Christian Dumalaug Perez (born 17 January 1982) is a Filipino professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) and World Darts Federation events. He was the 2022 PDC Asian Champion. He won his first ranking WDF title at the 2025 Scottish Open.
He was a PDC Tour Card holder from 2023 to 2024, reaching his first semi-final in a ranking PDC event at Players Championship 4 in 2024.
He has represented the Philippines on three occasions at the PDC World Cup of Darts, reaching the second round in 2023 partnering Lourence Ilagan.
In October 2009, Perez reached the final of the Shanghai International Darts Open, losing 10âÂÂ4 to John Part. He later qualified for the 2010 PDC World Darts Championship where he defeated Denmark's Per Laursen 4âÂÂ3 in the preliminary round. In the first round against Robert Thornton, Perez won the first set, but eventually lost 3âÂÂ1.
Perez qualified for the 2012 PDC World Darts Championship after defeating Bobong Gabiana in the final of the Philippines qualifier. He won through the preliminary round where he beat Dietmar Burger 4 legs to 0, setting up a first round match with Alan Tabern, which he then lost 3 sets to 1 on the same day.
Perez represented the Philippines with Lourence Ilagan in the 2012 PDC World Cup of Darts and together they were beaten 5âÂÂ3 by the United States in the first round. In December he lost in the final of the Soft Tip World Championship to Takehiro Suzuki of Japan.
Perez was due to play with Ilagan once more in the 2013 World Cup of Darts but they were forced to withdraw due to travel problems. In October, he won the third Soft Tip Dartslive event in Hong King by seeing off Ilagan in the final. Perez progressed to the final of the Grand Final for the second year in a row where Ilagan exacted revenge by defeating him 4âÂÂ1.
In September 2014, Perez won the South Asian Qualifier for the 2015 World Championship with a 5âÂÂ2 victory over Bryan Eribal. He played Spain's Cristo Reyes in the preliminary round and was whitewashed 4âÂÂ0.
At the 2023 PDC World Darts Championship, Perez was defeated by Simon Whitlock 2âÂÂ3 in the first round.
In January he took part in the PDC UK Q-School qualifying tournament. On the fourth day of the tournament finals, Perez obtained a PDC Tour Card for the next two years by finishing 9th on the UK Order of Merit. The same year, Perez and Ilagan again played the World Cup of Darts. They lost in the second round 8âÂÂ5 to the Scottish team (Peter Wright & Gary Anderson).
Perez played on the Pro Tour again in 2024. At the 2024 PDC Players Championship series, Perez made the semi-finals for the first time at event four. Perez defeated Danny Lauby Jr. 6âÂÂ5, Martin Schindler 6âÂÂ3, Ricardo Pietreczko 6âÂÂ1, Gerwyn Price 6âÂÂ4 and Raymond van Barneveld 6âÂÂ2 before losing to Damon Heta 7âÂÂ2.
Perez made his UK Open debut at the 2024 event, winning his second round tie 6âÂÂ2 against Jeffrey Sparidaans, before falling to Vincent van der Voort 6âÂÂ4 in his third round match.
PDC Players Championships