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Just like during the Players Championship 9 darts tournament (146,000 euros), which took place on Monday in Hildesheim, Germany, no Belgians could make any progress at the Players Championship 10 on Tuesday.
Source: BELGA
Today at 8:35 PM
For example, Dimitri Van den Bergh (PDC 9) lost 6-4 to the Englishman Andrew Gilding (PDC 18) in the first round. Kim Huybrechts (PDC 33) also had to leave the battle scene after a 6-3 defeat against the German Ricardo Pietreczko (PDC 32) in the first round. Robbie Knops (PDC 89) suffered a narrow 6-5 defeat against Englishman Stephen Burton (PDC 73).
For a place in the last 64, Mike De Decker (PDC 40) put aside the Englishman Lee Cocks 6-3, but a little later the Mechelaar had to lose 6-5 to the Dutchman Jeffrey de Graaf (PDC 140), who flies under the Swedish flag. Andy Baetens also won his first match. He defeated the Dutch Noa-Lynn van Leuven 6-3. In the next round, however, he collided with the Pole Krzysztof Ratajsky (PDC 26), who was too strong 6-3 with an average of 102.63.
Mario Vandenbogaerde (PDC 107) also had to drop out in the second round. After a 6-5 win in his opening match against the Scot Andy Boulton (PDC), the West Flemish took a 5-3 lead against the Englishman Stephen Bunting (PDC 17) and a surprise seemed to be in the making. However, Bunting, a former BDO world champion, won three legs in a row for a 6-5 victory. Ronny Huybrechts (PDC 86) defeated Northern Irishman Mickey Mansell (PDC 52) 6-1 in the first round, but lost in a thriller (6-5) to Dutchman Danny Noppert (PDC) in the second round. 12).
The overall victory went to Northern Irishman Brendan Dolan (PDC 28), who defeated De Decker killer Jeffrey de Graaf 8-4 in the final.
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