Quarter-Final for Van Duijvenbode at PC5

Wim Blokpoel - Today PDC Players Championship 5 was held. All Dutch tourcard holders played in it.

In round 1 Dirk van Duijvenbode beat Joe Murnan 6-3, and a round later he averaged a ton in a 6-4 win over Luke Woodhouse. In the last 32 ‘Aubergenius’ edged out John O’Shea 6-5, and in round 4 it was a 6-0 whitewash over Shaun Wilkinson! In the quarter-finals, Van Duijvenbode did lose 3-6 to Joe Cullen despite averaging an astonishing 108,9!!

Jeffrey de Zwaan and Niels Zonneveld had an all Dutch first round tie. It was De Zwaan who won it 6-3. Then in the last 64 JDZ beat Austrian Rowby-John Rodriguez 6-4. Into the third round for the first time of the year, De Zwaan comfortably beat Ricky Evans 6-1! In round 4 De Zwaan lost 4-6 to Belgian Dimitri van den Bergh but still a very good run for The Black Cobra. 

Danny Noppert averaged 100,9 in a 6-4 win over José Justicia in the last 128. The UK Open Champion then survived matchdarts in a 6-5 win over Irish Steve Lennon. In round 3, The Freeze lost 3-6 to Luke Humphries. Maik Kuivenhoven averaged 97,7 in a 6-4 win over Jake Jones. In the last 64 he then had a massive 6-4 win over World Number 5 James Wade! In his board final, Kuivenhoven lost 4-6 to Belgian Mike de Decker.

Dutch number one Michaek van Gerwen comfortably beat Krzysztof Kciuk 6-2, but in round 2 MVG lost on the stream 4-6 to Gary Anderson. Urk’s Geert Nentjes beat Ritchie Edgouse 6-4, but then in round 2 Nentjes got edged out 5-6 by German Martin Schindler. Castricum’s Jimmy Hendriks also won his last 128 game, 6-2 against Rusty-Jake Rodriguez. He then lost in round 2 1-6 to eventual winner Damon Heta. Dutch legend Raymond van Barneveld started with a 6-3 win over Brendan Dolan, but then the Five time World Champion lost 4-6 to De Decker who averaged a ton. 

Berry van Peer averaged 98,6 in round 1, but still got edged out 5-6 by Boris Krcmar. Kevin Doets played even better: he averaged 104 but lost 3-6 to Schindler who averaged 111,1!! Martijn Kleermaker had a 5-3 lead over Canadian Jeff Smith, but still lost 5-6. Other Dutch first round defeats came from:

Jules van Dongen (3-6 against Jason Heaver), Vincent van der Voort (3-6 against Wilkinson), Jermaine Wattimena (1-6 against Woodhouse), Luc Peters (4-6 against Nathan Aspinall), Danny Jansen (1-6 against Simon Whitlock), Damian Mol (2-6 against Mervyn King) and Ron Meulenkamp (1-6 against Mario Vandenbogaerde).