Rising talent Kay sets ambitions high: "I'd like to say I'd be on the ProTour in the next two to three years"

Keelan Kay is currently in third place on the PDC Development Tour with the 20-year-old rising talent making an impression and hoping to make it onto the ProTour.

Kay discussed his start in darts as part of a feature with The Darts Show.

"I first started playing darts around nine years ago. I literally asked my parents for a dartboard, started playing and practicing and just trying my best and all of a sudden, I got invited to play Eric Bristow at an exhibition and I managed to beat him. He was a little bit shocked, I just went up and smashed him," said Kay to The Darts Show.

"In 2015, I played Michael van Gerwen at an exhibition and I got invited to play in a local league and from there onwards, I started playing and got invited to play Youth County and then the year after I started playing the JDC and then Development Tour and that's when I started cracking on and noticed that I could make it."

Currently sitting third place on the Development Tour, he has set his ambitions firmly on joining the darting elite.

"If I was to win a Tour Card and make it onto the ProTour, that would be a dream come true. I'd like to say I'd be on the ProTour in the next two to three years and if not, high up on the Challenge and Development Tours but ultimately the plan is to get onto the ProTour in the near future."

His idol is also Michael van Gerwen with another aim to beat him in the near future in an exhibition.

"My first darts hero was Michael van Gerwen. Just his game and his confidence, I just love everything about it. I played him twice, I haven't beat him yet but hopefully I will in the very near future."