Draft:Bradley Kirk
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| Bradley Kirk | |||||
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| Personal information | |||||
| Full name | Bradley Kirk | ||||
| Nickname | "The Piranha" | ||||
| Born | 31 May 1994 Southampton, Hampshire, England | ||||
| Darts information | |||||
| Playing darts since | 2012 | ||||
| Darts | 23g Harrows Gyro | ||||
| Laterality | Right-handed | ||||
| Walk-on music | "Tom Hark" by The Piranhas | ||||
| Organisation (see split in darts) | |||||
| BDO | 2012–2020 | ||||
| PDC | 2015-2018 | ||||
| WDF | 2012–Present | ||||
| Current world ranking | (WDF) 73  12 (22 June 2026)[1] | ||||
| WDF major events – best performances | |||||
| World Championship | Debut: 2022 | ||||
| World Masters | Last 48: 2022 | ||||
| Other tournament wins | |||||
Youth events
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Bradley Kirk (born 31 May 1994) is an English professional darts player who competes in World Darts Federation (WDF) events. He is a 2024 Cyprus Masters Champion and won two PDC Development Tour titles in 2015. He also qualified for the 2024 WDF World Championships.
Career
[edit]After playing darts locally and for the Hampshire County teams, Kirk first started playing tour darts in the 2015 PDC Pro Tour on the development Tour. After missing Events 3 & 4 due to a County Match, Kirk reached the final of Event 6 losing 4–2 to Benito van de Pas and would also go on to reach the final of Event 9 this time losing 4–2 to Jamie Lewis. Along with good results in the other events reaching numerous Quarter–finals & Semi Finals, Kirk would win his first title in Event 13 with a 4–2 win over Nathan Aspinall. He also won a second event that weekend by taking the final event in the tour in Event 16 with a 4–3 win over Josh Payne. These results earned Kirk number one spot on the 2015 development Tour Order of Merit and a 2–year PDC Tour Card, which Kirk later declined.
Kirk qualified 3 times for the PDC World Youth Championship. In 2015 on the back of his debut season on the development Tour, Kirk was seeded Number 3 and reached the Quarter–finals of the 2015 PDC World Youth Championship with a 6–1 win over Josh McCarthy, 6–2 win over Adam Hunt and a 6–1 win over Jimmy Hendricks before losing 6–3 to Roxy–James Rodriguez. In the 2016 PDC World Youth Championship he was unseeded and won his first round match 6–5 against Ryan Meikle before losing 6–5 to Jeffrey de Zwaan. In his final appearance in the 2018 PDC World Youth Championship he was seeded 21st, and won his Group stage with 5–3 wins over both Sven Groen and Keane Barry. He would then defeat Nico Schlund 6–2 in the Last 32 before a Last 16 exit being defeated 6–4 by Martin Schindler.
In 2016 & 2017 Kirk attempted to play in the BDO Tour with mixed fortunes, he reached his first senior event final in the 2016 Hal Masters where he would lose 3–1 in sets to Geert de Vos] and would have semi finals in the Belgian Masters and Luxembourg Open and would narrowly miss out on qualifying for that years World Championship along with losing in the final qualifying rounds of the World Masters and World Trophy Qualifiers that year. In the second year Health issues and poor form saw Kirk slip down the rankings and drop off the tour late in the season.
2024 saw Kirk return to the WDF Tour and during this season he would win his first Senior title at the 2024 Cyprus Masters with a 5–3 win over John Michael as well as a semi final at the Finnish Masters after a 4–3 loss to Kim Viljanen. These results in the limited event played saw rise to the Top 100 in the WDF Rankings and would earn a place at the 2024 WDF World Masters where he would progress through the group stages before losing in the Last 128. However Kirk would go on to qualify for the 2024 WDF World Darts Championship by winning the qualifier in Hungary with a 6–5 win over Nico Blom.
World Championship results
[edit]WDF
[edit]- 2024: Debut
Performance timeline
[edit]BDO
| Tournament | 2016 | |||||||
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| BDO Ranked televised events | ||||||||
| World Masters | 4R | |||||||
WDF
| Tournament | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | |||||
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| WDF platinum/major events | ||||||||
| World Championship | 1R | |||||||
| World Masters | 2R | 4R | ||||||
PDC
| Tournament | 2015 | 2018 | ||||||
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| PDC Non-ranked televised events | ||||||||
| World Youth Championship | QF | 3R | ||||||
| Performance Table Legend | |||||||||||
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| W | Won the tournament | F | Finalist | SF | Semifinalist | QF | Quarterfinalist | #R RR L# |
Lost in # round Round-robin Last # stage |
DQ | Disqualified |
| DNQ | Did not qualify | DNP | Did not participate | WD | Withdrew | NH | Tournament not held | NYF | Not yet founded | ||
References
[edit]- ↑ "WDF Open Rankings Table". WDF. 22 June 2026. Retrieved 22 June 2026.