Christian Perez

**Christian Perez** (born 17 January 1982) is a Filipino professional darts player who plays currently in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) and other national events. He has represented the Philippines during the PDC World Cup of Darts. He is a PDC Asian Champion.

## Career

In October 2009, Perez reached the final of the Shanghai International Darts Open, losing 4–10 to John Part. He later qualified for the 2010 PDC World Darts Championship where he defeated Per Laursen in the preliminary round, by 4–3 in legs. In the first round against Robert Thornton, Perez won the first set, but lost 1–3 in sets.

Perez again 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 by 4–0 in legs, setting up a first round match with Alan Tabern, which he then lost 1–3 in sets on the same day.

Perez represented the Philippines with Lourence Ilagan in the 2012 PDC World Cup of Darts and they were beaten 5–3 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. He was due to play with Ilagan once more in the 2013 PDC 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 4–1.

In September 2014, Perez won the South Asian Qualifier for the 2015 PDC World Darts Championship with a 5–2 victory over Bryan Eribal. He played Spain's Cristo Reyes in the preliminary round and was whitewashed 0–4.

In 2018 he won the Malaysian Open. In the final match he beat Paolo Nebrida. Since 2018 he play in the PDC Asian Tour and for the long time his best results was a semi-finals. As a replacement for Paolo Nebrida, who had to withdraw from the 2021 PDC World Cup of Darts due to the corona-virus policy, Perez formed the Philippines team with Lourence Ilagan, like nine years before. There they lost 1–5 in legs in the first round match against Austria (Mensur Suljović and Rowby-John Rodriguez).

At the end of September 2022, Perez won the 2022 PDC Asian Championship and qualified for the 2022 Grand Slam of Darts and the 2023 PDC World Darts Championship for the fourth time. At the Grand Slam he lost his group games against Danny Noppert, Mensur Suljović and Simon Whitlock and was eliminated as bottom of the group. In December, Perez played his fourth World Cup, where he reunited with Simon Whitlock. Too many mistakes on the doubles in the decisive phase of the game meant a 2–3 defeat. In January he also tried out the PDC Q-School in Milton Keynes, where he narrowly managed to earn a tour card through the rankings.

However, due to visa problems, Perez was unable to play in any PDC Pro Tour events until the middle of the year. At the end of April, he won an event on the PDC Asian Tour in Hong Kong. He reached the quarter-finals of his first PDC Pro Tour tournament in June. This was followed by another participation in the 2023 PDC World Cup of Darts together with Lourence Ilagan in the ice rink in Frankfurt. The Czech Republic and Singapore were the opponents in the group phase, both of which were defeated. They then lost to Scotland in the second round with 5–8 in legs.

In January 2023, he took part in the PDC Q-School qualifying tournament. On the fourth day of the tournament finals, he obtained a PDC Tour Card for the next two years. The same year, Perez en Ilagan again played the World Cup of Darts. They made it to the second round, but lost there to the Scotland team (Peter Wright and Gary Anderson).

## World Championship results

### PDC

* 2010: First round (lost to Robert Thornton 1–3)
* 2012: First round (lost to Alan Tabern 1–3)
* 2015: Preliminary round (lost to Cristo Reyes 0–4)
* 2023: First round (lost to Simon Whitlock 2–3)

## References

1. ↑ Cash Converters World Cup RD1. PDC (3 February 2012). Archived from the original on February 6, 2012. Retrieved on February 3, 2012.
2. ↑ 2012 World Soft Darts World Championship Player Prize Money. Darts Database. Retrieved on February 12, 2013.
3. ↑ Italy To Replace Philippines. PDC. Retrieved on February 12, 2013.
4. ↑ 2013 Soft Tip Dartslive Hong Kong Player Prize Money. Darts Database. Retrieved on December 10, 2014.
5. ↑ Ilagan Claims DARTSLIVE Title. PDC. Retrieved on December 10, 2014.
6. ↑ Filipino darter makes it to world tourney. philstar.com. Retrieved on December 10, 2014.
7. ↑ William Hill World Championship Day One. PDC. Retrieved on December 18, 2014.
8. ↑ Christian Perez. mastercaller.com.