Vítězslav Sedlák (born 5 February 1991) is a Czech darts player and a member of the team Mustang Knínice.
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| Born | 5 February 1991 Czech Republic | |||||||||||||||||
| Home town | Uničov, Czech Republic | |||||||||||||||||
| Darts information | ||||||||||||||||||
| Playing darts since | 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| Laterality | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||
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| PDC | 2020– | |||||||||||||||||
| Current world ranking | 182  3 (17 November 2024)[1] | |||||||||||||||||
| WDF major events – best performances | ||||||||||||||||||
| World Masters | Last 16: 2022 | |||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Career
editVítězslav started playing darts at the age of 18, before that he played table football in which he became National Junior Champion. He started to play darts in local pub leagues, soon after he participated in official league events.
In soft-tip darts he managed to win twice in TOP tournament of National Grand Prix and twice on Grand Prix itself. In 2019 he represented Czech Republic in European championship and won the title.
In steel darts, his biggest achievement so far is a victory in Czech Cup in 2020.
In early 2020, he took part in PDC European Q-School, he was eliminated in the last 256 three times and once in the last 64. That was in Day 4 and he lost 3–5 to the BDO world number one, Dutchman Richard Veenstra. In April 2020 he became one of the ten players of newly found 2020 Tipsport Premier League as a replacement for Tomáš Houdek.[2] Sedlák was among top 4 players during the round robin stage and secured his playoff spot. In the semifinal he won against Daniel Barborak 10–4 and advanced to the final. In the final he defeated Alexander Mašek 10–6 and became the first winner of Tipsport Premier League.
In 2021 he played in the second year of Tipsport Premier League and was defending the title. After round robin he was in 2nd place with 12 wins and 4 losses and secured his spot in playoff. In the semi-final he faced Daniel Barborak for the second time in a row and won 10–5. In the final he played against the overall winner of the round robin, Jan Hlavacek, and won 10–8, successfully defending the title. Later on in the year he became Czech National Champion in singles, pairs and mixed pairs.
In 2022 he qualified through Host Nation Qualifier for 2022 Czech Darts Open. In his first PDC ranking event match he won against Jonathan Worsley. In the second round he lost to Michael van Gerwen 2–6. In Autumn 2022 he was runner-up of the WDF tournament in Spain, where he missed two match darts for the title. Along with Adam Gawlas he became WDF Czech Open Champion in pairs.
At the beginning of 2023 Sedlák took part in 2023 PDC European Q-School, where he advanced to the Final Stage but was not able to secure a Tour Card. He continued on the PDC Challenge Tour where he his best results were reaching the quarter-finals and last 16. In April 2023 he became the first Czech player to participiate in the MODUS Super Series. Sedlák qualified for the 2023 Austrian Darts Open, winning the East European Qualifier.
In October 2023 Sedlák became the second darts player from the Czech Republic after Adam Gawlas to win a PDC title and the first Czech player to win a PDC Challenge Tour title. He won 5–2 against John Henderson at tournament 22 in Wigan.[3][4]
Performance timeline
edit| Tournament | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| WDF Ranked televised events | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winmau World Masters | 5R | NH | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| PDC Year-end ranking | - | 171 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PDC European Tour
| Season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
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| 2022 | IDO DNQ |
GDC DNQ |
GDG DNQ |
ADO DNQ |
EDO DNQ |
CDO 2R |
EDG DNQ |
DDC DNQ |
EDM DNQ |
HDT DNQ |
GDO DNQ |
BDO DNQ |
GDT DNQ |
| 2023 | BSD DNP |
EDO DNP |
IDO DNP |
GDG DNP |
ADO 1R |
DDC DNQ |
BDO DNQ |
CDO DNQ |
EDG DNQ |
EDM 2R |
GDO DNQ |
HDT DNQ |
GDC DNQ |
| 2024 | BDO DNQ |
GDG 1R |
IDO DNQ |
EDG DNQ |
ADO DNQ |
BSD DNQ |
DDC DNQ |
EDO DNQ |
GDC DNQ |
FDT DNQ |
HDT DNQ |
SDT DNQ |
CDO DNQ |
References
edit- ^ "PDC Order of Merit". PDPA. 17 November 2024. Retrieved 17 November 2024.
- ^ "České šipky spouští nový projekt. Tipsport Premier League 2020 startuje | TN.cz".
- ^ "Boulton & Sedlak share spoils on penultimate day of Challenge Tour season". PDC. Retrieved 29 October 2023.
- ^ "Obrovský úspěch českých šipek! Sedlák vyhrál turnaj pod hlavičkou PDC | TN.cz". tn.nova.cz (in Czech). 29 October 2023. Retrieved 29 October 2023.
External links
edit- Player profile for Vítězslav Sedlák from Dartsdatabase