Darts - First German victory at the World Darts Championship
Florian Hempel was the first German player to win his opening match at this year's World Darts Championship in London. Hempel prevailed 3:1 against Ireland's Dylan Slevin on Sunday evening. Hempel will play Belgian Dimitri van den Bergh in the second round. Hempel had surprisingly defeated him at the 2022 World Championships.
The 33-year-old Hempel found it particularly difficult at the start of the match - the first set went to Slevin. The player from Cologne kept missing darts on double fields. In the end, a hit on double 18 ensured a hard-fought victory for the Germans.
Hempel had to win the match to still have a chance of defending his own Tour Card. Even a win over Slevin might not be enough to slip into the top 64 in the rankings. He would then need an additional win against van den Bergh in round two. If Hempel does not make it into the top 64, he will have to prove himself in the so-called Q-School in January and get his Tour Card back.
Hempel was the first German representative to go on the board in the Ally Pally at the World Championship. On Tuesday evening (from 9.00 pm/Sport1 and DAZN), Dragutin Horvat (against Belgium's Mike de Decker) and Ricardo Pietreczko (in a duel with Japan's Mikuru Suzuki) will play their first round matches one after the other. The two seeded professionals Gabriel Clemens and Martin Schindler will take part in the action on Thursday and Friday.
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Source: www.stern.de
