
Ted Evetts has claimed his first title of the season after taking down Michael Unterbuchner to win PDC Challenge Tour Event Nine. 'Super Ted' who has previously been imperious on the secondary tours won 5-1 in the final.
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Albeit it is a first Challenge Tour title for Evetts, he has previously picked up a handful of Development Tour titles. Defeating the German, he saw off Andreas Harrysson, Kevin Lankhuizen, Ryan Palmer and Graham Hall among others.
Thus far though the story has been that Darius Labanauskas in scooping another title has usurped Beau Greaves who hasn't bothered playing this time around and has other players on her tail now.
The Challenge Tour circuit is open to players who participated in the Q-School but did not win a Tour Card. Through the Challenge Tour, the highest ranked players can gain entry to the Players Championship tournaments as alternates. The top two players at the end of the season receive a PDC Tour Card and may compete in the World Darts Championship.
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Final
Ted Evetts (94.91) 5 | 1 (88.71) Michael Unterbuchner
Semi-Finals
Michael Unterbuchner (86.41) 5 | 3 (85.17) Callum Goffin
Ted Evetts (100.79) 5 | 1 (84.24) Andreas Harrysson
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Quarter-Finals
Callum Goffin (79.28) 5 | 4 (81.31) Mervyn King
Michael Unterbuchner (77.82) 5 | 4 (84.82) Darius Labanauskas
Ted Evetts (86.57) 5 | 1 (76.17) Kevin Lankhuizen
Andreas Harrysson (85.10) 5 | 3 (89.78) Colin Osborne
Last 16
Mervyn King (93.41) 5 | 1 (90.19) Paul Rowley
Callum Goffin (90.00) 5 | 1 (75.78) Dan Hands
Darius Labanauskas (87.82) 5 | 1 (81.76) Andrew Cass
Michael Unterbuchner (86.71) 5 | 4 (88.41) Trevor Burkhill
Ted Evetts (87.50) 5 | 1 (78.85) Ryan Palmer
Kevin Lankhuizen (86.31) 5 | 2 (81.89) Ron Meulenkamp
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Andreas Harrysson (98.88) 5 | 0 (74.46) Laurin Welk
Colin Osborne (78.36) 5 | 2 (80.70) Bruno Stoeckli
Last 32
Mervyn King (90.54) 5 | 0 (70.62) Aaron Beeney
Paul Rowley (81.61) 5 | 2 (75.29) Remo Mandiau
Callum Goffin (88.71) 5 | 4 (86.39) Jeffrey De Zwaan
Dan Hands (85.19) 5 | 4 (85.42) Andy Hamilton
Darius Labanauskas (96.49) 5 | 1 (81.31) Dylan Dowling
Andrew Cass (78.97) 5 | 3 (83.84) Jack Tweddell
Trevor Burkhill (81.37) 5 | 4 (80.41) Pat Scurfield
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Michael Unterbuchner (90.66) 5 | 2 (81.21) Peter Burgoyne
Ted Evetts (103.18) 5 | 3 (92.03) Graham Hall
Ryan Palmer (79.06) 5 | 4 (77.43) Danny Jansen
Ron Meulenkamp (87.64) 5 | 3 (84.49) Sietse Lap
Kevin Lankhuizen (90.04) 5 | 4 (80.84) Charlie Martin
Laurin Welk (83.82) 5 | 3 (74.63) Carl Sneyd
Andreas Harrysson (87.79) 5 | 2 (82.05) Owen Maiden
Colin Osborne (96.38) 5 | 4 (93.69) Kevin Burness
Bruno Stoeckli (83.72) 5 | 3 (83.09) Matthias Ehlers
Last 64
Aaron Beeney () 5 | 3 () Brian Raman
Mervyn King (83.73) 5 | 1 (77.82) Michael Hurtz
Paul Rowley (93.06) 5 | 1 (88.32) Paul Mitchell
Remo Mandiau (75.53) 5 | 3 (66.65) Arjan Konterman
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Jeffrey De Zwaan (87.07) 5 | 3 (85.69) Marcel Walpen
Callum Goffin (84.56) 5 | 2 (80.44) Tom Lonsdale
Dan Hands () 5 | 4 () David Sharp
Andy Hamilton (86.38) 5 | 0 (84.22) Aden Kirk
Darius Labanauskas (92.78) 5 | 0 (76.54) Andrew Callary
Dylan Dowling (83.78) 5 | 3 (83.35) Levy Frauenfelder
Andrew Cass (81.96) 5 | 4 (81.30) Ryan O'Connor
Jack Tweddell (93.02) 5 | 3 (89.85) Jimmy van Schie
Trevor Burkhill (85.56) 5 | 1 (78.56) Arno Merk
Pat Scurfield (91.19) 5 | 3 (85.49) Lee Barrow
Peter Burgoyne (83.55) 5 | 3 (84.42) Stefan Bellmont
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Michael Unterbuchner (78.77) 5 | 2 (79.28) Mike Warburton
Graham Hall (91.65) 5 | 0 (80.50) Krzysztof Kciuk
Ted Evetts (91.84) 5 | 1 (75.97) Marc Vleghert
Danny Jansen (86.07) 5 | 4 (87.14) Dragutin Horvat
Ryan Palmer (83.78) 5 | 3 (81.22) Tommy Morris
Sietse Lap (86.29) 5 | 3 (75.59) Matthew Hall
Ron Meulenkamp (85.32) 5 | 3 (87.53) Chas Barstow
Kevin Lankhuizen (75.84) 5 | 4 (76.03) David Pallett
Charlie Martin (87.30) 5 | 3 (80.23) Henry Coates
Laurin Welk (87.27) 5 | 3 (82.90) Jenson Walker
Carl Sneyd (85.50) 5 | 4 (84.12) Alexander Merkx
Owen Maiden (76.01) 5 | 2 (76.07) Danny Van Klompenburg
Andreas Harrysson (96.32) 5 | 1 (89.51) Patrick Dekker
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Colin Osborne (96.20) 5 | 3 (89.10) Jeroen Mioch
Kevin Burness (104.38) 5 | 0 (83.64) Marcel Hexel
Matthias Ehlers (94.61) 5 | 2 (96.57) Rowby-John Rodriguez
Bruno Stoeckli (84.35) 5 | 3 (77.46) Christopher Wickenden
Last 128
Aaron Beeney (78.31) 5 | 4 (78.62) Kenny Neyens
Brian Raman (89.46) 5 | 0 (69.93) Franz Roetzsch
Michael Hurtz (82.40) 5 | 2 (75.96) Scott Campbell
Mervyn King (82.79) 5 | 3 (83.77) Tommy Lishman
Paul Mitchell (78.00) 5 | 1 (77.60) Tomas Hamrozi
Paul Rowley (88.20) 5 | 1 (71.09) Damian Mol
Arjan Konterman (72.64) 5 | 2 (72.65) Jarred Cole
Remo Mandiau (79.02) 5 | 3 (76.18) Simon Stothart
Jeffrey De Zwaan (86.57) 5 | 1 (68.71) James Evans-Bradford
Marcel Walpen (77.47) 5 | 0 (72.61) Dmitrii Rogov
Tom Lonsdale (77.68) 5 | 4 (76.85) Jeroen Caron
Callum Goffin (93.82) 5 | 3 (83.66) Jody Tobback
Dan Hands (81.78) 5 | 2 (72.75) Gino Vermeersch
David Sharp (80.07) 5 | 2 (78.27) Dustin Straver
Andy Hamilton (92.72) 5 | 1 (77.08) Frankie Ansell
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Aden Kirk (77.19) 5 | 1 (72.96) Ultan McDyer
Darius Labanauskas (90.12) 5 | 1 (82.56) Marcel Otter
Andrew Callary (77.19) 5 | 2 (73.41) Simeon Heinz
Levy Frauenfelder (84.45) 5 | 4 (86.63) Pal Szekely
Dylan Dowling (89.88) 5 | 1 (68.97) Jarno Bottenberg
Andrew Cass (83.25) 5 | 2 (79.27) Davy Robijns
Ryan O'Connor (78.79) 5 | 4 (79.28) Kirk De Ruyter
Jimmy van Schie (88.79) 5 | 3 (83.79) Vitezslav Sedlak
Jack Tweddell (86.69) 5 | 2 (91.12) Jamai van den Herik
Arno Merk (75.95) 5 | 2 (79.01) James Beeton
Trevor Burkhill (85.28) 5 | 3 (78.58) Michael Flynn
Lee Barrow (76.46) 5 | 3 (73.46) Ashley Sutton
Pat Scurfield (77.73) 5 | 1 (72.11) Boris Nowak
Peter Burgoyne (88.04) 5 | 2 (84.96) Luis Camacho
Stefan Bellmont (88.82) 5 | 3 (73.82) Donny Scheurwater
Michael Unterbuchner (87.38) 5 | 3 (78.21) Dmitriy Zhukov
Mike Warburton (83.13) 5 | 2 (73.40) Kevin Lane
Krzysztof Kciuk (88.18) 5 | 1 (83.01) Vinay Ramnath
Graham Hall (87.68) 5 | 4 (84.19) Jannes Bremermann
Ted Evetts (93.31) 5 | 1 (77.84) Colin Gibson
Marc Vleghert (85.87) 5 | 2 (76.91) Thomas Banks
Dragutin Horvat (80.28) 5 | 2 (70.80) Born Van Put
Danny Jansen (91.76) 5 | 4 (88.51) Kevin Troppmann
Ryan Palmer (80.13) 5 | 4 (79.92) Graham Usher
Tommy Morris (96.05) 5 | 3 (84.36) Craig Watkins
Matthew Hall (81.44) 5 | 1 (74.75) Lukasz Waclawski
Sietse Lap (97.75) 5 | 1 (90.62) Daniel Nicholls
Ron Meulenkamp (87.69) 5 | 4 (86.53) Michal Smejda
Chas Barstow (90.95) 5 | 3 (94.75) Carl Wilson
Kevin Lankhuizen (75.10) 5 | 4 (71.14) Neil Parry
David Pallett (83.94) 5 | 4 (78.52) David Evans
Henry Coates (94.47) 5 | 1 (84.26) Nathan Girvan
Charlie Martin (90.87) 5 | 4 (88.37) Eddie Lovely
Jenson Walker (93.50) 5 | 4 (88.18) Petr Krivka
Laurin Welk (70.63) 5 | 1 (60.05) Rik Mollink
Carl Sneyd (85.16) 5 | 3 (78.47) Conor Heneghan
Alexander Merkx (79.11) 5 | 0 (69.03) Anton Ostlund
Danny Van Klompenburg (94.47) 5 | 1 (89.43) Oliver Mueller (FfO)
Owen Maiden (81.68) 5 | 0 (64.43) Ruben Mesters
Andreas Harrysson (97.60) 5 | 0 (94.21) Lee Cocks
Patrick Dekker (77.59) 5 | 3 (76.37) John Henderson
Jeroen Mioch (75.15) 5 | 0 (48.00) Bradley Whitehead
Colin Osborne (77.29) 5 | 2 (78.54) Ieuan Halsall
Marcel Hexel (73.93) 5 | 3 (76.03) Dalibor Smolik
Kevin Burness (91.41) 5 | 2 (85.10) Nicolas Thuillier
Matthias Ehlers (88.41) 5 | 0 (64.04) Rob Holroyd
Rowby-John Rodriguez (87.08) 5 | 2 (73.13) Jurjen van der Velde
Christopher Wickenden (88.34) 5 | 1 (82.33) Scott Baker
Bruno Stoeckli (89.37) 5 | 4 (85.55) Gillian Koehoorn
Last 256
Kenny Neyens (68.32) 5 | 0 (67.58) Oliver Klein
Brian Raman (66.75) 5 | 3 (70.84) Reece Colley
Franz Roetzsch (89.82) 5 | 1 (75.94) Liam Kitchen
Michael Hurtz (77.97) 5 | 1 (67.88) Igor Perak
Mervyn King (73.82) 5 | 3 (72.16) Charlie Kemp
Tommy Lishman (68.26) 5 | 3 (69.18) Steve Sewell
Tomas Hamrozi (80.09) 5 | 4 (74.63) Geert Nentjes
Damian Mol (69.86) 5 | 2 (70.49) Danny Trueman
Paul Rowley (92.78) 5 | 0 (74.48) Marcel Erba
Jarred Cole (77.44) 5 | 2 (68.31) Patrick Schwab
Arjan Konterman (71.27) 5 | 4 (80.31) Richard Wagenaar
Simon Stothart (71.36) 5 | 4 (67.03) John Part
Remo Mandiau (71.85) 5 | 4 (79.26) Andrea Micheletti
Jeffrey De Zwaan (88.81) 5 | 1 (59.08) Sascha Stuhlemmer
Marcel Walpen (87.56) 5 | 2 (77.32) David Schlichting
Dmitrii Rogov (91.65) 5 | 0 (84.44) Tom Sykes
Tom Lonsdale (78.69) 5 | 2 (78.40) Noa-Lynn van Leuven
Jody Tobback (72.05) 5 | 1 (68.15) Rene Kaehler
Callum Goffin (95.13) 5 | 0 (79.29) Mat Caste
Dan Hands (78.14) 5 | 3 (77.17) John Davey
Dustin Straver (87.38) 5 | 0 (67.82) Stefan Dees
David Sharp (75.41) 5 | 3 (79.48) Danny van Trijp
Andy Hamilton (80.29) 5 | 4 (76.22) Robin Bos
Frankie Ansell (69.58) 5 | 0 (59.41) Chi-Minh Tran
Ultan McDyer (73.17) 5 | 4 (71.11) Patrick Tringler
Aden Kirk (85.77) 5 | 3 (78.79) Luca Pfaff
Darius Labanauskas (84.23) 5 | 2 (78.50) Marcel Gugger
Simeon Heinz (75.10) 5 | 3 (79.01) Keegan Brown
Andrew Callary (74.33) 5 | 3 (64.64) Calvin Nicolai
Levy Frauenfelder (81.91) 5 | 2 (80.28) Jarod Becker
Jarno Bottenberg (64.45) 5 | 3 (63.42) Michele Moscelli
Dylan Dowling (80.57) 5 | 4 (75.47) Jaikob Selby-Rivas
Andrew Cass (98.24) 5 | 1 (80.83) Moritz Richter
Kirk De Ruyter (75.14) 5 | 2 (71.75) Dennis van der Ende
Ryan O'Connor (74.64) 5 | 3 (71.92) Keith O'Neill
Jimmy van Schie (92.87) 5 | 2 (88.51) Daniel Klose
Vitezslav Sedlak (85.40) 5 | 0 (69.75) Fetih Kaya
Jamai van den Herik (97.60) 5 | 0 (79.50) Jan Dueckers
Jack Tweddell (85.08) 5 | 2 (74.31) Adrian Gray
James Beeton (77.40) 5 | 3 (66.88) Maikel Kustermans
Michael Flynn (93.94) 5 | 0 (35.73) Dimitri Nees
Trevor Burkhill (87.05) 5 | 2 (84.78) Ashley Coleman
Ashley Sutton (61.31) 5 | 1 (51.04) Alexander Elia
Pat Scurfield (80.81) 5 | 0 (63.93) Alen Alukic
Boris Nowak (67.80) 5 | 4 (67.39) Sion Thomas
Peter Burgoyne (86.45) 5 | 2 (81.52) Kevin Leadenham
Donny Scheurwater (78.04) 5 | 3 (71.28) Tom Riding
Stefan Bellmont (77.11) 5 | 3 (81.28) Chris Hurds
Michael Unterbuchner (88.38) 5 | 2 (86.38) Mitja Gustorf
Dmitriy Zhukov (73.14) 5 | 1 (60.98) Chris Hogg
Kevin Lane (93.26) 5 | 2 (90.00) Sam Spivey
Mike Warburton (71.14) 5 | 2 (64.26) Sean Taylor
Krzysztof Kciuk (75.15) 5 | 0 (40.56) Benjamin Allen
Graham Hall (84.44) 5 | 0 (67.21) Nils Stahlhut
Jannes Bremermann (85.40) 5 | 0 (74.07) Bailey White
Colin Gibson (70.08) 5 | 1 (59.46) Serge Brisset
Thomas Banks (82.39) 5 | 2 (80.16) Felix Schiertz
Marc Vleghert (95.13) 5 | 0 (80.72) Shane Turner
Dragutin Horvat (79.98) 5 | 1 (66.35) Nathan Potter
Danny Jansen (84.44) 5 | 0 (67.18) Ronnie Rickner
Kevin Troppmann (81.50) 5 | 1 (73.04) Rene Eidams
Graham Usher (85.41) 5 | 3 (70.91) Sean Fisher
Ryan Palmer (73.19) 5 | 4 (73.51) Sebastian Steyer
Craig Watkins (68.04) 5 | 3 (69.31) Steve Hine
Tommy Morris (81.55) 5 | 4 (85.90) Adam Mould
Lukasz Waclawski (85.40) 5 | 0 (75.71) Jeffrey Sparidaans
Daniel Nicholls (89.84) 5 | 2 (82.89) Halil Can Yildiz
Sietse Lap (74.95) 5 | 1 (70.94) Max Timmers
Ron Meulenkamp (83.28) 5 | 4 (92.70) Gilbert van der Meijden
Carl Wilson (93.94) 5 | 0 (69.69) Sandro Egli
Chas Barstow (77.80) 5 | 2 (71.22) Stevie Moreira
Neil Parry (87.42) 5 | 4 (72.28) Jozsef Szlanyina
David Evans (80.81) 5 | 4 (80.60) Gerko Tibbe
David Pallett (87.88) 5 | 1 (72.58) Deian Roberts
Henry Coates (75.58) 5 | 4 (83.16) Joe Hunt
Nathan Girvan (77.47) 5 | 0 (48.83) Ulrich Jansen
Eddie Lovely (85.64) 5 | 2 (81.31) David Davies
Charlie Martin (86.38) 5 | 0 (71.74) Robert Nelson
Petr Krivka (92.69) 5 | 1 (80.69) Neilie Brouder
Laurin Welk (72.49) 5 | 2 (63.46) Steven Inkpen
Rik Mollink (57.56) 5 | 2 (51.38) Clemens Schmiedlau
Carl Sneyd (88.62) 5 | 1 (73.59) Michael Rosenauer
Alexander Merkx (76.56) 5 | 1 (64.69) Bruno Rangel
Anton Ostlund (75.85) 5 | 3 (77.26) Scott Waites
Oliver Mueller (FfO) (88.79) 5 | 3 (85.04) Jacques Labre
Ruben Mesters (66.44) 5 | 4 (69.38) Gabriel Rollo
Owen Maiden (69.34) 5 | 2 (72.42) James Vanbesien
Lee Cocks (78.28) 5 | 0 (66.55) Ersan Alan
Andreas Harrysson (91.65) 5 | 0 (73.92) Fabian Schoen
John Henderson (81.45) 5 | 4 (76.30) Ash Ling
Patrick Dekker (76.98) 5 | 4 (76.40) Wesley van Trijp
Jeroen Mioch (84.70) 5 | 2 (85.25) Steven Beasley
Ieuan Halsall (76.13) 5 | 2 (71.86) Martin Tonks
Colin Osborne (92.51) 5 | 1 (75.46) Joe Croft
Marcel Hexel (72.88) 5 | 2 (69.29) Paul Kalashnikov
Nicolas Thuillier (84.36) 5 | 3 (84.26) Stu Wilson
Kevin Burness (92.85) 5 | 3 (81.69) Kelvin O'Keefe
Matthias Ehlers (71.02) 5 | 2 (64.23) Dylan Hauser
Rob Holroyd (70.23) 5 | 0 (68.76) Maikel Mossou
Jurjen van der Velde (95.13) 5 | 0 (78.81) Michael Huntley
Rowby-John Rodriguez (75.95) 5 | 2 (69.18) Jan Schmidt
Christopher Wickenden (80.29) 5 | 1 (75.43) Lukas Fraulob
Scott Baker (80.70) 5 | 3 (73.21) Sebastian Fey
Gillian Koehoorn (78.31) 5 | 4 (74.28) Conor Roberts
Bruno Stoeckli (86.13) 5 | 3 (77.87) Sergio Krassen

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