Jeffrey Sparidaans
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| Full name | Jeffrey Sparidaans | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 September 1993 Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home town | Tilburg, Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Darts information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing darts since | 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Laterality | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Walk-on music | "Enter Sandman" by Metallica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Organisation (see split in darts) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| BDO | 2016–2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| PDC | 2023– (Tour Card 2023–2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| WDF | 2016–2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current world ranking | 80  1 (24 November 2024)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| WDF major events – best performances | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Ch'ship | Last 40: 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Masters | Last 80: 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Trophy | Last 32: 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Finder Masters | Last 24: 2016, 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| PDC premier events – best performances | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UK Open | Last 128: 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other tournament wins | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Jeffrey Sparidaans (born 8 September 1993) is a Dutch professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events.
Career
[edit]2015
[edit]In 2015, Sparidaans won the Czech Open.
2016
[edit]In 2016, he won the Swiss Open. He also reached the second round of the 2016 World Masters, losing to Toon Greebe 3–2 in a deciding set.[2][3]
2017
[edit]In 2017, he won the England Classic and Hungarian Classic. Sparidaans also reached the third round of the 2017 World Masters where he lost to William Borland 3–2 in a deciding set.[4][5]
2018
[edit]He qualified for the 2018 BDO World Darts Championship virtue of being 25th in the rankings, making his debut,[6] but was whitewashed 3–0 by Dennis Nilsson in the preliminary round.
2019
[edit]Spaaridaans reached the semi-finals at the 2019 Romanian Classic, but lost to the eventual champion John Michael in the semi-finals.[7]
2023
[edit]Sparidaans won a PDC Tour Card for the first time at the 2023's European Q-School. He won day one of the final stage, defeating Jan de Weerdt, Patrick Maat and Jacob Taylor each 6–3, Maik Kuivenhoven 6–1 averaging 95.92, Owen Roelofs 6–4, and Jacques Labre also 6–4, with a 101.62 average before defeating Ronny Huybrechts 6–3 in the final to secure his Tour card for the 2023 and 2024 seasons.[8][9]
On the 2023 PDC Pro Tour Sparidaans reached the last 16 of a Players Championship event on four occasions. At the ET8 Tour Card Holder Qualifier he defeated the qualifier's 12th seed Chris Dobey 6–3, and Robbie Knops 6–2 to qualify for the Czech Darts Open event on the PDC European Tour.[10] He lost to home favourite Karel Sedláček 6–5 in a deciding leg in the first round.
2024
[edit]On the 2024 PDC Pro Tour Sparidaans competed in the 2024 PDC Players Championship series, reaching the last 16 of an event on three occasions. At the ET4 Tour Card Holder Qualifier he whitewashed Lee Evans 6–0, and defeated Josh Payne and Steve Beaton 6–5 in last–leg deciders to qualify for the 2024 European Darts Grand Prix (ET4),[11] where he beat Callan Rydz 6–1 in the first round before losing 6–2 to 8th seed Josh Rock in the second round.
World Championship results
[edit]BDO
[edit]- 2018: Preliminary round (lost to Dennis Nilsson 0–3)
Performance timeline
[edit]| Tournament | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| PDC Ranked televised events | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UK Open | BDO | WDF | 1R | 2R | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| BDO/WDF Ranked televised events | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| BDO World Championship | DNQ | PR | DNQ | NH | DNQ | PDC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| BDO World Trophy | DNQ | 1R | DNQ | NH | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winmau World Masters | 1R | 2R | 3R | 1R | DNQ | NH | PDC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Finder Darts Masters | DNQ | RR | DNQ | RR | NH | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Career statistics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Year-end ranking | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 116 | 80 | ||||||||||||||||||||
PDC European Tour
| Season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
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| 2023 | BSD DNQ |
EDO DNQ |
IDO DNQ |
GDG DNQ |
ADO DNQ |
DDC DNQ |
BDO DNQ |
CDO 1R |
EDG DNQ |
EDM DNQ |
GDO DNQ |
HDT DNQ |
GDC DNQ |
| 2024 | BDO DNQ |
GDG DNQ |
IDO DNQ |
EDG 2R |
ADO DNQ |
BSD DNQ |
DDC DNQ |
EDO DNQ |
GDC DNQ |
FDT DNQ |
HDT DNQ |
SDT DNQ |
CDO DNQ |
PDC Players Championships
| Season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
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| 2023 | BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 3R |
BAR 4R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
HIL 4R |
HIL 3R |
WIG 2R |
WIG 4R |
LEI 1R |
LEI 1R |
HIL 1R |
HIL 4R |
LEI 2R |
LEI 3R |
HIL 1R |
HIL 1R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 4R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
| 2024 | WIG 2R |
WIG 1R |
LEI 4R |
LEI 1R |
HIL 1R |
HIL 2R |
LEI 2R |
LEI 1R |
HIL 2R |
HIL 1R |
HIL 4R |
HIL 1R |
MIL 2R |
MIL 1R |
MIL 2R |
MIL 2R |
MIL 2R |
MIL 1R |
MIL 4R |
WIG 1R |
WIG 2R |
MIL 1R |
MIL 3R |
WIG 1R |
WIG 1R |
WIG 1R |
WIG 1R |
WIG 2R |
LEI 2R |
LEI 1R |
Key
| Performance Table Legend | |||||||||||
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| W | Won the tournament | F | Finalist | SF | Semifinalist | QF | Quarterfinalist | #R RR Prel. |
Lost in # round Round-robin Preliminary round |
DQ | Disqualified |
| DNQ | Did not qualify | DNP | Did not participate | WD | Withdrew | NH | Tournament not held | NYF | Not yet founded | ||
External links
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "PDC Order of Merit". PDPA. 24 November 2024. Retrieved 24 November 2024.
- ^ "Results of World Masters Men 2016". Mastercaller. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
- ^ "World Masters Men 2016 – Bracket". Mastercaller. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
- ^ "Results of World Masters Men 2017". Mastercaller. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
- ^ "World Masters Men 2017 – Bracket". Mastercaller. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
- ^ Pijnenburg, Willem (5 January 2018). "Jeffrey Sparidaans makes debut at Lakeside: 'It's about time I'm there'". Brabants Dagblad (in Dutch). Retrieved 26 November 2024.
- ^ "Darts player Jeffrey Sparidaans angry after elimination from BDO tournament, PDC player beat him". Omroep Brabant (in Dutch). 29 January 2019. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
- ^ Phillips, Josh (12 January 2023). "Monk and Sparidaans claim first Tour Cards of 2023 Q Schools". PDC.tv. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
- ^ "PDC EU Q-School Final Stage - Event 1". DartConnect TV. 12 January 2023. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
- ^ "PDC ET08 Tour Card Holder Qualifier". DartConnect TV. 21 March 2023. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
- ^ "PDC ET04 Tour Card Holder Qualifier". DartConnect TV. 21 February 2024. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
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