Sebastian Białecki (born 6 December 2003) is a

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professional

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player who plays in

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(WDF) and

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(PDC) events. First Polish medalist in the

WDF Europe Cup The WDF Europe Cup is a darts tournament held biennially since 1978. The tournament consists of a team championship, a pairs championship and a singles championship. All events have a men's competition, and a women's competition (since 1982). Tou ...

. He is also a

Denmark Open The Denmark Open, or formerly known as Danish Open, is an annual badminton tournament held in Denmark and organized by Badminton Denmark. The Denmark Open was part of the BWF Super Series Premier from 2011 to 2017. BWF categorised it as one of ...

champion, soft-tip Polish Champion and two-time Polish Junior Darts Champion. His other big achievements to date were three tournament victories on the PDC's Challenge and Development Tours, and reaching the quarter-finals in the

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Career

Białecki started playing darts in 2015, at the age of 12. The first big success of Białecki was winning the Polish Junior Championship twice in 2017 and 2018. In 2019, he took part in international tournaments for the first time. At the beginning of 2020, he took part in the Q-School qualifying tournament for the

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card, as well as taking part in PDC Development Tour tournaments in Hildesheim, Germany, where he reached the Last 32 three times, and reached the semi-finals once, losing the match for the final with

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 wo ...

. In September 2020, he took part in

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, advancing from group stage to the second round, where he again lost to Meikle, this time by 0–6. In 2021, he took part in Q-School again, but was unsuccessful. Good results in the

tournaments organized in 2020 allowed Białecki to start in the

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. He was the first player in history to be born after the first edition of this tournament. In the first round of this edition, he faced Jim McEwan, achieved a

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, and won the match 6–2. In the following matches of the tournament, he defeated

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(who also hit a nine-dart finish against him) and

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. He was eliminated in the fourth round, losing to

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6–10. In the next part of the season, he played in the

tournaments. In September 2021, he won his first international tournament PDC Challenge Tour in

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, beating

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5–4 in the final. Two months later, in November 2021, he won the first PDC Development Tour tournament beating

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5–4 in the final. In November, he also took part in the

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, unfortunately ending his participation in the group stage after losing all his matches. In 2022, he had his third attempt at Q-School, but again not successfully. Good results throughout the previous season, paid off with an invitation to the

. In this tournament, he achieved his best performance, beating successively in his duels Matt Campbell,

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, Ian White and

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. He was eliminated from this tournament in the quarter-finals, losing to William O'Connor 9–10, despite having a match dart for a 150 checkout on double 15. After the tournament, he moved up to the 81st place in the

ranking. In April 2022, he took part in

, which his first seniors WDF tournament and won it beating along the way some high-rank players like

Ben Hazel Ben Hazel (born 22 May 1990) is a professional English darts player, who is currently playing in World Darts Federation events. Career In May 2018, Hazel won the Vilnius Open, he beat Łukasz Wacławski in the final. In 2019, he reached Quarter ...

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and in the final

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6–1. The triumph in this tournament guaranteed him a start in the 2023 WDF World Darts Championship. Next day, he took part in

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, but lost in first match. In the same month, he took part in East European qualifying for the

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tournaments and successfully qualified for three tournaments played in the next part of the season. In early May, he played moderately successful at the PDC Development Tour tournaments in

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. Only in one of the tournaments he advanced to the Last 8. In his debut on European Tour stage later that month at

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, he lost 4–6 to

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in first round. Similarly at the end of the month, he was eliminated in first round of the

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, where he lost 1–6 to

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. On 4 June 2022, he won his second PDC Development Tour in

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, beating

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5–3 in the final. In the middle of the month, he take part in the

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representing Poland with

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. In first match, Polish players had a problem to beat

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and

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from the

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. The last ninth leg ended favorably for the Poles. Białecki scored 180 points, which allowed to set 40 points to the end.

had missed tops for a 160 finish and after that

end a leg and match with D20, threw a 13-darter leg for a 5–4 win and spot in the second round of this tournament. In the second round he faced

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and lost that match 2–4 in legs. The loss of

with

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in first single match meant that the Poles left the tournament after second round. At the beginning of July, he played at

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. During the evening session, he won his first match on

against Mervyn King, beating him 6–4. During the second day of this tournament, he minimally lost 5–6 to

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who finishing 110 in the last leg after Białecki missed a match dart on double 20. The following week he took part in the Polish Championship, where he lost 3–5 to Tytus Kanik in the final match. At the end of the month, he took part in the soft-tip Polish Darts Championship. In the men's singles he beat Łukasz Wacławski, winning the first adult title of the Polish Darts Champion and qualified for the second soft-tip

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in his career. At the end of September 2022, he was selected by the national federation to participate in the

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. On the second day of the tournament, he advanced to the finals of the pairs competition where he played together with

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. On the way to first medal of this event for

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, they defeated, among others rivals from

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( Thomas Junghans and Stefan Bellmont) and

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( Sam Cankett and Nick Kenny). Ultimately, on October 1, they were defeated by the

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pairs

Joshua Richardson Joshua () or Yehoshua ( ''Yəhōšuaʿ'', Tiberian: ''Yŏhōšuaʿ,'' lit. 'Yahweh is salvation') ''Yēšūaʿ''; syr, ܝܫܘܥ ܒܪ ܢܘܢ ''Yəšūʿ bar Nōn''; el, Ἰησοῦς, ar , يُوشَعُ ٱبْنُ نُونٍ '' Yūšaʿ ...

and Scott Williams by 2–6 in legs. On the third day of the tournament, he advanced to the quarter-finals of the singles competition, defeating Liam Meek and

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on the road to the final phase. In the quarter-finals match, he lost to

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by 2–5 in legs. In the team competition, he did not make it to the final phase. In November, he participated in the qualifying for the

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for players from Eastern Europe. On his way to the final, he defeated Michele Turetta, Alexander Mašek and

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. In the qualifying final, he faced Christian Gödl and won by 7–4 in legs.

World Championship results

WDF

* 2023: Second round (lost to

0–3)

PDC

* 2023: First round (lost to Jim Williams 2–3)

Performance timeline

PDC European Tour

Nine-dart finishes

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Białecki, Sebastian 2003 births Living people Polish darts players People from Łódź Sportspeople from Łódź Voivodeship