Pavel Jirkal (born 10 April 1983) is a Czech
darts player currently playing in
Professional Darts Corporation
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(PDC) events.
Career
Pavel started playing at the age of 14 and is one of the most experienced Czech players.
In 2001 he won Czech Open, a tournament organised by the
British Darts Organisation (BDO), when he defeated another Czech player, Radek Schulz. A year later, he became the World champion U21 in soft-tip darts.
He took part in bigger international tournaments in 2004 and 2005, when he competed in the major tournament World Masters. In 2008 he got a chance to play in four tournaments of
PDPA Players Championship, twice he made it among last 64. During years he won many national single and doubles titles.
A bartender by trade, in 2015, he represented his country with
Michal Kočík in the
2015 PDC World Cup of Darts
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The Netherlands pairing of Michael van Gerwen and Raymond van Barneveld we ...
, but they were defeated 5–2 in the first round by the Austrian duo of
Mensur Suljović and
Rowby-John Rodriguez. He made it into last 144 on
2015 World Masters, the same result he repeated in
2017
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.
Jirkal became Runner-up after losing to
Martin Heneghan
Martin Heneghan (born 19 September 1991) is an Irish professional darts player who currently plays in World Darts Federation (WDF) and Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He is a WDF Europe Cup singles champion.
Career
He made his firs ...
from Ireland of the 2018 WDF Europe Cup. In November he played an exhibition tournament Prague Darts Masters.
He attended European Q-School in 2019, where he reached the final on Day 3, but lost to
Christian Bunse
Christian Bunse (born 6 January 1995) is a German professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events.
Career
He made his PDC European Tour debut in the 2017 European Darts Open, but was defeated 6–4 by Jerry He ...
, and he would lose to the Day 4 winner
Darius Labanauskas the following day, missing out on a Tour Card. He did then qualify as the East European qualifier for the
2019 European Darts Open
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in
Leverkusen, Germany and also to the
2019 German Darts Open
The 2019 German Darts Open was the fourth of thirteen PDC European Tour events on the 2019 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place at Saarlandhalle, Saarbrücken, Germany, from 26 to 28 April 2019. It featured a field of 48 players and £140,000 i ...
in
Saarbrücken
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. In the first tournament he won 6-1 over
William Borland and made it into the second round, where he lost 3-6 to
Darren Webster. In the second tournament he lost 0-6 to
Luke Humphries
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Career
Humphries won five PDC Development Tour titles in 20 ...
. In June he represented Czech republic along with Karel Sedláček in
2019 World Cup of Darts. The Czech republic team lost in the first round with Poland (
Krzysztof Ratajski and
Tytus Kanik) 2-5.
In early 2020 he participated in PDC European Q-school, three time he made it into last 128, once he was eliminated in last 512. In April 2020 he became one of the ten players of newly found
2020 Tipsport Premier League.
It was not really successful journey for him, with just two victories, over
Michal Ondo and
Daniel Barbořák, he finished 9th after Phase 1 and was eliminated from the tournament.
Major tournaments results
WDF
BDO
PDC
References
External links
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Living people
Czech darts players
Professional Darts Corporation associate players
1983 births
PDC World Cup of Darts Czech team