Austrian Darts Open 2025 | Day Three Preview and Order of Play
The fifth European Tour title of the season is up for grabs at the Austrian Darts Open on Sunday as the last 16 go head-to-head in Graz.
A £30,000 top prize is on offer at the Steiermarkhalle as ten seeds and six qualifiers battle it out over two sessions.
The afternoon session plays host to the Third Round ties, before the Quarter-Finals, Semi-Finals and final follow in the evening.
Josh Rock looks to go one better than his runner-up spot here two years ago, and the ninth seed comes up against former UK Open champion Danny Noppert in the Last 16.
Rock, a recent ProTour event winner, averaged 105 and landed a staggering eight 180s in a 6-4 win over Krzysztof Ratajski on Saturday.
Noppert, the 2022 runner-up, snapped his losing streak on the European Tour by edging out Niko Springer in a deciding leg with a 100.6 average.
Peter Wright, the second most decorated player in Euro Tour history with nine titles, continues his quest to reach double figures when he faces former European Champion Ross Smith.
Wright needed an average of just 89 to see off a struggling Luke Woodhouse 6-3 in his opener, while Smith averaged 100.4 in a 6-1 rout of Chris Landman.
Chris Dobey is the only current Premier League player left in contention for this title, and he faces a tough test against Players Championship event winner Wessel Nijman.
Dobey opened up with a blistering 105 average in thrashing Ricardo Pietreczko 6-1, while Nijman followed up Friday’s 6-4 win over William O’Connor with a 102.6 average in seeing off World Grand Prix champion Mike De Decker by the same scoreline.
Dirk van Duijvenbode looks to continue his superb spell of form this weekend when he takes on Canadian number one – Matt Campbell.
Van Duijvenbode has dropped just two legs in thrashing Hungary’s György Jehirszki and World Youth Champion Gian van Veen with averages of 106.2 and 108.6 respectively.
Campbell, meanwhile, edged out Patrick Geeraets in a deciding leg, before defying a 104.5 average from Stephen Bunting by closing out a 6-4 success on Saturday with a 102.4 average of his own.
Eight-time European Tour event winner Dave Chisnall takes on World Grand Prix semi-finalist Ryan Joyce.
Sixth seed Chisnall opened up with a 6-3 win over Ian White on Saturday evening, while Joyce has already seen off Finland’s Teemu Harju 6-4 and 11th seed Ryan Searle 6-1, averaging 102 in the latter demolition.
Kevin Doets’ reward for his Second Round scalp of Nathan Aspinall is a showdown with German number one Martin Schindler – twice a Euro Tour event winner last year.
European Championship finalist Jermaine Wattimena – who knocked out top seed Jonny Clayton on Saturday – now faces 2019 German Championship winner Daryl Gurney.
Third seed Damon Heta, Euro Tour event winner in 2022, faces three-time Euro Tour event winner Joe Cullen.
Heta edged past Karel Sedlacek in a deciding leg on Saturday, while Cullen came through a marathon of missed doubles to dispatch Thibault Tricole 6-2 with an average of just 77.
The action gets under way from 12pm BST, with Third Round and Quarter-Final ties to be contested over the best of 11 legs, Semi-Finals best of 13 and the final best of 15.
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Austrian Darts Open 2025 Day Three Schedule
All times BST (local time +1 hour)
Sunday April 27
Afternoon Session (12pm-4pm)
Last 16
Jermaine Wattimena v Daryl Gurney
Danny Noppert v Josh Rock
Kevin Doets v Martin Schindler
Chris Dobey v Wessel Nijman
Matt Campbell v Dirk van Duijvenbode
Peter Wright v Ross Smith
Damon Heta v Joe Cullen
Dave Chisnall v Ryan Joyce
Evening Session (6pm-10pm)
Quarter-Finals
Wattimena/Gurney v Noppert/Rock
Doets/Schindler v Dobey/Nijman
Campbell/Van Duijvenbode v Wright/R Smith
Heta/Cullen v Chisnall/Joyce
Semi-Finals
Final
