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2023 World Cup of Darts

 

Competing Nations & Pairings

 

Australia - Damon Heta, Simon Whitlock

Austria - Mensur Suljovic, Rowby-John Rodriguez

Bahrain - Basem Mahmood, Abdulnasser Yusuf

Belgium - Dimitri Van den Bergh, Kim Huybrechts

Canada - Matt Campbell, Jeff Smith

China - Xiaochen Zong, Lihao Wen

Croatia - Boris Krcmar, Romeo Grbavac

Czech Republic - Adam Gawlas, Karel Sedlacek

Denmark - Vladimir Andersen, TBC

England - Michael Smith, Rob Cross

Finland - Marko Kantele, TBC

France - Thibault Tricole, Jacques Labre

Germany - Gabriel Clemens, Martin Schindler

Gibraltar - Craig Galliano, Justin Hewitt

Guyana - Norman Madhoo, Sudesh Fitzgerald

Hong Kong - Man Lok Leung, Lok Yin Lee

Hungary - Patrik Kovács, Levente Sárai

Iceland - TBC, TBC

India - Prakash Jiwa, Amit Gilitwala

Italy - Michele Turetta, Massimo Dante

Japan - Jun Matsuda, Tomoya Goto

Latvia - Madars Razma, Dmitriy Zhukov

Lithuania - Darius Labanauskas, TBC

Netherlands - Michael van Gerwen, Danny Noppert

New Zealand - Ben Robb, Warren Parry

Northern Ireland - Brendan Dolan, Daryl Gurney

Philippines - Christian Perez, Lourence Ilagan

Poland - Krzysztof Ratajski, Krzysztof Kciuk

Portugal - Jose de Sousa, Luis Ameixa

Republic of Ireland - William O'Connor, Keane Barry

Scotland - Peter Wright, Gary Anderson

Singapore - Paul Lim, Harith Lim

South Africa - Devon Petersen, Vernon Bouwers

Spain - Jose Justicia, Tony Martinez

Sweden - Dennis Nilsson, Oskar Lukasiak

Switzerland - Stefan Bellmont, Marcel Walpen

Thailand - Attapol Eupakaree, Yong Gaweenuntavong

Ukraine - Vladyslav Omelchenko, Illia Pekaruk

USA - Jules van Dongen, Leonard Gates

Wales - Gerwyn Price, Jonny Clayton

Luke Humphries will play at the US Darts Masters this weekend as his World Series of Darts tour continues after playing in Bahrain and Copenhagen.

 

Speaking ahead of the tournament, Humphries is revelling in the opportunity not only to play darts but visit a place he's never been and an iconic venue.

 

"This is an iconic venue and to get to come over here and play the sport I've always loved and do it as a job is quite incredible. So really excited to be here," said Humphries.

 

"It's going to be the most iconic venue I'll ever play in. It's quite an achievement for me as a young lad to be here."

 

 

This weekend, the US Darts Masters is on the programme. This World Series tournament takes place in New York at the famed Madison Square Garden arena.

 

For Dimitri Van den Bergh, playing in New York at one of the most iconic sporting venues on earth is a dream come true. "As soon as I figured out the PDC is going to go over on the World Series Tour to America, I was like 'woah that would be another dream for me,'" the Belgian reveals.

Will be interesting to see whether any of the North American players can upset the elite representatives!

The draw and schedule has been confirmed ahead of the 2023 World Cup of Darts which will take place between June 15-18 with an expanded 40 teams, group stage and pairs only format.

 

The top four ranked nations forego that with England, Netherlands, Scotland and Wales all set to play from the second round onwards. The remaining 36 will be split into 12 groups of three for the round-robin including 12 seeded nations.

 

The winner of each group will progress. This features Australia, the defending champions. They will face Guyana and Gibraltar respectively

Michael van Gerwen has withdrawn from the 2023 World Cup of Darts and will be replaced by Dirk van Duijvenbode in the Netherlands team.

 

Van Gerwen had a pre-planned dental operation on Monday and has not recovered sufficiently in order to compete in Frankfurt this weekend.

 

The prestigious pairs event will be held from June 15-18 as 40 teams compete for a total prize fund of £450,000.

Hopefully he recovers soon! That knocks them down to third seed, but still means that they bypass the group stage.

Day 1 highlights of the PDC World Cup of Darts:

 

 

 

Rob Cross has continued his red hot form by sweeping both tournaments Down Under as the World Series of Darts comes to an end for 2023.

 

Cross won the New South Wales Darts Masters sweeping aside Damon Heta just as he did to Peter Wright albeit not at the 109 heights that he reached in his semi-final with an 8-1 win.

 

This with a 91 average and 44.4% on the outer ring and three 180's. But he adds to one in 2018 and now two in 2023, all three have come in the tournaments Down Under

Snakebite' Peter Wright may not have had the greatest year of his career so far in 2023. Nevertheless, the Scotsman could soon be making a interesting piece of history on the European Tour.

 

No players has featured at more European Tour events than Peter Wright in the history of the events. With his total appearances currently standing at 98, Wright is just two tournaments away from becoming the first players to reach three figures on the Euro Tour

The World Series of Darts tour has concluded for the season with Rob Cross topping the Order of Merit. He has taken top spot from Gerwyn Price who led for a long while up until Australia and New Zealand.

 

Cross won in Hamilton and Wollongong back-to-back and will be top seed in Amsterdam. This also sees the line-up for the Finals next month all but finalised.

 

As the top eight after the last World Series tournament in Australia are certain to participate in the World Series of Darts Finals in Amsterdam (Sept. 15-17).

If Van Veen wins this does he get a GSOD place via this? Just think it could mean a route for Luke Littler to get to the Slam???

Gian into the final. 105 average. Joe into a ditch

Whoever wins tonight will be the world number 4, loser will be 5. One thing is for certain, i can't see the PDC overlooking Humphries for the PL again.

Luke Humphries secured his first major trophy to deny Gerwyn Price a second World Grand Prix title.

 

Humphries sealed a 5-2 victory with a 138 checkout at the Morningside Arena in Leicester following an equally impressive 170 checkout in the fifth set.

 

The 28-year-old won the 2019 PDC World Youth Championship but victory over Price was his first major title.

 

Price was aiming for his second World Grand Prix, winning previously in 2020.

 

The Welshman had beaten world number one and reigning world champion Michael Smith 4-2 in a high-quality semi-final on Saturday.

For the first time in seventeen years, James Wade is no longer among the top 16 on the PDC Order of Merit. 'The Machine' is in danger of slipping even further down the PDC Order of Merit in the coming months. After all, he has to defend semifinal spots at the Grand Slam of Darts and the World Darts Championship. For the Grand Slam of Darts, Wade has not even qualified yet.