Kevin Doets
| Kevin Doets | |||||||||
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 Doets at the 2025 World Championship | |||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||
| Nickname | "Hawkeye" | ||||||||
| Born | 5 May 1998[1] Almere, Netherlands | ||||||||
| Home town | Almere, Netherlands | ||||||||
| Darts information | |||||||||
| Playing darts since | 2011 | ||||||||
| Darts | 21g Target Signature | ||||||||
| Laterality | Right-handed | ||||||||
| Walk-on music | "Rock and Roll All Nite" by Kiss | ||||||||
| Organisation (see split in darts) | |||||||||
| BDO | 2018–2019 | ||||||||
| PDC | 2020– (Tour Card: 2022–) | ||||||||
| Current world ranking | (PDC) 41  (12 January 2025)[2] | ||||||||
| WDF major events – best performances | |||||||||
| Dutch Open | Quarter Final: 2019 | ||||||||
| PDC premier events – best performances | |||||||||
| World Ch'ship | Last 16: 2025 | ||||||||
| UK Open | Last 32: 2023, 2024 | ||||||||
| PC Finals | Last 32: 2023 | ||||||||
| Masters | Last 32: 2025 | ||||||||
| World Series Finals | Last 16: 2024 | ||||||||
| Other tournament wins | |||||||||
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Kevin Doets (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈkɛvɪn ˈduts]; born 5 May 1998) is a Dutch professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He reached the last 16 at the 2025 PDC World Championship and the 2024 World Series Finals as well as the quarter-finals at the 2019 Dutch Open. He has won three titles on the PDC Development Tour as well as two on the Challenge Tour. He was also the runner-up at a PDC ranking event, Players Championship 20, in 2023.
Career
[edit]2019–2021
[edit]In 2019, Doets won the Catalonia Open, defeating Carlos Arola 6–3 in the final.[3] He reached the quarter-finals at the 2019 Dutch Open.[4]
Doets found much success on the PDC Challenge Tour and PDC Development Tour in 2020 and 2021. He won his first Development Tour title in Event Five of 2020 and followed that with his first Challenge Tour title two weeks later.[5][6] He added additional Challenge Tour and Development Tour wins in 2021.
Doets made the semi-finals of the 2021 PDC World Youth Championship, beating reigning champion Bradley Brooks along the way before losing to eventual champion Ted Evetts.[7]
Despite not having a PDC Tour Card, Doets qualified for the 2021 Players Championship Finals, where he lost in the first round to Michael van Gerwen.[8]
2022–2023
[edit]At 2022 PDC Q-School, Doets won his Tour Card by finishing third on the European Q-School Order of Merit.[9] He also played in the 2022 PDC Development Tour series, picking up another Development Tour title, beating Josh Rock 5–3 in the final of Event Four.[10][11]
In 2023, Doets reached his first senior PDC final when he made it to the final of Players Championship 20, but lost 8–6 to Luke Humphries.[12]
2024
[edit]Doets secured his PDC World Darts Championship debut by qualifying for the 2024 World Championship through the Pro Tour Order of Merit. In the first round, he whitewashed Stowe Buntz 3–0 in sets. The same night, he played defending champion Michael Smith in the second round. Doets went 2–1 ahead but was ultimately eliminated by Smith in a 3–2 defeat.[13][14]
Doets was invited to play at the 2024 Dutch Darts Masters. He played two-time World Champion Peter Wright in the first round and won 6–1, before going out in the quarter-finals.[15][16] As a result, he was invited to the 2024 World Series of Darts Finals in September. He whitewashed Keane Barry 6–0 in the opening round with an average of 109.98—the third highest average in the event's history.[17] Doets lost 6–5 to Rob Cross in the next round.
2025
[edit]At the 2025 PDC World Darts Championship, Doets defeated Dutch compatriot Noa-Lynn van Leuven 3–1 in the first round.[18] This win set up a second-round tie with Michael Smith, a rematch of their meeting the previous year. With the pair level at 2–2, Doets and Smith entered a deciding set tiebreaker where the match had to be won by two clear legs. Doets eventually won the final set 6–4 in legs in a major upset, eliminating the second seed and former World Champion.[19][20] Doets won his third round match against Krzysztof Ratajski 4–3, surviving four match darts from Ratajski to progress to the last 16.[21][22] He was eliminated after a 4–3 loss to Chris Dobey.
Personal life
[edit]Doets lives in Sweden with his partner Jacqueline.[23]
World Championship results
[edit]PDC
[edit]- 2024: Second round (lost to Michael Smith 2–3)
- 2025: Fourth round (lost to Chris Dobey 3–4)
Performance timeline
[edit]| Tournament | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | |
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| PDC Ranked televised events | |||||||||
| PDC World Championship | DNQ | 2R | 4R | ||||||
| PDC World Masters | DNQ | ||||||||
| UK Open | DNQ | 3R | 3R | 2R | 5R | 5R | |||
| Players Championship Finals | DNP | 1R | 1R | 2R | 1R | ||||
| PDC Non-ranked televised events | |||||||||
| World Youth Championship | RR | RR | RR | SF | 2R | DNP | |||
| World Series of Darts Finals | DNP | 2R | |||||||
| Career statistics | |||||||||
| Year-end ranking (PDC) | - | - | 147 | 103 | 93 | 66 | 51 | ||
PDC European Tour
| Season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | IDO DNP |
GDC DNQ |
GDG DNQ |
ADO DNQ |
EDO 1R |
CDO DNQ |
EDG DNQ |
DDC DNQ |
EDM DNQ |
HDT DNQ |
GDO DNQ |
BDO 1R |
GDT DNQ |
| 2023 | BSD DNQ |
EDO DNQ |
IDO DNQ |
GDG DNQ |
ADO DNQ |
DDC DNQ |
BDO DNQ |
CDO DNQ |
EDG DNQ |
EDM DNQ |
GDO 2R |
HDT DNQ |
GDC DNQ |
| 2024 | BDO DNQ |
GDG 1R |
IDO DNQ |
EDG DNQ |
ADO DNQ |
BSD DNQ |
DDC 2R |
EDO 3R |
GDC DNQ |
FDT 2R |
HDT DNQ |
SDT DNQ |
CDO 1R |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020[nb 1] | BAR DNP |
BAR DNP |
WIG DNP |
WIG DNP |
WIG DNP |
WIG DNP |
BAR DNP |
BAR DNP |
MIL DNP |
MIL DNP |
MIL DNP |
MIL DNP |
MIL DNP |
NIE DNP |
NIE DNP |
NIE DNP |
NIE DNP |
NIE DNP |
COV 2R |
COV 2R |
COV 1R |
COV 1R |
COV 1R | |||||||
| 2021[nb 1] | BOL DNP |
BOL DNP |
BOL DNP |
BOL DNP |
MIL DNP |
MIL DNP |
MIL DNP |
MIL DNP |
NIE 2R |
NIE 2R |
NIE 2R |
NIE 2R |
MIL 2R |
MIL 1R |
MIL 3R |
MIL 2R |
COV 1R |
COV 2R |
COV 4R |
COV 2R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 3R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 4R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 2R |
| 2022 | BAR 3R |
BAR 3R |
WIG 3R |
WIG 3R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
NIE SF |
NIE 1R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 3R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 2R |
WIG 2R |
WIG 1R |
NIE 1R |
NIE 2R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 4R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 4R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 3R |
| 2023 | BAR 1R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 3R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 4R |
BAR 1R |
HIL 2R |
HIL DNP |
WIG 1R |
WIG 1R |
LEI 4R |
LEI 2R |
HIL 2R |
HIL 1R |
LEI 4R |
LEI 4R |
HIL 3R |
HIL 1R |
BAR 4R |
BAR F |
BAR 1R |
BAR QF |
BAR 1R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 3R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 2R |
| 2024 | WIG 2R |
WIG 3R |
LEI 3R |
LEI 3R |
HIL 2R |
HIL 2R |
LEI 3R |
LEI QF |
HIL 4R |
HIL 3R |
HIL QF |
HIL 1R |
MIL 3R |
MIL 1R |
MIL 2R |
MIL 3R |
MIL 1R |
MIL 2R |
MIL 1R |
WIG 4R |
WIG 1R |
MIL 2R |
MIL 2R |
WIG 2R |
WIG 1R |
WIG 2R |
WIG 1R |
WIG 1R |
LEI 2R |
LEI 3R |
| Performance Table Legend | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W | Won the tournament | F | Finalist | SF | Semifinalist | QF | Quarterfinalist | #R RR Prel. |
Lost in # round Round-robin Preliminary round |
DQ | Disqualified |
| DNQ | Did not qualify | DNP | Did not participate | WD | Withdrew | NH | Tournament not held | NYF | Not yet founded | ||
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Kevin Doets - Mastercaller".
- ^ "PDC Order of Merit". PDPA. 12 January 2025. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
- ^ "Catalonia Open Men 2019". WDF. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
- ^ "Dutch Open 03/02/2019". Darts Database. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
- ^ Phillips, Josh (25 September 2020). "Dutch youngsters claim maiden Development Tour titles". PDC. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
- ^ Phillips, Josh (11 October 2020). "Edhouse & Evans win Tour Cards as Challenge Tour concludes". PDC. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
- ^ Phillips, Josh (28 November 2021). "Evetts crowned Unicorn World Youth Champion". PDC. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
- ^ "Van Gerwen wint en zorgt voor duel met Van Barneveld" [Van Gerwen wins and sets up a duel with Van Barneveld]. De Limburger (in Dutch). 26 November 2021. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
- ^ Allen, Dave (15 January 2022). "Rock & Kciuk headline Tour Card winners as 2022 Q Schools conclude". PDC. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
- ^ "Doets denies Rock a Winmau Development Tour debut double". PDC. 19 February 2022. Archived from the original on 21 February 2022.
- ^ Gill, Samuel (19 February 2022). "Doets restricts Rock from double Development Tour success claiming Event Four". Darts News. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
- ^ Gorton, Josh (4 September 2023). "Nine-dart Humphries denies Doets to clinch PC20 crown". PDC. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
- ^ "PDC World Championship 2024: Reigning champion Michael Smith survives opening-night scare from Kevin Doets". BBC Sport. 16 December 2023. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
- ^ "PDC world darts: Michael Smith given scare by Kevin Doets on opening night". The Guardian. 16 December 2023. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
- ^ Wood, Kieran (27 January 2024). ""Confidence lately has been through the roof" - Kevin Doets takes biggest win of his career against Peter Wright at Dutch Darts Masters". Darts News. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
- ^ van Ekeren, Koen (26 January 2024). "Kevin Doets stunt en kegelt Peter Wright uit Dutch Darts Masters" [Kevin Doets upsets and knocks Peter Wright out of Dutch Darts Masters]. DartsKing (in Dutch). Retrieved 30 November 2024.
- ^ Hartman, Tim (14 September 2024). "Kevin Doets vernedert Keane Barry met bijna het hoogste gemiddelde ooit op World Series of Darts Finals" [Kevin Doets humiliates Keane Barry with almost the highest average ever at the World Series of Darts Finals]. AD (in Dutch). Retrieved 30 November 2024.
- ^ Stafford, Ali (18 December 2024). "World Darts Championship: Noa-Lynn van Leuven beaten by Kevin Doets in historic Alexandra Palace debut". Sky Sports News. Retrieved 19 December 2024.
- ^ "Michael Smith stunned by Kevin Doets in World Darts Championship upset". The Guardian. 20 December 2024. Retrieved 19 December 2024.
- ^ Wellens, Megan (20 December 2024). "World Darts Championship: Michael Smith suffers shock early exit at hands of Kevin Doets". Sky Sports News. Retrieved 19 December 2024.
- ^ "Doets overleeft vier wedstrijddarts op WK, De Graaf treft Van Gerwen" [Doets survives four match darts at the World Championship, De Graaf meets Van Gerwen]. NOS (in Dutch). 29 December 2024. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
- ^ Wood, Kieran (29 December 2024). "Doets there it is! Kevin Doets rides out Ratajski rollercoaster and survives 4 missed matchdarts to book his place in last 16 of 2025 PDC World Darts Championship". Darts News. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
- ^ Roes, Marcel (18 August 2021). "Waarom darter Kevin Doets naar Zweden verhuisde: 'Maar ik weiger ABBA als walk-on song'" [Why darts player Kevin Doets moved to Sweden: 'But I refuse ABBA as a walk-on song']. Sport Nieuws (in Dutch). Retrieved 30 November 2024.
External links
[edit]- Kevin Doets player profile at Darts Orakel
- Kevin Doets player profile from Target Darts