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English darts player

Darts player

Bradley Brooks
Brooks at the 2019 European Darts Matchplay
Personal information
Nickname "Bam Bam"[1]
Born (2000-02-20) 20 February 2000 (age 24)[2]Blackburn, Lancashire, England
Home town Blackburn, Lancashire, England
Darts information
Playing darts since 2016
Darts Shot 24g
Laterality Right-handed
Walk-on music "Booyah" by Showtek featuring We Are Loud and Sonny Wilson
Organisation (see split in darts)
PDC 2016–
Current world ranking 216 Steady (24 November 2024)[3]
PDC premier events – best performances
World Ch'ship Last 96: 2021, 2022
UK Open Last 64: 2020
Grand Slam Last 16: 2021
Other tournament wins
JDC European Open2017 PDC World Youth Championship2020 PDC Development Tour2021 (x3), 2022, 2023

Bradley Brooks (born 20 February 2000) is an English professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He won the 2020 PDC World Youth Championship.

In 2017, Brooks won the Junior Darts Corporation (JDC) European Open title, defeating Jarred Cole 6–5 in the final.[4]

Brooks entered PDC UK Q-School in 2018, winning a two-year PDC Tour Card on the fourth and final day by defeating John Goldie 5–1 in the final round.[5]

His first significant run in the PDC came in late June 2018, when he made the quarter-finals of Players Championship 16 in Barnsley, only to be knocked out by eventual winner Ian White.[6]

After losing his two-year Tour Card at the end of 2019, he won it straight back on 17 January 2020 by beating Damon Heta 5–3 in Day 2 final at 2020 Q-School.[7] Brooks reached the final of the 2020 PDC World Youth Championship;[8] where took on Joe Davis on 29 November 2020, and won the match in a last-leg decider, qualifying him for the 2021 PDC World Darts Championship.[9][10] In his debut he faced Dirk van Duijvenbode and led 2-0 on sets, but eventually lost 3-2 and exited in the first round.

Brooks played at the 2021 UK Open, where he was seeded in the second round, but lost to Martin Atkins. He was unable to qualify for other major tournaments during the year, but as the reigning World Youth Champion he earned a spot at the 2021 Grand Slam of Darts. In Group B he faced Jonny Clayton, Mervyn King and Rusty-Jake Rodriguez. Brooks won his first match against King 5-1, losing the second one with Clayton 5-3. After winning 5-3 over Rodriguez in the last match, he secured second place in the group and qualified for the second round. There, he faced Gerwyn Price, the world number one at the time. Price won the close contest 10-8 and eliminated Brooks.[11]

Brooks qualified for the 2022 PDC World Darts Championship via the PDC UK Development Tour, where he was placed 1st in the overall ranking.[12] He drew William Borland in the first round. The match went to the a deciding fifth set, where Borland hit a nine-dart finish in the deciding leg and eliminated Brooks 3-2.[13]

World Championship results

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Performance timeline

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Tournament 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
PDC Ranked televised events
PDC World Championship DNQ 1R 1R DNQ
UK Open 2R 2R 4R 2R 1R 2R 2R
Grand Slam of Darts DNQ 2R DNQ
PDC Non-ranked televised events
PDC World Youth Championship RR RR W 2R 2R 2R 3R
Career statistics
Year-end ranking 117 94 104 70 134 92

PDC European Tour

Season 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
2018 EDODNQ GDGDNQ GDODNQ ADODNQ EDGDNQ DDMDNQ GDTDNQ DDODNQ EDMDNQ GDCDNQ DDCDNQ IDODNQ EDTDNQ
2019 EDODNQ GDCDNQ GDGDNQ GDODNQ ADODNQ EDGDNQ DDMDNQ DDODNQ CDODNQ ADCDNQ EDM2R IDODNQ GDTDNQ
2020 BDCDNQ GDCDNQ EDGDNQ IDODNQ
2021 HDT2R GDTDNQ
2022 IDODNQ GDCDNQ GDGDNQ ADODNQ EDODNQ CDODNQ EDGDNQ DDCDNQ EDM1R HDTDNQ GDO2R BDO2R GDTDNQ
2023 BSD2R EDO1R IDODNQ GDGDNQ ADO1R DDCDNQ BDO2R CDO1R EDGDNQ EDMDNQ GDODNQ HDTDNQ GDCDNQ
Performance Table Legend
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
  1. ^ "Bradley Brooks". Target Darts. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  2. ^ "Bradley Brooks - Mastercaller".
  3. ^ "PDC Order of Merit". PDPA. 24 November 2024. Retrieved 24 November 2024.
  4. ^ Allen, Dave. "Rodriguez & Roelofs Reach JDC Final". Professional Darts Corporation. Retrieved 27 November 2020.
  5. ^ "2018 Qualifying School Day Four". Professional Darts Corporation. Retrieved 27 November 2020.
  6. ^ "Players Championship 16". Professional Darts Corporation. Retrieved 27 November 2020.
  7. ^ Tinniswood, Steve (22 January 2020). "Blackburn's Bradley Brooks wins back place on PDC tour". Lancashire Telegraph. Retrieved 27 November 2020.
  8. ^ Allen, Dave. "Brooks & Davis reach Unicorn World Youth Championship final". Professional Darts Corporation. Retrieved 27 November 2020.
  9. ^ Tinniswood, Steve (30 November 2020). "Blackburn Rovers fan Bradley Brooks crowned world youth darts champion". Lancashire Telegraph. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  10. ^ "Players Championship Finals 2020: Michael van Gerwen wins sixth title". Sky Sports. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  11. ^ "Price books hard-fought victory over Brooks to reach last eight at Grand Slam of Darts". Darts News. 17 November 2021. Retrieved 25 December 2021.
  12. ^ "Brooks wins thrilling conclusion to PDC UK Development Tour, set for World Darts Championship return". Darts News. 31 October 2021. Retrieved 25 December 2021.
  13. ^ "'It's unbelievable': Borland conjures up nine-dart finish to sink Brooks in thriller". The Guardian. 18 December 2021. Retrieved 29 December 2024.