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Thibault Tricole ready for debut at PDC World Darts Championship but "I'm not going to specially train extra hours"
PDCFriday, 01 December 2023 at 11:00
Darts is becoming more and more of an internationally strong sport and more history is being made again this year at the PDC World Darts Championship. For the first time a Frenchman will compete at Alexandra Palace.
That honour goes to Thibault Tricole. The 34-year-old native of Malguénac qualified as the winner of the Western European qualifying tournament, where he defeated Wesley Plaisier 7-4 in the final. Tricole has been active twice before at the BDO/WDF World Championship, last year he even went all the way to the final, where he lost to Northern Irishman Neil Duff.
Tricole is fully ready to make a good impression at the PDC World Darts Championship. "I'm not going to specially train extra hours, but as usual I'm going to loosen up my arm a bit every day to keep the good feeling," he says in conversation with L'Equipe.
Darts is not yet very popular in France, although the country does have a Tour Card holder with Jacques Labre and now with Tricole also a participant in the PDC World Darts Championship. Earlier this year, Labre and Tricole even reached the quarter-finals at the World Cup of Darts.
Tricole already knows where he can make a difference. "There is little interaction between the players on stage, at least not verbally. No, you can mainly make the difference by piling up high scores and finishes. It can mentally break your opponent when they hear a 180 score called for you all the time. In that sense, it is a totally different sport from, say, football, where there is a lot of talking between the players during the match."
In the opening round, 'The French Touch' will take on Belgian Mario Vandenbogaerde on Monday evening, December 18. The winner of that duel will meet eighth-seeded Englishman Rob Cross in the second round.
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