Charis’ Column

Friday, July 26, 2024
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The Women’s World Matchplay 2024

This year, the Women’s World Matchplay was held for the third time. Among the eight participants was only one debutant – Anastasia Dobromyslova. All other seven women took part for at least second time. The venue again was not as full as for the …

Thursday, July 25, 2024
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World Matchplay 2024 – Semifinals and Finall

Semifinals

In the semifinals of the World Matchplay stood the three players ranked 1, 2 and 3 in the Order of Merit (and, accordingly, the three top seeds in tournament) and one non seeded player.

In the first semifinal the number …

Wednesday, July 24, 2024
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World Matchplay 2024 – The Quarterfinals

The quarterfinals took place over two days as well.  On the first day, the players from the upper half played again and on the second day the players from the lower half stood on stage – and on both days just one non-seeded …

Tuesday, July 23, 2023
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World Matchplay 2024 – The Second Round

In the second round the format was a little bit longer – perhaps this was not good for all the matches.

The first evening I watched fromt home.  On the second night I was in Blackpool.  It is always more thrilling when …

Thursday, July 19, 2023
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World Matchplay 2024 – The First Round

In just a few days the first round of World Matchplay was already over – just a short while after all had started.

It was an interesting first round with good and often thrilling matches – although all debutants were knocked out …

Thursday, July 11, 2023
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World Matchplay 2024 – The Debutants

Ricardo Pietreczko

Born: 20. October 1994
Lives in: Nürnberg/Erlangen, Germany
Darts: 23g DataDarts
Nickname: Pikachu
Walk-on-Music: Pokemon Theme (Jason Paige)

German Ricardo Pietreczko is the first of this year’s five debutants who will come on the stage of the Winter Gardens in Blackpool …

Monday, December 16, 2023
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An inteview with Alex Spellman

Along with Stowe Buntz, American Alex Spellman dominated this year’s Championship Darts Circuit (CDC) and qualified by the rankings for the PDC World Championship 2023/24.  Spellman has competed for about ten years but only first appeared internationally when in 2022 he won his first …

Monday, December 11, 2023
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An inteview with South Africa’s Simon Adams

This year, Simon Adams was the South African participant in the PDC World Championship (2023/24). Internationally he not well known even though he has played darts for more than 40 years and has been quite successful in South Africa. Adams sees himself …

Wednesday, November 29, 2023
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The Grand Slam’s about to begin!

Jim, you are some kind of old hand in the US sport of darts – what has kept you interested in the sport for such a long time?

Yes, been playing a long time. What keeps me playing is the competition, camraderie and …

Thursday, November 9, 2023
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The Grand Slam’s about to begin!

It is November.  The leaves have started to fall, and the weather is strange.  Rain, wind, sunshine – and temperatures that don’t seem to be able to decide between summer and winter.

Dart players and fans from all over the world will head …