Daniel Klose
German darts player (born 1979)
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Daniel Klose (born 30 October 1979) is a German professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He finished as the runner-up at 2023 PDC Players Championship 21.
| Daniel Klose | |||
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| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Daniel Klose | ||
| Nickname | Dan The Man | ||
| Born | 30 October 1979[1] Ansbach, Germany | ||
| Home town | Bechhofen (Mittelfranken), Germany | ||
| Darts information | |||
| Playing darts since | 2019 | ||
| Darts | 20g | ||
| Laterality | Right-handed | ||
| Walk-on music | "You're the Best" by Joe Esposito | ||
| Organisation (see split in darts) | |||
| PDC | 2019–present (Tour Card: 2023–2024) | ||
| PDC premier events – best performances | |||
| UK Open | Last 64: 2024 | ||
| PC Finals | Last 64: 2023 | ||
| World Series Finals | Last 24: 2023 | ||
| Other tournament wins | |||
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Career
2019
Klose qualified for his first PDC European Tour tournament, the 2019 European Darts Grand Prix, as one of four Host Nation qualifiers, but he lost in the first round to Keegan Brown 6–3.[2]
2020
In November 2020, he qualified for the PDC Europe Super League Darts 2020, where he reached the quarter-finals after finishing top Group B. He won six wins in his seven games, defeating Manfred Bilderl 6–5 in a deciding leg, beating René Eidams 6–1, Dragutin Horvat and Nico Kurz both 6–2, Karsten Koch 6–3, and Thomas Köhnlein 6–4, with his one loss being to Maik Langendorf. He lost to Michael Unterbuchner 8–4 in the quarter-finals.
2021
In his second Super League participation in the 2021 edition, he was eliminated in the preliminary round, finishing bottom of Group D with only 2 points, having only won two of his 10 games, a 6–2 win over Steffen Siepmann and a 6–4 win against René Eidams.[3][4]
2022
He was subsequently unable to win a Tour Card at European Q-School, failing to reach the final stage, but his attendance at Q-School did grant him access to play in the 2022 PDC Challenge Tour series.
On 22 January he reached the quarter-finals at Challenge Tour 3, losing there to Matthew Edgar 5–4 in a deciding leg.[5] He reached a second quarter-final of the year at Challenge Tour 12 on 15 July, being whitewashed there 5–0 by Chas Barstow, who averaged 107.36 to Klose’s 88.45[6] On 17 September Klose reached the semi-finals of Challenge Tour 18. He whitewashed Jim Moston 5–0, averaging 100.20 to Moston's 86.78, to reach his first semi-final of the year from his third quarter-final of the year. He lost to eventual winner Jurjen van der Velde 5–2 in the semi-finals.[7]
On 26 & 27 March, Klose received call–ups for 2022 PDC Players Championship series events 7 and 8 filling in as a reserve for an absent tour card holder virtue of his ranking on the Challenge Tour Order of Merit. This was his PDC Pro Tour debut. He lost in the first round on both occasions, to Steve Lennon 6–1[8] and Brendan Dolan 6–3 respectively.[9]
In November, he again took part in the PDC Europe Super League, where he narrowly lost 8–7 in the semi-finals to eventual winner Florian Hempel.[10]
2023
At 2023 European Q-School he won a two-year Pro Tour card. He made the first PDC final of his career at the Players Championship 21 event in September, losing to Gerwyn Price. After Max Hopp, Gabriel Clemens, Martin Schindler and Ricardo Pietreczko, he was the fifth German to reach the final of a PDC professional tournament.[11]
In September 2023, Klose managed to qualify for the 2023 World Series of Darts Finals via the Tour Card Holder Qualifier. He lost in the first round to Krzysztof Ratajski 6–3.
As 54th seed he qualified for 2023 Players Championship Finals, and on his debut he lost to Ryan Joyce 6–3 in the first round.
On 27 November 2023, he took part in the "Tour Card Holder Qualifier", the last opportunity to qualify for the 2024 PDC World Darts Championship. He only just missed out on his World Championship debut when he lost to Darren Webster 7–5 in the final.[12]
2024
Klose made it to the Fourth round at 2024 UK Open, but it was the only major tournament he appeared on. He qualified for two European Tour events, reaching Third round at 2024 Austrian Darts Open, his best result. After failing to qualify for 2025 PDC World Darts Championship, Klose lost his Tour card.[13]
Performance timeline
Daniel Klose's performance timeline is as follows:[2][14]
PDC
PDC European Tour [2]
PDC Players Championships
[2]
| 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 |
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| 2022 [nb 2] |
Did not participate | NIE 1R |
NIE 1R |
Did not participate | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023 | BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 1R |
HIL 1R |
HIL 2R |
WIG 2R |
WIG 2R |
LEI 2R |
LEI 1R |
HIL 1R |
HIL 1R |
LEI 1R |
LEI 1R |
HIL 1R |
HIL 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR F |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 4R |
BAR 3R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 2R |
| 2024 | WIG 1R |
WIG 1R |
LEI 1R |
LEI 2R |
HIL 1R |
HIL 2R |
LEI 3R |
LEI 1R |
HIL 1R |
HIL 3R |
HIL 2R |
HIL 3R |
MIL 2R |
MIL 1R |
MIL 1R |
MIL 1R |
MIL 1R |
MIL 2R |
MIL 1R |
WIG 1R |
WIG 1R |
LEI 2R |
LEI 1R |
WIG 1R |
WIG 2R |
WIG 1R |
WIG 1R |
WIG 1R |
LEI 2R |
LEI 2R |
| 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 | ||