Daniel Klose | |
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Personal information | |
Full name | Daniel Klose |
Nickname | Dan The Man |
Born | [1] 30 October 1979 Ansbach, Germany |
Home town | Bechhofen (Mittelfranken), Germany |
Darts information | |
Playing darts since | 2019 |
Darts | 20g |
Laterality | Right-handed |
Walk-on music | "You're the Best" by Joe Esposito |
Organisation (see split in darts) | |
PDC | 2019– (Tour Card: 2023-) |
Current world ranking | 73 (22 August 2024) [2] |
PDC premier events – best performances | |
UK Open | Last 64: 2024 |
PC Finals | Last 64: 2023 |
Daniel Klose (born 30 October 1979) is a professional German darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation events.
Klose qualified for his first PDC European Tour tournament in 2019, when he qualified for the 2019 European Darts Grand Prix, but he lost in the first round to Keegan Brown. In November 2020, he qualified as one of three players for Super League Darts 2020, where he reached the quarter-finals. In his second Super League participation the following year, he was eliminated in the preliminary round. He was subsequently unable to win a Tour Card at the PDC Q-School and went on to play the PDC Challenge Tour 2022, where he reached the quarter-finals in January and July and the semi-finals in September. In March 2022 Klose made his debut on the PDC Pro Tour when he took place as a substitute player for the Players Championships. In November, he again took part in Super League, where he narrowly lost 7:8 in the semi-finals to eventual winner Florian Hempel.
In 2023 Q-School of darts he won a two-year Pro Tour card. He made the first PDC final of his career at the 21st Players Championship event of 2023 in September, losing to Gerwyn Price. After Max Hopp, Gabriel Clemens, Martin Schindler and Ricardo Pietreczko, he was the fifth German to reach the final of a PDC professional tournament. [3] In September 2023, Klose managed to qualify for the 2023 World Series of Darts Finals via the Tour Card Holder Qualifier. He lost in the first round 3-6 to Krzysztof Ratajski. As 54th seed he qualified for 2023 Players Championship Finals, at his debut he lost with Ryan Joyce 3-6 in the First round. On November 27, 2023, he took part in the "Tour Card Holder Qualifier", the last opportunity to qualify for the 2024 PDC World Darts Championship. He only just missed out on his World Championship debut when he lost 5:7 to Darren Webster in the final. [4]
PDC
Tournament | 2023 | 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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UK Open | 2R | 4R | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Players Championship Finals | 1R | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PDC Non-ranked televised events | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World Series of Darts Finals | 1R | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Career statistics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PDC Year-end ranking | 101 [nb 1] |
PDC European Tour
Season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
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2019 | EDO DNP | GDC DNP | GDG DNP | GDO DNP | ADO DNP | EDG 1R | DDM DNP | DDO DNP | CDO DNP | ADC DNP | EDM DNQ | IDO DNP | GDT DNP |
2020 | Did not play | ||||||||||||
2021 | Did not play | ||||||||||||
2022 | IDO DNQ | GDC DNQ | GDG DNQ | ADO DNQ | EDO DNQ | CDO DNQ | EDG DNQ | DDC DNP | EDM DNQ | HDT DNP | GDO DNQ | BDO DNP | GDT DNP |
2023 | BSD DNQ | EDO DNQ | IDO DNQ | GDG DNQ | ADO DNQ | DDC DNQ | BDO DNP | CDO DNP | EDG DNQ | EDM 1R | GDO 1R | HDT DNQ | GDC DNQ |
2024 | BDO 1R | GDG DNQ | IDO DNQ | EDG DNQ | ADO 3R | BSD DNQ | DDC | EDO | GDC | FDT | HDT | SDT | CDO |
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 |
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2022 | BAR DNP | BAR DNP | WIG DNP | WIG DNP | BAR DNP | BAR DNP | NIE 1R | NIE 1R | BAR DNP | BAR DNP | BAR DNP | BAR DNP | BAR DNP | WIG DNP | WIG DNP | NIE DNP | NIE DNP | BAR DNP | BAR DNP | BAR DNP | BAR DNP | BAR DNP | BAR DNP | BAR DNP | BAR DNP | BAR DNP | BAR DNP | BAR DNP | BAR DNP | BAR DNP |
2023 | BAR 1R | BAR 1R | BAR 2R | BAR 2R | BAR 2R | BAR 1R | HIL 1R | HIL 2R | WIG 2R | WIG 2R | LEI 2R | LEI 1R | HIL 1R | HIL 1R | LEI 1R | LEI 1R | HIL 1R | HIL 1R | BAR 1R | BAR 1R | BAR F | BAR 1R | BAR 1R | BAR 2R | BAR 4R | BAR 3R | BAR 1R | BAR 1R | BAR 2R | BAR 2R |
Performance timeline legend | |||||||
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DNP | Did not play in the event | DNQ | Did not qualify for the event | WD | Withdrew from the event | #R | lost in the early rounds of the tournament (RR = Round robin) |
QF | lost in the quarter-finals | SF | lost in the semi-finals | F | lost in the final | W | won the tournament |
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