Seigo Asada (浅田 斉吾, Asada Seigo, born 6 March 1980) is a Japanese professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events.

Seigo Asada
Personal information
Nickname"The Ninja"
Born (1980-03-06) 6 March 1980 (age 44)
Osaka, Japan
Home townOsaka, Japan
Darts information
Playing darts since2000
Darts24 Gram
LateralityRight-handed
Walk-on music"The Beginning" by ONE OK ROCK
Organisation (see split in darts)
BDO2012–2017
PDC2018–
WDF major events – best performances
World Ch'shipLast 32: 2016
World MastersLast 16: 2014
World TrophyLast 32: 2016
PDC premier events – best performances
World Ch'shipLast 32: 2020
Other tournament wins
Japan Open 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
PDC Asian Tour Japan 2019
PDC Asian Tour Malaysia 2018
PDC Asian Tour Singapore 2019 (x2)
PDC Asian Tour South Korea 2018
PDC Asian Tour Taipei 2018
PDC World Japan Qualifying 2017, 2018, 2019

Career

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Asada won the Japan Open in 2012 by beating Osamu Niki in the final. He won the tournament for the second time in 2014, beating Katsuya Aiba in the final. Asada reached the last 16 of the 2014 World Masters in Hull and beat Darryl Fitton in the first round before losing to Mark McGeeney. He qualified for the 2015 BDO World Darts Championship, losing to Brian Dawson in the preliminary round. Asada qualified for the 2016 BDO World Darts Championship, beating Darius Labanauskas 3–1 in the preliminary round.

In 2017, Asada won the Japanese Championship, organised by the PDJ (Professional Darts Japan). Thereby, he qualified for the 2018 PDC World Championship. On 26 November, he was drawn for a preliminary round game at the World Championship against Australian Gordon Mathers, whom he defeated 2–1, but was then eliminated 0–3 by eventual tournament winner Rob Cross.

In 2018, Asada won three events on the inaugural PDC Asian Tour,[1][2][3] and also won the Japanese Championship to qualify for the 2019 PDC World Darts Championship.

World Championship results

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Performance timeline

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BDO

Tournament 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
BDO World Championship DNP DNQ DNQ PR 1R PR
World Masters 3R 4R 6R 1R DNP 1R
BDO World Trophy DNP DNP DNQ DNP 1R DNP

PDC

Tournament 2018 2019 2020
PDC World Championship 1R 2R 3R
Non-major televised events
PDC World Cup of Darts QF SF 1R
Career statistics
Year-end ranking 105

References

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  1. ^ Allen, Dave. "Lam & Asada Share Asian Tour Wins". PDC. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  2. ^ Allen, Dave. "Asada & Ilagan's PDC Asian Tour Wins". PDC. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  3. ^ Allen, Dave. "Lim & Asada Land PDC Asian Tour Crowns". PDC. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
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