Merkx and Harrysson win at Challenge Tour 21-22

Winmau Challenge Tour

Alexander Merkx and Andreas Harryson picked up Winmau Challenge Tour titles on the penultimate day of action in 2024.

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Clinical Kist sinks Scutt to secure Winmau Challenge Tour 20 title

Winmau Challenge Tour

Former Lakeside champion Kist won back-to-back Challenge Tour titles in June, and he returned to winning ways at the Marshall Arena to move up to third on the Challenge Tour Order of Merit.

Dutch duo Plaisier & Van Schie share Challenge Tour titles

Winmau Challenge Tour

The 2024 Winmau Challenge Tour season continues on Saturday, as Events 18-19 take place in Milton Keynes.

Scutt & Merkx seal Winmau Challenge Tour wins in Milton Keynes

Winmau Challenge Tour

Connor Scutt moved top of the Winmau Challenge Tour Order of Merit after securing his second title of 2024 on Friday, as Dutchman Alexander Merkx also joined the winner's circle in Milton Keynes.

Plaisier punishes Mol to win Winmau Challenge Tour 15

Winmau Challenge Tour

Wesley Plaisier claimed his first Winmau Challenge Tour title of 2024 as the year's third weekend of action concluded with Event 15 in Leicester on Sunday.

Scutt & Hood claim maiden Challenge Tour titles in Leicester

Winmau Challenge Tour

Connor Scutt and Justin Hood claimed maiden titles as the 2024 Winmau Challenge Tour continued in Leicester on Saturday.

Double delight for nine-dart Kist on Winmau Challenge Tour

Winmau Challenge Tour

Christian Kist landed a nine-dart finish on his way to completing a sensational Winmau Challenge Tour double-header in Leicester on Friday.

Cocks claims maiden Challenge Tour victory

Winmau Challenge Tour

Lee Cocks claimed his maiden PDC title at Winmau Challenge Tour Event Ten in Hildesheim on Sunday, whitewashing Wesley Plaisier 5-0 in the final.

Brilliant Boulton goes back-to-back on Winmau Challenge Tour

Winmau Challenge Tour

Andy Boulton claimed back-to-back Winmau Challenge Tour titles to cap off a remarkable day of action in Hildesheim on Saturday.

 Jurjen van der Velde and Christian Kist ensured a Dutch double at the PDC Winmau Challenge Tour on Saturday with victories in Leicester.

Teenager Van der Velde won his second Challenge Tour event of 2022 by claiming the Event 18 title at the Morningside Arena.

Van der Velde's opening round win over former UK Open semi-finalist Alan Norris set the tone for a dominant campaign, as he relinquished just ten legs in reaching the final. 

The young Dutchman posted 97 and 98 averages to see off Peter Jacques and David Pallett, before whitewashing St Helens veteran Alan Tabern in the quarter-finals. 

Van der Velde then eased past Germany's Daniel Klose in the semi-finals, before edging out his compatriot Patrick Peters in a nine-leg affair to clinch the £2,000 winner's prize.

Klose impressed in his run to the semi-finals, averaging over 100 to whitewash Jim Moston in the last eight, while Graham Usher averaged 104.38 earlier in the day, before succumbing to Peters in the semi-finals.

Kist, meanwhile, followed up his run to the Event 16 final by going all the way in Event 19 the following day to claim his maiden PDC title.

The former Lakeside Champion won seven games on his way to the £2,000 top prize, being taken to a deciding leg by Danny van Trijp in the last 64 in his toughest test.

He also overcame Ben West, Lukas Wenig, Matthew Dennant, Thibault Tricole and Karel Sedlacek to reach the final, where he saw off Danny Lauby 5-3.

The pair's success means that three of the four events staged so far this weekend have been won by Dutchmen, after Wesley Plaisier took victory on Friday alongside Robert Owen.

The year's penultimate Challenge Tour weekend concludes on Sunday with Event 20, with a further £10,000 in prize money on offer.

Scott Williams retained his lead at the top of the Order of Merit, with a quarter-final appearance on Saturday helping him move to £7,350 - with Owen on £5,500 and Van Trijp on £5,450 behind him.

Van der Velde sits fifth, while Kist moved up to eighth following his success.

The top two players from the final 2022 Challenge Tour Order of Merit will secure a PDC Tour Card for 2023/24 and a place in the 2022/23 Cazoo World Darts Championship.

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