Aleksandr Lvovich Oreshkin (russian: Александр Львович Орешкин; born 15 July 1961) is a Russian former professional
darts
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player who played in
Professional Darts Corporation
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(PDC) events.
Career
Oreshkin qualified for the
2016 PDC World Darts Championship
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after defeating Anton Kolesov in the final of the Russian Qualifier. He played against
Singapore
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's
Paul Lim
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in the preliminary round, winning in a sudden-death leg to qualify for a first round match against 14th seed Mervyn King. Oreshkin won the first two sets before King took nine of the next 12 legs to win 3–2. Oreshkin partnered
Boris Koltsov
Boris Koltsov (russian: Борис Сергеевич Кольцов; born 10 September 1988) is a Russian darts player who plays in events of the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC).
Career BDO
In September 2014, Koltsov reached the semi-fin ...
at the
World Cup of Darts
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Simon Whitlock
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meaning a doubles match was required to settle the tie. Russia easily won 4–0 to make it through to the quarter-finals for the first time, where they could only pick up one leg in their singles defeats to the Welsh pair of Gerwyn Price and Mark Webster. After losing 2-0 to
Kevin Münch
Kevin Münch (born 27 July 1988) is a German darts player.
Career
Münch reached the last 40 of the 2011 Winmau World Masters before losing to Colin Fowler.
Münch qualified for the 2012 PDC World Darts Championship after winning the German Q ...
of Germany in the preliminary round of the 2018 World Championship he qualified for the World Cup again, but lost with Koltsov to Spain in the first round. He failed to qualify for the 2019 World Championship.
Oreshkin quit the PDC in January 2019.
World Championship results
PDC
* 2016: First round (lost to Mervyn King 2–3) (sets)
* 2018: Preliminary round (lost to
Kevin Münch
Kevin Münch (born 27 July 1988) is a German darts player.
Career
Münch reached the last 40 of the 2011 Winmau World Masters before losing to Colin Fowler.
Münch qualified for the 2012 PDC World Darts Championship after winning the German Q ...