Priscilla Steenbergen (born 25 July 1998) is a Dutch professional darts player who plays in World Darts Federation (WDF) and Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. Her biggest achievement to date was playing in the quarter-finals at the 2022 WDF World Darts Championship. She was a silver and bronze medalist of the WDF Europe Cup.
| Priscilla Steenbergen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname | "Smurf" | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 July 1998 Maasdijk, Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home town | Maasdijk, Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Darts information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing darts since | 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Laterality | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Walk-on music | "Shut Up and Dance" by Walk the Moon | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Organisation (see split in darts) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| BDO | 2016–2020 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| PDC | 2022– | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| WDF | 2016– | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current world ranking | (WDF W) 25  7 (5 September 2022)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| World Ch'ship | Quarter Final: 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Masters | Last 16: 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dutch Open | Quarter Final: 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Youth events
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Medal record
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Career
editAfter not being able to qualify for the BDO World Darts Championship from the qualifiers in 2016, she went to the third round at the 2016 Winmau World Masters, where she lost to Trina Gulliver by 1–4 in legs. In 2017, she was in the quarter-finals of the Hal Masters. In 2019, she advanced to the quarter-finals at the German Open and made it to the 2019 BDO World Trophy via the play-off qualifiers. During this tournament, she lost in the first round match to Aileen de Graaf by 0–4 in legs. In 2020, Steenbergen made it to the quarterfinals at the 2020 Dutch Open and again lost match to Aileen de Graaf.[2]
In 2022, she took part in the 2022 WDF World Darts Championship for the first time. She replaced Fallon Sherrock after her withdrawal, as the highest ranked World Darts Federation player which not already qualified.[3] In the first round match she beat Darlene van Sleeuwen by 2–1 in sets. In the second round she beat Anca Zijlstra with the same result.[4] In the quarter-finals, she was defeated by Kirsty Hutchinson by 1–2 in sets.[5] After a very good result at the WDF World Darts Championship, she took part in the 2022 PDC Women's Series for the first time. During the series held in Hildesheim, Steenbergen reached the quarter-finals three times. At the Belfry Open, she advanced to the semi-finals of the senior tournament for the first time and finally lost to Aileen de Graaf by 2–4 in legs.[6] At the 2022 Dutch Open she was eliminated in the second round.[7]
At the end of September 2022, she was selected by the national federation to participate in the 2022 WDF Europe Cup. On the second day of the tournament, she advanced to the second round of the singles competition, where she lost to Aurora Fochesato by 2–4 in legs.[8] On the third day, she advanced to the quarter-finals of the pairs competition, where she played together with Noa-Lynn van Leuven. They lost to Anna Forsmark and Maud Jansson from Sweden by 0–4 in legs.[9] In the team tournament, she won a silver medal. They lost in the final match to England by 1–9 in legs.[10] They also took the bronze medal in the overall classification.
On 26 November 2022, Priscilla picked up her 1st WDF title winning the Italian Grand Masters beating Paula Jacklin in the final 6-5.
World Championship results
editWDF
edit- 2022: Quarter-finals (lost to Kirsty Hutchinson 1–2) (sets)
- 2023: Second round (lost to Lisa Ashton 1–2)
Performance timeline
edit| Tournament | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
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| World Championship | DNQ | NH | QF | 2R | ||||
| World Masters | 3R | 2R | 3R | 1R | NH | 3R | ||
| World Trophy | DNQ | 1R | NH | |||||
| Dutch Open | DNP | 2R | 7R | QF | NH | 2R | 2R | |
References
edit- ^ "WDF Women's Rankings Table". WDF. 5 September 2022. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
- ^ "Priscilla Steenbergen". mastercaller.com. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
- ^ "Fallon Sherrock withdraws from WDF World Championship for a second time". live-darts.com. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
- ^ "Fullwell coasts past Hansen to begin Lakeside campaign, Steenbergen impressive in reaching Quarter-Finals with Ziljstra win". dartsnews.com. 5 April 2022. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
- ^ "Duff produces remarkable comeback to deny McEwan, Hutchinson battles back to defeat Steenbergen". dartsnews.com. 8 April 2022. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
- ^ "Priscilla Steenbergen". World Darts Federation. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
- ^ "Toto Dutch Open Women 2022". World Darts Federation. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
- ^ "WDF Europe Cup Women Singles". World Darts Federation. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
- ^ "WDF Europe Cup Women Pairs". World Darts Federation. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
- ^ "WDF Europe Cup Women Teams". World Darts Federation. Retrieved 30 September 2022.