Robert Owen (darts player)
Robert Owen | |||||
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Personal information | |||||
Full name | Robert Owen | ||||
Nickname | "Stack Attack" | ||||
Born | [1] September 23, 1984 Ogmore Valley, Wales | ||||
Home town | Lewistown, Bridgend, Wales | ||||
Darts information | |||||
Playing darts since | 2008 | ||||
Darts | 23g Bull's | ||||
Laterality | Right-handed | ||||
Walk-on music | "Jumping All Over the World" by Scooter | ||||
Organisation (see split in darts) | |||||
PDC | 2014–2020, 2022– (Tour Card: 2014-2019, 2023-) | ||||
WDF | 2021–2022 | ||||
Current world ranking | 75 (31 October 2024)[2] | ||||
WDF major events – best performances | |||||
World Ch'ship | Last 48: 2023 | ||||
PDC premier events – best performances | |||||
World Ch'ship | Last 96: 2023 | ||||
UK Open | Semi Final: 2018 | ||||
PC Finals | Last 64: 2017 | ||||
Other tournament wins | |||||
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Robert Owen (born 23 September 1984) is a Welsh professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He is an England Classic Champion, having won it in 2022.
Career
[edit]Owen secured himself a Tour card in 2014 with a one-day win in PDC Q-School. During the first two years, he was not able to earn enough prize money on the PDC Pro Tour to get into top 64 and had to play Q-School again in 2016. This time he earned a Tour Card via the points ranking. Later in the year, he only managed to qualify once for an event on the European Darts Tour with the 2016 European Darts Grand Prix.
His breakthrough came in 2017 when he reached the quarter-finals of the Players Championships in February and qualified for three tournaments on the European Darts Tour. Owen reached the quarter finals of the 2017 Dutch Darts Masters after defeating Jamie Bain, Cristo Reyes and Simon Whitlock, but was narrowly defeated in 6–5 by Michael SMith.[3]
He made his televised debut at the 2017 Players Championship Finals, but was defeated 6–2 by top seed Rob Cross.[4]
Despite his results in 2017, he had to compete again at Q-School in 2018, where he secured a Tour card for the third time by winning the second day. Owen qualified for the 2018 UK Open, where starting at the second round stage, he defeated Michael Burgoine, Jamie Lewis, Nathan Rafferty, Ian White and John Part to reach the semi finals in only his second televised event, but was defeated by Corey Cadby.[5]
However, Owen was unable to achieve any further tangible results in the period that followed and lost his Tour card at the start of 2020. This time, he was unable to get it back at the Q-School. For this reason, Owen competed in tournaments on the PDC Challenge Tour for the first time. The Welshman reached the 2020 UK Open via a Rileys Qualifier, where he was eliminated in the first round against Lewis Williams.
In January 2022, he reached a final on the PDC Challenge Tour for the first time, but lost to Scott Williams. He also lost his second final against Jurjen van der Velde in July. In September, however, he prevailed in a final against the Dutchman Christian Kist, securing his first title in PDC. Thanks to his results on the PDC Challenge Tour, he qualified for the 2023 PDC World Darts Championship as the first-placed player on the PDC Challenge Tour Order of Merit. There he was eliminated in the first round by Andrew Gilding.[6] Via PDC Challenge Tour Order of Merit, Owen secured Tour card for seasons 2023 and 2024. On September 5, 2023, he scored a nine-darter against Ritchie Edhouse in Players Championship 21.
In 2024 Owen qualified for three PDC European Tour events in the later part of the year, making it into the second round of 2024 German Darts Championship and 2024 Flanders Darts Trophy for the first time since 2017.[7]
Personal life
[edit]Owen studied at Ogmore Comprehensive School and Bridgend College. His wife Robyn works with the NHS, while Owen himself still work part time. [8]
World Championship results
[edit]PDC
[edit]- 2023: First round (lost to Andrew Gilding 2–3)
Performance timeline
[edit]Tournament | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |||
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PDC Ranked televised events | ||||||||||||||
World Championship | DNQ | 1R | DNQ | |||||||||||
UK Open | DNQ | SF | 3R | 1R | DNQ | 1R | 3R | |||||||
Players Championship Finals | DNQ | 1R | DNQ | |||||||||||
Career statistics | ||||||||||||||
Year-end ranking (PDC) | 156 | 129 | 120 | 80 | 76 | 74 | - | - | 117 | 116 |
PDC European Tour
Season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
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2014 | GDC DNP |
DDM DNP |
GDM DNQ |
ADO DNP |
GDT DNP |
EDO DNP |
EDG DNP |
EDT DNP | |||||
2015 | GDC DNQ |
GDT DNQ |
GDM DNQ |
DDM DNP |
IDO DNP |
EDO DNP |
EDT DNQ |
EDM DNQ |
EDG DNP | ||||
2016 | DDM DNQ |
GDM DNQ |
GDT DNQ |
EDM DNQ |
ADO DNQ |
EDO DNQ |
IDO DNQ |
EDT DNQ |
EDG 1R |
GDC DNQ | |||
2017 | GDC DNQ |
GDM 1R |
GDO DNQ |
EDG DNQ |
GDT DNQ |
EDM DNQ |
ADO DNQ |
EDO DNQ |
DDM QF |
GDG 1R |
IDO DNQ |
EDT DNQ | |
2018 | EDO DNQ |
GDG DNQ |
GDO DNP |
ADO DNP |
EDG 1R |
DDM DNQ |
GDT DNQ |
DDO DNQ |
EDM 1R |
GDC DNQ |
DDC DNQ |
IDO DNQ |
EDT DNQ |
2019 | EDO DNQ |
GDC DNQ |
GDG DNQ |
GDO DNQ |
ADO DNQ |
EDG 1R |
DDM DNQ |
DDO DNQ |
CDO DNQ |
ADC DNQ |
EDM DNQ |
IDO DNQ |
GDT DNQ |
2020 | Did not play | ||||||||||||
2021 | HDT DNQ |
GDT DNQ | |||||||||||
2022 | Did not play | ||||||||||||
2023 | BSD DNQ |
EDO DNQ |
IDO DNQ |
GDG 1R |
ADO DNQ |
DDC DNQ |
BDO 1R |
CDO DNQ |
EDG DNQ |
EDM DNQ |
GDO DNQ |
HDT 1R |
GDC DNQ |
2024 | BDO DNQ |
GDG DNQ |
IDO DNQ |
EDG DNQ |
ADO DNQ |
BSD DNQ |
DDC DNQ |
EDO DNQ |
GDC 2R |
FDT 2R |
HDT DNQ |
SDT DNQ |
CDO 1R |
PDC Players Championships
Season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2014 | BAR 2R |
BAR 2R |
CRA 1R |
CRA 1R |
WIG 1R |
WIG 1R |
WIG 1R |
WIG 1R |
CRA DNP |
CRA DNP |
COV 1R |
COV 1R |
CRA 2R |
CRA 1R |
DUB 3R |
DUB 1R |
CRA DNP |
CRA DNP |
COV 1R |
COV 1R | ||||||||||
2015 | BAR 1R |
BAR 3R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
COV 2R |
COV 2R |
COV 1R |
CRA DNP |
CRA DNP |
BAR DNP |
BAR DNP |
WIG 1R |
WIG 1R |
BAR DNP |
BAR DNP |
DUB 2R |
DUB 2R |
COV DNP |
COV 1R | ||||||||||
2016 | BAR 3R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 1R |
COV 1R |
COV 1R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
DUB 2R |
DUB 2R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 3R | ||||||||||
2017 | BAR 2R |
BAR QF |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
MIL 1R |
MIL 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 2R |
WIG 2R |
WIG 1R |
MIL 4R |
MIL 1R |
WIG 3R |
WIG 1R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
DUB 1R |
DUB 4R |
BAR 3R |
BAR 1R | ||||||||
2018 | BAR 2R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 2R |
MIL 1R |
MIL 1R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 1R |
WIG 1R |
WIG 4R |
MIL 1R |
MIL 2R |
WIG 4R |
WIG 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 2R |
DUB 1R |
DUB 3R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 1R | ||||||||
2019 | WIG 1R |
WIG 1R |
WIG 3R |
WIG 2R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
WIG 1R |
WIG 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 4R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
WIG 1R |
WIG 1R |
BAR DNP |
BAR 1R |
HIL 1R |
HIL 1R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 2R |
DUB QF |
DUB 1R |
BAR 3R |
BAR 1R |
2020[nb 1] | Did not play | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2021[nb 1] | Did not play | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2022[nb 1] | BAR DNP |
BAR DNP |
WIG DNP |
WIG DNP |
BAR 1R |
BAR 2R |
NIE DNP |
NIE DNP |
BAR DNP |
BAR DNP |
BAR DNP |
BAR 3R |
BAR 1R |
WIG 3R |
WIG 4R |
NIE 2R |
NIE 1R |
BAR DNP |
BAR DNP |
BAR DNP |
BAR DNP |
BAR 3R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 2R |
BAR DNP |
BAR DNP |
BAR DNP |
BAR DNP |
BAR DNP |
BAR DNP |
2023 | BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 3R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 1R |
HIL 3R |
HIL 1R |
WIG 1R |
WIG 2R |
LEI 1R |
LEI 1R |
HIL 1R |
HIL 1R |
LEI 1R |
LEI 2R |
HIL DNP |
HIL 1R |
BAR 4R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 3R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 3R |
BAR 3R |
BAR 2R |
2024 | WIG 1R |
WIG QF |
LEI 1R |
LEI 2R |
HIL 1R |
HIL 2R |
LEI 2R |
LEI 1R |
HIL DNP |
HIL DNP |
HIL 1R |
HIL 1R |
MIL 1R |
MIL 4R |
MIL 3R |
MIL 1R |
MIL 1R |
MIL 2R |
MIL 1R |
WIG 1R |
WIG 1R |
MIL 2R |
MIL 1R |
WIG 1R |
WIG 3R |
WIG QF |
WIG 1R |
WIG 2R |
LEI 2R |
LEI 1R |
Performance Table Legend | |||||||||||
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W | Won the tournament | F | Finalist | SF | Semifinalist | QF | Quarterfinalist | #R RR Prel. |
Lost in # round Round-robin Preliminary round |
DQ | Disqualified |
DNQ | Did not qualify | DNP | Did not participate | WD | Withdrew | NH | Tournament not held | NYF | Not yet founded |
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Robert Owen - Mastercaller".
- ^ "PDC Order of Merit". PDPA. 31 October 2024. Retrieved 31 October 2024.
- ^ "2017 Dutch Darts Masters Finals Day | PDC". www.pdc.tv. Archived from the original on 3 September 2017.
- ^ Allen, Dave (24 November 2017). "Mr Green Sport PCF Day One". Professional Darts Corporation. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
- ^ Murphy, Chris (4 March 2018). "Awesome Anderson's Coral UK Open Glory". PDC. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
- ^ Moss, Alex. "Former Walsham-le-Willows and Stowmarket ace Andrew Gilding beats Robert Owen on his World Darts Championship return". Diss Express. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
- ^ Wood, Kieran. "Alan Soutar, Cameron Menzies, Robert Owen and Gabriel Clemens earn qualification for Flanders Darts Trophy in Antwerp". Darts News. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
- ^ Gill, Samuel. "It's the hardest place to earn money but I like making life hard for myself"". Darts News. Retrieved 9 September 2024.