PDC UNICORN World Youth Champion Max Hopp was amongst the five Host Nation Qualifiers for the HappyBet European Darts Open on Thursday night, while Holger Rettig won through to make his European Tour debut in Dusseldorf.
Idstein's Hopp, who turns 20 next month, has already reached one European Tour quarter-final in 2016, in Hamburg two months ago, and he secured his spot in this weekend's £115,000 event at the Maritim Hotel with wins over Marvin Esser, Jochen Graudenz and Mario Masurka.
Hopp now meets Andy Boulton in Friday's first round, with Fabian Herz having edged out both Maik Langendorf and Kevin Munch as he qualified to face Greece's John Michael in the main event.
Martin Schindler followed up two whitewash wins with a narrow 6-5 defeat of Marcel Hausotter as he qualified for a first round tie with Finland's Kim Viljanen.
Stefan Stoyke will make his fourth European Tour appearance when he plays Mark Frost in the first round on Friday, after defeating Kevin Knopf, Alexander Tauber and Sascha Oeltze to qualify.
Holger Rettig, who previously played in PDC events in Germany in 2008 and 2009, will make his European Tour debut against Steve West after winning through the Host Nation Qualifier by defeating Rene Eidams, Michael Doeppling and Markus Floh.
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HappyBet European Darts Open 2016
Host Nation Qualifier
Maritim Hotel, Dusseldorf, Thursday July 28
Preliminary Round
Marcel Hausotter 6-2 Rene Berndt
Marsten Kornath 6-0 Markus Schumm
Kevin Knopf 6-0 Detlef Sebus
Christian Soethe 6-4 Andreas Kroeckel
Justin Webers 6-1 Simon Sparding
Christoph Leuker 6-0 Tobias Reichert
Maik Langendorf 6-0 Alfred Tettampel
Kevin Munch 6-1 Pascal Herwig
Mick Hasse 6-0 Gurkan Kaynarcalidan
Mario Masurka 6-1 Bernd Roith
First Round
Tomas Seyler 6-1 Tim Killing
Marcel Hausotter 6-0 Ilias Kazantzidis
Martin Schindler 6-0 Philipp Kamper
Karsten Kornath 6-1 Marc Legant
Alexander Tauber 6-2 Jyhan Artut
Stefan Stoyke 6-1 Kevin Knopf
Dominik Steinmann 6-5 Pierre Gross
Sascha Oeltze 6-2 Christian Soethe
Holger Rettig 6-2 Rene Eidams
Michael Doppling 6-2 Justin Webers
Markus Floh 6-1 Justin Muller
Christoph Leuker 6-5 Damian Galuszka
Fabian Herz 6-2 Ole Holtkamp
Maik Langendorf 6-0 Gerd Patzel
Thorsten Bruggemeyer 6-0 Marc Covic
Kevin Münch 6-3 Marko Puls
Max Hopp 6-5 Marvin Esser
Jochen Graudenz 6-3 Mick Hasse
Pierre Finck 6-0 Marcel London
Mario Masurka 6-0 Reza Vaghef
Second Round
Marcel Hausotter 6-2 Tomas Seyler
Martin Schindler 6-0 Karsten Kornath
Stefan Stoyke 6-5 Alexander Tauber
Sascha Oeltze 6-0 Dominik Steinmann
Holger Rettig 6-4 Michael Doppling
Markus Floh 6-0 Christoph Leuker
Fabian Herz 6-5 Maik Langendorf
Kevin Munch 6-2 Thorsten Bruggemeyer
Max Hopp 6-5 Jochen Graudenz
Mario Masurka 6-0 Pierre Finck
Third Round
Martin Schindler 6-5 Marcel Hausotter
Stefan Stoyke 6-3 Sascha Oeltze
Holger Rettig 6-2 Markus Floh
Fabian Herz 6-5 Kevin Munch
Max Hopp 6-2 Mario Masurka
Qualifiers:
HNQ1 Martin Schindler
HNQ2 Stefan Stoyke
HNQ3 Holger Rettig
HNQ4 Fabian Herz
HNQ5 Max Hopp