Nathan Aspinall

Nathan Aspinall
Personal information
Nickname The Asp
Born (1991-07-15) 15 July 1991
Stockport, England
Home town England
Darts information
Darts Bull's
Laterality Right-handed
Walk-on music Just Can't Get Enough by Depeche Mode
Organisation (see split in darts)
PDC 2012–
Current world ranking 75
BDO majors - best performances
World Masters Last 272: 2013
PDC premier events - best performances
Grand Slam Group stage: 2016
UK Open Last 32: 2015
Other tournament wins
Tournament Years
PDC Development Tour England 2015

Nathan Aspinall (born 15 July 1991) is an English darts player currently playing in Professional Darts Corporation events. From Stockport, England, Aspinall is known as "The Asp".

Career

Aspinall began playing in PDC Development and Challenge Tour events in 2012. His first semi-final in those came in 2013, where he lost 4–2 to Max Hopp.[1] He won a two-year PDC Tour Card in 2015 through the Q School Order of Merit and qualified for the UK Open, where he beat Chris Dobey 5–1 and James Richardson 9–4, before losing by a reversal of this scoreline to James Wade in the fourth round.[2][3] Aspinall's first European Tour appearance was at the Dutch Darts Masters and he squeezed past Jamie Robinson and Vincent van der Voort both 6–5.[4] In the third round Justin Pipe eliminated him 6–4.[5] Aspinall won the seventh Development Tour event of 2015 with a 4–2 victory over Benito van de Pas.[6] He also lost in the final of two other events during the year.[7] Aspinall made his first televised appearance in the final of the 2015 PDC World Youth Championship, where he played the German Max Hopp. After 10 legs of holding throw, the final deciding leg was thrown by Aspinall, and despite having match darts, it was Hopp who won 6–5.[8]

Aspinall was beaten 6–5 by Stuart Kellett in the second round of the 2016 UK Open.[9] At the sixth Players Championship he reached his first quarter-final on the main tour and narrowly lost 6–5 against Vincent van der Voort.[10] Aspinall qualified for his first Grand Slam of Darts, but could not get a win out of his group fixtures with Raymond van Barneveld, Mensur Suljović and Danny Noppert to finish bottom of his group.[11]

References

  1. "2013 PDC Challenge Tour England Results". Darts Database. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
  2. "PDC Qualifying School Day Four". PDC. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
  3. "2015 UK Open Results". Darts Database. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
  4. "Dutch Darts Masters Day Two". PDC. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
  5. "2015 PDC Dutch Darts Masters Results". Darts Database. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
  6. "PDC Unicorn Development Tour 7-8". PDC. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
  7. "Nathan Aspinall 2015". Darts Database. Archived from the original on 28 December 2016. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
  8. "World Youth Glory For Hopp". PDC. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
  9. "2016 Coral UK Open Day One". PDC. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
  10. "Payne Edges Out Wade For Maiden Title". PDC. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
  11. "2016 Grand Slam Of Darts Results". Darts Database. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
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