Wesley Plaisier
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.jpg) Plaisier in 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 4 March 1990 Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home town | Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Darts information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing darts since | 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Darts | 24 Gram | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Laterality | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Walk-on music | "Thank You (Not So Bad)” by Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Organisation (see split in darts) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| BDO | 2014–2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| PDC | 2019– (Tour Card 2025–) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| WDF | 2019–2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current world ranking | 73  (24 November 2024)[1] (PDC)2 (8 December 2024)[2] (WDF) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| WDF major events – best performances | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Ch'ship | Quarter Final: 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Masters | Winner (2): 2022, 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dutch Open | Runner Up: 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| PDC premier events – best performances | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Ch'ship | Last 64: 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| UK Open | Last 96: 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| PC Finals | Last 32: 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other tournament wins | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Players Championships
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Medal record
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Wesley Plaisier (born 4 March 1990) is a Dutch professional darts player. He is the fourth player to win a PDC ranking title without being a PDC Tour Card holder. He is also a two-time World Masters champion.
Career
[edit]2019
[edit]Plaisier attended European Q-School in 2019, but never got further than the last 32, missing out on a Tour Card. He did then qualify as one of the Association Member qualifiers for the 2019 European Darts Open in Leverkusen, Germany. He lost 6–3 to James Wade in the second round.
He also qualified for the 2019 Dutch Darts Masters, but he lost 6–1 to Brendan Dolan. A third European Tour qualification of 2019 was secured at the 2019 European Darts Matchplay, but Jamie Hughes beat him 6–5.
2022
[edit]Plaisier performed well at the 2022 German Darts Grand Prix, beating Jim Williams, Joe Cullen and Dirk van Duijvenbode to reach the quarter-final stage, where he was beaten in a deciding leg by the tournament's eventual winner, Luke Humphries.[3][4][5]
Plaiser won the 2022 Six Nations Charity Singles beating Scott Taylor in the final 5–4.[6]
Plaisier won the 2022 World Masters, defeating Barry Copeland 7–2 in the final. He became the first Dutch player to win the event since Michael van Gerwen in 2006.[7][8]
2023
[edit]Plaisier qualified for the 2023 German Darts Open. In the tournament he defeated George Killington 6–4 in the first round, Ross Smith 6–2 in the second round, Luke Humphries 6–5 in the third round and Brian Raman 6–3 in the quarters. Stephen Bunting won the semi final 7–6.[9]
2024
[edit]Plaisier competed in the 2024 PDC Challenge Tour series, the secondary tier of the 2024 PDC Pro Tour. He reached the final of Challenge Tour 10 (CT10), being whitewashed 5–0 by Lee Cocks.[10][11] Plaisier then reached the final in back to back events at Challenge Tours 15[12] and 16. Plaisier won the former, defeating Damian Mol 5–4 in a deciding leg and lost the latter final 5–3 to Alexander Merkx.[13] Plaisier reached another final at event 19, defeating Lee Cocks 5–3 in the final to win his fourth Challenge Tour event in his career.[14]
Plaisier received call–ups for 2024 PDC Players Championship series events filling in as a reserve for an absent tour card holder virtue of his ranking on the Challenge Tour Order of Merit. Plaisier reached the final at events 13, 14 and 28.[15] At PC13 Plaisier lost the final to Ross Smith 8–7.[16] At PC14 he lost the final to Jonny Clayton 8–5.[17] At PC28 Plaisier defeated Josh Rock 8–7 in the final, surviving six missed match darts from Rock. This meant he became the fourth player to win a Players Championship event without being a PDC Tour Card holder.[18][19]
Plaisier finished second in the 2024 PDC Challenge Tour Order of Merit which granted him a two-year PDC Tour Card for the first time in his career.[20]
In the World Darts Federation (WDF), Plaisier retained the World Masters title that he won in 2022 with a 7–3 win over Kai Gotthardt in the final.[21]
2025
[edit]Plaisier qualified for the 2025 PDC World Darts Championship, making his debut in the tournament. He won his first round match 3–1 against Ryusei Azemoto but lost to Peter Wright 3–1 in the second round.[22]
World Championship results
[edit]WDF
[edit]- 2023: Quarter-finals (lost to Dennis Nilsson 1–4)
PDC
[edit]- 2025: Second round (lost to Peter Wright 1–3)
Performance timeline
[edit]| Tournament | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | ||
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| PDC Ranked televised events | |||||||||
| PDC World Championship | DNQ | 2R | |||||||
| UK Open | DNP | 1R | DNP | 3R | |||||
| Players Championship Finals | DNQ | 2R | |||||||
| WDF Major events | |||||||||
| WDF World Championship | DNP | NH | DNP | QF | PDC | ||||
| World Masters | 1R | NH | W | NH | W | ||||
| Career statistics | |||||||||
| Year-end ranking (PDC) | 167 | 172 | - | 113 | 133 | ||||
PDC European Tour
| Season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
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| 2019 | EDO 2R |
GDC DNQ |
GDG DNQ |
GDO DNQ |
ADO DNQ |
EDG DNQ |
DDM 1R |
DDO DNQ |
CDO DNQ |
ADC DNQ |
EDM 1R |
IDO DNQ |
GDT DNQ |
| 2020 | BDC 2R |
GDC DNQ |
EDG DNQ |
IDO DNQ | |||||||||
| 2021 | HDT DNQ |
GDT DNQ | |||||||||||
| 2022 | IDO DNP |
GDC DNQ |
GDG QF |
ADO 2R |
EDO DNQ |
CDO DNQ |
EDG DNQ |
DDC DNQ |
EDM 3R |
HDT DNQ |
GDO DNQ |
BDO DNQ |
GDT 3R |
| 2023 | BSD DNQ |
EDO DNQ |
IDO DNQ |
GDG DNQ |
ADO DNQ |
DDC DNQ |
BDO DNP |
CDO DNP |
EDG DNQ |
EDM DNQ |
GDO SF |
HDT DNQ |
GDC DNQ |
PDC Players Championships
| Season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024[nb 1] | WIG DNP |
WIG DNP |
LEI DNP |
LEI DNP |
HIL 1R |
HIL 1R |
LEI DNP |
LEI DNP |
HIL 1R |
HIL 1R |
HIL 2R |
HIL 3R |
MIL F |
MIL F |
MIL 1R |
MIL 4R |
MIL 1R |
MIL 3R |
MIL 3R |
WIG 2R |
WIG 1R |
MIL DNP |
MIL DNP |
WIG 1R |
WIG 1R |
WIG 1R |
WIG 1R |
WIG W |
LEI 1R |
LEI 3R |
- ^ Not a Tour card holder
| Performance Table Legend | |||||||||||
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| W | Won the tournament | F | Finalist | SF | Semifinalist | QF | Quarterfinalist | #R RR L# |
Lost in # round Round-robin Last # stage |
DQ | Disqualified |
| DNQ | Did not qualify | DNP | Did not participate | WD | Withdrew | NH | Tournament not held | NYF | Not yet founded | ||
References
[edit]- ^ "PDC Order of Merit". PDPA. 24 November 2024. Retrieved 24 November 2024.
- ^ "WDF Men's Rankings Table". WDF. 8 December 2024. Retrieved 8 December 2024.
- ^ "2022 Interwetten German Darts Grand Prix Day One". PDC. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
- ^ "2022 Interwetten German Darts Grand Prix Day Two". PDC. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
- ^ "Brilliant Humphries wins Interwetten German Darts Grand Prix". PDC. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
- ^ "Six Nations Singles 2022". DartConnect. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
- ^ Gill, Samuel (11 December 2022). "Greaves completes WDF Major double, adds World Masters to World Championship as Plaisier becomes first Dutch winner in 16 years". DartsNews. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
- ^ Idsardi, Jetze Jan (11 December 2022). "Wesley Plaiser wint WDF World Masters 2022". Darts Actueel (in Dutch). Retrieved 18 December 2024.
- ^ Gorton, Josh (10 September 2023). "Ratajski romps to Interwetten German Darts Open glory in Jena". PDC.
- ^ Phillips, Josh (17 March 2024). "Cocks claims maiden Challenge Tour victory". PDC. Retrieved 17 March 2024.
- ^ "PDC Challenge Tour 10". DartConnect TV. 17 March 2024. Retrieved 15 March 2024.
- ^ "PDC Challenge Tour 15". DartConnect TV. 9 June 2024. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
- ^ Gorton, Josh (16 August 2024). "Scutt & Merkx seal Winmau Challenge Tour wins in Milton Keynes". Professional Darts Corporation. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
- ^ Gorton, Josh (17 August 2024). "Dutch duo Plaisier & Van Schie share Challenge Tour titles". Professional Darts Corporation. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
- ^ Wood, Kieran (16 October 2024). "Wesley Plaisier and Josh Rock reach final of Players Championship 28". DartsNews. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
- ^ Allen, Dave (2 July 2024). "Super Smith edges Plaisier for Players Championship 13 title". www.pdc.tv. Retrieved 2 July 2024.
- ^ Allen, Dave (3 July 2024). "Superb Clayton defies Plaisier to win Players Championship 14". www.pdc.tv. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
- ^ "Plaisier wins maiden PDC title at Players Championship". BBC. 16 October 2024. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
- ^ "Josh Rock misses six match darts as Wesley Plaisier prevails in Wigan". RTÉ. 16 October 2024. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
- ^ Gorton, Josh (3 November 2024). "Scutt & Plaisier secure two-year Tour Cards via Winmau Challenge Tour". PDC. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
- ^ "Wesley Plaisier retains title at WDF World Masters". DartsNews. 12 October 2024. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
- ^ Keogh, Frank (17 December 2024). "Wright wins as Meikle defeats Sherrock". BBC. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
External links
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Media related to Wesley Plaisier at Wikimedia Commons- Player profile for Wesley Plaisier from Dartsdatabase
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