Josh Rock and Mike De Decker will make their World Sequence of Darts debuts on the Australian and New Zealand Darts Masters in August, alongside world No 1 Luke Humphries and reigning world champion Luke Littler.
Former world youth champion Rock – contemporary from steering Northern Eire to a historic World Cup of Darts victory in June – has earned his first World Sequence call-up following an outstanding 2025 to this point, which included reaching his first televised rating semi-final on the UK Open in March.
World Grand Prix champion De Decker can even make his World Sequence of Darts bow, having not too long ago usurped Dimitri Van den Bergh to grow to be the Belgian No 1.
Rock and De Decker will compete in Australia and New Zealand alongside Littler, final yr’s NZ Darts Masters winner Humphries, Australian defending champion Gerwyn Value, in addition to Stephen Bunting, Chris Dobey and Australian No 1 Damon Heta.
Value claimed final yr’s title in Wollongong, defeating Littler 8-1 within the last, earlier than Humphries turned NZ Darts Masters champion with an 8-2 win over Heta.
The PDC’s annual journey Down Beneath will start with the Australian Darts Masters in Wollongong on August 8-9, earlier than the New Zealand Darts Masters returns to Auckland per week later.
Every occasion will see a 16-player area competing over two days of motion, with the eight PDC superstars going head-to-head with eight Oceanic representatives.
The Oceanic representatives are headlined by Australian icon Simon Whitlock, with New Zealand’s No 1 Haupai Puha and Jonny Tata additionally starring in each occasions.
World Matchplay Darts: All you should know
The 2025 Betfred World Matchplay takes place from July 19-27 on the iconic Winter Gardens in Blackpool, with the boys’s and girls’s tournaments dwell on Sky Sports activities.
The primary spherical of the game’s summer season showpiece sees the world’s prime 16 seeded males’s gamers pitted in opposition to the highest 16 qualifiers from the one-year ProTour Rankings.
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Take a look at the most effective motion from the 2024 World Matchplay from the Winter Gardens, Blackpool.
Humphries lifted the Phil Taylor Trophy for the primary time 12 months in the past and can start his defence in opposition to Gian van Veen, the World Youth Champion, on Saturday.
Teenage famous person and reigning world champion Littler will step as much as the oche on Sunday to tackle Ryan Searle, a 2023 Matchplay quarter-finalist.
Dutch icons will go head-to-head when Michael van Gerwen and Raymond van Barneveld meet in Blackpool on Monday.
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Beau Greaves efficiently retained her Ladies’s World Matchplay title in 2024 with a 6-3 victory over Fallon Sherrock.
The ladies’s World Matchplay takes place within the afternoon of Sunday July 27, with eight of the highest girls’s gamers on the earth battling it out to be topped champion in what’s the fourth version of the ladies’s occasion.
Two-time reigning champion Beau Greaves returns to Blackpool, joined by Fallon Sherrock, Kirski Viinikainen, Lisa Ashton, Robyn Byrne, Noa-Lynn van Leuven, Lorrain Winstanley, and Gemma Hayter.
Watch the World Matchplay dwell on Sky Sports activities from July 19-27 or stream with out a contract.
