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2017 PDC World Youth Championship
The 2017 PDC Unicorn World Youth Championship was the seventh edition of the PDC World Youth Championship, a tournament organised by the Professional Darts Corporation for darts players aged between 16 and 23. The knock-out stages from the last 64 to the semi-finals were played in Wigan on 6 November 2017. The final took place on 26 November 2017, before the final of the 2017 Players Championship Finals, which was shown live on ITV4. Australia's Corey Cadby was the defending champion after defeating Dutch player Berry van Peer 6–2 in the 2016 final, but he lost 6–3 to English player Josh Payne in the semi-finals. Belgium's Dimitri Van den Bergh became the new World Youth champion, by defeating Josh Payne 6–3 in the final. Prize money Qualification The tournament will feature 64 players. The top 46 players in the PDC Development Tour Order of Merit automatically qualify for the tournament. They will be joined by 15 international qualifiers. Participation will also be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butlin's Minehead
Butlins Resort Minehead is a holiday camp operated by Butlins, located in Minehead in Somerset, England. It opened in 1962 and remains in use today. It was known as Butlin's Minehead until 1987, and as Somerwest World from then until 1999, when it reopened as Butlins Minehead Resort. History In the winter of 1961, Billy Butlin began work on creating a holiday camp in Minehead. The site was selected because of its flatness, good rail links, and proximity to the town and sea. The site was not without its problems, however, including flooding. In order to solve this, a trench was excavated around the site and an earth wall constructed. The trench later became the site's boating pond. The site opened to the public on 26 May 1962, the construction having cost £2 million. Over the next decade several attractions were added: the miniature railway in 1964, the chairlifts in 1965, and the monorail in 1967. Full size locomotives, Duchess of Hamilton and Knowle, were added in 196 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belgium
Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the southwest, and the North Sea to the northwest. It covers an area of and has a population of more than 11.5 million, making it the 22nd most densely populated country in the world and the 6th most densely populated country in Europe, with a density of . Belgium is part of an area known as the Low Countries, historically a somewhat larger region than the Benelux group of states, as it also included parts of northern France. The capital and largest city is Brussels; other major cities are Antwerp, Ghent, Charleroi, Liège, Bruges, Namur, and Leuven. Belgium is a sovereign state and a federal constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system. Its institutional organization is complex and is structured on both regional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rusty-Jake Rodriguez
Rusty-Jake Rodriguez (born 24 December 2000) is a professional Austrian darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation events. In 2017, he was the inaugural winner of the JDC (Junior Darts Corporation) World Championship. Career Rodriguez entered PDC qualifying school in 2017. His best result was getting to the last 64 on day four. This was not good enough to get a PDC tour card. He won a PDC Development Tour event in Germany in 2017, as well as the WDF Europe Cup Youth Pairs Boys with Thomas Langer in the same year. Rusty and his brothers Rowby-John and Roxy-James qualified for the 2017 Austrian Darts Open. This was Rusty's European tour debut. Rusty lost in the second round, while his brothers lost in the first round. Rusty was the first player to win the JDC World Championship in 2017 after he defeated Owen Roelofs 5–4 in legs. He failed to qualify for the 2018 PDC World Championship after he lost 4–5 to Terry Temple in the first round of the World Championship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Schindler
Martin Schindler (born 16 August 1996) is a German professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. Career Schindler won a PDC Tour Card at Qualifying-School (Q-School) in January 2017. He represented Germany along with Max Hopp at the 2017 PDC World Cup of Darts, reaching the quarter-finals, before losing to the Dutch pair of Michael van Gerwen and Raymond van Barneveld. In the same year he debuted on a ranking major, playing 2017 European Championship, where he lost to Rob Cross 0–6. He qualified for 2018 PDC World Darts Championship and faced Australian Simon Whitlock in the first round, losting 1–3 on sets. After that he made his first appearance also on 2018 UK Open, making it to the 4th round. Along with Max Hopp he represented Germany in 2018 PDC World Cup of Darts and once again they made it to the quarter-finals. For the second time in a row he qualified for 2018 European Championship, where he lost to James Wade 3–6 in the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Ward (darts Player)
Harry Ward (born 13 June 1997 in Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire) is a former professional English darts player who played in the Professional Darts Corporation events. Career He reached the final of the 2015 BDO World Youth Championships, losing 3–0 in the final to Colin Roelofs. In January 2019, Ward won a two-year PDC Tour Card by right on the first day of the event, beating Mark McGeeney 5–2 in the final. Ward won his first PDC title at the sixteenth Players Championship of 2019, beating Max Hopp 8–7 in the final at Barnsley Metrodome. Later in the year, he qualified for his first World Championship via PDC Pro Tour, he faced Latvian Madars Razma in the first round and in a very close match Ward won 3-2. In the second round, he lost 0-3 to Simon Whitlock. After the restart of the season due to Covid-19, Ward came through the qualifying rounds to earn a debut appearance in the World Series of Darts Finals. At the event, he lost 2-6 to Darius Labanauskas. In Septem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Lennon
Stephen Brendan Lennon (born 25 November 1993) is an Irish professional darts player who plays in events of the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC). Career Lennon played county darts for Kilkenny and Kildare. Lennon has played professional darts since 2011. He first won a tournament in the Ireland Players Championship, beating Stephen Byrne 6–1 in the Final. In 2016, he made it to the Final of Finnish Masters, beating Dennis Nilsson. Lennon entered the Professional Darts Corporation's Qualifying School in 2017, and picked up a Tour Card on the third day. He made his World Championship debut in 2018 but lost 2–3 to Michael Smith in the first round. Lennon made it to the final of the 2018 Dutch Darts Masters, where he lost out to Michael van Gerwen. He reached the quarter-final of the 2018 Players Championship Finals, again losing to van Gerwen. Following Gary Anderson's withdrawal from the 2019 Premier League, Lennon was selected as one of nine 'contenders' to replac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Meikle
Ryan Meikle ( born 13 August 1996) is an English professional darts player who plays in events of the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC). Career Born in Ipswich, Suffolk, Meikle is a barber by trade, hence his nickname of "The Barber". He won a PDC Pro Tour card by qualifying from the second day of Q School in 2016. He made his PDC European Tour debut in the 2016 International Darts Open in Riesa, Germany, where he whitewashed Austrian Michael Rasztovits 6–0 thanks to an opening 151 checkout. He was scheduled to play world number one Michael van Gerwen in the next round, but an ankle injury forced Van Gerwen to withdraw, giving Meikle a bye to round three, where he lost 6–2 to Yordi Meeuwisse. In 2018, he won his second PDC Development Tour title, defeating Rowby-John Rodriguez 5–3 in the final of Development Tour 11 in Wigan. Meikle made the semi-finals of the 2019 PDC World Youth Championship but lost 6–3 to Adam Gawlas. World Championship results PDC * 2020: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowby-John Rodriguez
Rowby-John Rodriguez (born 27 March 1994) is an Austrian professional darts player currently playing in events of the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC). Career In 2010, as a 16-year-old, Rodriguez won the Austrian National Championship by beating Franz Thaler 5–0 in the final. At the second event of Q School in January 2014 he stood one win away from joining the PDC but lost 5–3 to Gerwyn Price. However, after all four events had been played Rodriguez had done enough to finish ninth on the Q School Order of Merit and earn a two-year tour card. His first PDC major was the UK Open where he was knocked out 5–1 by Tony Randall in the first round. In May, Rodriguez reached the final of the PDC World Youth Championship where he lost 6–4 to Keegan Brown at the O2 Arena in London as part of the Premier League finals night. Reaching the final secured him a place in the 2014 Grand Slam of Darts. Rodriguez was now Austria's number two player behind Mensur Suljović and they tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike De Decker
Mike De Decker (born 15 December 1995) is a professional Belgian darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. Career He won two PDC Development Tour events in 2015, followed by another one in 2016. He also won a PDC Tour Card in 2016. After losing it at the end of 2017, De Decker went two years without a Tour Card, mainly playing on the Development and Challenge Tours and the odd European Tour. However, on 17 January 2020, he went all the way at European Q School to win back his Tour Card, beating Dennis Nilsson 5–3 in the final. He won his first World Championship match in the 2022 World Darts Championship, his opponent was Darius Labanauskas. World Championship results PDC * 2021: First round (lost to Edward Foulkes 0–3) * 2022: Second round (lost to Dave Chisnall Dave Chisnall (born 12 September 1980) is an English professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He began his career in the British Dar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Van Duivenbode
Mike van Duivenbode (born 4 January 1999) is a Dutch professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. Career In 2017 he won two Development Tour events, in which he beat Dimitri Van den Bergh 5-3 and Adam Hunt 5–0 in the respective finals. He won a PDC Tour Card at the second day of the 2019 European Q-School by beating Madars Razma Madars Razma (born 26 September 1988) is a Latvian professional darts player nicknamed Latvian Razmatazz who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He won the Latvia National Championships in 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015, and 2016. Car ... 5–4 in the final, which coincidentally came on his 20th birthday. References External links * 1999 births Living people Dutch darts players Professional Darts Corporation former tour card holders Sportspeople from Dordrecht 21st-century Dutch people {{Netherlands-darts-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Evetts
Ted Evetts (born 3 August 1997) is an English darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He is the 2021 PDC World Youth Champion. Career Evetts plays for his local Super League team and also plays Men's County for Warwickshire as well as being signed on to Warwickshire Youth County. He is also a qualified chef. After competing on the PDC Development Tour in 2014 and 2015, Evetts gained a PDC Pro Tour card on the second day of the 2016 Qualifying School. Evetts was a qualifier for the 2016 Grand Slam of Darts, which was his first televised event. He lost all of three of his group games. Evetts went on to hit the first 9 darter on the PDC Pro Tour of 2017. In 2017 he qualified for the 2018 PDC World Darts Championship, losing in the first round to Gerwyn Price. Evetts reached his first senior quarter-final at The 2019 German Darts Grand Prix. He beat Mark Wilson, Jonny Clayton Jonny Clayton (born 4 October 1974) is a Welsh professional d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenny Neyens
Kenny Neyens (born 13 January 1995) is a Belgian darts player playing in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. Career Neyens has won two titles on the PDC Development Tour, one in Mülheim in 2016 and one in Wigan in 2017. He also participated in the 2017 PDC World Youth Championship, where he reached the quarter-finals, before losing to eventual runner-up Josh Payne 6–0. He then qualified for the 2018 PDC World Darts Championship by winning the Central European qualifier against fellow Belgian Davyd Venken 6–4. He played Jamie Lewis of Wales in the preliminary round, and despite taking the first set, he would eventually lose the next two, to be knocked out of the tournament. World Championship results PDC * 2018: Preliminary round (lost to Jamie Lewis Jamie Lewis (born 8 November 1991) is a Welsh professional darts player who currently plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) and World Darts Federation (WDF) events. His biggest achievement to date was rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
