Antonio Alcinas Estelrich (born 7 April 1979) is a Spanish

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player playing in

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(PDC) events.

Career

Alcinas started competing in PDC Europe events in 2010. After reaching the quarter-finals of a Players Championship in

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in June 2010, he qualified for the European Championship via the PDC European Order of Merit. He was defeated 6–3 in the first round by Mark Walsh, despite hitting a 160 checkout to go 3–2 ahead. Alcinas is an accomplished soft-tip darts player and won the 2010 Soft Tip NDA World Championship. He teamed up with Carlos Rodríguez to represent Spain at the

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. They defeated Japan in the first round, before knocking out the top seeds England (represented by the world's top two players, Phil Taylor and

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) 6–5 in the second round. In the group stage, they lost to

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but defeated the United States and

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to qualify for the semi-finals, where they were whitewashed 0–4 by the

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. Alcinas qualified for his first

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. He lost 0–3 to

in the first round. Alcinas reached his first Players Championship final in January 2011, losing 4–6 to

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in Halle, Germany. He qualified for the 2011 UK Open, defeating

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in the first round before losing 0–4 to

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in the second round. He also qualified for the 2011 European Championship, where he lost 2–6 to

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in the first round. In the 2012 PDC World Championship Alcinas was knocked out 2–3 in the first round by

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in a high-quality match. He averaged 107.82 to win the first set and had two darts in the first leg of the deciding set to break throw, but missed and ultimately lost with an average of 98.76, which was the third highest average out of all the players in the first round. He once again partnered Rodriguez in the

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, but they could not repeat their success of 2010 as they were beaten 2–5 by South Africa in the first round. The rest of 2012 proved to be disappointing for Alcinas as he took part in 22 PDC ProTour events, with his best result being a last 32 loss to

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in the sixth UK Open Qualifier. In an attempt to qualify for the 2013 World Championship he was beaten in the semi-finals of the West European Qualifying by Stefan Couwenberg. After the World Championship Alcinas was ranked world number 60, inside the top 64 who retained their tour cards for 2013. Alcinas played with Carlos Rodríguez for the third time in the

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and Mark Webster in the quarter-finals. Alcinas missed four match darts in his singles tie against Webster to lose 4–3, but Rodríguez beat Burnett by the same scoreline to mean a doubles match was needed to settle the tie. Spain took an early 2–1 lead but went on to be defeated 4–2. His best result in an individual event in the rest of 2013 was a last 16 loss to Robert Thornton in the final UK Open Qualifier. At the

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, Alcinas lost 5–3 to Darren Johnson in the preliminary round. Alcinas did not play the full schedule of PDC events and earned just £1,350 over the course of the year to plummet to 142nd in the world. He entered Q School in a bid to win his place on the tour back and succeeded on the first day by defeating Brian Woods 5–3 in his final match. In March 2014, Alcinas beat Glenn Spearing and

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to reach the third round of the

for the first time in his career where he was thrashed 9–2 by

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. He advanced to the last 16 of an event for the first time in over a year at the seventh Players Championship courtesy of victories over

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and

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, before losing 6–3 to

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. In the second round of the

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and

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to exit the tournament. He was knocked out at the same stage a year later this time partnering

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for the first time, as they lost to the Belgium brothers of

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and

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. In individual events during 2015, Alcinas qualified for the International Darts Open and European Darts Grand Prix, but was eliminated in the first round of both. He reached the final of the South European Qualifier for the 2016 World Championship and lost 6–4 to John Michael. In 2016, Alcinas reached the last 32 of both the 6th and 9th Players Championship events, losing 6–3 to Steve Brown in the former and 6–2 to Joe Cullen in the latter. He beat

6–1 in the opening round of the Gibraltar Darts Trophy, before going out 6–5 to Ian White in the second round. Alcinas and new partner

almost pulled off a shock in the first round of the

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as they lost 5–4 to England's Phil Taylor and

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. In January 2017, Alcinas secured a new two-year PDC Tour Card by whitewashing Jimmy Hendriks 5–0 in the last round of the final day of Q School. Alcinas and

were thrashed 4–0 in the deciding doubles match in the second round of the

to the Singapore team of

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and Harith Lim. At the

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he beat fellow Spanish

3-1 to progress to the second round for the first time. He then beat German

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4-1 to go into the Last 16, where he lost 4-0 to

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World Championship performances

PDC

* 2011: First round (lost to

0–3) * 2012: First round (lost to

2–3) * 2018: Third round (lost to

0–4) * 2019: Third round (lost to

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Performance timeline

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Alcinas, Antonio Living people Spanish darts players 1979 births Professional Darts Corporation former tour card holders Sportspeople from Mallorca PDC World Cup of Darts Spanish team