Doets and Zonneveld winning Development Tour 3&4

22-08-2021

Wim Blokpoel - Yesterday the EU Development Tour was continued with 2 more events. The success of the Dutchmen yesterday, with Jurjen van der Velde winning event 1, was followed very good today!

Just like in event 1, 7 of the 8 quarter-finalists in event 3 were Dutch! Event 1 finalist Bradly Roes made sure it were 4 Dutch semi-finalists as he beat German Tobias Scheifl 5-3. The very talented Kevin Doets beat Yoeri Brouwer 5-3 as well, while another 5-3 win came from ‘The Pigeon’ Mike van Duivenbode against Uitgeest’s Niels Zonneveld. Finally, event 1 winner Jurjen van der Velde reached another semi-final by whitewashing Maikel Verberk 5-0. In the semi’s it was a comfortable 5-2 win for 23-year-old Doets against Bradly Roes. Mike van Duivenbode very impressively made the final in the first weekend of darts he’s played in a year time: he beat Van der Velde 5-2. The final went all the way as it was 4-4 between Doets and Van Duivenbode. Eventually Doets managed to win 5-4 with an average of 93,6. He picks up his 4th PDC title, and second Development Tour title!

Event 4 saw 5 Dutchmen making the last 8. Urk’s Geert Nentjes had a very impressive 5-3 win over Austrian Rusty-Jake Rodriguez. 2 quarter-finals were Dutch battles, as Gillian Koehoorn had a 5-3 win over Joost Geurts, who in the last 16 beat Levy Frauenfelder with an average of 101,9! Tourcard holder Niels Zonneveld whitewashed Mike van Duivenbode with 5-0. In the semi’s ‘The Spear’ Geert Nentjes beat Koehoorn 5-3, and Zonneveld had a comfortable 5-1 win against German talent Nico Kurz. So a final between 2 Dutch tourcard holders! It was Niels Zonneveld who picked up the title, beating Nentjes 5-3 with an average of 94,8. So 2 more Dutch winners, it’s been an amazing weekend! Another article about the last 2 events today will arrive tomorrow!