Pavel Jirkal

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Pavel Jirkal
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Jirkal in 2021
Personal information
Full namePavel Jirkal [1]
Born (1983-04-10) 10 April 1983 (age 40)
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Home townPrague, Czech Republic
Darts information
Playing darts since1997
Darts21g
Laterality Right-handed
Walk-on music"Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Organisation (see split in darts)
BDO 2004–2020
WDF 2004–
Current world ranking (WDF) NR (14 November 2023) [2]
WDF major events – best performances
World Masters Last 144: 2015, 2017
Other tournament wins
Czech Open 2001
Medal record
Men's Darts
Representing Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic
WDF Europe Cup
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2018 Budapest Men's singles
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2018 Budapest Men's pairs

Pavel Jirkal (born 10 April 1983) is a Czech darts player currently playing in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events.

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Career

Pavel started playing at the age of 14 and is one of the most experienced Czech players.

In 2001 he won Czech Open, a tournament organised by the British Darts Organisation (BDO), when he defeated another Czech player, Radek Schulz. A year later, he became the World champion U21 in soft-tip darts.

He took part in bigger international tournaments in 2004 and 2005, when he competed in the major tournament World Masters. In 2008 he got a chance to play in four tournaments of PDPA Players Championship, twice he made it among last 64. During years he won many national single and doubles titles.

A bartender by trade, in 2015, he represented his country with Michal Kočík in the 2015 PDC World Cup of Darts, but they were defeated 5–2 in the first round by the Austrian duo of Mensur Suljović and Rowby-John Rodriguez. He made it into last 144 on 2015 World Masters, the same result he repeated in 2017.

Jirkal became Runner-up after losing to Martin Heneghan from Ireland of the 2018 WDF Europe Cup. In November he played an exhibition tournament Prague Darts Masters. [3]

He attended European Q-School in 2019, where he reached the final on Day 3, but lost to Christian Bunse, and he would lose to the Day 4 winner Darius Labanauskas the following day, missing out on a Tour Card. He did then qualify as the East European qualifier for the 2019 European Darts Open in Leverkusen, Germany and also to the 2019 German Darts Open in Saarbrücken. In the first tournament he won 6-1 over William Borland and made it into the second round, where he lost 3-6 to Darren Webster. [4] In the second tournament he lost 0-6 to Luke Humphries. In June he represented Czech republic along with Karel Sedláček in 2019 World Cup of Darts. The Czech republic team lost in the first round with Poland (Krzysztof Ratajski and Tytus Kanik) 2-5. [5]

In early 2020 he participated in PDC European Q-school, three time he made it into last 128, once he was eliminated in last 512. In April 2020 he became one of the ten players of newly found 2020 Tipsport Premier League. [6] It was not really successful journey for him, with just two victories, over Michal Ondo and Daniel Barbořák, he finished 9th after Phase 1 and was eliminated from the tournament.

Major tournaments results

WDF

Turnaj201620172018
WDF Europe Cup Singles L128 DNP F

BDO

Turnaj200420052006–201320142015201620172018
BDO World Darts Championship DNPDNPDNPDNPDNQDNQDNQDNQ
Winmau World Masters L192 L192 DNP L272 L144 L272 L144 DNP

PDC

Turnaj20152016–20182019
PDC World Cup of Darts L32 DNP L32

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References

  1. ↑ "Pavel Jirkal". Mastercaller.com. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
  2. ↑ "WDF Men's Rankings Table". WDF. 14 November 2023. Retrieved 14 November 2023.
  3. ↑ "Šipkařský svátek v Praze! Jednou bych chtěl být mistr světa, říká Benecký".
  4. ↑ "Pipe, Jirkal and Dennant first through to second round at European Darts Open". 22 March 2019.
  5. ↑ "Čechům World Cup nevyšel, šipkaři vypadli v prvním kole". 7 June 2019.
  6. ↑ "České šipky spouští nový projekt. Tipsport Premier League 2020 startuje". 7 April 2020.
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