Florian Hempel from Cologne enjoyed a dream day at the PDC European Q School 2021 and won a Tour Card for the first time in his short career.

The 30 year old German averaged 94+ over the course of his seven matches and defeated the likes of Lukas Wenig, Martin Schindler and John Michael on his way to victory.

In the final he steamrolled Luc Peters in the early stages and averaged 105 as he charged into a 4:0 lead before Peters could pull it back to 4:2.

But Hempel prevailed and secured his Tour Card in style, checking out 148 for the victory.

The Order of Merit after day 3:

1 Martin Schindler 8
2 Zoran Lerchbacher 8
3 Boris Koltsov 7
4 Raymond van Barneveld 6
5 John Michael 6
6 Luc Peters 5
7 Niels Zonneveld 5
8 Lorenzo Pronk 5
9 Kevin Doets 4
10 Gino Vos 4
11 Richard Veenstra 4
12 Davy Proosten 4
13 Mario Vandenbogaerde 4
14 Jose-Antonio Justicia-Perales 4
15 Michael Unterbuchner 4
16 Ryan de Vreede 4
17 Benito van de Pas 3
18 Adam Gawlas 3
19 Rusty-Jake Rodriguez 3
20 Wesley Plaisier 3
21 Michal Smejda 3
22 Michael Rasztovits 3
23 Christian Bunse 3
24 Rene Eidams 3
25 Pero Ljubic 3
26 Patrick van den Boogaard 3
27 Vincent van der Meer 3
28 Jeroen Mioch 2
29 Robert Marijanovic 2
30 Arsen Ballaj 2
31 Toni Alcinas 2
32 Maikel Venema 2
33 Rowby-John Rodriguez 2
34 Jens Ziegler 2
35 Lukas Wenig 2
36 Kevin Blomme 2
37 Sebastian Bialecki 2
38 Matt Campbell-CAN 2
39 Jan Dekker 2
40 Daniele Petri 2
41 Christian Kist 1
42 Patrick Tringler 1
43 Robbie Knops 1
44 Dragutin Horvat 1
45 Davyd Venken 1
46 Rients Visser 1
47 Jan-Dirk de Groot 1
48 Moreno Blom 1
49 Sebastian Steyer 1
50 Eric Boyer 1
51 Veijo Viinikka 1
52 Steven Noster 1
53 Sergio Krassen 1
54 Niko Springer 1
55 Kai Gotthardt 1
56 Claus-Bendix Nielsen 1
57 Danny van Trijp 1
58 Franz Roetzsch 1
59 Gary Mawson 1
60 Ricardo Pietreczko 1
61 Brian Raman 1
62 Maikel Verberk 1
63 Johan Engstrom 1
64 Patrik Kovacs-HUN 1