Michael Unterbuchner (born 23 May 1988) is a German
darts player who plays in
Professional Darts Corporation
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(PDC) events. He reached the semi-finals of the
BDO World Championship on two of his three appearances.
Career
In 2017, Unterbuchner reached the last 48 of the
World Masters. He qualified for the
2018 BDO World Darts Championship
The 2018 Lakeside World Professional Darts Championship was the 41st World Championship organised by the British Darts Organisation, and the 33rd staging at the Lakeside Country Club at Frimley Green.
Glen Durrant who was the defending men's cha ...
as one of the Playoff Qualifiers and played
David Cameron
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in the preliminary round, winning 3–2. Unterbuchner became the first German player to reach a semi-final at a World Championship, as well as the first to win a last 16 match at a World Championship, when he caused an upset by beating No. 3 seed
Jamie Hughes 3–2 in the first round, No. 14 seed
Martin Phillips 4–2 in the second round, and No. 11 seed
Richard Veenstra 5–4 in the quarter final. Unterbuchner played No. 2 seed and BDO No. 1
Mark McGeeney in the semi-finals where he lost 4–6.
In 2020, Unterbuchner attended Q School but was unable to get a TourCard, He did however qualify for 2
PDC European Tour events, losing 6-4 to
Darius Labanaukas
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* Darius I (the Great, 550 to 487 BC)
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& again 6-4 this time to
Scott Baker.
Unterbuchner also took part in the German Super League where he qualified for the Semi Final before losing 9-3 to
Dragutin Horvat
Dragutin Horvat (born 8 January 1976) is a German professional darts player of Croatian origin. He currently plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events.
Career
Horvat reached the quarter-finals of the 2016 International Darts Open, de ...
, with the event being won by
Nico Kurz.
Unterbuchner won a PDC Tour Card for the first time at European Q School in February 2021.
World Championship results
BDO
* 2018: Semi-finals (lost to
Mark McGeeney 4–6) (sets)
* 2019: Semi-finals (lost to
Scott Waites 1–6)
* 2020: Second round (lost to
Scott Mitchell 0–4)
Career finals
BDO major finals: 0 (1 runner-up)
Performance timeline
References
External links
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Living people
German darts players
British Darts Organisation players
1988 births
Professional Darts Corporation current tour card holders
Sportspeople from Munich
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