Lisa Ashton made history by becoming the first woman to win a PDC Tour Card through Qualifying School on Sunday in Wigan.

 

Four-time BDO Women’s Champion Ashton will compete on the PDC ProTour in 2020 and 2021 after holding on to the final qualification place on the Q School Order of Merit on a landmark day for the sport.

Ashton, who starred in the 2018/19 World Championship, had to endure a nervous wait after going down 5-2 to Justin Smith in her second game of the day resulting in no points being added to her Order of Merit tally.

However, results over the course of the day meant that Ashton’s nine points, the bulk of which were won in her run to the last eight on Day Two, were enough to secure her place on the PDC professional circuit for the first time.

Ashton was one of six players tied on nine points, but she and Darren Penhall held the advantage in number of legs won over the four days to take the final two qualification spots. A dramatic final day of action in Wigan and Hildesheim saw both UK and European Q Schools reach their climax as 22 players won two-year Tour Cards.

Two-time BDO Champion Scott Waites will compete on the PDC circuit for the first time in 2020 after winning his Tour Card outright on the final day along with Welshman Nick Kenny.

Having struggled on the opening three days of Q School, former Grand Slam winner Waites found his form on the final day, culminating in a 5-0 whitewash of teenage Irish sensation Keane Barry in their Tour Card decider.

Two-time Development Tour winner Kenny will also be a new addition to the PDC circuit after he saved his best performance till last as he averaged 110.5 to defeat Scott Taylor 5-2 in their Tour Card play-off.

Joining Ashton in winning Tour Cards via the UK Q School Order of Merit are 11 players headed up by former World Championship runner-up Andy Hamilton.

Junior Darts Corporation Chairman Steve Brown was unable to attend the final day of Q School due to JDC-related commitments in China, but his runs on the first two days were enough to ensure a return to the PDC Tour after a five-year absence.

Brisbane Masters winner Damon Heta was successful in his first Q School appearance and he will be joined on the circuit by fellow-Australian and surprise-package Penhall. Scottish duo Ryan Murray and William Borland are also new names on tour, along with Wigan’s Martin Atkins.

Adam Hunt, Alan Tabern and Wayne Jones all secured immediate returns after losing their Tour Cards at the end of 2019, while Peter Jacques returns after a one-year absence. At European Q School Germany’s Steffen Siepmann booked his place on the PDC Tour for the first time by defeating Wesley Harms 5-3 in the Day Four final in Hildesheim.

However, two-time BDO Championship semi-finalist Harms did enough over the four days to earn a PDC Tour Card for the first time. Harms’ fellow-Dutchmen Derk Telnekes and Martijn Kleermaker also secured Tour Cards for the first time, while Dirk van Duijvenbode won back his card at the first time of asking.

Sweden’s Daniel Larsson, Croatia’s Boris Krcmar and Poland’s Krzysztof Kciuk also won Tour Cards for the first time via the European Q School Order of Merit. The first three days of action saw six players win Tour Cards outright at UK Q School, along with three at European Q School.

All 31 PDC Tour Card winners will get their first taste of the PDC ProTour in 2020 at Players Championships One and Two which will take place at The Barnsley Metrodome from February 8th – 9th.

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UK Qualfying School Day Four

LAST 16

Wayne Jones 5-4 Thomas Lovely
Scott Taylor 5-3 Alexander Morrison
Stephen Burton 5-0 Darren Johnson
Nick Kenny 5-3 Darren Penhall
Matthew Dennant 5-0 Wes Newton
Keane Barry 5-1 Graham Usher
Scott Waites 5-3 Connor Scutt
Adam Hunt 5-4 Steve Hine

QUARTER FINALS

Scott Taylor 5-1 Wayne Jones
Nick Kenny 5-1 Stephen Burton
Keane Barry 5-2 Matthew Dennant
Scott Waites 5-4 Adam Hunt

SEMI FINALS

Nick Kenny 5-2 Scott Taylor
Scott Waites 5-0 Keane Barry

European Qualfying School Day Four

LAST 16

Steffen Siepmann 5-4 Zoran Lerchbacher
Jose Justicia 5-4 Gino Vos
Lukasz Sawicki 5-0 Wesley Plaisier
Danny van Trijp 5-3 Dennis Nilsson
Wesley Harms 5-3 Boris Krcmar
Kevin Blomme 5-3 Michael Unterbuchner
Dirk van Duijvenbode 5-3 Derk Telnekes
Cody Harris 5-0 Daniel Larsson

QUARTER FINALS

Steffen Siepmann 5-4 Jose Justicia
Danny van Trijp 5-4 Lukasz Sawicki
Wesley Harms 5-0 Kevin Blomme
Dirk van Duijvenbode 5-2 Cody Harris

SEMI FINALS

Steffen Siepmann 5-1 Danny van Trijp
Wesley Harms 5-1 Dirk van Duijvenbode

FINAL

Steffen Siepmann 5-3 Wesley Harms

Final UK QS OoM Table

	Player	Points
1	Adam Hunt	14
2	Ryan Murray	14
3	Peter Jacques	13
4	Damon Heta	13
5	Andy Hamilton	12
6	Alan Tabern-snr	12
7	Wayne Jones	11
8	William Borland	10
9	Martin Atkins-Wigan	10
10	Steve Brown-ENG	10
11	Darren Penhall	9
12	Lisa Ashton	9
13	Steve Hine	9
14	Wes Newton	9
15	Tony Newell	9
16	Stephen Burton	9
17	Dave Prins	8
18	Ritchie Edhouse	8
19	Niall Culleton	8
20	Lewis Pride	8
21	Carl Hamilton	8
22	Keane Barry	8
23	Darryl Pilgrim	8
24	Darryl Fitton	8
25	David Ladley	7
26	Paul Nicholson	7
27	Alexander Morrison	7
28	Lee Evans	7
29	Gary Mawson	7
30	Tony Richardson	7
31	Robert Modra	7
32	John O’Shea-1975	7
33	Jamie Clark	7
34	Seigo Asada	6
35	James Richardson	6
36	Jim Williams	6
37	Leonard Gates	6
38	John Bowles	6
39	James Hurrell	6
40	Andrew Gilding	6
41	Colin Osborne	6
42	Liam Meek	6
43	Gary Eastwood	6
44	Danny Lauby-Jnr	6
45	Jarred Cole	6
46	Matthew Finch	6
47	Thomas Lovely	6
48	Robert Collins	6
49	Adam Mould	6
50	Darren Johnson	6
51	Terry Roach	6
52	Graham Usher	6
53	Darren Davies-ENG	6
54	Steve Haggerty	6
55	Scott Taylor	6
56	Justin Smith	5
57	Scott Mitchell	5
58	Kevin Thomas	5
59	Daniel Day	5
60	Darren Beveridge	5
61	Jason Askew	5
62	Robbie Green	5
63	Daniel Lee	5
64	Scott Williams	5
65	Chris Quantock	5
66	Michael Flynn	5
67	Chris Lacey	5
68	Shaun Carroll	5
69	Frankie Ansell	5
70	Mark Barilli	5
71	Christopher Bent	5
72	Dom Taylor	5
73	Prakash Jiwa	5
74	Justin Hood	5
75	Andy Chalmers	5
76	Matthew Dennant	5
77	Shaun Rutter	5
78	George Cressey	5
79	Ryan Hogarth-SCO	5
80	Peter Mitchell	4
81	Ryan Harrington	4
82	Chris Aubrey	4
83	Martin Edwards	4
84	Anthony Urmston-Toft	4
85	Jake Jones	4
86	Rhys Hayden	4
87	Andrew Foster	4
88	Tony O’Shea	4
89	Lewis Williams	4
90	Cameron Menzies	4
91	Mark Lawrence	4
92	Dafydd Edwards	4
93	Greg Ritchie	4
94	Stuart White	4
95	Andy Jenkins	4
96	Jamie Kelling	4
97	Kevin Burness	4
98	Damien O’Driscoll	4
99	Kevin Dowling	4
100	Connor Scutt	4
101	Jason Cullen	4
102	Peter Hudson	4
103	John Brown-ENG	4
104	Brett Claydon	3
105	Curtis Hammond	3
106	John Part	3
107	Kevin Garcia	3
108	John Costigan	3
109	Richard Hosey	3
110	Mark Grimes	3
111	Nathan Burdett	3
112	Tommy Lishman	3
113	Daniel Faulkner	3
114	Evander Stevenson	3
115	Anthony Brown-PAD	3
116	James Hubbard	3
117	Brian Woods	3
118	Jamie Atkins	3
119	Alan Norris	3
120	Mick Todd	3
121	Chas Barstow	3
122	Craig Baxter	3
123	Luke Yates	3
124	Mark Dudbridge	3
125	Ben Cheeseman	3
126	Jamie Caven	3
127	Lee Smith	3
128	Daniel Ayres	3
129	David Evans	3
130	Paul Phillips	3
131	Kevin Lane-WAL	3
132	David Neads	3
133	Ewan Hyslop	3
134	Mark Layton	3
135	Russell Murphy	3
136	Ian McFarlane	3
137	Steven Morrison	3
138	Terry Temple	3
139	Sean Ewing	3
140	William O’Toole	3
141	Dave Parletti	2
142	Diogo Portela	2
143	Kevin Painter	2
144	Richie Burnett	2
145	Shane McGuirk	2
146	Dean Owen	2
147	Kyle McKinstry	2
148	Joshua Lowthorpe	2
149	Stuart Davies	2
150	Mark Turner	2
151	Stuart Dutton	2
152	Kieran Evans	2
153	Aden Kirk	2
154	Dean Forde	2
155	Nathan Rafferty	2
156	Fallon Sherrock	2
157	Jacob Gwynne	2
158	Gordon Mathers	2
159	Nicky Denoon	2
160	Christopher-Paul Jones	2
161	Robert Rickwood	2
162	Sandy Morrison	2
163	Coni Singh-Nagi	2
164	Gary Robson	2
165	Daniel Cooper	2
166	Richard Baillie	2
167	Ross Twell	2
168	Paul Rowley	2
169	Ben Quenby	2
170	Rhys Griffin	2
171	Martin Thomas	2
172	Adam Wood	2
173	Chris Craven	2
174	Darren Herewini	2
175	James Lawson	2
176	Martyn Turner	2
177	Geoffrey Murray-ENG	2
178	Joshua Richardson	2
179	Mark Wilson	2
180	Paul Dulson	2
181	Allan Fitzpatrick	2
182	Jonathan Wynn	2
183	Shaun Matthews	2
184	Scott Marsh	2
185	Michael Meaney	2
186	Steven Beasley	2
187	Lee Cocks	2
188	Graham Hall	2
189	Lee Whitworth	2
190	Ray Marshall	2
191	Jason Murphy	2
192	Brandon Jones	2
193	Ricky Clarke	2
194	Tony Clark-ENG90	2
195	Jim Walker	2
196	Scott Hope	1
197	Patrick Lynskey	1
198	Robert Owen	1
199	Mike Gillet	1
200	Adrian Devine	1
201	Darren Armstrong	1
202	Shane Byrne	1
203	Jason Delahunty	1
204	Ryan Hope	1
205	Aled Goode	1
206	Chris White	1
207	Ryan Craddock	1
208	Shaun Fox	1
209	Philip Wathen	1
210	Ian Jopling	1
211	Rees Hall	1
212	Robert Stansbury	1
213	Shane Price	1
214	Grant Whittaker	1
215	Jimmy McKirdy	1
216	Adam Jenkinson	1
217	Samuel Ridgway	1
218	Derek Coulson	1
219	Jason Wilson	1
220	Matt Padgett	1
221	Stuart Duncan	1
222	Jack Main	1
223	Hywel Manuel	1
224	Dan Read	1
225	Kelvin Hart	1
226	Scott Darbyshire	1
227	Tony Wood	1
228	Callum Francis	1
229	Perry Davenport	1
230	Cavan Phillips	1
231	Gary Court	1
232	Chris Mathews	1
233	Simon Preston	1
234	Harry Robinson	1
235	John Court	1
236	Yuki Yamada	1
237	Eddie Lovely	1
238	Ryan Furness	1
239	Stephen Gallimore	1
240	John Crossley	1
241	Ricky King	1
242	Mark Stephenson	1
243	David Carr	1
244	Ian Lever	1
245	Allen Baldock	1
246	Stu Wilson-1977	1
247	Andy Derrick	1
248	Kevin McDine	1
249	Michael Harrison	1
250	Padraig Balfe	1
251	Mark Frost	1
252	David Walker	1
253	Martin Grearson	1
254	James Duncan	1
255	Richard Langlois	1
256	Matthew-Joseph Smith	1
257	Patrick Quinn	1
258	Adam Huckvale	1
259	Nick Fullwell	1
260	Phillip Goodwin	1
261	Scott Ridler	1
262	Terry Creed	1
263	Stephen Harradine	1
264	Josh Habgood	1
265	Michael McCloskey	1
266	Daniel Cox	1
267	Tom Lonsdale	1
268	Aaron Argyle	1
269	Trevor Vallely	1
270	Darrell Hodgson	1
271	Derek Lumley	1
272	Daniel O’Donnell	1
273	David Calvert	1
274	Rachel Brooks	1
275	William Thexton	1
	ALL OTHERS	0pts

Final European QSOoM

	Player	Points
1	Dirk van Duijvenbode	18
2	Wesley Harms	17
3	Derk Telnekes	16
4	Martijn Kleermaker	15
5	Daniel Larsson	15
6	Boris Krcmar	14
7	Krzysztof Kciuk	14
8	Zoran Lerchbacher	13
9	Cody Harris	13
10	Thibault Tricole	12
11	Rusty-Jake Rodriguez	12
12	Dennis Nilsson	12
13	Danny van Trijp	12
14	Berry van Peer	12
15	Ronny Huybrechts	11
16	Lukasz Sawicki	10
17	Michael Hurtz	10
18	Wesley Plaisier	10
19	Franz Roetzsch	10
20	Jose-Antonio Justicia-Perales	9
21	Michael Unterbuchner	9
22	Kevin Munch	9
23	Justin van Tergouw	9
24	Kevin Doets	9
25	Kevin Blomme	9
26	Mario Vandenbogaerde	8
27	Szabolcs Nemeth	8
28	Ondrej Kysilka	8
29	Kay Smeets	8
30	Willem Mandigers	8
31	Gabriel Pascaru	8
32	Richard Veenstra	8
33	Philipp Spindler	8
34	Dragutin Horvat	8
35	Marek Polyak	8
36	Jeffrey de Graaf	7
37	Tytus Kanik	7
38	Jeffrey Van Egdom	7
39	Romeo Grbavac	7
40	Zdravko Antunovic	7
41	Sebastian Pohl	7
42	Wouter Vaes	7
43	Wessel Nijman	6
44	Ryan de Vreede	6
45	Brian Raman	6
46	Jimmy Hendriks	6
47	Owen Roelofs	6
48	Paulo Ferreira	6
49	Nico Blum	6
50	Fabian Herz	6
51	Arjan Konterman	6
52	Andrew Beeton	6
53	Michele Turetta	6
54	Paolo Trutalli	6
55	Dennie Olde-Kalter	6
56	Mario Robbe	5
57	Jose Marques	5
58	James Bailey	5
59	Jeffrey Sparidaans	5
60	Pero Ljubic	5
61	Christian Kist	5
62	Stefan Bellmont	5
63	Tonny Veenhof	5
64	Patrick Plotz	5
65	Radek Szaganski	5
66	Kai Gotthardt	5
67	Thomas Junghans	5
68	Daniel Barborak	5
69	Richard van Zijtveld	5
70	Jitse van der Wal	5
71	Ivan Springborg-Poulsen	5
72	Sead Nicevic	5
73	Gino Vos	4
74	Julio Barbero-Gonzalez	4
75	Erik Tautfest	4
76	Patrick Tringler	4
77	Dragutin Pecnjak	4
78	Pavel Drtil	4
79	Sebastian Bialecky	4
80	Chris Landman	4
81	Michal Ondo	4
82	Andreas Harrysson	4
83	Benjamin Pratnemer	4
84	Armando Slotboom	4
85	Jeremy van der Winkel	4
86	Filip Sebesta	4
87	Janos Vegso	4
88	Roemer Mooijman	4
89	Kenny Neyens	4
90	Lukas Wenig	4
91	Manfred Bilderl	4
92	Leo Hendriks	4
93	Ricardo Perez-Ibarra	4
94	Marcel Gerdon	4
95	Marco Apollonio	4
96	Adam Gawlas	4
97	Peter Schnupfhagen	4
98	Arsen Ballaj	4
99	Robert Marijanovic	4
100	Andy Baetens	4
101	Christian Kallinger	4
102	Rene Berndt	4
103	Mareno Michels	3
104	Jarno Braamskamp	3
105	Niels-Joergen Hansen	3
106	Patrick Peters	3
107	Youri Duijster	3
108	Boris Koltsov	3
109	Danny van Klompenburg	3
110	Michael Plooy	3
111	Marcel Gugger	3
112	Andreas Frei	3
113	Markus Kessler	3
114	Martin Dufek	3
115	Martin Sevcov	3
116	Patrik Kovacs-HUN	3
117	Sebastian Steyer	3
118	Davy van der Zande	3
119	Fabian Roosenbrand	3
120	Gergely Lakatos	3
121	Michal Smejda	3
122	Andreas Schnellhardt	3
123	David Pisek	3
124	Johan Engstrom	3
125	Mindaugas Barauskas	3
126	Niels Heinsoe	3
127	Zereso Zeverboom	3
128	Claus-Bendix Nielsen	3
129	Alexander Masek	3
130	Tom Veje-Kristensen	3
131	Patrick Heitmueller	3
132	Pavel Jirkal	3
133	Wesley van Trijp	3
134	Raphael Leufgen	3
135	Marco Obst	3
136	Johan Singerling	3
137	Christopher Haensch	3
138	Mitchell Von Schukkmann	3
139	Michal Zarybnicky	3
140	Sven Vogelsberg	2
141	Michael Rasztovits	2
142	Vitezslav Sedlak	2
143	Maikel Verberk	2
144	Angel-Martin Sanchez	2
145	Frantisek Mika	2
146	Spyridon Ballas	2
147	Gabriel-Florin Olar	2
148	Patrick Bulen	2
149	Jens Kniest	2
150	Konstantinos Samaras	2
151	Roman Benecky	2
152	Rowdy Schoremans	2
153	Kevin Vennik	2
154	Karsten Koch	2
155	Toon Greebe	2
156	Levy Frauenfelder	2
157	Bent Lambertsen	2
158	Marvin van Velzen	2
159	Wesley Bour	2
160	Marcel Althaus	2
161	Veniamin Symeonidis	2
162	Dolf Reker	2
163	Gabriel Rollo	2
164	Robin Beger	2
165	Vincent Kamphuis	2
166	Gian van Veen	2
167	Tobias Mueller	2
168	Pal Szekely	2
169	Stefano Roso	2
170	Dennis van der Ende	2
171	Erik Hol	2
172	Marina Letica	2
173	David Haberberger	2
174	Peter Hubinger	2
175	Andreas Gradert	2
176	Lorenzo Van Hove	2
177	Simeon Heinz	2
178	Matthias Orn-Fridriksson	2
179	Hannes Schnier	2
180	Thomas Kohnlein	2
181	Sebastian Fey	2
182	Stefan Taferner	2
183	Pavel Kodera	2
184	Ole Luckow	2
185	Daniel Klose	2
186	Danny Tessmann	1
187	Marvin Wehder	1
188	Vitor-Manuel Gurerra-Charrua	1
189	Christian Jentschke	1
190	Wim Hofsink	1
191	Christian Goedl	1
192	Stefan Nilles	1
193	Jerry Hendriks	1
194	Aaron Hardy	1
195	Alessio Marconi	1
196	Aron Boroczi	1
197	Dimitrij Gorbunov	1
198	Andrea Micheletti	1
199	Sebastian Oschitzki	1
200	Dominik Thiel	1
201	Paul Pohl	1
202	Marek Raz	1
203	Cor Ernst	1
204	Ronald Balfoort	1
205	Nico Wagner	1
206	Willi Zimmermann	1
207	Glenn Leysen	1
208	Wilco Vermeulen	1
209	Sandor Ballo	1
210	Wesley Brown	1
211	Michael Stoeten	1
212	Martin Christiansen	1
213	Anton Salge	1
214	Anoop Ramdajal	1
215	Nandor Major	1
216	Maurice Boeve	1
217	Roxy-James Rodriguez	1
218	Lukas Grygar	1
219	Nico Kurz	1
220	Peter van den Broek	1
221	Timo Koenig	1
222	Rene Fricke	1
223	Rohan Brouwers	1
224	Patrick van den Boogaard	1
225	Michel Furlani	1
226	Sander van Beem	1
227	Erik Poliak	1
228	Thomas Lazic	1
229	Matthias Wagner	1
230	Christoph Mayer	1
231	Joshua Hermann	1
232	Fons Hardeman	1
233	Kevin Knopf	1
234	Dennis Akhtar	1
235	Manuel Sanwald	1
236	Erik Meulenmeesters	1
237	Alexander Merkx	1
238	Andreas-Dirk Sauer	1
239	Karl Cron	1
240	Nico Riehle	1
241	Karel Papezik	1
	ALL OTHERS	0pts