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2025 Austrian Darts Open

The 2025 Austrian Darts Open (known for sponsorship reasons as the 2025 Elten Safety Shoes Austrian Darts Open) for sponsorship reasons, was a professional darts tournament that took place at the Steiermarkhalle in Graz, Premstätten, Austria from 25 to 27 April 2025. It was the fifth of fourteen PDC European Tour events on the 2025 PDC Pro Tour. It featured a field of 48 players and £175,000 in prize money, with £30,000 going to the winner.

Luke Littler won the 2024 edition after beating Joe Cullen 8–4 in the final. However, Littler chose not to play in the event, and thus did not defend his title.

Martin Schindler won the title, his third on the European Tour, defeating Ross Smith 8–4 in the final.

Prize money

The prize fund remained at £175,000, with £30,000 to the winner:

  • Pre-qualified players from the Orders of Merit who lose in their first match of the event shall not be credited with prize money on any Order of Merit. A player who qualifies as a qualifier, but later becomes a seed due to the withdrawal of one or more other players shall be credited with their prize money on all Orders of Merit regardless of how far they progress in the event.

Qualification and format

In a change from the previous year, the top 16 on the two-year main PDC Order of Merit ranking were now seeded and entered the tournament in the second round, while the 16 qualifiers from the one-year PDC Pro Tour Order of Merit ranking entered in the first round. The seedings were confirmed on 27 March.

The remaining 16 places will go to players from four qualifying events – 10 from the Tour Card Holder Qualifier (held on 2 April), four from the Host Nation Qualifier (held on 24 April), one from the Nordic & Baltic Associate Member Qualifier (held on 28 March) and one from the East European Associate Member Qualifier (held on 15 February).

, , and withdrew and were replaced by , , and . , and moved up to become the 14th, 15th and 16th seeds respectively.

The following players took part in the tournament:

Seeded Players
  3. (quarter-finals)
  5. (quarter-finals)
  6. (third round)
  7. (third round)
  8. (third round)
  9. (semi-finals)
  10. (runner-up)
  13. (champion)
  14. (third round)
  15. (second round)
  16. (quarter-finals)
Pro Tour Order of Merit Qualifiers
* (third round)
*
* (second round)
*
* (third round)
*
* (semi-finals)
* (quarter-finals)
* (third round)
*
* (second round)
* (second round)
Tour Card Qualifier
*
* (second round)
*
*
* (second round)
*
*
*
* (third round)
*
Host Nation Qualifier
*
*
*
*
Nordic & Baltic Qualifier
* (first round)
East European Qualifier
* (first round)
Reserve List
* (second round)
* (first round)
* (second round)
* (first round)

Draw

References