Jeffrey Sparidaans
Wikipedia - Jeffrey Sparidaans
Jeffrey Sparidaans (born 8 September 1993) is a Dutch professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) and World Darts Federation (WDF) events. He has won six WDF ranking titles, including the 2025 Dutch Open.
History
2015
In 2015, Sparidaans won the Czech Open.
2016
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.
2017
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.
2018
He qualified for the 2018 BDO World Darts Championship virtue of being 25th in the rankings, making his debut, but was whitewashed 3–0 by Dennis Nilsson in the preliminary round.
2019
Spaaridaans reached the semi-finals at the 2019 Romanian Classic, but lost to the eventual champion John Michael in the semi-finals.
2023
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.
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. He lost to home favourite Karel Sedláček 6–5 in a deciding leg in the first round.
2024
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), where he beat Callan Rydz 6–1 in the first round before losing 6–2 to 8th seed Josh Rock in the second round.
2025
After losing his Tour Card, Sparidaans participated in the Dutch Open, where he became the fourth consecutive Dutch player to win the tournament after defeating David Fatum 3–0 in the final.