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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
But Hempel prevailed and secured his Tour Card in style, checking out 148 for the victory.<\/p>\n
The Order of Merit after day 3:<\/p>\n
1\tMartin Schindler\t 8
\n2\tZoran Lerchbacher\t 8
\n3\tBoris Koltsov\t 7
\n4\tRaymond van Barneveld\t 6
\n5\tJohn Michael\t 6
\n6\tLuc Peters\t 5
\n7\tNiels Zonneveld\t 5
\n8\tLorenzo Pronk\t 5
\n9\tKevin Doets\t 4
\n10\tGino Vos\t 4
\n11\tRichard Veenstra\t 4
\n12\tDavy Proosten\t 4
\n13\tMario Vandenbogaerde\t 4
\n14\tJose-Antonio Justicia-Perales\t4
\n15\tMichael Unterbuchner\t 4
\n16\tRyan de Vreede\t 4
\n17\tBenito van de Pas\t 3
\n18\tAdam Gawlas\t 3
\n19\tRusty-Jake Rodriguez\t 3
\n20\tWesley Plaisier\t 3
\n21\tMichal Smejda\t 3
\n22\tMichael Rasztovits\t 3
\n23\tChristian Bunse\t 3
\n24\tRene Eidams\t 3
\n25\tPero Ljubic\t 3
\n26\tPatrick van den Boogaard\t3
\n27\tVincent van der Meer\t 3
\n28\tJeroen Mioch\t 2
\n29\tRobert Marijanovic\t 2
\n30\tArsen Ballaj\t 2
\n31\tToni Alcinas\t 2
\n32\tMaikel Venema\t 2
\n33\tRowby-John Rodriguez\t 2
\n34\tJens Ziegler\t 2
\n35\tLukas Wenig\t 2
\n36\tKevin Blomme\t 2
\n37\tSebastian Bialecki\t 2
\n38\tMatt Campbell-CAN\t 2
\n39\tJan Dekker\t 2
\n40\tDaniele Petri\t 2
\n41\tChristian Kist\t 1
\n42\tPatrick Tringler\t 1
\n43\tRobbie Knops\t 1
\n44\tDragutin Horvat\t 1
\n45\tDavyd Venken\t 1
\n46\tRients Visser\t 1
\n47\tJan-Dirk de Groot\t 1
\n48\tMoreno Blom\t 1
\n49\tSebastian Steyer\t 1
\n50\tEric Boyer\t 1
\n51\tVeijo Viinikka\t 1
\n52\tSteven Noster\t 1
\n53\tSergio Krassen\t 1
\n54\tNiko Springer\t 1
\n55\tKai Gotthardt\t 1
\n56\tClaus-Bendix Nielsen\t 1
\n57\tDanny van Trijp\t 1
\n58\tFranz Roetzsch\t 1
\n59\tGary Mawson\t 1
\n60\tRicardo Pietreczko\t 1
\n61\tBrian Raman\t 1
\n62\tMaikel Verberk\t 1
\n63\tJohan Engstrom\t 1
\n64\tPatrik Kovacs-HUN\t 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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