For some time he as well took part
in events of the Nordic und Baltic Tour.
Hoffmann was aged 65. We send condolences to his family and friends.
In ocaasion of the start of the SDC Circuit Global Darts interviewd Hoffmann 2018. You can find the interview here:
Interview with Jann Hoffmann
PDC Nordic and Baltic Tour
The dates of the Nordic und Baltic Tour 2023 were added to the Tournament Calendar.
Due to new rules of those PDC players who own a PDC Tour Card longer then two consecutive years are no longer eligible to participate
on a Global Affiliate Tour of its relevant qualifiers for PDC Events. In this case it concerns
Madars Razma and Darius Labanauskas.
Tournament Calendar 2023
Nordic und Baltic Tour
16. January
PDC Qualifying School
On the last day of the final Phase Robbie Knops and Adam Smith-Neale got the day win and by this the direct Tour Cards of the day.
In Kalkar additional ten Tour Cards were assigned by the ranking. They went to Maik Kuivenhoven, Richard Veenstra, Niels Zonneveld, Pascal Rupprecht,
Ronny Huybrechts, Karel Sedlacek, Jacques Labre, Daniel Klose, Gian van Veen and Owen Roloefs. In Milton Keynes nine additional Tour Cards were assigned
by the ranking to Dylan Slevin, Lee Evans, Stephen Burton, Nick Kenny, Keegan Brown, Adam Warner,
Graham Hall, Callum Goffin and Christian Perez. For the first time ever a Frenchman and a Filipino
will join the Pro Circuit.
EU and UK Qualifying School, Report Day 4new
Qualifying School 2023, Results
Ranking UK Qualifying Schoolnew
Ranking European Qualifying Schoolnew
15. January
PDC Qualifying School
On the Third day of the final Phase Josh Payne and Jeffrey de Zwaan got the win and by this the direct Tour Card.
Jeffrey de Zwaan defeated in the final in Kalkar fellow countryman Maik Kuivenhoven who is already assured a Tour Card by the ranking.
Josh Payne won in Milton Keynes against Chris Quantock.
The Qualifying School will continue today in both venues with the fourth and last event.
EU and UK Qualifying School, Report Day 3, Ranking after Day 3new
Qualifying School 2023, Results
14. January
PDC Qualifying School
On the second day of the final Phase Corey Cadby and Graham Usher got the win and by this the direct Tour Card.
Corey Cadby defeated in the final in Kalkar Karel Sedlacek, Graham Usher won in Milton Keynes against Adam Warner.
The Qualifying School will continue today in both venues with the third event.
EU and UK Qualifying School, Report Day 2, Ranking after Day 2new
Qualifying School 2023, Results
Smith wins in Bahrain
Michael Smith won the first ever Bahrain Darts Masters with a 8:6 win against Gerwyn Price. Smith already
had been 7:3 in the lead but then couldn't find his doubles and Price closed in on 6:7. But Smith
recovered and won his third TV title in three months.
In the semi-finals stood Raymond van Barneveld and Rob Cross.
Participants, Schedule, Results, Statistics
Report Day 2new
13.January
PDC Qualifying School
On the first day of the final Phase Arron Monk and Jeffrey Sparidaans got the win and by this the direct Tour Card.
Arron Monk defeated in the final in Milton Keynes Dom Taylor, Jeffrey Sparidaans won in Kalkar against Ronny Huybrechts.
The Qualifying School will continue today in both venues with the second event.
EU and UK Qualifying School, Report Day 1, Ranking after Day 1new
Bahrain Darts Masters - Day 1
In the first round of the tournament all eight PDC representatives prevailed though for some of them it was
not an easy win.
The best performance of the first round showed Jonny Clayton who impressed in his 6:0 defeat of Basem Mahmood
with an 103.66 average.
Today the tournament in Bahrain will be played to the end Bahrain.
Participants, Schedule, Results, Statistics
Report Day 1new
12. January
PDC Qualifying School
The first Phase of Qualifying School is over and the participants of the final Phase - which will start today - are known.
In the UK Qualifying School Fallon Sherrock is the only female player who qualified for the final Phase - she was yesterday one of the day winners.
As well among the day winners who progressed were former World Youth Champion Aaron Monk and Christian Perez from the Philippines.
In the EU Qualifiyng School two German players - Nico Kurz and Daniel Zygla - were among the day winners which included among others
another former PDC Youth World Champion - Australian Corey Cadby - and WDF World Championship semi-finalist Richard Veenstra.
EU Qualifying School, Participants final Phase, Resultsnew
UK Qualifying School, Participants final Phase, Resultsnew
11.January
Bahrain Darts Masters
Tomorrow the first ever Bahrain Darts Masters will begin with the first round. On Friday Quarterfinals, Semi-Finals
and the tournament Final will follow.
World Champion Michael Smith, Luke Humphries, Dimitri van den Bergh, Peter Wright, Gerwyn Price, Rob Cross, Raymond
van Barneveld and Jonny Clayton will stand as PDC representatives at the oche who will play against eight
qualifiers from Bahrain and Asia. Among them will be Paul Lim who was drawn against Gerwyn Price.
Participants, Schedule, Results and Statistics First Roundnew
9. January
PDC Qualifying Schools
Today in Kalkar and in Milton Keynes the European and the UK Qualifiying School began. Till including Wednesday
the first phase of the tournament will be played. Each day eight players will qualify directly for the final Phase which will take
place from 12. - 15 January. For the participants in the finale Phase 27 Tour Card are on offer - eight for the day winners
and the other 19 by the Q School Orders of Merit.
Qualifying School 2023, Results
4. January
World Series of Darts
The World Series of Darts will begin on 12. and 13. January with the Bahrain Darts Masters which are played for the first time this year.
The PDC now announced the participants of the Bahrain Darts Masters and of the second World Series event - the Nordic Darts Masters which will
take place from 20. - 21. January in Copenhagen.
World Series of Darts
PDC Ranking
The PDC Order of Merit was updated after the World Championship.
PDC Rankings
Smith wins PDC World Championship
In a terrific final Michael Smith defeated Michael van Gerwen with 7:4 and won his first World Champion title. By this
he moved up to the first place in the PDC Order of Merit as well.
The players shared the first six sets of the match.
In the incredible third leg of the second set both players had the chance for a nine-darter. While van Gerwen missed the
double 12 for his perfect leg, Smith hit it. It was only the second nine-darter so far in a World Championship Final.
At 3:3 in sets Smith started to pull clear - he won three sets in a row and led 6:3. Then he slightly dropped off
and van Gerwen won his fourth leg. In the last set the Dutchman first was on the inside track but he missed the
busllseye for his 132 finish to win the set. Smith managed to turn the set around and won match and title with an 11-darter.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
3. January
PDC World Championship - Semi-Finals
On the penultimate day of the PDC World Championship the two semi-finals were played. Both matches had a distinct result.
Michael Smith won 6:2 against Gabriel Clemens, Michael van Gerwen defeated Dimitri van den Bergh with 6:0. While Michael van Gerwen
in the second semi-final was the clearly better player and van den Bergh only won four legs the first semifinal between Smith and Clemens was a quite hard-fought affair
and six of the eight sets were decided in the fifth Leg. Nevertheless Smith came across as the stronger player thoughout the match.
Today in the final Michael Smith and Michael van Gerwen will meet.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
2. January
30 Years PDC World Championship - 30 years Dutch participants? - 3
2004 beside Roland Scholten Jan van der Rassel for the first time qualified for the PDC World Championship. Van der
Rassel took as well part in 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010 in the PDC World Championship before he disappeared from the scene
due to the lack of sponsors. 2005 and 2007 Josephus Schenk joined Roland Scholten for the PDC World Championship but he gave up his career as well -
might be due to the same reason as van der Rassel - for the lack of sponsors.
30 Years PDC World Championship - 30 years Dutch participants? - 3new
Tournament Calendar 2023
The new Tournament Calendar 2023 is now online. Some more dates were added - among the the dates for the
WDF World Championship 2023 which will take place from 2. - 10 December.
Tournament Calendar 2023new
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 15
Tonight in the evening session both semi-finals will be played. First Gabriel Clemens will play against Michael Smith. After that Dimitri van den Bergh
will meet Michael van Gerwen.
Semifinals Specials: In the semi-finals stand four players from four different countries - for the fourth time in the history of the event. But it is only for the second
time that all four are the number 1 of their country. That only happened once before in 2010, in that year with Phil Taylor the English number 1,
with Raymond van Barneveld the Dutch number 1,with Mark Webster the Welsh number 1 and with Simon Whitlock the Australian number 1 stood at the oche.
Winner 2010 was the English number 1 Phil Taylor.
What you should know as well: Not only Gabriel Clemens wrote history by progressing into the semi-finals, it is as well the first time ever a Belgian
player reached the semi-finals of the event - Dimitri van den Bergh. Van den Bergh's so far best placings had been the quarterfinals 2018 where
he lost to the eventual winner Rob Cross and the quarterfinals 2020 where he lost to Nathan Aspinall.
But Clemens is not the first German who reached the semi-finals of a World Championship.
That was Michael Unterbuchner, who stood both 2018 and 2019 in the semi-finals of the BDO World Championship.
Schedule Day 15
1. January
PDC World Championship - Day 14
Today all four quarterfinals took place and there were two upsets - the bigger one was caused by German Gabriel Clemens.
The German number 1 wrote even more history tonight - Clemens defeated the number 1 of the world Gerwyn Price with 5:1 and progressed as
first ever German into the semi-finals of the PDC World Championship. Clemens was the better player almost throughout, he had the higher average,
threw more maxima and was more clinical on the doubles. The second upset was caused by Belgian Dimitri van den Bergh who defeated Jonny Clayton with 5:3.
The match between Michael Smith and Stephen Bunting was hard fought - Bunting scored better but Smith had the better hitting rate on the doubles which decided
the match. No problems at all had Michael van Gerwen in the last quarterfinal as Chris Dobey showed a far less strong performance as against Rob Cross. Van Gerwen
won 5:0.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
Schedule Semifinals
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 14
Today in the afternoon- and the evening-session two quarterfinals each will be played.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite: Gerwyn Price v Gabriel Clemens. Impartial: Michael Smith v Stephen Bunting
Today's Day's Specials: Today for once the English players have the majority - with Michael Smith, Chris Dobey and
Stephen Bunting three will stand at the oche. But the two former World Champions still in the tournament come from the Netherlands and Wales...
What you should know as well: Michael van Gerwen switched 2007 to the PDC. His first appearance in the PDC World Championship
was in the World Championship 2008 where he lost first round to Phil Taylor. Anyway were van Gerwen's first years in the PDC far from successful. That changed after he
won 2012 the Grand Slam in Dublin. Then followed the years in which he displaced Phil Taylor as the dominant player of the PDC though so far he won the World Championship
only three times and never managed to defend his title.
Schedule Day 14, Results
Statisticsnew
Global Darts wishes everybody a Happy New Year!
In Dublin Michael van Gerwen got his first win of the season. He defeated in a close final
Gerwyn Price - who missed in the deciding leg two match darts - with 6:5. In the semi-finals stood
Michael Smith and Jonny Clayton.
Peter Wright lost already in the quarterfinals a close match against Michael Smith and still is without a point. Other quarterfinal losers were Dimitri van den Bergh, Chris Dobey and Nathan Aspinall.
Results
Table
Report, Statisticsnew
23. February
European Tour
Tomorrow in Kiel the Baltic Sea Darts Open will begin - the first event of the European Tour 2023.
The PDC pubblished the draw and the detailled schedule of the first and second round.
Participants, Schedule
22. February
PDC Premier League
For the fourth League Day Premier League travels to Dublin.
Peter Wright is still the only player without a win in this year's campaign. He will meet in Dublin in the first quarterfinal World Champion Michael Smith. After that Gerwyn Price will play against Dimitri van den Bergh. In the third quarterfinal Jonny Clayton and Nathan Aspinall will meet. In the last quarterfinal reigning champion Michael van Gerwen and Masters winner Chris Dobey will stand at the oche.
Schedule
Preview Fourth League Day
UK Open
After the weekend all Riley's Qualifiers for the UK Open are known. On Saturday and Sunday the last
qualifiers took place and Lewis Gurney, Noel Grant, Garey Davy and Jonathan Wynn were the winners. Only Grant
already took part once in the UK Open, the other three players will give their debut.
The PDC announced that this year for the first time the matches from all boards will be televised. The matches at the Boards 3 - 8 on Friday and on the Boards 3 and 4 on Staturday will be streamed on PDCTV.
The draw and the schedule of the first three rounds will be announced on Monday, 27. February.
UK Open
20. February
European Tour Tour Card Holders Qualifier
In conclusion of the second Pro Tour weekend in Barnsley today the Tour Card Holders qualifiers for the European Tour Events 3 and 4
took place. Ross Smith, Simon Whitlock, Daryl Gurney, Brendan Dolan, Andrew Gilding, Alan Soutar, Mario Vandenbogaerde, Matt Campbell and Lee Evans
qualified for both events.
With the exception of the Nordic and Baltic Qualifier of the European Tour Event in München now all participants in both events are known.
ET 3 Riesa, Participants, Schedule
ET 4 München, Participants, Schedule
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated after the second Players Championship Weekend.PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
PDC Pro Tour
Winners of the two Players Championships of the weekend were Kim Huybrechts and Dirk van Duijvenbode.
Kim Huybrechts defeated in the final of the third Players Championship on Saturday Gabriel Clemens with 8:1. In the semi-finals stood Gerwyn Price and Canadian Matt Campbell.
Today Dirk van Duijvenbode won Players Championship 4 - he defeated in the final Ryan Searle with 8:2. The semi-finals reached Dave Chisnall and Joe Cullen.
Participants, Results
Nordic and Baltic Tour
This weekend was as well Nordic and Baltic Tour weekend. The first two Pro Tour Events and
the qualifiers for the European Tour Events 1 - 3 took place.
The two Pro Tour events were won by Marko Kantele and Mindaugas Barauskas. For the first European Tour Event in Kiel Dennis Nilsson qualified, Marko Kantele will stand at the oche of the second Event in Leverkusen. For the third Event in Riesa Finn Paavo Myller qualified.
Nordic and Baltic Tour
18. February
PDC Pro Tour
Again this weekend the PDC Pro Tour will be played in Barnsley. Today and tomorrow Players Championship 3 + 4 will take place.
On Monday the Tour Card Holders Qualifiers for the European Tour Events 3 + 4 in Riesa and München will follow.
Beside other Tour Card Holders the Premier League players Michael Smith, Peter Wright and Michael van Gerwen will not be in Barnsley. For all missing players players from the Challenge Tour Order of Merit will move up.
Participants, Results
ET 3 Riesa, Participants, Schedule
ET 4 München, Participants, Schedule
17. February
Smith wins in Glasgow
An outstanding Michael Smith defeated in the final an as well strong playing Dimitri van den Bergh and got his first day win.
Before Smith defeated in the quarterfinals a far from convincing Gerwyn Price and prevailed in a close semi-final over Jonny Clayton.
Dimitri van den Bergh disappointed the Scottish crowd by defeating Peter Wright (who still is without a point) in the quarterfinals
and was too strong in the semi-finals for Nathan Aspinall.
Aspinall defeated in the quarterfinals Michael van Gerwen who played a strange match, Jonny Clayton defeated Chris Dobey
- had a lot of double trouble - and got his first two points.
Results
Table
Bericht, Statisticsnew
Increase in Price Money
After an increase in price money for the für Challenge Tour, Development Tour and Women's Series now the price money of
the European Tour and the UK Open were increased as well.
Challenge Tour
Development Tour
Women Series
European Tour
UK Open
16. February
PDC Premier League
The third League Day of the Premier League will take place today in Glasgow.
Peter Wright hopes his Scottish fans will ignite him and he will finally get his first points
- he will meet in the second quarterfinal Dimitri van den Bergh. Jonny Clayton as well hopes for his first win - he will play
in the last quarterfinal against Chris Dobey. The night will be opened with the quarterfinal between
Nathan Aspinall and reigning champion Michael van Gerwen. Beside last league day's winner, Gerwyn Price, will play in the quarterfinals against
World Champion Michael Smith.
Schedule
Preview Third League Daynew
14. February
European Tour Tour Card Inhaber Qualifikationen
At yesterday's qualifiers for the European Tour Events 1 and 2 in Barnsley James Wade, Raymond van Barneveld,
Stephen Bunting, Daryl Gurney, William O'Connor, Ryan Joyce, Jermaine Wattimena, Bradley Brooks, Ryan Meikle and Ted Evetts
qualified for both events.
So now with the exception of the Nordic and Baltic Qualifiers all participants of the European Tour Events in Kiel and Leverkusen
are known. The Nordic and Balic Qualifiers for the
European Tour Events 1,2 and 3 will take place during the first Nordic and Baltic Pro Tour weekend next weekend in Denmark.
ET 1 Kiel, Participants, Schedule
ET 2 Leverkusen, Participants, Schedule
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated
after the first two Players Championships.
PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
12. February
Searle and Noppert win in Barnsley
Ryan Searle and Danny Noppert won the first two Players Championships of the year.
Searle won on Saturday Players Championship 1 - he defeated in the final Jamie Hughes with 8:4. In the semi-finals
stood Jonny Clayton and Tour Card debutant Dylan Slevin.
On Sunday Danny Noppert won the second Players Championship with a 8:3 win over Simon Whitlock. The semi-finals
reached Luke Humphries and Brendan Dolan.
Today in Barnsley the Tour Card Holders Qualifiers for the European Tour Events 1 and 2 will take place.
Participants, Results
ET 1 Kiel, Participants, Results
ET 2 Leverkusen, Participants, Results
Thornton defends Title
Robert Thornton managed to defend his World Seniors Darts Champion title with a 5:2 win over Richie Howson. With Thornton
once again won the most consistent player who had in almost every match an over 90 average. In the semifinals stood
the surprise player of the event American Leonard Gates and - as last time - Kevin Painter. As in the first staging of the event
a not really good playing Phil Taylor was already eliminated in the quarterfinals.
Participants, Results
11. Februar
PDC Pro Tour
Today in Barnsley this years PDC Pro Tour will begin with the first Players Championshipship of the year. Tomorrow Players Championship 2 will follow,
on Monday the Tour Card holders Qualifier for the first two European Tour Events in Kiel and Leverkusen will end the weekend.
Already since yesterday in Hildesheim the Host Nation and the Associate Members Qualifiers for the European Tour Events 1 - 5 take place.
By the Host Nation Qualifiers Nico Kurz and Niko Springer qualified for ET 1 and Nico Kurz and Rene Eidams for ET 2. By the Associate Members Qualifiers
Martijn Dragt and Jeroen Mioch qualified for ET 1 and Andy Boulton and John Henderson for ET 2.
Participants, Results
ET 1 Kiel, Participants, Schedule
ET 2 Leverkusen, Participants, Schedule
World Seniors Darts Championship
Yesterday in der Circus Tavern the first round of the event was played to the end and reigning champion Robert Thornton
showed at his 3:0 win over Roland Scholten the so far best performance of the tournament. As well with 3:0 wins Andy Jenkins, American
Leonard Gates and Mark Dudbridge progressed into round two. Als winners of hard fought matches
progressed Neil Duff and Keith Deller (both in overtime) as did John Part and Phil Taylor.
Today in an afternoon and an evening session the second round will be played.
Participants, Results, Schedule
10. February
Price wins in Cardiff
While Jonny Clayton disappointed his Welsh fans Gerwyn Price delighted them playing a great
Premier League night, won in the quarterfinals a close match against Chris Dobey before he prevailed in the semis even closer over Michael van Gerwen
who had the far higher average. In the final he met Nathan Aspinall - who couldn't quite keep up the performance of his two
prvious matches - and defeated him 3:6.
His first two points got Michael Smith with his win over Jonny Clayton. Clayton and Peter Wright are the only players
still without a point.
Results
Table
Report, Statisticsnew
World Seniors Darts Championship
On the first day of the World Seniors Darts Championship in the afternoon session four close matches were played which were won by
Terry Jenkins, Darryl Fitton, Ritchie Howson und Darren Johnson with 3:2. Terry Jenkins played the highest average of the day with 88.89
The matches of the evening session all four were a one sided affair, only Martin Adams lost one set to Dave Prins. The other three matches were won with
3:0 by Kevin Painter, Dennis Harbour (against Trina Gulliver) and Scott Mitchell.
Today the first round will be played to the end - again in an afternoon and an evening session.
Participants, Results, Schedule
9. February
PDC Premier League
On the second League Day the PDC travels to Cardiff.
In Wales Welshman Jonny Clayton and Gerwyn Price hope to get their first points. Jonny Clayton opens the quarterfinals
against World Champion Michael Smith. After that Nathan Aspinall meets Peter Wright, Gerwyn Price will play in the third quarterfinal
against the winner of the first night - Chris Dobey. In the last quarterfinal reigning champion Michael van Gerwen
will play against Dimitri van den Bergh.
Schedule
Preview Second League Daynew
8. February
World Seniors Darts Championship
Tomorrow in the Circus Tavern in London the second World Seniors Darts Championship will begin.
Beside reigning champion Robert Thornton a lot of illustrious players will stand at the oche - headed by Phil Taylor who finally hopes
to win a title on the seniors tour. Former World Champions Trina Gulliver, Lisa Ashton, Martin Adams, Keith Deller, Bob Anderson,
Scott Mitchell, Glen Durrant and John Part and the reigning WDF World Champion Neil Duff can be found in the field of participants.
Participants, Results, Schedule
30 Years PDC World Championship - 30 years Dutch participants? - Part 4
In the last article of the series "Dutchmen in the PDC World Championship" beside Raymond van Barneveld and
Michael van Gerwen to more not really well-known Dutch players who took part in the tournament are in the lime-light -
Erwin Extercatte and Rico Vonck who both by now have disappeared from the sport.
30 Years PDC World Championship - 30 years Dutch participants? - Part 4new
6. February
"Tend your darts"
Well "tended" darts can help to improve your game and so this blog by darts manufacturer Shot
deals with the right sharpening of the darts points and the right cleaning of the dart barrels.
Sharpen your game: how to clean and care for your darts
UK Open
Around a month away are this year's UK Open and till the 21. January Riley's Amateur Qualifiers take place
for the event. Nine players have qualified so far. Three of the qualifiers - JDC World Junior Champion Luke Littler, Jim Moston and
Harry Lane - for the first time qualified for the UK Open. The other six - American Danny Lauby, Dan Read, Stuart White, Daniel Lee,
Brett Claydon and James Richardson - all have already some UK Open experience. James Richardson joins his son Joshua who
already was qualified by the Development Tour Order of Merit.
UK Open
3. February
Dobey wins in Belfast
Premier League debutant Chris Dobey won the first League Night - he defeated in the final Michael van Gerwen with 6:5.
Before he prevailed in the quarterfinals against Peter Wright and in the semi-finals over Nathan Aspinall.
Michael van Gerwen defeated in the quarterfinals World Champion Michael Smith with 6:2 and in the semi-finals
Dimitri van den Bergh with 6:4. Without a point stayed on the first night beside Michael Smith and Peter Wright Gerwyn Price and
Jonny Clayton.
Results
Statisticsnew
2. February
PDC Premier League
Today the PDC travels for the first league night to Belfast.
In the limelight tonight will stand the the second quarterfinal between World Champion Michael Smith and reigning champion
Michael van Gerwen. The league night will be opened by the match between Dimitri van den Bergh and Jonny Clayton.
In the third quarterfinal Peter Wright will meet Masters Champion Chris Dobey, in the last quarterfinal Gerwyn Price
will play against Nathan Aspinall.
First League Night Schedule
Preview First League Nightnew
1. February
PDC Awards
This year again the PDC handed out several awards to the players.
Three awards collected World Champion Michael Smith - he is PDC Player of the Year, Fans Player of the Year and PDPA
Player of the Year. Best Pro Tour Player of the Year is Luke Humphries, best newcomer und Young Player of the Year
is Josh Rock. Ross Smith was awarded for the best TV Performance of the Year - for the final of the European
Darts Championship against Michael Smith.
Results...
Winners of Romanian Open were Romanian Laszlo Kadar and Beau Greaves. Gary Stone won the Romanian Classic, the women's title got as well Beau Greaves.
The Las Vegas Open were won by Chris Lim, son of Paul Lim, and Paula Murphy. Winners of the Youth Pacific Masters
were Australians Alan Hellmuth and Janiya Finlay.
Winners of the singles events of the renowned Dutch Open were Aileen de Graaf and Berry van Peer. The youth titles went to Sydnee Vries
, Ruben Baalmans (U14) and Sophie McKinlay from Scotland. In the pairs events the English women pair Beau Greaves/Deta Hedman
and the Dutch men pair Christian Kist/Michael Stoeten were successful. The Wheelchair Darter title secured
Belgian Vincent d'Hondt, the Standing Darters title won German Heiko Bohnhorst who won together with Ralf Huesmann the Paradart pairs event as well.
30. January
PDC Premier League
The PDC today announced the participants in this year's Premier League.
Beside the Top Four of the Order of Merit - Michael Smith, Peter Wright, Michael van Gerwen and Gerwyn Price - who already had ensured their participation
Jonny Clayton, Nathan Aspinall, Dimitri van den Bergh and Chris Dobey were nominated.
The fixtures of all matchdays were by now published as well.
Premier League 2023new
Dobey wins Masters
With Chris Dobey again an unseeded player wins the Masters - he defeated in a slightly weary final
Rob Cross with 11:7. While Cross couldn't keep up his previous performances
Dobey was consistent till the last dart.
Dobey defeated Dirk van Duijvenbode in the quarterfinals and World Champion Michael Smith in the semi-finals on Finals Day, Cross
prevailed on his way into the final over Michael van Gerwen in the quarterfinals and over
Peter Wright in the semis.
Results, Schedule Day 3
Report, Statistics Day 3new
29. January
PDC The Masters
In the second round of the event with the exception of Luke Humphries and Gerwyn Price all seeded players won their matches -
Humphries lost to Chris Dobey, Price to Dirk van Duijvenbode. In the afternoon-session
Rob Cross and Gary Anderson played the match of the day. Cross won 10:6 with an average of 112.32 while Anderson
played an average of 111.17. The other winners of the day were Michael Smith, Michael van Gerwen, Peter Wright, Jonny Clayton and Danny
Noppert.
Today the tournament in Milton Keynes will be played to the end. In the afternoon the quarterfinals will take place, tonight semi-finals and finals will be played.
Report, Statistics Day 2new
28. January
PDC The Masters
The first day of The Masters brought a big upset - Chris Dobey eliminated reigning champion Joe Cullen from the event.
Beside it brought wins for James Wade and Gary Anderson, Jose de Sousa defeated Gabriel Clemens, Ross Smith prevailed over the luckless
Damon Heta, Dirk van Duijvenbode was in the end to clinical on his doubles for Krzysztof Ratajski, Stephen Bunting prevented a
comeback of Nathan Aspinall and Dave Chisnall defeated with an 161 finish in the deciding leg Ryan Searle.
Today the tournament will continue with the second round. Yesterday's winners will play against the seeds.
Report, Statistics Day 1
Results, Schedule Second Round
26. January
PDC The Masters
Tomorrow in Milton Keynes The Masters - the first big PDC event since the World Championship - will begin.
The Top 24 of PDC Order of Merit will take part. The Top Eight are seeded and will enter the tournament
in the second round which will be played on Saturday. Tomorrow the unseeded players will play the first round
and the winners will progress into round 2.
Last year's winner Joe Cullen is one of the unseeded players and he will begin his campaign tomorrow against
Chris Dobey.
The PDC increased the price money this year.
Results, Schedule Day 1new
Preview
PDC Challenge Tour
After the first weekend of the PDC Challenge Tour Frenchman Thibault Tricole has the lead in the Challenge Tour
Ranking. Tricole won one of the five events of the weekend and beside once stood in the
quarterfinals.
The other four winners of the weekend - Andy Boulton, Cameron Crabtree, Christian Kist and Chris Landman -
follow on the places 2 - 5.
Challenge Tour
20. January
Nordic Darts Masters
On the first day of the Nordic Darts Masters today the first round matches will take place. Tomorrow the tournament
will be played to the end.
Luke Humphries will open the tournament against Finn Marko Kantele.
Participants, Schedule, Results, Statistics
Previewnew
European Tour
The dates Home Nation and Associate Members Qualifiers of the European Tour were added to the Tournament Calendar.
Tournament Calendar 2023
19. January
Dartoids World
Dartoid travels to Greece and hopes to meet John Michael. Unluckily that doesn't happen.
But Dartoid had the chance to eavesdrop on a discussion between a Greece and an Italian...
Girls, Geezers and Greece
18. January
Nordic Darts Masters
On Friday in Copenhagen the Nordic Darts Masters will begin - the second World Series of Darts Event of the year.
Again eight PDC representatives will stand of stage, this time instead Raymond van Barneveld Michael van Gerwen is in the mix.
They will play in the first around against the leading players of the Nordic and Baltic region.
Dimitri van den Bergh- the reigning champion - will play against Madars Razma. World Champion Michael Smith, who won in Bahrain
the first World Series Event of the year, was drawn against Darius Labanauskas.
Participants, Schedule
Jann Hoffmann passed away
Danish darts player Jann Hoffmann - one of the founders of the Nordic and Baltic Tour - passed away on Monday
following a lengthy illness.
Hoffmann played many years on the BDO/WDF Circuit and qualified several times for the BDO World Championship. He switched to the PDC and
played for seven years on the PDC Circuit. Twice he was nominated in those years for the PDC World Cup. For some time he as well took part
in events of the Nordic und Baltic Tour.
Hoffmann was aged 65. We send condolences to his family and friends.
In ocaasion of the start of the SDC Circuit Global Darts interviewd Hoffmann 2018. You can find the interview here:
Interview with Jann Hoffmann
PDC Nordic and Baltic Tour
The dates of the Nordic und Baltic Tour 2023 were added to the Tournament Calendar.
Due to new rules of those PDC players who own a PDC Tour Card longer then two consecutive years are no longer eligible to participate
on a Global Affiliate Tour of its relevant qualifiers for PDC Events. In this case it concerns
Madars Razma and Darius Labanauskas.
Tournament Calendar 2023
Nordic und Baltic Tour
16. January
PDC Qualifying School
On the last day of the final Phase Robbie Knops and Adam Smith-Neale got the day win and by this the direct Tour Cards of the day.
In Kalkar additional ten Tour Cards were assigned by the ranking. They went to Maik Kuivenhoven, Richard Veenstra, Niels Zonneveld, Pascal Rupprecht,
Ronny Huybrechts, Karel Sedlacek, Jacques Labre, Daniel Klose, Gian van Veen and Owen Roloefs. In Milton Keynes nine additional Tour Cards were assigned
by the ranking to Dylan Slevin, Lee Evans, Stephen Burton, Nick Kenny, Keegan Brown, Adam Warner,
Graham Hall, Callum Goffin and Christian Perez. For the first time ever a Frenchman and a Filipino
will join the Pro Circuit.
EU and UK Qualifying School, Report Day 4new
Qualifying School 2023, Results
Ranking UK Qualifying Schoolnew
Ranking European Qualifying Schoolnew
15. January
PDC Qualifying School
On the Third day of the final Phase Josh Payne and Jeffrey de Zwaan got the win and by this the direct Tour Card.
Jeffrey de Zwaan defeated in the final in Kalkar fellow countryman Maik Kuivenhoven who is already assured a Tour Card by the ranking.
Josh Payne won in Milton Keynes against Chris Quantock.
The Qualifying School will continue today in both venues with the fourth and last event.
EU and UK Qualifying School, Report Day 3, Ranking after Day 3new
Qualifying School 2023, Results
14. January
PDC Qualifying School
On the second day of the final Phase Corey Cadby and Graham Usher got the win and by this the direct Tour Card.
Corey Cadby defeated in the final in Kalkar Karel Sedlacek, Graham Usher won in Milton Keynes against Adam Warner.
The Qualifying School will continue today in both venues with the third event.
EU and UK Qualifying School, Report Day 2, Ranking after Day 2new
Qualifying School 2023, Results
Smith wins in Bahrain
Michael Smith won the first ever Bahrain Darts Masters with a 8:6 win against Gerwyn Price. Smith already
had been 7:3 in the lead but then couldn't find his doubles and Price closed in on 6:7. But Smith
recovered and won his third TV title in three months.
In the semi-finals stood Raymond van Barneveld and Rob Cross.
Participants, Schedule, Results, Statistics
Report Day 2new
13.January
PDC Qualifying School
On the first day of the final Phase Arron Monk and Jeffrey Sparidaans got the win and by this the direct Tour Card.
Arron Monk defeated in the final in Milton Keynes Dom Taylor, Jeffrey Sparidaans won in Kalkar against Ronny Huybrechts.
The Qualifying School will continue today in both venues with the second event.
EU and UK Qualifying School, Report Day 1, Ranking after Day 1new
Bahrain Darts Masters - Day 1
In the first round of the tournament all eight PDC representatives prevailed though for some of them it was
not an easy win.
The best performance of the first round showed Jonny Clayton who impressed in his 6:0 defeat of Basem Mahmood
with an 103.66 average.
Today the tournament in Bahrain will be played to the end Bahrain.
Participants, Schedule, Results, Statistics
Report Day 1new
12. January
PDC Qualifying School
The first Phase of Qualifying School is over and the participants of the final Phase - which will start today - are known.
In the UK Qualifying School Fallon Sherrock is the only female player who qualified for the final Phase - she was yesterday one of the day winners.
As well among the day winners who progressed were former World Youth Champion Aaron Monk and Christian Perez from the Philippines.
In the EU Qualifiyng School two German players - Nico Kurz and Daniel Zygla - were among the day winners which included among others
another former PDC Youth World Champion - Australian Corey Cadby - and WDF World Championship semi-finalist Richard Veenstra.
EU Qualifying School, Participants final Phase, Resultsnew
UK Qualifying School, Participants final Phase, Resultsnew
11.January
Bahrain Darts Masters
Tomorrow the first ever Bahrain Darts Masters will begin with the first round. On Friday Quarterfinals, Semi-Finals
and the tournament Final will follow.
World Champion Michael Smith, Luke Humphries, Dimitri van den Bergh, Peter Wright, Gerwyn Price, Rob Cross, Raymond
van Barneveld and Jonny Clayton will stand as PDC representatives at the oche who will play against eight
qualifiers from Bahrain and Asia. Among them will be Paul Lim who was drawn against Gerwyn Price.
Participants, Schedule, Results and Statistics First Roundnew
9. January
PDC Qualifying Schools
Today in Kalkar and in Milton Keynes the European and the UK Qualifiying School began. Till including Wednesday
the first phase of the tournament will be played. Each day eight players will qualify directly for the final Phase which will take
place from 12. - 15 January. For the participants in the finale Phase 27 Tour Card are on offer - eight for the day winners
and the other 19 by the Q School Orders of Merit.
Qualifying School 2023, Results
4. January
World Series of Darts
The World Series of Darts will begin on 12. and 13. January with the Bahrain Darts Masters which are played for the first time this year.
The PDC now announced the participants of the Bahrain Darts Masters and of the second World Series event - the Nordic Darts Masters which will
take place from 20. - 21. January in Copenhagen.
World Series of Darts
PDC Ranking
The PDC Order of Merit was updated after the World Championship.
PDC Rankings
Smith wins PDC World Championship
In a terrific final Michael Smith defeated Michael van Gerwen with 7:4 and won his first World Champion title. By this
he moved up to the first place in the PDC Order of Merit as well.
The players shared the first six sets of the match.
In the incredible third leg of the second set both players had the chance for a nine-darter. While van Gerwen missed the
double 12 for his perfect leg, Smith hit it. It was only the second nine-darter so far in a World Championship Final.
At 3:3 in sets Smith started to pull clear - he won three sets in a row and led 6:3. Then he slightly dropped off
and van Gerwen won his fourth leg. In the last set the Dutchman first was on the inside track but he missed the
busllseye for his 132 finish to win the set. Smith managed to turn the set around and won match and title with an 11-darter.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
3. January
PDC World Championship - Semi-Finals
On the penultimate day of the PDC World Championship the two semi-finals were played. Both matches had a distinct result.
Michael Smith won 6:2 against Gabriel Clemens, Michael van Gerwen defeated Dimitri van den Bergh with 6:0. While Michael van Gerwen
in the second semi-final was the clearly better player and van den Bergh only won four legs the first semifinal between Smith and Clemens was a quite hard-fought affair
and six of the eight sets were decided in the fifth Leg. Nevertheless Smith came across as the stronger player thoughout the match.
Today in the final Michael Smith and Michael van Gerwen will meet.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
2. January
30 Years PDC World Championship - 30 years Dutch participants? - 3
2004 beside Roland Scholten Jan van der Rassel for the first time qualified for the PDC World Championship. Van der
Rassel took as well part in 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010 in the PDC World Championship before he disappeared from the scene
due to the lack of sponsors. 2005 and 2007 Josephus Schenk joined Roland Scholten for the PDC World Championship but he gave up his career as well -
might be due to the same reason as van der Rassel - for the lack of sponsors.
30 Years PDC World Championship - 30 years Dutch participants? - 3new
Tournament Calendar 2023
The new Tournament Calendar 2023 is now online. Some more dates were added - among the the dates for the
WDF World Championship 2023 which will take place from 2. - 10 December.
Tournament Calendar 2023new
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 15
Tonight in the evening session both semi-finals will be played. First Gabriel Clemens will play against Michael Smith. After that Dimitri van den Bergh
will meet Michael van Gerwen.
Semifinals Specials: In the semi-finals stand four players from four different countries - for the fourth time in the history of the event. But it is only for the second
time that all four are the number 1 of their country. That only happened once before in 2010, in that year with Phil Taylor the English number 1,
with Raymond van Barneveld the Dutch number 1,with Mark Webster the Welsh number 1 and with Simon Whitlock the Australian number 1 stood at the oche.
Winner 2010 was the English number 1 Phil Taylor.
What you should know as well: Not only Gabriel Clemens wrote history by progressing into the semi-finals, it is as well the first time ever a Belgian
player reached the semi-finals of the event - Dimitri van den Bergh. Van den Bergh's so far best placings had been the quarterfinals 2018 where
he lost to the eventual winner Rob Cross and the quarterfinals 2020 where he lost to Nathan Aspinall.
But Clemens is not the first German who reached the semi-finals of a World Championship.
That was Michael Unterbuchner, who stood both 2018 and 2019 in the semi-finals of the BDO World Championship.
Schedule Day 15
1. January
PDC World Championship - Day 14
Today all four quarterfinals took place and there were two upsets - the bigger one was caused by German Gabriel Clemens.
The German number 1 wrote even more history tonight - Clemens defeated the number 1 of the world Gerwyn Price with 5:1 and progressed as
first ever German into the semi-finals of the PDC World Championship. Clemens was the better player almost throughout, he had the higher average,
threw more maxima and was more clinical on the doubles. The second upset was caused by Belgian Dimitri van den Bergh who defeated Jonny Clayton with 5:3.
The match between Michael Smith and Stephen Bunting was hard fought - Bunting scored better but Smith had the better hitting rate on the doubles which decided
the match. No problems at all had Michael van Gerwen in the last quarterfinal as Chris Dobey showed a far less strong performance as against Rob Cross. Van Gerwen
won 5:0.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
Schedule Semifinals
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 14
Today in the afternoon- and the evening-session two quarterfinals each will be played.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite: Gerwyn Price v Gabriel Clemens. Impartial: Michael Smith v Stephen Bunting
Today's Day's Specials: Today for once the English players have the majority - with Michael Smith, Chris Dobey and
Stephen Bunting three will stand at the oche. But the two former World Champions still in the tournament come from the Netherlands and Wales...
What you should know as well: Michael van Gerwen switched 2007 to the PDC. His first appearance in the PDC World Championship
was in the World Championship 2008 where he lost first round to Phil Taylor. Anyway were van Gerwen's first years in the PDC far from successful. That changed after he
won 2012 the Grand Slam in Dublin. Then followed the years in which he displaced Phil Taylor as the dominant player of the PDC though so far he won the World Championship
only three times and never managed to defend his title.
Schedule Day 14, Results
Statisticsnew
Global Darts wishes everybody a Happy New Year!
While Jonny Clayton disappointed his Welsh fans Gerwyn Price delighted them playing a great
Premier League night, won in the quarterfinals a close match against Chris Dobey before he prevailed in the semis even closer over Michael van Gerwen
who had the far higher average. In the final he met Nathan Aspinall - who couldn't quite keep up the performance of his two
prvious matches - and defeated him 3:6.
His first two points got Michael Smith with his win over Jonny Clayton. Clayton and Peter Wright are the only players still without a point.
Results
Table
Report, Statisticsnew
World Seniors Darts Championship
On the first day of the World Seniors Darts Championship in the afternoon session four close matches were played which were won by
Terry Jenkins, Darryl Fitton, Ritchie Howson und Darren Johnson with 3:2. Terry Jenkins played the highest average of the day with 88.89
The matches of the evening session all four were a one sided affair, only Martin Adams lost one set to Dave Prins. The other three matches were won with 3:0 by Kevin Painter, Dennis Harbour (against Trina Gulliver) and Scott Mitchell.
Today the first round will be played to the end - again in an afternoon and an evening session.
Participants, Results, Schedule
9. February
PDC Premier League
On the second League Day the PDC travels to Cardiff.
In Wales Welshman Jonny Clayton and Gerwyn Price hope to get their first points. Jonny Clayton opens the quarterfinals against World Champion Michael Smith. After that Nathan Aspinall meets Peter Wright, Gerwyn Price will play in the third quarterfinal against the winner of the first night - Chris Dobey. In the last quarterfinal reigning champion Michael van Gerwen will play against Dimitri van den Bergh.
Schedule
Preview Second League Daynew
8. February
World Seniors Darts Championship
Tomorrow in the Circus Tavern in London the second World Seniors Darts Championship will begin.
Beside reigning champion Robert Thornton a lot of illustrious players will stand at the oche - headed by Phil Taylor who finally hopes to win a title on the seniors tour. Former World Champions Trina Gulliver, Lisa Ashton, Martin Adams, Keith Deller, Bob Anderson, Scott Mitchell, Glen Durrant and John Part and the reigning WDF World Champion Neil Duff can be found in the field of participants.
Participants, Results, Schedule
30 Years PDC World Championship - 30 years Dutch participants? - Part 4
In the last article of the series "Dutchmen in the PDC World Championship" beside Raymond van Barneveld and Michael van Gerwen to more not really well-known Dutch players who took part in the tournament are in the lime-light - Erwin Extercatte and Rico Vonck who both by now have disappeared from the sport.
30 Years PDC World Championship - 30 years Dutch participants? - Part 4new
6. February
"Tend your darts"
Well "tended" darts can help to improve your game and so this blog by darts manufacturer Shot deals with the right sharpening of the darts points and the right cleaning of the dart barrels.
Sharpen your game: how to clean and care for your darts
UK Open
Around a month away are this year's UK Open and till the 21. January Riley's Amateur Qualifiers take place
for the event. Nine players have qualified so far. Three of the qualifiers - JDC World Junior Champion Luke Littler, Jim Moston and
Harry Lane - for the first time qualified for the UK Open. The other six - American Danny Lauby, Dan Read, Stuart White, Daniel Lee,
Brett Claydon and James Richardson - all have already some UK Open experience. James Richardson joins his son Joshua who
already was qualified by the Development Tour Order of Merit.
UK Open
3. February
Dobey wins in Belfast
Premier League debutant Chris Dobey won the first League Night - he defeated in the final Michael van Gerwen with 6:5.
Before he prevailed in the quarterfinals against Peter Wright and in the semi-finals over Nathan Aspinall.
Michael van Gerwen defeated in the quarterfinals World Champion Michael Smith with 6:2 and in the semi-finals
Dimitri van den Bergh with 6:4. Without a point stayed on the first night beside Michael Smith and Peter Wright Gerwyn Price and
Jonny Clayton.
Results
Statisticsnew
2. February
PDC Premier League
Today the PDC travels for the first league night to Belfast.
In the limelight tonight will stand the the second quarterfinal between World Champion Michael Smith and reigning champion
Michael van Gerwen. The league night will be opened by the match between Dimitri van den Bergh and Jonny Clayton.
In the third quarterfinal Peter Wright will meet Masters Champion Chris Dobey, in the last quarterfinal Gerwyn Price
will play against Nathan Aspinall.
First League Night Schedule
Preview First League Nightnew
1. February
PDC Awards
This year again the PDC handed out several awards to the players.
Three awards collected World Champion Michael Smith - he is PDC Player of the Year, Fans Player of the Year and PDPA
Player of the Year. Best Pro Tour Player of the Year is Luke Humphries, best newcomer und Young Player of the Year
is Josh Rock. Ross Smith was awarded for the best TV Performance of the Year - for the final of the European
Darts Championship against Michael Smith.
Results...
Winners of Romanian Open were Romanian Laszlo Kadar and Beau Greaves. Gary Stone won the Romanian Classic, the women's title got as well Beau Greaves.
The Las Vegas Open were won by Chris Lim, son of Paul Lim, and Paula Murphy. Winners of the Youth Pacific Masters
were Australians Alan Hellmuth and Janiya Finlay.
Winners of the singles events of the renowned Dutch Open were Aileen de Graaf and Berry van Peer. The youth titles went to Sydnee Vries
, Ruben Baalmans (U14) and Sophie McKinlay from Scotland. In the pairs events the English women pair Beau Greaves/Deta Hedman
and the Dutch men pair Christian Kist/Michael Stoeten were successful. The Wheelchair Darter title secured
Belgian Vincent d'Hondt, the Standing Darters title won German Heiko Bohnhorst who won together with Ralf Huesmann the Paradart pairs event as well.
30. January
PDC Premier League
The PDC today announced the participants in this year's Premier League.
Beside the Top Four of the Order of Merit - Michael Smith, Peter Wright, Michael van Gerwen and Gerwyn Price - who already had ensured their participation
Jonny Clayton, Nathan Aspinall, Dimitri van den Bergh and Chris Dobey were nominated.
The fixtures of all matchdays were by now published as well.
Premier League 2023new
Dobey wins Masters
With Chris Dobey again an unseeded player wins the Masters - he defeated in a slightly weary final
Rob Cross with 11:7. While Cross couldn't keep up his previous performances
Dobey was consistent till the last dart.
Dobey defeated Dirk van Duijvenbode in the quarterfinals and World Champion Michael Smith in the semi-finals on Finals Day, Cross
prevailed on his way into the final over Michael van Gerwen in the quarterfinals and over
Peter Wright in the semis.
Results, Schedule Day 3
Report, Statistics Day 3new
29. January
PDC The Masters
In the second round of the event with the exception of Luke Humphries and Gerwyn Price all seeded players won their matches -
Humphries lost to Chris Dobey, Price to Dirk van Duijvenbode. In the afternoon-session
Rob Cross and Gary Anderson played the match of the day. Cross won 10:6 with an average of 112.32 while Anderson
played an average of 111.17. The other winners of the day were Michael Smith, Michael van Gerwen, Peter Wright, Jonny Clayton and Danny
Noppert.
Today the tournament in Milton Keynes will be played to the end. In the afternoon the quarterfinals will take place, tonight semi-finals and finals will be played.
Report, Statistics Day 2new
28. January
PDC The Masters
The first day of The Masters brought a big upset - Chris Dobey eliminated reigning champion Joe Cullen from the event.
Beside it brought wins for James Wade and Gary Anderson, Jose de Sousa defeated Gabriel Clemens, Ross Smith prevailed over the luckless
Damon Heta, Dirk van Duijvenbode was in the end to clinical on his doubles for Krzysztof Ratajski, Stephen Bunting prevented a
comeback of Nathan Aspinall and Dave Chisnall defeated with an 161 finish in the deciding leg Ryan Searle.
Today the tournament will continue with the second round. Yesterday's winners will play against the seeds.
Report, Statistics Day 1
Results, Schedule Second Round
26. January
PDC The Masters
Tomorrow in Milton Keynes The Masters - the first big PDC event since the World Championship - will begin.
The Top 24 of PDC Order of Merit will take part. The Top Eight are seeded and will enter the tournament
in the second round which will be played on Saturday. Tomorrow the unseeded players will play the first round
and the winners will progress into round 2.
Last year's winner Joe Cullen is one of the unseeded players and he will begin his campaign tomorrow against
Chris Dobey.
The PDC increased the price money this year.
Results, Schedule Day 1new
Preview
PDC Challenge Tour
After the first weekend of the PDC Challenge Tour Frenchman Thibault Tricole has the lead in the Challenge Tour
Ranking. Tricole won one of the five events of the weekend and beside once stood in the
quarterfinals.
The other four winners of the weekend - Andy Boulton, Cameron Crabtree, Christian Kist and Chris Landman -
follow on the places 2 - 5.
Challenge Tour
20. January
Nordic Darts Masters
On the first day of the Nordic Darts Masters today the first round matches will take place. Tomorrow the tournament
will be played to the end.
Luke Humphries will open the tournament against Finn Marko Kantele.
Participants, Schedule, Results, Statistics
Previewnew
European Tour
The dates Home Nation and Associate Members Qualifiers of the European Tour were added to the Tournament Calendar.
Tournament Calendar 2023
19. January
Dartoids World
Dartoid travels to Greece and hopes to meet John Michael. Unluckily that doesn't happen.
But Dartoid had the chance to eavesdrop on a discussion between a Greece and an Italian...
Girls, Geezers and Greece
18. January
Nordic Darts Masters
On Friday in Copenhagen the Nordic Darts Masters will begin - the second World Series of Darts Event of the year.
Again eight PDC representatives will stand of stage, this time instead Raymond van Barneveld Michael van Gerwen is in the mix.
They will play in the first around against the leading players of the Nordic and Baltic region.
Dimitri van den Bergh- the reigning champion - will play against Madars Razma. World Champion Michael Smith, who won in Bahrain
the first World Series Event of the year, was drawn against Darius Labanauskas.
Participants, Schedule
Jann Hoffmann passed away
Danish darts player Jann Hoffmann - one of the founders of the Nordic and Baltic Tour - passed away on Monday
following a lengthy illness.
Hoffmann played many years on the BDO/WDF Circuit and qualified several times for the BDO World Championship. He switched to the PDC and
played for seven years on the PDC Circuit. Twice he was nominated in those years for the PDC World Cup. For some time he as well took part
in events of the Nordic und Baltic Tour.
Hoffmann was aged 65. We send condolences to his family and friends.
In ocaasion of the start of the SDC Circuit Global Darts interviewd Hoffmann 2018. You can find the interview here:
Interview with Jann Hoffmann
PDC Nordic and Baltic Tour
The dates of the Nordic und Baltic Tour 2023 were added to the Tournament Calendar.
Due to new rules of those PDC players who own a PDC Tour Card longer then two consecutive years are no longer eligible to participate
on a Global Affiliate Tour of its relevant qualifiers for PDC Events. In this case it concerns
Madars Razma and Darius Labanauskas.
Tournament Calendar 2023
Nordic und Baltic Tour
16. January
PDC Qualifying School
On the last day of the final Phase Robbie Knops and Adam Smith-Neale got the day win and by this the direct Tour Cards of the day.
In Kalkar additional ten Tour Cards were assigned by the ranking. They went to Maik Kuivenhoven, Richard Veenstra, Niels Zonneveld, Pascal Rupprecht,
Ronny Huybrechts, Karel Sedlacek, Jacques Labre, Daniel Klose, Gian van Veen and Owen Roloefs. In Milton Keynes nine additional Tour Cards were assigned
by the ranking to Dylan Slevin, Lee Evans, Stephen Burton, Nick Kenny, Keegan Brown, Adam Warner,
Graham Hall, Callum Goffin and Christian Perez. For the first time ever a Frenchman and a Filipino
will join the Pro Circuit.
EU and UK Qualifying School, Report Day 4new
Qualifying School 2023, Results
Ranking UK Qualifying Schoolnew
Ranking European Qualifying Schoolnew
15. January
PDC Qualifying School
On the Third day of the final Phase Josh Payne and Jeffrey de Zwaan got the win and by this the direct Tour Card.
Jeffrey de Zwaan defeated in the final in Kalkar fellow countryman Maik Kuivenhoven who is already assured a Tour Card by the ranking.
Josh Payne won in Milton Keynes against Chris Quantock.
The Qualifying School will continue today in both venues with the fourth and last event.
EU and UK Qualifying School, Report Day 3, Ranking after Day 3new
Qualifying School 2023, Results
14. January
PDC Qualifying School
On the second day of the final Phase Corey Cadby and Graham Usher got the win and by this the direct Tour Card.
Corey Cadby defeated in the final in Kalkar Karel Sedlacek, Graham Usher won in Milton Keynes against Adam Warner.
The Qualifying School will continue today in both venues with the third event.
EU and UK Qualifying School, Report Day 2, Ranking after Day 2new
Qualifying School 2023, Results
Smith wins in Bahrain
Michael Smith won the first ever Bahrain Darts Masters with a 8:6 win against Gerwyn Price. Smith already
had been 7:3 in the lead but then couldn't find his doubles and Price closed in on 6:7. But Smith
recovered and won his third TV title in three months.
In the semi-finals stood Raymond van Barneveld and Rob Cross.
Participants, Schedule, Results, Statistics
Report Day 2new
13.January
PDC Qualifying School
On the first day of the final Phase Arron Monk and Jeffrey Sparidaans got the win and by this the direct Tour Card.
Arron Monk defeated in the final in Milton Keynes Dom Taylor, Jeffrey Sparidaans won in Kalkar against Ronny Huybrechts.
The Qualifying School will continue today in both venues with the second event.
EU and UK Qualifying School, Report Day 1, Ranking after Day 1new
Bahrain Darts Masters - Day 1
In the first round of the tournament all eight PDC representatives prevailed though for some of them it was
not an easy win.
The best performance of the first round showed Jonny Clayton who impressed in his 6:0 defeat of Basem Mahmood
with an 103.66 average.
Today the tournament in Bahrain will be played to the end Bahrain.
Participants, Schedule, Results, Statistics
Report Day 1new
12. January
PDC Qualifying School
The first Phase of Qualifying School is over and the participants of the final Phase - which will start today - are known.
In the UK Qualifying School Fallon Sherrock is the only female player who qualified for the final Phase - she was yesterday one of the day winners.
As well among the day winners who progressed were former World Youth Champion Aaron Monk and Christian Perez from the Philippines.
In the EU Qualifiyng School two German players - Nico Kurz and Daniel Zygla - were among the day winners which included among others
another former PDC Youth World Champion - Australian Corey Cadby - and WDF World Championship semi-finalist Richard Veenstra.
EU Qualifying School, Participants final Phase, Resultsnew
UK Qualifying School, Participants final Phase, Resultsnew
11.January
Bahrain Darts Masters
Tomorrow the first ever Bahrain Darts Masters will begin with the first round. On Friday Quarterfinals, Semi-Finals
and the tournament Final will follow.
World Champion Michael Smith, Luke Humphries, Dimitri van den Bergh, Peter Wright, Gerwyn Price, Rob Cross, Raymond
van Barneveld and Jonny Clayton will stand as PDC representatives at the oche who will play against eight
qualifiers from Bahrain and Asia. Among them will be Paul Lim who was drawn against Gerwyn Price.
Participants, Schedule, Results and Statistics First Roundnew
9. January
PDC Qualifying Schools
Today in Kalkar and in Milton Keynes the European and the UK Qualifiying School began. Till including Wednesday
the first phase of the tournament will be played. Each day eight players will qualify directly for the final Phase which will take
place from 12. - 15 January. For the participants in the finale Phase 27 Tour Card are on offer - eight for the day winners
and the other 19 by the Q School Orders of Merit.
Qualifying School 2023, Results
4. January
World Series of Darts
The World Series of Darts will begin on 12. and 13. January with the Bahrain Darts Masters which are played for the first time this year.
The PDC now announced the participants of the Bahrain Darts Masters and of the second World Series event - the Nordic Darts Masters which will
take place from 20. - 21. January in Copenhagen.
World Series of Darts
PDC Ranking
The PDC Order of Merit was updated after the World Championship.
PDC Rankings
Smith wins PDC World Championship
In a terrific final Michael Smith defeated Michael van Gerwen with 7:4 and won his first World Champion title. By this
he moved up to the first place in the PDC Order of Merit as well.
The players shared the first six sets of the match.
In the incredible third leg of the second set both players had the chance for a nine-darter. While van Gerwen missed the
double 12 for his perfect leg, Smith hit it. It was only the second nine-darter so far in a World Championship Final.
At 3:3 in sets Smith started to pull clear - he won three sets in a row and led 6:3. Then he slightly dropped off
and van Gerwen won his fourth leg. In the last set the Dutchman first was on the inside track but he missed the
busllseye for his 132 finish to win the set. Smith managed to turn the set around and won match and title with an 11-darter.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
3. January
PDC World Championship - Semi-Finals
On the penultimate day of the PDC World Championship the two semi-finals were played. Both matches had a distinct result.
Michael Smith won 6:2 against Gabriel Clemens, Michael van Gerwen defeated Dimitri van den Bergh with 6:0. While Michael van Gerwen
in the second semi-final was the clearly better player and van den Bergh only won four legs the first semifinal between Smith and Clemens was a quite hard-fought affair
and six of the eight sets were decided in the fifth Leg. Nevertheless Smith came across as the stronger player thoughout the match.
Today in the final Michael Smith and Michael van Gerwen will meet.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
2. January
30 Years PDC World Championship - 30 years Dutch participants? - 3
2004 beside Roland Scholten Jan van der Rassel for the first time qualified for the PDC World Championship. Van der
Rassel took as well part in 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010 in the PDC World Championship before he disappeared from the scene
due to the lack of sponsors. 2005 and 2007 Josephus Schenk joined Roland Scholten for the PDC World Championship but he gave up his career as well -
might be due to the same reason as van der Rassel - for the lack of sponsors.
30 Years PDC World Championship - 30 years Dutch participants? - 3new
Tournament Calendar 2023
The new Tournament Calendar 2023 is now online. Some more dates were added - among the the dates for the
WDF World Championship 2023 which will take place from 2. - 10 December.
Tournament Calendar 2023new
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 15
Tonight in the evening session both semi-finals will be played. First Gabriel Clemens will play against Michael Smith. After that Dimitri van den Bergh
will meet Michael van Gerwen.
Semifinals Specials: In the semi-finals stand four players from four different countries - for the fourth time in the history of the event. But it is only for the second
time that all four are the number 1 of their country. That only happened once before in 2010, in that year with Phil Taylor the English number 1,
with Raymond van Barneveld the Dutch number 1,with Mark Webster the Welsh number 1 and with Simon Whitlock the Australian number 1 stood at the oche.
Winner 2010 was the English number 1 Phil Taylor.
What you should know as well: Not only Gabriel Clemens wrote history by progressing into the semi-finals, it is as well the first time ever a Belgian
player reached the semi-finals of the event - Dimitri van den Bergh. Van den Bergh's so far best placings had been the quarterfinals 2018 where
he lost to the eventual winner Rob Cross and the quarterfinals 2020 where he lost to Nathan Aspinall.
But Clemens is not the first German who reached the semi-finals of a World Championship.
That was Michael Unterbuchner, who stood both 2018 and 2019 in the semi-finals of the BDO World Championship.
Schedule Day 15
1. January
PDC World Championship - Day 14
Today all four quarterfinals took place and there were two upsets - the bigger one was caused by German Gabriel Clemens.
The German number 1 wrote even more history tonight - Clemens defeated the number 1 of the world Gerwyn Price with 5:1 and progressed as
first ever German into the semi-finals of the PDC World Championship. Clemens was the better player almost throughout, he had the higher average,
threw more maxima and was more clinical on the doubles. The second upset was caused by Belgian Dimitri van den Bergh who defeated Jonny Clayton with 5:3.
The match between Michael Smith and Stephen Bunting was hard fought - Bunting scored better but Smith had the better hitting rate on the doubles which decided
the match. No problems at all had Michael van Gerwen in the last quarterfinal as Chris Dobey showed a far less strong performance as against Rob Cross. Van Gerwen
won 5:0.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
Schedule Semifinals
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 14
Today in the afternoon- and the evening-session two quarterfinals each will be played.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite: Gerwyn Price v Gabriel Clemens. Impartial: Michael Smith v Stephen Bunting
Today's Day's Specials: Today for once the English players have the majority - with Michael Smith, Chris Dobey and
Stephen Bunting three will stand at the oche. But the two former World Champions still in the tournament come from the Netherlands and Wales...
What you should know as well: Michael van Gerwen switched 2007 to the PDC. His first appearance in the PDC World Championship
was in the World Championship 2008 where he lost first round to Phil Taylor. Anyway were van Gerwen's first years in the PDC far from successful. That changed after he
won 2012 the Grand Slam in Dublin. Then followed the years in which he displaced Phil Taylor as the dominant player of the PDC though so far he won the World Championship
only three times and never managed to defend his title.
Schedule Day 14, Results
Statisticsnew
Global Darts wishes everybody a Happy New Year!
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
