David Pallett

David John "Dave" Pallett (born 8 February 1990 in Newport, Shropshire) is an English professional darts player currently playing in Professional Darts Corporation events.

David Pallett
Personal information
Full nameDavid John Pallett
Born (1990-02-08) 8 February 1990
Newport, England
Darts information
Playing darts since2000
Darts20 Gram Bull's Germany Signature
LateralityRight-handed
Walk-on music"Parklife" by Blur
Organisation (see split in darts)
BDO2005–2012
PDC2013–
Current world ranking110 7 (3 January 2021)[1]
BDO majors – best performances
World MastersLast 32: 2012
PDC premier events – best performances
World Ch'shipLast 32: 2016
UK OpenSemi Final: 2018
Other tournament wins
TournamentYears
Coventry Open2014

Career

In January 2013, Pallett entered PDC Q School and stood just one match from joining the tour in the second event, but lost 6–5 to Louis Blundell.[2] However, after all four events had been played he had done enough through the Q School Order of Merit to earn a two-year PDC tour card.[3] Pallett qualified for the first European Tour event of the year, the UK Masters and beat top 20 player Paul Nicholson 6–3 in the opening round before losing by a reverse of this scoreline to two-time world champion Adrian Lewis in the second round.[4] He reached the last 16 of a PDC event for the first time in June at the fifth Players Championship where he was beaten 6–3 by Terry Jenkins.[5] At the Dutch Darts Masters, he saw off established players Mark Walsh and Dave Chisnall, before Brendan Dolan eliminated Pallett in the third round.[6]

In the beginning of the 2014 season, Pallett threw a nine-dart finish at the third UK Open Qualifier.[7] He entered the UK Open itself at the second round stage and defeated Gary Spedding and Kevin McDine to reach the last 32 where Gary Anderson won 9–5.[8] Pallett defeated Jamie Lewis and Andy Hamilton at the German Darts Masters, before reigning world champion Michael van Gerwen eliminated him 6–4 in the third round.[9] Two more last 16 appearances in Players Championship events followed which contributed to Pallett earning £11,750 during the year on the Pro Tour Order of Merit, which saw him make his debut at the 2015 World Championship by taking the 11th of 16 places that were on offer to non-qualified players.[10] Pallett played two-time winner of the event Adrian Lewis in the first round and took out a 161 finish in the first leg, but lost each set by three legs to one in a 3–0 defeat.[11] He moved to world number 48 after the event.[12]

At the 2015 UK Open, Pallett defeated Mark Dudbridge, Andy Smith and Colin Fowler to play in the fourth round of the event for the second year in a row.[13] He faced Phil Taylor and was beaten 9–3.[14] In September, Pallett averaged over 100 in knocking out both Jamie Caven (100.73) and Jelle Klaasen (104.83) at the European Darts Matchplay. His run continued with 6–5 wins over Alan Norris and Kim Huybrechts to reach the semi-finals of a PDC event for the first time, where he lost 6–3 to Dave Chisnall.[15] This result was a huge factor in Pallett qualifying for his second successive World Championship, where he will play Huybrechts in the first round.[16]

Pallett missed two darts to take a 2–1 set lead over Kim Huybrechts in the first round of the 2016 World Championship. However, after Huybrehcts took the opening leg of the fourth set, Pallett reeled off six straight legs to win 3–2, which included 132 and 122 finishes in the last two games.[17] In the second round both Pallett and Mensur Suljović missed darts at doubles for nine-dart finishes. There was never more than a set between the players, with Suljović taking the final set by three legs to one.[18] He reached the quarter-finals of the first UK Open Qualifier and lost 6–2 to Phil Taylor.[19] His third round match with Raymond van Barneveld at the UK Open went to a deciding leg in which the Dutchman threw an 11 darter to win 9–8.[20] It was a tough rest of the year for Pallett, but he did reach the last 16 twice towards the end of it, losing 6–3 to Steve West at the 18th Players Championship event and 6–4 to Mensur Suljović at the German Darts Championship.[21][22]

Pallett regained his PDC Tour Card in January 2019 via the Order of Merit, sealing at least two years on the ProTour.

World Championship results

PDC

References
  1. "PDC Order of Merit". PDC.tv. 3 January 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  2. "PDC Qualifying School Day Two". PDC.tv. Professional Darts Corporation. Archived from the original on 21 January 2013. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
  3. "PDC Qualifying School Day Four". PDC.tv. Professional Darts Corporation. Archived from the original on 25 January 2013. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
  4. "2013 PDC UK Masters Results". Darts Database. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
  5. "2013 PDPA Players Championship Crawley Results". Darts Database. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
  6. "2013 PDC Dutch Darts Masters Results". Darts Database. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
  7. "Taylor Wins With Two Perfect Nines!". PDC. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
  8. "2014 UK Open Results". Darts Database. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
  9. "2014 PDC German Darts Masters Results". Darts Database. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
  10. "2015 PDC World Championship Qualifiers". Darts Database. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
  11. "William Hill World Championship Draw". PDC. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
  12. "Order of Merit on 5 January 2015". PDC. Archived from the original on 8 January 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
  13. "Coral UK Open Third Round". PDC. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  14. "Coral UK Open Fourth Round". PDC. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  15. "Mighty Mike's Innsbruck Triumph". PDC. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  16. "William Hill World Championship Draw". PDC. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  17. "William Hill World Championship Day Two". PDC. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
  18. "William Hill World Championship Day Ten". PDC. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  19. "Lewis Powers To Wigan Title". PDC. 20 November 2016.
  20. "2016 Coral UK Open Day One". PDC. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
  21. "2016 PDPA Players Championship Ireland Results". Darts Database. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
  22. "2016 PDC German Darts Championship Results". Darts Database. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
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