The 2013 European Darts Open was the third of eight

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events on the

2013 PDC Pro Tour The 2013 PDC Pro Tour was a series of non-televised darts tournaments organised by the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC). They were the Professional Dart Players Association Players Championships, the UK Open Qualifiers, and the European Tour eve ...

. The tournament took place at the Maritim Hotel in

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, from 17 to 19 May 2013. It featured a field of 64 players and £100,000 in prize money, with £20,000 going to the winner.

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won his first European Tour title with a 6–2 defeat of

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in the final.

Prize money

Qualification

The top 32 players from th
PDC ProTour Order of Merit
on the 17 April 2013 automatically qualified for the event. The remaining 32 places went to players from three qualifying events - 20 from the UK Qualifier (held in

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on 26 April), eight from the European Qualifier and four from the Host Nation Qualifier (both held at the venue in

on 16 May). 1–32 UK Qualifier * Dennis Smith ''(first round)'' * Andy Parsons ''(second round)'' * Stephen Hardy ''(first round)'' * Darren Johnson ''(first round)'' * Mark Cox ''(second round)'' *

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''(first round)'' * Mark Jones ''(first round)'' * Prakash Jiwa ''(first round)'' * Terry Temple ''(first round)'' * Steve Maish ''(first round)'' * Keith Stephen ''(first round)'' * Alex Roy ''(second round)'' * Chris Aubrey ''(first round)'' * Paul Amos ''(first round)'' * Kevin Dowling ''(first round)'' * Kevin McDine ''(first round)'' *

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''(first round)'' * Matt Clark ''(first round)'' *

Adam Hunt Adam Hunt (born 21 August 1993) is an English professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He has won titles on both of the PDC's secondary tours: four titles on the Development Tour; and two on the Ch ...

''(first round)'' * Shaun Griffiths ''(first round)'' European Qualifier * Kurt van de Rijck ''(first round)'' * Mareno Michels ''(first round)'' * Bobby Biemans ''(first round)'' * Maik Langendorf ''(first round)'' *

Mensur Suljović Mensur Suljović (Serbian Cyrillic: Менсур Суљовић; born 5 March 1972) is a Serbian-Austrian professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events, where he reached a peak ranking of world number five ...

''(first round)'' *

Ronny Huybrechts Ronny Huybrechts (born 20 July 1965) is a Belgian professional darts player. Career Ronny and his brother Kim Huybrechts became the first brothers to play in the World Cup of Darts in February 2013 and advanced from Group H courtesy of a 5– ...

''(first round)'' *

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''(first round)'' * Jerry Hendriks ''(first round)'' Host Nation Qualifier * Max Hopp ''(first round)'' * Tomas Seyler ''(first round)'' * Jyhan Artut ''(first round)'' * Andree Welge ''(first round)''

Draw

References

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