📊🎯 Darts Statistics
Frankfurt, Germany
Joined November 2016
- Tweets24K
- Following635
- Followers6.7K
- Likes9.9K
In his last two wins at the European Championship Kim Huybrechts has thrown 100+ averages. It's his only two 100+ averages in 17 games at the event.
European Championship 2026, Last 32
103.81 vs 🏴 Ryan Searle
European Championship 2015, Last 32
100.86 vs 🏴 Mervyn King
Defending champion Gian van Veen and top-seeded Ross Smith battle through two close matches, but the standout performance on the opening night of the European Championship comes from Kim Huybrechts, who posts a 103.81 average.
The number one seed Ross Smith survives a scare in a tricky first round tie against Karel Sedláček, in which the Czech missed 5 darts at double to take the game to a last leg decider.
From 4-4 the defending champion Gian van Veen won the last two legs in 27 darts (13 darts hold and 14 darts break). In the second round the Dutchman will face Luke Woodhouse.
103.81 Average - Kim Huybrechts throws his highest average ever at the European Championship and wins his first game at the tournament since beating Mervyn King back in 2015.
Damon Heta survives 4 match-darts from James Wade and wins his first game at the European Championship since 2021 after suffering four consecutive first round exits.
135 for the match! Gerwyn Price comes through his first round tie against Rob Cross with ease and will face Cameron Menzies in the next round.
Gerwyn Price and Rob Cross will both play their 25th game at the European Championship.
Games Won at the European Championship
54.2% 🏴 Gerwyn Price (13/24)
70.8% 🏴 Rob Cross (17/24)
2 out of 2 - Cameron Menzies maintains his perfect record in the first round of the European Championship after beating the most recent winner on the European Tour Niels Zonneveld.
Stephen Bunting takes out a 160-finish in the last and deciding leg after Danny Noppert missed one match-dart at tops in the previous visit.
9-Darter in the fourth leg of the tournament! Luke Woodhouse throws the perfect leg in the opening game of the European Championship and defeats Dirk van Duijvenbode 6-3.
19 players have got a perfect record in the 1st round of the European Championship.
100% 🏴 Phil Taylor (9/9)
100% 🏴 Luke Humphries (5/5)
100% 🇵🇹 José de Sousa (4/4)
100% 🇩🇪 Ricardo Pietreczko (3/3)
100% 🏴 James Wilson (2/2)
100% 🏴 Richard North (2/2)
100% ▪️ 13 player (1/1)
Ryan Joyce and Cameron Menzies are the only two players in the 2026 line-up of the European Championship with an untarnished record in the first round. Exactly half of the 32 players have got a positive record and five are aiming to get their first victory at the tournament.
Luke Humphries has withdrawn from the European Championship! His replacement will be Kim Huybrechts, who finished in the 33rd place of the European Tour rankings.
In about ten hours' time Luke Woodhouse and Dirk van Duijvenbode will be playing the opening game of the 2026 European Championship. Later this evening four former winners including the reigning champion Gian van Veen will take to the stage at the Westfalenhalle in Dortmund.
Luke Littler has played only three European Tour events this year, yet he has won more games than players who attended four or five times as many tournaments. In total 9 of the 32 participants haven’t won more games than they have lost during the 2026 Euro Tour season.
Kim Huybrechts, the player who narrowly missed qualification in the 33rd spot, had a better win rate (52.4% - 11/21) than 11 of the 32 players who qualified for the European Championship.
Five of the ten former European Championship winners have qualified for the 2026 edition of the tournament including the defending champion Gian van Veen. With Kevin Doets and Niels Zonneveld only two players will make their debut - the lowest number in the tournament’s history.
