Wesley Plaisier
Wikipedia - Wesley Plaisier
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.
History
2019
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
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 sudden-death leg by the tournament's eventual winner, Luke Humphries.
Plaiser won the 2022 Six Nations Charity Singles beating Scott Taylor in the final 5–4.
2023
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.
2024
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. Plaisier then reached the final in back to back events at Challenge Tours 15 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. 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.
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. At PC13 Plaisier lost the final to Ross Smith 8–7. At PC14 he lost the final to Jonny Clayton 8–5. At PC28 Plaisier defeated Josh Rock 8–7 in the final. This meant he became the fourth player, after Joe Murnan, Krzysztof Ratajski and Scott Williams, to win a Players Championship event without being a PDC tour card holder.
On the 2024 WDF Tour Plaisier retained the World Masters title that he won in 2022.