Wesley Plaisier | ||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Wesley Plaisier [1] | |||||||||||||||||
Born | 4 March 1990 The Hague, Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||
Home town | Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||
Darts information | ||||||||||||||||||
Playing darts since | 2010 | |||||||||||||||||
Darts | 24 Gram | |||||||||||||||||
Laterality | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||
Walk-on music | "Take Me Home, Country Roads” by John Denver | |||||||||||||||||
Organisation (see split in darts) | ||||||||||||||||||
BDO | 2014–2019 | |||||||||||||||||
PDC | 2019– | |||||||||||||||||
WDF | 2019- | |||||||||||||||||
Current world ranking | NR (20 February 2024) [2] | |||||||||||||||||
WDF major events – best performances | ||||||||||||||||||
World Ch'ship | Quarter Final: 2023 | |||||||||||||||||
World Masters | Winner (1): 2022 | |||||||||||||||||
Dutch Open | Runner Up: 2024 | |||||||||||||||||
PDC premier events – best performances | ||||||||||||||||||
UK Open | Last 96: 2024 | |||||||||||||||||
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Wesley Plaisier (born 4 March 1990) is a Dutch professional darts player.
Plaisier attended European Q-School in 2019, but never got farther than the last 32, missing out on a Tour Card. He did then qualify as one of the Association Member qualifiers for the 2019 European Darts Open in Leverkusen, Germany. He lost 6–3 to James Wade in the second round.
He also qualified for the 2019 Dutch Darts Masters, but he lost 6–1 to Brendan Dolan. A third European Tour qualification of 2019 was secured at the 2019 European Darts Matchplay, but Jamie Hughes beat him 6–5.
Plaisier performed well at the 2022 German Darts Grand Prix, beating Jim Williams, Joe Cullen and Dirk van Duijvenbode to reach the quarter-final stage, where he was beaten in a sudden-death leg by the tournament's eventual winner, Luke Humphries. [3] [4] [5]
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