Beau Greaves remains the premier player in the ladies game after successfully retaining the WDF Women’s World Championship …Meanwhile, Andy Baetens made history as the first player from Belgium to win a senior world title Continue reading Beau & Baetens Lakeside Academy: WDF Champions Take Different Post ‘Graduation’ Paths
[Greaves] shared some breaking news with me, as she will be playing Development Tour events this year…. Continue reading Dutch Open Diary: Greaves & Bottenberg Triumph
Defending champion Aileen de Graaf said to me she felt the pressure of being the defending champion and playing in front of the crowd all day… Continue reading Dutch Open Diary: Day 2
it took almost half an hour to park my car! And that was just a small indication of how extremely busy the tournament at the Bonte Wever was… Continue reading Dutch Open Diary: Day 1
What an impressive total of 1,172,000 viewers tuning in to watch the TOTO Dutch Open final. Continue reading Dutch Open Proves Viewing Success
Van Peer kept his cool and defeated Baetens 3-1 in sets to win his first ever WDF seniors title Continue reading Dutch Open Diary – Day 3: The Winners
Dutch no.1 Aileen de Graaf had a straight forward win over Belgian’s Shana van Nieuwenhoven 4-1, while Beau Greaves averaged over 98 and smashed Aletta Wajer 4-0 to reach the… Continue reading Duth Open Diary – Day 2: A Favourite Day
Our favourite Dutch Contributor Wim Blokpoel is once more enjoying the Dutch Open weekend. Partly as a diarist, player, and party-goer: Today was the start of my favourite tournament in the world, and the one with the most entries too: the WDF Dutch Open!! Friday is pairs day, as I paired up with fellow darting journalist Henry Cheal. We had to play early so it … Continue reading Dutch Open Diary: Day 1
Darts World remembers that Shaun was a lovely gentle person “who’s only malice was in his walk-on tune” Continue reading Shaun Greatbatch 11th July 1969 – June 5th, 2022
The doors were opened, I walked inside the venue and I saw a massive crowd, in front of a big stage. The WDF might be for amateur players, but this looked very professional! A lot of places to eat and drink, a stand where the Paradarts players seemed to be generating income, and even two DJs for the music! It cannot be denied that it … Continue reading Dutch Open Diary: Final Flourish
