"I played for 20 years, 6 or 7 Q-School's now it's the point": Emotional Kai Gotthardt finally achieves Tour Card dream
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Kai Gotthardt will make his PDC ProTour debut in full in 2025 after claiming his Tour Card for the next two years at European Q-School. The German has perhaps been one of the best players without a Tour Card for some time and he finally lived up to his billing.
As he remarked to Jacques Nieuwlaat for the PDC, he played one of his best friends in Steven Noster in the final having seen off Stefaan Henderyck, Davy Proosten, Michael Unterbuchner, Jamai van den Herik, Boris Krcmar and Jeroen Mioch.
Gotthardt also hit a 109 average en route to sealing his Tour Card and had the best average thus far as he sealed an important win. Now he can look forward to battling the best and making his mark on the PDC Tour.
He spoke afterwards emotional and said that he had been waiting a long time for this but that it finally showed that there was a point to all the toil as well as remarking that his World Championship debut gave him the fuel he needed to succeed.
"It was a really long day and I had to play the final against one of my best buddies. I'm over the moon, I don't find any words for this," said an emotional Gotthardt.
"I played for 20 years, I think I've played 6 or 7 Q-Schools and now it's the point. I get started my career. I feel much more confident, I played the World Championship. I play such good start and I can bring it to here."
"I got my Tour Card and that's the main thing."
He joins Viktor Tingstrom who claimed his Tour Card outright on Day One. Cor Dekker looks very likely to be joining them albeit given PDC Q-School rules, he will have to play all four days. Even worse so for Bradley Brooks who is on 10 points in the UK already but can't go home.
But for Gotthardt, he certainly can and he will look forward to the year ahead with great delight.
GOTTHARDT GETS IT DONE! 🇩🇪
— PDC Darts (@OfficialPDC) January 10, 2025
Kai Gotthardt wins a PDC Tour Card for the first time in his career!
The emerging German defeats his fellow countryman Steven Noster in a last-leg decider to triumph on Day Two of Final Stage in Kalkar! pic.twitter.com/wx44AdOmOp
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