Maiden PDC Title

Posted: 31.01.18 in Darts Performance Centre Blog category

Congratulations to "Brazilliant" - Diogo Portela on winning a PDC Challenge Tour event!

Many congratulations to our sponsored player, Diogo Portela, who picked up his maiden PDC title on Saturday in Wigan.

Brazilliant overcame his disappointment of losing out on a tour card by 1 point by blasting his way through the field in the 2^nd event of the day!

The Official PDC website reported it like this:

The day's second event saw Brazil's Portela - who narrowly missed out on winning a PDC Tour Card at Qualifying School last weekend - claim his first title by defeating Michael Barnard 5-3 in the final.

The World Championship qualifier overcame Carlo van Peer 5-1 in his opener before seeing off Barrie Bates by a 5-3 scoreline, and followed up a 5-1 win over Lewis Pride with three straight 5-4 triumphs, against Ricky Williams, Callan Rydz and Richie Corner.

Portela then overcame Ben Burton 5-3 in the semi-finals, and repeated that scoreline to pick up the title against Barnard.

Barnard, who has vast experience on the circuit, was bidding to win his first PDC title as he defeated George Gardner, Ken MacNeil, Mike De Decker, Adam Huckvale, Mark Frost, David Pallett and Peter Mitchell to reach the final.

After the weekend Diogo was in 2^nd place on the Challenge Tour Order Of Merit and is in with a great chance of being able to compete in the next Players Championship event! Next stop though, UK Open Qualifiers!

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