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Thibault Tricole

Thibault Tricole
Tricole in 2018
Personal information
Nickname"The French Touch"
Born (1989-10-11) 11 October 1989 (age 35)
Auray, France
Home townMalguénac, France
Darts information
Playing darts since2002
Darts24g Winmau
LateralityRight-handed
Walk-on music"Essentielles" by Ibrahim Maalouf
Organisation (see split in darts)
BDO2010–2020
PDC2021–
(Tour Card: 2024-)
WDF2010–2023
Current world ranking82 Increase 1 (31 October 2024)[1]
WDF major events – best performances
World Ch'shipRunner Up: 2022
World MastersLast 32: 2019
Dutch OpenSemi Final: 2022
PDC premier events – best performances
World Ch'shipLast 64: 2024
UK OpenLast 96: 2024
Other tournament wins
Denmark Open 2021
Greek Open 2019
Isle of Man Masters 2020
Italian Open 2022
PDC Challenge Tour 2022, 2023
PDC West Europe Qualifier 2023
Torremolinos Open 2019
Welsh Classic 2021

Thibault Tricole (born 11 October 1989) is a French professional darts player who plays in World Darts Federation (WDF) and Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He is the first French player to advance to the final of a World Darts Championship and the most successful darts player to come from France.

Career

Since 2010, Tricole has occasionally competed in British Darts Organisation and World Darts Federation tournaments, including several times at the Winmau World Masters, but without any notable success. In 2019, he tried his hand at Q-School of the PDC for the first time, but was unable to secure a tour card. During the year, he played significantly more British Darts Organisation tournaments than in previous years and was able to win his first tournaments at the Torremolinos Open and Greek Open. He also reached fourth round at the 2019 World Masters. He was also in finals at the Belfry Open, Malta Open and Italian Open.

Tricole was the first Frenchman ever to qualify for the 2020 BDO World Darts Championship as a Western European Qualifier.[2] In the preliminary round he beat Ross Montgomery in a sudden-death leg. In the first round, Tricole lost 1–3 by sets to Ryan Hogarth. Tricole narrowly missed out on a tour card at Q-School in 2020, and the Frenchman won the Isle of Man Masters in March. In 2021, Tricole reached the semi-finals on the PDC Challenge Tour once. At the beginning of October, he won the Denmark Open with a 6–3 over Andreas Harrysson in the final and a little later he also won the Welsh Classic.

In 2022, there was another attempt at Q-School, but again without the success of the tour card. At the end of March, Tricole advanced to his first two Players Championships. In April, the Frenchman went into the 2022 WDF World Darts Championship as seed and survived a few match darts in his first round match against Shawn Burt. Things went better against Steve Hine, whom he defeated 3–1 in sets. He also narrowly eliminated Andy Baetens with 4–3 in sets, and in the decider he also defeated Cameron Menzies and thus made it into the final. Tricole managed to become the first Frenchman to reach a World Darts Championship final where he ended up being defeated by Neil Duff 5–6 in sets.

His PDC European Tour debut at the 2022 Austrian Darts Open was narrowly lost in the decider leg against Zoran Lerchbacher. At the Players Championship tournaments as a substitute for other Pro Tour players, Tricole made it into the third round. His second PDC European Tour appearance was at the 2022 Hungarian Darts Trophy, where he lost 4–6 in legs to Karel Sedlacek in the first round. In June, Tricole took part in the 2022 Dutch Open and reached the semi-finals, where he lost to eventual champion Jelle Klaasen 1–2 in sets.

In November 2023, he took part in the qualifying tournament for the PDC World Darts Championship for players from Western Europe. He won these tournament by defeating Wesley Plaisier in the final match by a 7–4 in legs and qualified for the 2024 PDC World Darts Championship.[3] Tricole became the first person to represent France at the PDC World Championship, by definition becoming the first Frenchman to claim a victory at the competition, defeating Mario Vandenbogaerde 3–1 in the First Round before falling to a 3–0 defeat at the hands of Rob Cross.[4]

World Championship results

BDO/WDF

PDC

Career finals

WDF major finals: (1 runner-up)

Legend
World Championship (0–1)
Outcome No. Year Championship Opponent in the final Score[N 1]
Runner-up 1. 2022 World Darts Championship Northern Ireland Neil Duff 5–6 (s)
  1. ^ (l) = score in legs, (s) = score in sets.

Performance timeline

Tournament 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
PDC Ranked televised events
World Championship DNQ 2R
UK Open DNQ 1R 3R
Players Championship Finals DNQ
PDC Non-ranked televised events
PDC World Cup of Darts DNP NH DNP DNQ DNP QF 2R
WDF Ranked televised events
World Championship DNQ 1R NH F WD PDC
World Masters 1R DNP 2R 1R 1R 1R 1R 3R 3R 4R NH RR NH PDC
Dutch Open DNP 5R DNP SF DNP PDC
Career statistics
Year-end ranking (PDC) 160 112


PDC European Tour

Season 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
2022 IDO
DNP
GDC
DNP
GDG
DNP
ADO
1R
EDO
DNP
CDO
DNP
EDG
DNP
DDC
DNP
EDM
DNP
HDT
1R
GDO
DNP
BDO
DNP
GDT
DNP
2023 BSD
DNP
EDO
DNP
IDO
DNP
GDG
DNP
ADO
DNP
DDC
DNP
BDO
DNP
CDO
DNP
EDG
DNP
EDM
DNP
GDO
DNP
HDT
DNP
GDC
DNP
2024 BDO
DNQ
GDG
DNQ
IDO
DNQ
EDG
DNQ
ADO
DNQ
BSD
1R
DDC
DNQ
EDO
DNQ
GDC
DNQ
FDT
DNQ
HDT
SDT
CDO


PDC Players Championships

Season 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
2024 WIG
2R
WIG
1R
LEI
3R
LEI
1R
HIL
1R
HIL
2R
LEI
QF
LEI
2R
HIL
3R
HIL
4R
HIL
1R
HIL
1R
MIL
1R
MIL
1R
MIL
1R
MIL
3R
MIL
1R
MIL
1R
MIL
SF
WIG
3R
WIG
4R
MIL
3R
MIL
2R
WIG
2R
WIG
3R
WIG
2R
WIG
2R
WIG
1R
LEI
2R
LEI
4R
Performance Table Legend
W Won the tournament F Finalist SF Semifinalist QF Quarterfinalist #R
RR
Prel.
Lost in # round
Round-robin
Preliminary round
DQ Disqualified
DNQ Did not qualify DNP Did not participate WD Withdrew NH Tournament not held NYF Not yet founded

References

  1. ^ "PDC Order of Merit". PDPA. 31 October 2024. Retrieved 31 October 2024.
  2. ^ "Field for men's and ladies BDO World Darts Championship 2020 confirmed". dartsnews.com. 30 September 2019.
  3. ^ "PDC W. Europe World Championship Qualifier 2023". DartConnect. 18 November 2023. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
  4. ^ "Price powers through to round three, as Leung stuns Van Veen". www.pdc.tv. 18 December 2023. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
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