Dirk van Duijvenbode

Dirk van Duijvenbode
Personal information
Full name Dirk van Duijvenbode
Born 30 June 1992
Netherlands
Darts information
Playing darts since 2006
Laterality Right-handed
Organisation (see split in darts)
BDO 2010–2011
PDC 2011–
Current world ranking 96
PDC premier events - best performances
UK Open Last 64: 2014

Dirk van Duijvenbode (born 30 June 1992) is a Dutch darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation events.

Career

In 2011, Van Duijvenbode reached the final of a German PDC Youth Tour event, losing 4–2 against Paul Barham.[1] In 2013 he won through to the final of two Challenge Tour events but was beaten 4–1 by Rowby-John Rodriguez and 4–3 by Jan Dekker.[2][3]

Van Duijenvode began playing in main PDC events in 2014 and qualified for the German Darts Championship, where he beat Brian Woods 6–3 before losing 6–5 to Wes Newton having been 5–3 ahead.[4] He reached the quarter-finals of a PDC event for the first time at the fourth UK Open Qualifier by defeating Robert Thornton 6–4, but then lost by a reverse of this scoreline to Brendan Dolan.[5] At the UK Open itself he beat John Bowles 5–1 and, despite at one time holding a 7–4 lead over Joe Murnan in third round, was then edged out 9–8.[6] Van Duijvenbode progressed to the semi-finals of the World Youth Championship, but lost 6–2 against Keegan Brown.[7] He was defeated 5–1 by Colin Fowler in the final of the penultimate Challenge Tour event of the year.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "2011 PDC Youth Tour Germany Results". Darts Database. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  2. ↑ "2013 PDC Challenge Tour England Results". Darts Database. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  3. ↑ "2013 PDC Challenge Tour England Results". Darts Database. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  4. ↑ "German Darts Championship Round Two". PDC. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  5. ↑ "Dolan Takes Qualifier Four In Wigan". PDC. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  6. ↑ "Coral UK Open - Friday Evening". PDC. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  7. ↑ "2014 PDC Under 21 World Championship Results". Darts Database. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  8. ↑ "Fowler & Clark Enjoy Challenge Tour Wins". PDC. Retrieved 30 November 2014.

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