The second day of action is complete at European Q-School with Geert Nentjes claiming the second outright Tour Card of the week from Niedernhausen but it was also a day that had a bearing on the Order of Merit.
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During this year's European Q-School alongside those who claim the four outright spots, eight more are available through the Order of Merit which will conclude at the end of the four days.
For fans of Raymond van Barneveld, there is good news as the five-time World Champion sits second on the Order of Merit with six points. It is expected based on current calculations that eight points will be enough after four days.
Just one more Last 16 appearance will likely do it for the doyen of Dutch darts and he has achieved it on two days so far. On Sunday he lost to Martin Schindler in that round who was excellent and on Monday, eventual winner Nentjes was two strong.
As a result of Nentjes falling off the Order of Merit after his win, Zoran Lerchbacher sits top and 'The Hypercane' looks a dead certain to return to the tour.
Martin Schindler and Boris Koltsov still have a bit of work to do but sit with five points followed by Mario Vandenbogaerde. Gino Vos, Lorenzo Pronk and Michael Unterbuchner currently have four points. While Ryan de Vreede sits just outside of the top eight due to a worse leg difference.
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EU Q-School Final Stage Order of Merit
Rank - Name - Points - Leg +/- (source dartsrankings.com)
1 Zoran Lerchbacher 7 +15
2 Raymond van Barneveld 6 +13
3 Martin Schindler 5 +12
4 Boris Koltsov 5 +12
5 Mario Vandenbogaerde 4 8
5 Gino Vos 4 +8
7 Lorenzo Pronk 4 +6
8 Michael Unterbuchner 4 +3
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9 Ryan De Vreede 4 -1
10 Rusty-Jake Rodriguez 3 +9
11 Wesley Plaisier 3 +8
12 Richard Veenstra 3 +7
13 Niels Zonneveld 3 +6
14 Michal Smejda 3 +6
15 Davy Proosten 3 +6
16 Patrick van den Boogaard 3 +2
17 Christian Bunse 3 +2
18 Adam Gawlas 2 +4
19 Robert Marijanovic 2 +3
20 Lukas Wenig 2 +1
21 José Justicia 2 +1
22 Maikel Venema 2 0
23 Toni Alcinas 2 0
24 Matt Campbell 2 -1
25 Jan Dekker 2 -2
26 Pero Ljubic 2 -3
27 John Michael 2 -3
28 Robbie Knops 1 +4
28 Patrick Tringler 1 +4
30 Dragutin Horvat 1 +3
31 Davyd Venken 1 +1
32 Kai Gotthardt 1 +1
33 Claus Bendix Nielsen 1 +1
34 Rients Visser 1 0
35 Moreno Blom 1 -1
35 Ricardo Pietreczko 1 -1
37 Steven Noster 1 -1
38 Veijo Viinikka 1 -2
39 Sergio Krassen 1 -2
40 Gary Mawson 1 -2
41 Kevin Blomme 1 -2
41 Niko Springer 1 -2
43 Michael Rasztovits 1 -3
44 Franz Roetzsch 1 -3
45 Rowby-John Rodriguez 1 -3
46 Danny van Trijp 1 -3
47 Florian Hempel 1 -4
48 Maikel Verberk 1 -7
49 Daniele Petri 1 -7
50 Arsen Ballaj 0 0
50 Eric Boyer 0 0
50 Jiri Brejcha 0 0
50 Kevin Costantini 0 0
50 Jandirk de Groot 0 0
50 Rene Eidams 0 0
50 El Abbas El Amri 0 0
50 Sven Fiedler 0 0
50 Levy Frauenfelder 0 0
50 Dominique Goldberg 0 0
50 Toon Greebe 0 0
50 Michael Hausler 0 0
50 Jerry Hendriks 0 0
50 Sven Hilling 0 0
50 Roland Hol 0 0
50 Christian Jentschke 0 0
50 Andreas Toft Jorgensen 0 0
50 Christian Kist 0 0
50 Karsten Koch 0 0
50 Arjan Konterman 0 0
50 Chris Landman 0 0
50 Remo Mandiau 0 0
50 Erik Meulenmeesters 0 0
50 Daniel Meyer 0 0
50 Marco Obst 0 0
50 Michael Plooy 0 0
50 Ivan Springborg Poulsen 0 0
50 Nico Schlund 0 0
50 Michael Seemann 0 0
50 Veniamin Symeonidis 0 0
50 Eimardo Van Engelen 0 0
50 Philip Van Gasse 0 0
50 Mikel van Maastrigt 0 0
50 Gijsbert Van malsen 0 0
50 Gian van Veen 0 0
50 Steve Wollener 0 0
86 Martijn Dragt 0 -1
86 Thomas Junghans 0 -1
86 Sebastian Steyer 0 -1
86 Jens Ziegler 0 -1
90 Stefan Bellmont 0 -2
90 Sebastian Bialecki 0 -2
90 Kevin Doets 0 -2
90 Leonard Gates 0 -2
90 Marcel Gerdon 0 -2
90 Marko Kantele 0 -2
90 Willem Mandigers 0 -2
90 Jeroen Mioch 0 -2
90 Luc Peters 0 -2
90 Sebastian Pohl 0 -2
90 Owen Roelofs 0 -2
90 Michael Stoeten 0 -2
90 Egor Tvorogov 0 -2
90 Benito van de Pas 0 -2
90 Jeffrey Van Egdom 0 -2
105 Gillian Koehoorn 0 -3
106 Jeffrey De Graaf 0 -3
106 Jimmy Hendriks 0 -3
106 Ronny Huybrechts 0 -3
106 Nico Kurz 0 -3
106 Thibault Tricole 0 -3
111 Mindaugas Barauskas 0 -4
111 Kenny Neyens 0 -4
111 Laurent Toussaint 0 -4
114 Johan Engstrom 0 -5
114 Kay Smeets 0 -5
114 Jeremy van der Winkel 0 -5
117 Andrew Beeton 0 -5
117 Patrick Bulen 0 -5
117 Stefan Taferner 0 -5
117 Jaimy van de Weerd 0 -5
117 Vincent Van der Meer 0 -5
122 Jitse Van der Wal 0 -6
123 Patrik Kovacs 0 -6
123 Stefan Nilles 0 -6
125 Brian Raman 0 -7
126 Damian Mol 0 -8
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