Dimitri Van den Bergh

Dimitri Van den Bergh
To person
Nickname	The Dreammaker
nation	Belgium Belgium
Date of birth	July 8, 1994
place of birth	Antwerp , Belgium
place of residence	Antwerp , Belgium
Darts
Throwing hand	right
Enema music	Happy by Pharrell Williams
BDO	2012-2013
PDC	since 2013
Place in the world rankings	12.
Most important successes
PDC World Championship : quarter-finals 2018 World Matchplay Winner: 2020 PDC World Youth Championship : Winner : 2017 , 2018
Infobox last updated: July 27, 2020

Dimitri Van den Bergh (born July 8, 1994 in Antwerp ) is a Belgian darts player . The two brothers Kim Huybrechts and Ronny Huybrechts are his mentors and accompany him to various tournaments.

Career

BDO: 2012 to 2013

Dimitri Van den Bergh started his career in the BDO in 2012 . He won the British Teen Open in the first year . He also qualified for the oldest darts tournament, the World Masters . However, he failed in the first round.

PDC: since 2013

In order to make the leap to a professional, Van den Bergh switched to the competing darts association, the PDC, after only one year at the BDO . Van den Bergh was considered a great talent, and at the beginning he mainly focused on the PDC Youth Tour . He won several of these events in 2014 and became number 1 on the Youth Tour Order of Merit . He also took part in the German Darts Championship . He lost to Ronnie Baxter 2: 6 in the first round , despite an average of just under 103 points.

Van den Bergh got increasingly problems with the high level within the PDC and threatened to slip out of the top 100 of the PDC Order of Merit . Nevertheless, in 2015 he achieved two tournament victories on the PDC Development Tour . He was also able to secure a place in the 2015 World Series of Darts Finals in a qualifying tournament . He met Max Hopp in the first round and lost 3: 6. It was also his debut in front of TV cameras.

Van den Bergh then qualified for a world championship for the first time. At the PDC World Championship 2016 he met Ian White in the 1st round . White was number 9 in the world at the time and so Van den Bergh were hardly given any chances, but Van den Bergh prevailed with 3: 1. In the second round he was eliminated with 2: 4 against Benito van de Pas .

Van den Bergh was able to qualify for the Grand Slam of Darts 2016 , but did not survive the group stage despite second wins against Gerwyn Price and Scott Waites , as he did three shots in a dramatic 9-dart shootout in which the players had to try to get as many points as possible, lost to Robert Thornton .

At the 2017 World Cup he just lost 3-2 to Cristo Reyes in the first round . In the following year at the 2018 World Cup , Van den Bergh initially eliminated Stephen Bunting , Jan Dekker and Mensur Suljović , before failing in the quarter-finals against the eventual winner Rob Cross with 4-5, where he was able to make up a temporary deficit of 1: 4.

PDC World Youth Championship 2017

Van den Bergh played his way to the final of the PDC World Youth Championship 2017 in third place . In a very dominant final Dimitri van den Bergh was able to prevail against the Englishman Josh Payne . "The Dreammaker" won 6: 3 against his opponent Payne; the young Belgian played an average of over 100 and won the PDC World Youth Championship title.

On July 26, 2020, he won the 2020 World Matchplay with an 18:10 final victory over Gary Anderson .