Mission Recap – Team Mission Set For The FA Cup of Darts

Mission Recap – Team Mission Set For The FA Cup of Darts

Team Mission will be well represented at the UK Open with 22 players set to compete at Butlin’s Minehead this weekend.

‘The FA Cup of Darts’ gets underway on Friday afternoon with 160 players battling it out over three days for the £110,000 top prize.

Mike De Decker makes his first appearance as a Mission player and the World Grand Prix champion is joined by Ritchie Edhouse and Ryan Joyce in receiving byes to the fourth round.

New PDC tour card holders Cam Crabtree, Oskar Lukasiak, Viktor Tingström and Dominik Grüllich start off in round one, whilst Tavis Dudeney takes on Graham Hall in an all-Mission first round tie.

Adam Warner also starts his campaign in the opening round, with James Hurrell, Rhys Griffin, George Killington, Brett Claydon and Michele Turetta joining the action in round two.

The third round sees Martin Lukeman, Madars Razma, Wessel Nijman, Alan Soutar, Connor Scutt, Dylan Slevin and Stephen Burton all enter the tournament, before the fourth round draw sees players ranked 1-32 join the 32 winners from round three.

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The second Players Championship double-header took place in the Netherlands last week, with Wessel Nijman making a pair of last 16s.

Martin Lukeman reached the last 16 of Players Championship 3, whilst James Hurrell and Ryan Joyce both made the last 16 of Players Championship 4 the next day.

Cam Crabtree booked his spot in a second European Tour event of the season, winning through the tour card holder qualifiers for the German Darts Grand Prix in Munich.

‘Shazam’ joins already qualified Mike De Decker, Wessel Nijman, Ritchie Edhouse and Ryan Joyce, as well as András Borbély, who won through the East European Qualifier.

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The 2025 Development Tour got under way in Milton Keynes last week with a strong contingent of players from Team Mission and the Mission Academy in action.

Cam Crabtree reached the semi-finals of Event 3, along with a pair of quarter-finals (Events 1 and 4), whilst Tavis Dudeney made the quarter-finals of Event 3.

Kieran Thompson enjoyed a run to the last 16 of Event 2 and there was also last 16 runs for Francesco Basili and Dominik Grüllich in Event 5.

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The new Women’s Series season recently kicked off in Leicester with Robyn Byrne reaching the quarter-finals of Event 1.

The Irishwoman strengthened her bid for a return to the Women’s World Matchplay this summer with a run to the final of Event 3, whilst recent Dutch Open winner Rhian O’Sullivan made the quarter-finals in Events 2 and 3.

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Oskar Lukasiak stormed to the top of the PDC Nordic & Baltic Order of Merit after winning the season-opening event in Latvia.

The Swede defeated his fellow countryman Andreas Harrysson 6-5 in the Pro Tour 1 final, before backing up that success with a run to the semi-finals of Pro Tour 2.

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Mission’s player development manager Darryl Fitton enjoyed a winning return to the big stage at the World Seniors Championship last week.

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Elsewhere, Daniel Stephenson (boys) and Chloe O’Brien (women’s) caught the eye with semi-final runs at the recent WDF-ranked Scottish Open.

Jake Hobbs won Event 2 of the JDC Foundation Tour and reached the quarter-finals of Event 1, whilst Riley Emery made a pair of quarter-finals on the opening day of the new season.

Picture: PDC

 

 

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