London in December: As every year, the focus is on Alexandra Palace in the north of the city. Every day, with the exception of a short break in play around Christmas, up to 15,000 darts fans will put on a spectacle – costumes and lots of alcohol included. Let’s start with that one PDC Darts … Read more
German professional Gabriel Clemens missed a surprise at the Darts World Cup and lost his third round match against England’s Luke Humphries. At 2:4, the 42-year-old from Saarland fell behind too quickly and had to admit defeat to the number two-seeded former world champion in a high-class match. Humphries is considered a major challenger to … Read more
Ricardo Pietreczko missed the round of 16 of the Darts World Cup. The 31-year-old deservedly lost 4-2 to the surprisingly strong Swede Andreas Harrysson in London on Saturday and was unable to repeat his success from the previous year, when he made it into the top 16 as the best German. This means that only … Read more
London in December: As every year, the focus is on Alexandra Palace in the north of the city. Every day, with the exception of a short break in play around Christmas, up to 15,000 darts fans will put on a spectacle – costumes and lots of alcohol included. Let’s start with that one PDC Darts … Read more
The Darts World Cup has two special attractions just before Christmas. A few hours after Kenya’s David Munyua was eliminated, senior Paul Lim also clearly lost in London. The 71-year-old from Singapore lost 3-0 to the excellent ex-world champion Luke Humphries from England and thus missed a historic place in the third round. At the … Read more
PDCVan Veen NOS Sport•Monday, 9:19 PM•Amended Monday, 11:45 PM Gian van Veen has become the fourth Dutchman to reach the third round of the Darts World Cup, after Niels Zonneveld, Wesley Plaisier and Kevin Doets. The Scot Alan Soutar was convincingly put aside 3-1. The 23-year-old Van Veen had won a match at the World … Read more
The 27-year-old native of Bristol failed a doping test for the first time last November. Because of this, he lost participation in the final tournament of the Players Championship series, as well as the World Championship. Taylor faced a two-year ban, but because it was a non-performance-enhancing substance, he ended up only getting a one-month … Read more
His purple hair shone in the light of the palace – but when Peter Wright stepped onto the big stage, a Christmas song played instead of the usual “Don’t stop the Party”. Wright’s regular musical warning probably wouldn’t have prevented his rather unknown opponent from crashing the Scottish pre-Christmas party this Tuesday evening. The next … Read more
London in December: As every year, the focus is on Alexandra Palace in the north of the city. Every day, with the exception of a short break in play around Christmas, up to 15,000 darts fans will put on a spectacle – costumes and lots of alcohol included. Let’s start with that one PDC Darts … Read more
The English darts professional Dom Taylor has been excluded from the World Championships in London after another positive doping test. This was announced by the umbrella organization of the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC), the Darts Regulation Authority (DRA). There will be no further comment until the proceedings have been completed, the statement said. Taylor made … Read more