Draft:Bradley Kirk
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| Bradley Kirk | |||||||||
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| Personal information | |||||||||
| Full name | Bradley Kirk | ||||||||
| Nickname | "The Piranha" | ||||||||
| Born | 31 May 1994 Southampton, Hampshire, England | ||||||||
| Home town | Southampton, Hampshire | ||||||||
| Darts information | |||||||||
| Playing darts since | 2012 | ||||||||
| Darts | 23g Harrows Gyro | ||||||||
| Laterality | Right-handed | ||||||||
| Walk-on music | "Tom Hark" by The Piranhas | ||||||||
| Organisation (see split in darts) | |||||||||
| BDO | 2012–2020 | ||||||||
| PDC | 2015-2018 | ||||||||
| WDF | 2012–Present | ||||||||
| Current world ranking | NR (14 November 2023)[1] | ||||||||
| WDF major events – best performances | |||||||||
| World Ch'ship | Debut: 2022 | ||||||||
| World Masters | Last 48: 2022 | ||||||||
| Other tournament wins | |||||||||
Youth events
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Bradley Kirk (born 31 May 1994) is a English professional darts player who currently plays in World Darts Federation (WDF) events. He is a 2024 Cyprus Masters Champion and won two PDC Development Tour titles in 2015. He also qualified for the 2024 WDF World Championships.
Career
[edit]After playing darts locally and for the Hampshire County teams, Bradley first started playing tour darts in the 2015 PDC Pro Tour on the Development Tour. After missing Events 3 & 4 due to a County Match, Bradley reached the final of Event 6 losing 4-2 to Benito Van De Pas and would also go on to reach the final of Event 9 this time losing 4-2 to Jamie Lewis. Along with good results in the other events reaching numerous Quarter Finals & Semi Finals, Bradley would win his first title in Event 13 with a 4-2 win over Nathan Aspinall. He also won a second event that weekend by taking the final event in the tour in Event 16 with a 4-3 win over Josh Payne. These results earned Bradley number one spot on the 2015 Development Tour Order of Merit and a 2-year PDC Tour Card, which Bradley later declined.
Bradley qualified 3 times for the PDC Youth World Championships. In 2015 on the back of his debut season on the Development Tour, Bradley was seeded Number 3 and reached the Quarter finals of the 2015 PDC World Youth Championships with a 6-1 win over Josh McCarthy, 6-2 win over Adam Hunt and a 6-1 win over Jimmy Hendricks before losing 6-3 to Roxy-James Rodriguez. In the 2016 PDC World Youth Championships he was unseeded and won his first round match 6-5 against Ryan Meikle before losing 6-5 to Jeffrey De Zwaan. In his final appearance in the 2018 PDC World Youth Championships he was seeded 21st, and won his Group stage with 5-3 wins over both Sven Groen and Keane Barry. He would then defeat Nico Schlund 6-2 in the Last 32 before a Last 16 exit being defeated 6-4 by Martin Schindler.
In 2016 & 2017 Bradley attempted to play in the BDO Tour with mixed fortunes, he reached his first senior event final in the 2016 Hal Masters where he would lose 3-1 in sets to Geert De Vos] and would have semi finals in the Belgian Masters and Luxembourg Open and would narrowly miss out on qualifying for that years World Championships along with losing in the final qualifying rounds of the World Masters and World Trophy Qualifiers that year. In the second year Health issues and poor form saw Bradley slip down the rankings and drop off the tour late in the season.
2024 saw Bradley return to the WDF Tour and during this season he would win his first Senior title at the 2024 Cyprus Masters with a 5-3 win over John Michael as well as a semi final at the Finnish Masters after a 4-3 loss to Kim Viljanen. These results in the limited event played saw rise to the Top 100 in the WDF Rankings and would earn a place at the 2024 WDF World Masters where he would progress through the group stages before losing in the Last 128. However Bradley would go on to qualify for the 2024 WDF World Championships by winning the qualifier in Hungary with a 6-5 win over Nico Blom.
World Championship results
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[edit]- 2024: Debut
References
[edit]- ^ "WDF Men's Rankings Table". WDF. 14 November 2023. Retrieved 14 November 2023.