Belgian Darts Open 2025 | Day Three Preview and Order of Play
The first European Tour silverware of the season is up for grabs at the Belgian Darts Open on Sunday as the last 16 lock horns in Wieze.
A £30,000 top prize is on offer at the Oktoberhallen as seven seeds and nine qualifiers go head-to-head across two sessions.
The afternoon session plays host to the Third Round ties, before the Quarter-Finals, Semi-Finals and final follow in the evening.
Reigning champion Luke Littler resumes the defence of his title with a clash against European Championship semi-finalist Luke Woodhouse.
Littler is vying for a third title in the space of seven days, having romped to UK Open glory last Sunday before claiming the Premier League Night Five title in Brighton on Thursday.
The 18-year-old, however, will be eyeing an marked improvement on his match average of 94 in defeating Ryan Searle on Saturday, with Woodhouse having thrashed Gary Anderson 6-2 with a 100 average in a clinical display.
Gerwyn Price looks to pick up from where he left off on Saturday when he meets world number seven Damon Heta.
Price fell just short of setting a new record tournament average as he dismantled Gian van Veen 6-2 with a 112.42 average and will be out to avenge his defeat at the hands of Heta in last month’s Winmau World Masters.
Aussie ace Heta enjoyed a 6-0 whitewash of a struggling Michael Smith and is challenging for a first European Tour title since 2022.
Home hero Mike De Decker aims to follow up his sensational win over Luke Humphries last night by seeing off Martin Schindler.
De Decker raised the roof at a sold-out Oktoberhallen by defeating the world number one 6-4 with a 100 average in a repeat of last October’s World Grand Prix final.
He now comes up against the German number one – who landed a brace of European Tour titles last season and has recorded successive 6-3 wins over Jim Long and Dimitri van den Bergh so far this weekend.
Former Belgian Open champion Dave Chisnall, who claimed the Flanders Darts Trophy title in 2024, looks to maintain his strong record on Belgian soil by overcoming European Champion Ritchie Edhouse for a place in the evening’s quarter-finals.
Chisnall overcame Ricardo Pietreczko 6-3 in his opener, while Edhouse followed up a 6-4 success over Owen Bates with a battling last-leg win over Nathan Aspinall.
Former European Champion Ross Smith registered a magnificent 112.6 average in a 6-2 rout of Rob Cross on Saturday, and he now comes up against Canadian number one Matt Campbell – who has already seen off Scottish duo Cameron Menzies and Peter Wright.
Boris Krcmar’s reward for his Second Round scalp of Michael van Gerwen is a showdown with last week’s UK Open runner-up James Wade – who dispatched Raymond van Barneveld in his opener.
Winmau World Masters finalist Jonny Clayton faces a clash with multiple Euro Tour finalist Dirk van Duijvenbode – who survived a staggering eight match darts from Chris Dobey before snatching a deciding-leg victory on Saturday night.
Bahrain Masters champion and fifth seed Stephen Bunting takes on two-time major winner Daryl Gurney – who swept aside Danny Noppert 6-2 to follow up a 105 average in thrashing Thibault Tricole 6-1 on Friday.
The action gets under way from 12pm GMT, 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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Belgian Darts Open 2025 Day Three Schedule
Sunday March 9
Afternoon Session (12pm-4pm)
Last 16
Mike De Decker v Martin Schindler
Damon Heta v Gerwyn Price
Ross Smith v Matt Campbell
Stephen Bunting v Daryl Gurney
Luke Littler v Luke Woodhouse
Dave Chisnall v Ritchie Edhouse
Boris Krcmar v James Wade
Jonny Clayton v Dirk van Duijvenbode
Evening Session (6pm-10pm)
Quarter-Finals
De Decker/Schindler v Heta/Price
R Smith/Campbell v Bunting/Gurney
Littler/Woodhouse v Chisnall/Edhouse
Krcmar/Wade v Clayton/Van Duijvenbode
Semi-Finals
Final
