De Graaf states World Championship ambition after receiving Swedish citizenship: "But lately I’m far away from winning"

Jeffrey de Graaf despite initially being from the Netherlands has long lived in Sweden and has decided to switch nationalities to represent the country and will make his Nordic and Baltic Tour debut this weekend.

"It was difficult for me to move to Sweden. I tried to move back in 2016 when I had a Tour Card, but since I didn’t work in Sweden and had no income in Sweden, I couldn’t get my person number. However, I finally succeeded to get my person number in 2018 and officially moved from Holland,” said De Graaf to pdc-nordic.tv.

“I have been looking forward to play on the PDC Nordic & Baltic Tour for many years. But I couldn’t play earlier since I didn’t move to Sweden before 2018. From the moment I moved to Sweden in, I wanted to play on the tour.”

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But he has an ambition coming into this season through this system. “My ambition is definitely to qualify for the Worlds. No matter where I play I’m going for the win, but lately I’m far away from winning, considering how Q-School and the Challenge Tour went.”

But he isn't sure what to expect from his first foray. “Of course I know all the players from Sweden, I know Denmark has good dart players walking around. From Finland I don’t know that many, but the few that I know are good, although I’m not sure if they still play. Same as in Norway, they have a couple of good dart players but for the rest I don’t really know what to expect from.”