(1986-06-04) 4 June 1986 (age 38) Mitchells Plain, Cape Town, South Africa
Home town
Bradford, England
Darts information
Playing darts since
2004
Darts
22 Gram Shot Darts Signature
Laterality
Right-handed
Walk-on music
"Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)" by Shakira ft. Freshlyground
Organisation (see split in darts)
PDC
2009–2024
WDF major events – best performances
World Masters
Preliminary Round: 2010
PDC premier events – best performances
World Ch'ship
Last 16: 2014, 2019, 2021
World Matchplay
Last 32: 2021
World Grand Prix
Last 16: 2020
UK Open
Quarter Final: 2015, 2021
Grand Slam
Last 16: 2020
European Ch'ship
Semi Final: 2020
PC Finals
Last 64: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021
Masters
Last 24: 2022
World Series Finals
Last 24: 2015, 2022
Other tournament wins
PDC World South Africa Qualifying
2010, 2011, 2013
PDC World Africa Qualifying
2018, 2019
Darts At Home week 1
2020
South African Masters
2011
European Tour Events
German Darts Championship
2020
Devon Petersen (born 4 June 1986) is a former South African professional darts player and pundit for Sky Sports. He qualified for the PDC World Championship on seven occasions with his best result coming in 2014, 2019 and 2021 when he reached the last 16. Petersen become popular for dancing on to the stage to Shakira's "Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)" before his matches.
DevonPetersen (born 4 June 1986) is a former South African professional darts player and pundit for Sky Sports. He qualified for the PDC World Championship...
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PDC World Championship in 2011, where he was beaten by South Africa's DevonPetersen by 4 legs to 3 in the preliminary round. In 2012, Madhoo won the Florida...
Sousa and Luis Ameixa Singapore Paul Lim and Harith Lim South Africa DevonPetersen and Vernon Bouwers Sweden Dennis Nilsson and Oskar Lukasiak Thailand...
Nathan Aspinall, eleventh-seeded Ian White losing to South African DevonPetersen and Brendan Dolan whitewashing fourteenth seed Joe Cullen. Further seeds...
DevonPetersen (born 1986), South African darts player Elmer Petersen, American artist Gustaf Munch-Petersen, Danish writer and painter Joel Petersen...
tournament, defeated world number six Gerwyn Price, Kyle Anderson, DevonPetersen and Brendan Dolan on his way to the semi-finals, where he lost 6–3 to...
Ricky Evans David Pallett Ritchie Edhouse Robbie Green Kevin Painter DevonPetersen Ryan Harrington German Darts Masters [2] Mark Barilli Mark Walsh Stephen...
opponent of gamesmanship. Anderson then whitewashed Lowe's conqueror DevonPetersen to reach the eighth PDC World Championship quarterfinal of his career...
up in Mitchells Plain. Athol Williams is a poet and business leader. DevonPetersen, the most successful South African darts player, was born in Mitchells...
and Evgenii Izotov Singapore Paul Lim and Harith Lim South Africa DevonPetersen and Carl Gabriel Spain Jesús Noguera and José Justicia Sweden Daniel...
"Full list of UK Q-School 2024 participants including John Henderson, DevonPetersen, Fallon Sherrock, John Part and Richie Burnett". Darts News. Retrieved...
Smith Smiffy 1969 England Deta Hedman The Dark Destroyer 1959 England DevonPetersen The African Warrior 1986 South Africa Dick van Dijk 1970 Netherlands...
Archived from the original on 31 October 2013. Retrieved 29 October 2013. "Petersen & Sapup Ally Pally Spots". PDC. 1 October 2013. Archived from the original...
Result Defeated by Ref. 2012 DevonPetersen Shawn Hogan 19 QF Wales 2013 Charl Pietersen — 2R England 2014 DevonPetersen Graham Filby QF England 2015...
semi-finals of a main tour event for the first time with wins over DevonPetersen, Jan Dekker, Ronny Huybrechts, Chris Dobey and Cristo Reyes, but he...
Keegan Brown Adam Hunt Mike De Decker David Pallett Joey ten Berge DevonPetersen Lee Evans Colin Fowler Mike Zuydwijk James Richardson Mark Cox John...
Federation of Canada number one Jeff Smith, the highest ranked African, DevonPetersen, and the then-undetermined 2017 Development Tour winner, Luke Humphries...
Championship Winner Gerwyn Price Joe Cullen DevonPetersen José de Sousa German Darts Championship Winner DevonPetersen European Darts Grand Prix Winner José...
Aleksei Kadochnikov Singapore Paul Lim and Harith Lim South Africa DevonPetersen and Vernon Bouwers Spain Cristo Reyes and Toni Alcinas Sweden Dennis...
Hoffmann 18 Croatia Boris Krčmar and Tonči Restović 19 South Africa DevonPetersen and Shawn Hogan 20 Japan Haruki Muramatsu and Morihiro Hashimoto 21...
2019 29–31 March Daryl Gurney 8–6 Ricky Evans 2020 25–27 September DevonPetersen 8–3 Jonny Clayton 2022 11–13 March Michael van Gerwen 8–5 Rob Cross...
World Championship, Beaton missed four darts to move 2–0 up against DevonPetersen and was instead beaten 3–1. He lost 9–6 against Brendan Dolan in the...
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